About Executive Connexions

Caitriona Farrell, Executive Career Coach

Caitríona qualified as a coach with Coaching Development Ireland, an
ICF (International Coaching Federation) accredited programme in 2021. She was winner of ICF Ireland’s Rising Star Coach of the Year in 2023.

Caitríona has previously worked as a Recruitment Consultant with
Ireland’s leading recruitment company, Cpl. She has been a Careers Consultant with University College Dublin. She herself has navigated career change from previously being a Chemical & Bioprocess Engineer.

Along with her passion for people is her love for languages. Caitríona speaks French, Portuguese along with some Spanish and Irish. She is curious about the language we speak to ourselves with, and that which we communicate with others. Caitríona can be found drafting CVs, LinkedIn Profiles, Applications, Cover Letters, GitHub Profiles, Bios, Personal Statements and other Personal and Professional Branding with her clients to working on verbal and body communication in Networking, Interview Preparation and Offer Negotiation. She helps her coachees build confidence and have executive presence. She coaches graduates to mid-management to CEOs moving roles or re-entering the world of work.
She uses the psychological schools of Transactional Analysis, NLP and
Positive Intelligence in her work.

Caitríona has lived in France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil with shorter periods of time spent in the UK, Spain, Germany and onboard an NGO Japanese cruise ship. She has been to 48 countries and coached clients from more nationalities than the countries she has visited. She believes life and our career is a wonderful journey and knowing what we want on a deep level and with the right tools, we have control in how we navigate our career and life.

Jennifer Anne Garcia, Executive Career Coach

Jennifer Anne Garcia is an Executive Career Coach, small business owner, writer, and the author of “Best Resume Recipe.” For years, Jennifer has helped job seekers across various industries move into new career paths, realize their own professional confidence, and improve their quality of life. Jennifer is originally from Arizona where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism & Mass Communication with Honors from Arizona State University.

Now, Jennifer is living out her dream job while helping others find theirs! She specializes in career transition to help talented professionals across various industries make meaningful and lasting career change. Jennifer believes in the power of authentic storytelling—even in the resume, LinkedIn profile, cover letter, and job interview.

As a veteran spouse, Jennifer is passionate about helping military veterans transfer leadership skills to the civilian workforce. Jennifer currently lives in Central Texas with her husband, daughter, and two cats. For fun, she enjoys practicing yoga, appreciating nature, singing karaoke, and baking healthy yet tasty treats.

Karen Gotthelf, Executive Career Coach

Karen’s coaching approach is personalised, goal-focused and collaborative. She is distinguished by the natural rapport, trust and alliance she establishes with a diversity of clients, including emerging leaders, mid-career professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. She draws upon research from applied neuroscience, developmental psychology as well as cognitive-behavioural, solution focussed and strength based models to inform coaching conversations, aimed at cultivating clients’:

•  reflection and insight,
• self and other awareness,
• clarity in thinking and
• sense of agency to make adaptive behavioural changes.

Ken Tan, Executive Career Coach, Singapore

Armed with more than a decade of experience in the specialized field of career development, Ken has successfully coached leaders and individuals across Asia and Europe in discovering their values, and innate KSAs (knowledge, strengths, abilities) for better-informed decision making. He is known for using a person-centered, strength-based and trait-oriented approach.

Ken is a NCDA-credentialed Certified Career Services Practitioner (CCSP) and a certified Knowdell Career Advisor. He shares valuable insights with HR Managers on employee engagement – given his time as a Lead Advisor for Employee Experience, Asia.

He was also appointed as a former Council Member for CDAS – Career Development Association of Singapore and currently a member for CDI UK, CDAA and APCDA. His articles on career development solutions, employability and workplace management are featured in newsletters. Ken is asked to speak on topics relating to career planning and models used for best-in-class talent development practices within organizations and institutions in SE Asia.

Maggie Hu 截图头像, Executive Career Coach

Having worked in global multi-national corporations for nearly 30 years as a HR professional, Maggie now works as consultant specialized in Change Management Leadership. Maggie has rich experience in organizational development of talent management, culture change and workplace strategy.

Maggie coach clients on evoking self-awareness, cultivating leadership presence and building up personal impact by engaging individual key stakeholder’s networks. Maggie is passionate about individual inward looking and assists clients adopting inside-out strategy to frame and develop their individual career ladders from a long-term perspective.

Maggie is ICF-credentialled Professional Certified Coach, IAOL (International Association of Organization Leadership) certified Organzaiton and Leadership Expert, and as an Image Dialog Facilitator, Maggie is enthusiastic to leveraging the powerful image cards for many coaching sessions when the clients are more visual based in terms of information capture and interpretation.

In 2020, Maggie worked with other executive coaches and published the first Chinese executive coaching book “Creating Excellence” that was endorsed by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, who is one of the most senior executive coaches globally.

Jerry Jiang, Executive Career Coach

Jerry is a differentiated ICF– credentialed Professional Certified Coach with strong business operation background and National Psychological Counsellor certified. In his coaching Jerry leverages his vast experience of working in various industries such as in High Tech, Manufacturing, Internet of Things, Semiconductor etc.

Since 2014 Jerry has been working as an executive coach, career and leadership coach and work with you to effectively develop and implement a solid career strategy and successfully migrate to the new roles.

Meanwhile through coaching to help you improve your self-leadership, leading team as well as lead the organization. Jerry works with executives and managers to effectively manage priorities and deadlines, achieve optimal work/life balance, manage their stress level and that of their teams, communicate and build stronger relationships with bosses, peers and direct reports, level-up their emotional intelligence, strengthen their executive presence, and illuminate “blind spots” in their behaviour affecting their impact and advancement to both individual, team and organization.

Prior to becoming a professional coach Jerry spend over 20 years in sales & marketing and business operations in various multinational companies including Renesas, Philips and Thermo–Fisher.

Jerry cares about respect, sincerity, intimacy, results and driving objectives. He brings strong coaching skills and essential eastern culture together, making his coaching more influential and deep into clients’ heart and mind with the goal of mindset and behaviour transformation. Also pay attention to people whole level, systemic dynamics in organization, stakeholder influences, vertical leadership development and feedback.