As Coaches

“As a Career Consultant, Yu Dan has an excellent understanding of what motivates a person to set and achieve goals, and cope with change. In my experience, Yu Dan was invaluable in helping me translate my career aspirations into a finite plan. Her knowledge of the current business trends helped me to target the right organisations with a realistic focus. This enabled me to successfully land my new role within short time frame.”
Alex Wisdom, Training Manager, IBM

“Yu Dan is an inspiration for many women juggling a demanding family life with a successful business career. Not only is Yu Dan a savvy leader but also a true mentor. She believes in the importance of developing potential and in the time she coached me she helped me to achieve my career development goals and bring my performance to a whole new level.”
Sonia Voirol, CeBIT Marketing Manager

“Yu Dan is astutely professional and has the ability to focus on what is key for both business and personal success. As a mentor, Yu Dan invests the time to understand issues and aspirations, in turn driving passion and goal orientation amongst those in her immediate surrounds. Yu Dan has the ability to expand your views on business and life and build confidence in your capacity to achieve.”
Shannon Rutkowski, Marketing Manager

“I highly recommend Yu Dan as a career coach. With Yu Dan’s guidance, I have gained renewed confidence and clarity. Yu Dan has a very effective way of making people become aware of one’s strengths and how to make use of them. She is an expert in helping her clients to market themselves effectively.”
Maria Cristina Cruz, IT Audit Manager, CISA

“Yu Dan is an inspiring leader. I observed her coach her team to great success: they worked hard, achieved much, and had fun going about it. I enjoyed working with Yu Dan, and would do so again in a heartbeat.”
David Shaw, Director, EffectiveBrands

“Hi Yu Dan, I would like to express my sincere thank to you for providing professional advice to me. I have gained enormous knowledge of how to be confident and find my strength and interest.”
Tom Lai, IT Manager

“Yu Dan has helped me gain clarity and understanding of myself, and the ways in which I work best. Through her insight and knowledge I have been able use practical and useful technique to achieve the results I want. Yu Dan has a down to earth coaching approach that is empowering, intuitive and supportive.”
Rosemary Reid, Writer, Australian Cinematographer Magazine

“Yu Dan is a warm, inviting yet professional consultant who helped me gain my confidence back! She assisted me in reminding myself exactly how much work experience and skills I did have to offer. Yu Dan is extremely bright and inspiring…”
Romina Malta, Manager, Inter-Continental Hotel Group

“Yu Dan, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. Your strong business acumen and leadership assisted me in focusing on what was required to put together a marketable solution and how to market myself in the business. ”
Linda-Clare Chilvers, Business Owner & Change Manager, Chilverton Profit Engineers

“Yu Dan is an impressive presenter who motivates and connects with her audience.”
Caroline Gordon, Platform Development Manager, Stargames (attended one of the workshops Yu Dan presented for female executives in technology sector)

“Ingrid, thank you very much for making me discover what’s really important and what makes me happy and defining – with much clarity my – passions. The experience has re-energized me – something I felt has been missing in a very long time! I just can’t tell you all the positive impacts it has made on me … Probably the most significant … It has made me realize just how worthwhile it is to chase and do those things despite any obstacles! As a direct result, I have learned to take weekends off – something I rarely did until now … (my family thank you!) and I’m more at peace with decisions I make.
Adele Taylor, Graphic Designer

“Having Ingrid as my facilitator was a real gift. She is intuitive and guides you through the process in your own pace. I felt very safe and accepted. Ingrid knows how to ask the right questions at the right time, to activate the potential within you.”
Franziska Goyo, Director, Goyo International – Success Coaching and Leadership Development and Author of ‘Push My Buttons, Baby! – Black Belt of the Emotional Arts.’

