Who is holding this space?
Chuen-Yin is a leadership and organisation development consultant, facilitator and coach. Before founding This Brave Space, she spent 24 years in the Ministry of Education, where she served as Principal of Yishun Town Secondary School and Nanyang Girls’ High School, and later as a Cluster Superintendent.
Those years inside the system shaped not only her professional expertise, but her deep understanding of what it feels like to lead under pressure, to hold responsibility for others, and to navigate complexity, expectations and change. This lived experience is what allows her to work with leaders not from theory alone, but from having walked in similar shoes.
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This Brave Space was created from a simple but powerful belief: that when people are given safety, honesty and presence, both individuals and whole systems can shift. Chuen-Yin works with leaders, teams and organisations to create spaces where reflection, dialogue and courageous conversations can take place, and where new ways of seeing and being can emerge.
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Over the past three years, she has worked closely with school clusters and schools across Singapore, and also with clients in the corporate and social sectors, supporting leadership development, team effectiveness and organisational change.
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Chuen-Yin is a certified NTL OD practitioner, Newfield Ontological Coach and Gestalt Relational Teams Coach, and a Senior Fellow with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She is also a certified practitioner and coach for SoundWave, Key Polarity Indicator and Leadership Circle Profile.
Why I do this work
In my last term as a school principal, something quietly fell apart for me...
I was doing what I believed was right. I was making the decisions that leadership required. And yet, I could feel something in me and in the system tightening instead of opening.
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The ways I had learned to lead no longer felt enough. Not because they were wrong, but because they no longer reached the deeper human layers that were shaping what was really happening.
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That was when I began to study coaching and organisation development. Not as tools to fix people, but as ways to listen more deeply, to see patterns, and to work with what lives beneath behaviour and performance.
This Brave Space grew from that moment. From the longing to create places where leaders and systems could slow down, tell the truth, and find new ways forward together.
