​OUR STORY
Everyone, and every business, has a story. Lightpath Leadership’s is closely connected to her founder, Irene Öhler.
Irene arrived in Vietnam in 2012, after 15 years of international experience in leadership development.
One of the first things she noticed was the remarkable women of Vietnam. She kept meeting accomplished women, in both formal and informal leadership positions. Irene was fascinated and knew she had found a huge treasure still ‘undiscovered’.
This discovery would change Irene's career and life path.
Irene Öhler
Fast forward to 2019, Irene has contributed to uncovering this treasure of lived leadership experience and sharing it with the world: In 2016 she co-authored an awarded Book, Ba Trieu’s 21st Century Daughters, on remarkable Vietnamese women leaders; in 2014 she co-founded the live event series, the Women’s Storytelling Salon, and has become a sought after expert on the topic of women in leadership.
In 2016 Irene’s family made the big decision to stay on in Vietnam, to be a part of the country’s exciting growth story. They set up a business, Lightpath Consulting Group, specialising in one of the hottest topics in Vietnam: international education.
2019 then saw the birth of Lightpath Leadership, which combines Irene’s deep experience in executive coaching, intercultural consulting, the power of storytelling and her personal mission of creating impact by developing authentic leaders.
As part of this, Lightpath Leadership is now offering cutting edge international women leadership programs tailored to the Vietnamese context.
HOW
WE STARTED
OUR FOUNDER
& TEAM
Irene Ohler founder of LightPath Leadership, is passionate about leadership development and women’s empowerment. Irene has more than 20 years of international experience in talent development, having worked with Fortune 500 corporates and governments in Europe, China, Brazil, New Zealand and Vietnam as an executive coach and consultant.
Her mission is to unleash individual’s leadership and support organisations to nurture the talent needed to tackle our complex leadership challenges.
Our Values are the 5Cs: Contribution, Connection, Community, Creativity, and Commitment.
OUR
FUTURE
We’d love you to become part of our Story.
There is a craving for ‘New Leadership’, which has been accelerated by our experience of the Pandemic.
We partner with you and your organization to develop:
Five leadership skills for the future:
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Cross-cutting: developing networks that extend to a diversity of people,
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Collaborating: fostering psychological safety to increase team performance,
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Coaching: having critical conversations that develop others’ potential,
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Culture shaping: shaping organizational culture by molding corporate practices, and
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Connecting: growing in empathy and authentic leadership.
“Today, and even more so in the years ahead, we need leaders who can help transform their firms—so they become more agile, more innovative, more digitally savvy, more customer-centric, more inclusive, and more human.”
Herminia Ibarra, London Business School.
"COACHING DOESN’T ONLY IMPACT THE PERSON THAT'S BEING COACHED; COACHING ONE PERSON CAN CHANGE THE LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE FOR THE BETTER."