Testimonials

“Edmund and I worked together for three months; he coached me on launching my business. He shared great empathy, experience, and knowledge throughout our time together. I was pleased with the progress I made during our sessions. But, Edmund did more than expected. He helped me organize myself to continue working toward my goals after our contract ended. I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone looking for an executive or leadership coach.”

“Edmund Settle is a dedicated and innovative social entrepreneur with over 20 years of international leadership experience. In addition to founding two NGOs focusing on HIV in China, his breadth of work on human rights and development in the United Nations and nonprofit sector expanded his ability to engage and empower civil society and government experts in over 30 countries.”

“I had the privilege to have Edmund as my executive coach for three months in 2020 and early 2021. His deep listening skills and astute questions guided me to new insights about myself and my leadership style. During our time together, I navigated through and reframed challenges and developed new strategies for working effectively and maintaining the positive energy and focus I need for my work. Edmund’s rich work experience allows him to bring a depth of insight to his coaching and understand the complexities of working cross-culturally in various countries and contexts. His unique skill set makes him an incredibly valuable coach. I highly recommend Edmund as an executive coach.”

“Recently, I had the pleasure of working with Edmund as my coach, and during our time together I gathered great insight about myself. Edmund helped me identify ineffective patterns that showed up in my professional life and was able to support me in finding solutions to break out of these patterns. Edmund provided the right balance between being supportive while challenging me to grow. It was also clear that his professional background gives him a vast knowledge base and the experience to advise other professionals effectively.”

“Edmund is an excellent Executive Coach as anyone could ask for. I have worked with him for three months now. Although he comes from a different background, we worked together through wonderful lessons on my leadership growth, program management, and skills improvement. He is very knowledgeable about what is needed with nonprofit leadership work. If you are looking for a real development in yourself and your leadership growth, I highly recommend Edmund as an Executive Coach for you and your organization.”

“Edmund is a terrific and supportive executive coach. His professional insight and knowledge assist him with coaching his clients in helping them get organized so that they can reach their full potential. As Edmund’s client, he has helped me as a young professional start my career off confidently and on the right foot.”

“Edmund’s strong leadership has helped me establish an understanding of the value and importance of public health. His professionalism has greatly influenced me, and this experience working with him also formed my perspective of career development. Edmund coached me when I joined the World Health Organization, which helped me understand Public-Private Partnerships’ power and value. These great learnings laid the foundation also for my current job, leading Bayer (China, Ltd) being part of solutions in many social challenges in China.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Edmund for more than a year. The coaching and guidance I received from him during this period are invaluable. What I admire the most in him is a hands-on approach. As a coach, he understands what your strengths are and works with you to build them. This method helped me a lot in understanding my strengths and working on my weaknesses. Edmund does not spoon-feed you with solutions. Instead, it walks you through the possibilities and helps you find out what suits you the best. His extensive knowledge and experience in interacting with people from different backgrounds were beneficial to me. I strongly recommend Edmund 100% if you are a professional looking for an executive coach.”

“I’ve known and admired Edmund’s leadership abilities for 16 years - ever since I first learnt of his HIV advocacy in China while I was at WHO. By reaching out to civil society and bringing community groups and NGOs together with the Chinese health authorities, Edmund pioneered a model of collaboration that would be replicated and scaled up regionally via the UN and its partners, including the regional health and human rights NGO, he helped found, the APCOM Foundation. His programme management skills and empathy ensured that this critical health and human rights issue remained at the top of the agenda of the community groups, government ministries and the UN. His efforts included securing funding, cycle after cycle, from key donors, including support for the pioneering, multi-country Global Fund/HIV, and LGBTI initiatives that were both revolutionary at the time and have been replicated globally.

Throughout his career, Edmund mentored many community and government advocates seeking to make a difference, nurturing their commitment and passion, and helping them match their skills to their ambitions. In this he was both a supervisor and a coach, leading from behind, reluctant to take credit for the many amazing accomplishments he achieved. Edmund’s transition from international development to executive coaching is a natural shift. I have personally learnt a lot from engaging Edmund at work, and I have no doubt those who are fortunate enough to retain his expertise will benefit strongly, as will the organizations and communities they serve.”

“Edmund is a dynamic and highly motivated professional who can bring diverse groups of people together towards a common ambition. Through his coaching practice, he is engaging and brings to bear years of policy setting and changing landscapes for minority groups for the better. Through his wide network of civil society groups and government experts, Edmund is adept at leveraging talent from various parts of the globe to achieve measurable and positive human rights outcomes.”

“Edmund was an incredible coach and mentor: trusting, patient, flexible, and supportive. He provided me with rich opportunities to build my capacity both professionally and interpersonally, helping me communicate effectively and cross-culturally. I thrived under his tutelage. He provided gentle guidance and positive suggestions for improvement when needed. Edmund’s respectful engagement inspired mutual respect and regard for each other. It helped me identify the areas I needed to work on without offense while also highlighting and appreciating my strength areas. It was a great pleasure working and learning from him.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Pak Edmund for the most inspiring two years of my life. As a result of his coaching, we not achieved only our program’s objectives but also more than what we first expected. He is the most passionate human being that I know, and his work inspired many people.”

“I’ve worked with Edmund for close to three years. Through his coaching, he instilled confidence in me and the value I bring to my team. On numerous occasions, he helped me improve my time management skills and provided valuable feedback to encourage better performance. One result was the publishing of my first op-ed in the Huffington Post India. I would say he is friendly with strong leadership and motivational skills. I also commend him for his ability to bring people together with alternative perspectives together and to challenge the status quo.”

“I have worked Edmund since the start of my work in global health. I am a television news anchor, and I have seen first-hand how he has positively impacted the people and communities he serves. He has a unique ability to connect issues, ensuring that they do not remain isolated but linked and with a strong support base. He has innovated a number of truly first-of-their-kind initiatives, including a dictionary of terminology specific to the HIV community in Chinese so that people living with HIV are not ‘silenced’ by vague language. I am proud to have built up a friendship with Edmund over these years. He has been instrumental in my involvement in global health security today, and I am sure he has impacted many more people in similar ways.”

“As my leadership coach, Edmund guided me on navigating my career and developed my leadership qualities. As a result, I have become one of the highest-ranked national staff at the UNDP Regional Center in Bangkok. I highly recommend Edmund as an Executive Coach for your professional development to become a better leader.”

“Edmund directly supervised me for four years at UNDP, and we previously collaborated on the management of an HIV project implemented by UNDP while I worked at the Global Fund. Edmund excels at building collaborative partnerships and driving innovation. His energy, enthusiasm, personal commitment, and ability to set a clear, ambitious vision for the team inspired us to work together towards shared goals. Edmund is an extremely supportive manager who takes a coaching approach to manage his team and can draw out and leverage the strengths of the people he coaches. He always encouraged me to identify opportunities to develop my skills and gave me space to grow as a professional. I highly recommend Edmund as a coach for any leader that requires support on out-of-the-box thinking, management of complex partnerships, and clear communications.”

“I directly or indirectly supervised a large group of people over my years at the UN, and Edmund stood out for his passion, entrepreneurialism, incredibly hard work, and results achieved. He easily bridged the worlds of the UN and civil society and was greatly admired by many of our partners across Asia and the Pacific.”