Helping engineers become confident leaders
We’ve worked with engineers and managers from:
Empowering the humans behind the technology
You’re decent technically and do good work. But you seem to struggle when it comes to getting noticed, getting leadership positions and moving to the next level.
What’s holding you back?
It’s not your work ethic.
It’s not your technical skills.
It’s how you deal with people, it’s your soft skills, your leadership skills. And it’s time to do something about it.
Yan Yi is a Leadership and Performance Coach who has trained dozens of engineering leaders and spent hundreds of hours coaching and running workshops.
He was previously engineer no. 2 at fintech startup Xfers and rose through the ranks to become Engineering Manager of the core transactions platform.
Yan Yi is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credentialed by the International Coaching Federation, and has an Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) from the Institute for Adult Learning.
Results I have helped create
Hear out what my clients say about me.
"You would want to work with Yan Yi to implement various engineering processes, coaching of engineers for top performance, leading a team and building and maintaining critical system applications"
Victor Liew
CTO and Co-founder, Xfers
Forbes 30 Under 30
"I felt more comfortable speaking up in meetings and sharing my experience. I’m definitely improving and making an impact – people are coming to me on their own to ask for help”
Dan Liu
Tech Lead
"I understood how to deal with crisis, how to balance my attitude towards my team (not too nice but also not too strict), how to lead discussions properly, and how to manage an efficient schedule. The conclusions after every session are very clear and the action points are feasible, thus can be put into practice immediately"
Chris Nababan
Mobile Lead
“In my first year of managing people, I worked like a robot. Working with you provided me fresh perspectives of professional relationships and people problems“
Oka Suryanegara
Engineering Manager
"My engineer has become less "anxious". In the past, I can hear a "scream" inside his head whenever he was given a task that's outside of his comfort zone. But there is more confidence and looking forwardness now, so it gives off a different kind of assurance that he can get the job done"
Bobby Keong
Engineering Manager
“I felt anxious because I just wasn’t really confident in myself, and also didn’t know how to improve my abilities. Talking to you really helped me figure out what I can do”
Bebe Hu
Senior Frontend Developer
"Initially there were a lot of hurdles that I had to overcome and after the sessions I found myself again and gained that confidence. I'm on the right track towards becoming a well respected senior engineer"
William Huang
Senior Software Engineer
"I understood on a much deeper level what my real issue is instead of heading in a totally wrong direction to solve the problem. I'm very thankful of the coaching sessions, classmates and Yan Yi!"
Yu Chi Yu
Technical Lead
“This coaching program offered me a chance to relook at myself, my goals and behaviour towards other people. I built up my confidence and feel that I’m not alone”
Albert Vo
Software Engineer