Our Coaching Team
Cathy Peng
Impossible = I’m Possible. Coaching on Making Things Happen Through Situational Awareness, Leadership, and Personal Confidence.
A senior leader with senior leadership roles based in Asia, the Americas and Europe. Cathy has worked for and continues to work with companies headquartered around the globe. She began as an engineer, before receiving her MBA from the University of Chicago and transforming into a senior leader in sales, branding and business development. For the last several years she has also become a successful entrepreneur launching and growing dynamic businesses with her partners and clients.
Coaching Languages: English and Chinese
Marc Naddell
Know Yourself. Know Situations. You Won’t Fear Outcomes of Pursuing Your Goals.
My coaching philosophy derives from my experiences as a senior executive at a number of fortune 500 companies and privately held technology start-ups that were headquartered in the USA, Europe and also Asia. Having risen up through the ranks as a business person, my focus was on constantly learning new skills and perfecting a range of communication competencies that would enable my mastery of new technology concepts, to have effectiveness in working with management, peers and my own teams, and to persuade individuals and audiences with my ideas and proposals. I have three degrees from Universities, including my Masters in Management from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business
Coaching Languages: English and German, conversant in French and Spanish
Dr.Joseph Rios
Decode the unspoken. Speak with strategic clarity. Create opportunity.
As a university lecturer in China, I saw firsthand how easily meaning can be
lost in translation — and how clarity changes everything. That experience
shaped my work at Stanford, where I earned a PhD in International
Comparative Education and studied how meaning is formed through framing,
delivery, and presence.
Since then, I’ve helped hundreds of managers across Fortune 500 companies
communicate with greater clarity and impact. At Google Brain, I served as
Learning Design Lead, helping launch an AI-driven language-learning initiative
that scaled across six countries, and later led entrepreneurship bootcamps
across China for the Columbia Business School. Today, I speak internationally
and write about the enduring importance of human communication in the AI
era. I created Brave Speak™ to help high performers turn clarity into career
impact.
Coaching Languages: English