“Ingrid, with quiet good humour and skill, guided me through the process to a very clear set of outcomes. A most valuable experience that I’d recommend to anyone concerned that they may be losing sight of the wood from the trees.”
Michael D’Aprix, Management Consultant

“Yu Dan is skilled in drawing passion from those around her. She has been very beneficial in helping me to keep focused on tasks and making sure I keep looking at the long term, to take a step back and plan strategically rather than being bogged down in day to day activities. She has a unique skill of empowering people to feel confident in decision making. Thank you Yu Dan for your help and guidance.”
Sara Palmieri, Marketing Manager

As Corporate Executives

“Yu Dan is a very strong executive, team player and manager of people. She is a strong team player within her immediate peer team, across a matrixed organisation and regionally and globally. She is a very good manager who focuses on building strong talent and hiring externally to ensure the right skills for the roles in her team. She build strong and detailed plans, ensures these are linked to business results and executes to the plan. She is a very committed person and a pleasure to work with and to manage. I would personally recommend Yu Dan.”
Alan Munro, CEO, UK and Ireland, Lenovo managed Yu Dan at Lenovo (Yu Dan was the Chief Marketing Officer for Lenovo Australia & New Zealand)

“”Yu Dan is an incredible intelligent, capable business woman and also a fun-loving and caring manager. As the Head of Workstation Product Marketing across Dell Asia Pacific, her style and approach in leading the team resulted in each person performing to the best of their abilities. She was well respected both as a colleague and a manager at DELL.”
Sue Chen, Pricing Manager, Dell Asia Pacific

“Yu Dan joined Harris Technology at a time when we were refocusing on a more direct engagement with our customers, rebuilding our web capability, and becoming much more analytical in how we viewed our customers and what drove them. She did a brilliant job of leading the team through this change, and brought fresh thinking and ideas to the senior leadership team. Yu Dan is an extremely bright and capable executive.”
Craig Dower, Managing Director, Avanade managed Yu Dan at Harris Technology (Yu Dan was the Marketing Director for Harris Technology Australia)

“Yu Dan has shown great leadership towards driving the team towards business goals. She managed business on a strategic and operational level beyond normal standards. Yu Dan helped me develop into a strong contributor to the Asia Pacific business unit she was leading.”
Peter Wong, Brand Manager, Dell Asia Pacific (Yu Dan was the Head of S&P Brand for Asia Pacific & Japan at Dell)

As Marketers

“Yu Dan is a marketing professional of a very high caliber. She has an extensive background in understanding key markets, developing campaigns to execution. Yu Dan is a seasoned marketer. YuDan has also been one of the few great marketing professionals to be able to take up new ideas and develop them with her own within a team environment. Now in her executive position, she has the leadership role, and works with and nurtures an empowered & dynamic team. Their recent successful efforts with the brand marketing sponsorship in line with the 2008 Beijing Olympics Games will be a legacy testament to Yu Dan’s work.”
Jomar Reyes, Director Business Development & Marketing, Digital Media World Magazine

“Yu Dan is a tenacious and talented marketing professional. She has a consultative approach to new ideas – getting input from various parties – then hones in on the best one and pursues it with vigor. She is passionate about marketing as a business discipline, always seeking measurable return on investment from every campaign.”
Heather Jones, Communications Director, Filtered Media

“I worked with Yu Dan when Lenovo was building the brand. Yu Dan consistently strived for excellence and also looked at different ways of using our Olympic connection to drive into a variety of target audiences. I learned a lot from her vast experience and knowledge of understanding on how to pull together marketing strategies to quickly penetrate into the Australian Channel Business.”
Sony Wahib, Channel Manager, Lenovo Australia & New Zealand

“Ingrid has done an outstanding job working on the positioning of a strategic launch. After a thorough review of the core target and the competitive landscape Ingrid developed two positioning alternatives and go to market strategies, which were to be tested in research. Ingrid is a highly talented, intellectually curious Senior Marketer who thrives on challenging assignments. Working with her is a pleasure, given her consumer centric marketing approach and her strong coaching and training skills. As a consultant she shares her knowledge and experience with the team she is working with, which is very enriching. I would brief her again.”
Anja Voss, Marketing Manager Personal Care, Reckitt Benckiser