About Singapore Coach Victor Seet
Who am I and what’s my story?
Victor Seet is a Singapore-based Executive and Leadership Coach who uniquely integrates Gallup CliftonStrengths and Ontological coaching to drive behavioural change. He holds ICF PCC and ACTC credentials, is a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach, and is recognized as the world's only coach to have achieved both the Gallup Gold and Platinum Certified CliftonStrengths Coach awards, distinctions Gallup has since retired, making this credential permanently unique. Victor specializes in coaching, leadership development, corporate team building and team development for public and private sector clients across Singapore and Asia. He also actively does couple coaching and marriage mentoring.
To date, Victor's work has impacted over 13,000 adults and 16,000 youth across Singapore, China, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Lebanon, with over 1,600 coaching hours and 3,000 facilitation hours logged.
Below is his story.
From shame to courage
My name is Victor. It means “OVERCOMER”.
I now coach others to find hope and courage. Below is my story.
On the left was me before 40. I was 82kg. On the right is the current me. I am now between 67-68kg.
Before I was 40. I was on the round side, struggling with shame and with lots of insecurities. It was largely invisible to me or I was possibly living in denial. And finally, I had a huge breakdown.
My blood pressure hit 200. I was having weight issues and my back pain was constantly bothering me. As a co-founder of a business, I suffered from burnout. The team I was leading was often on the receiving end of my emotional outbursts. I was also struggling in my marriage of 12 years (back then).
It finally reached a tipping point. And I decided to take a hard stop from work.
During my sabbatical, I rediscovered God’s love for me and went through a healing journey in the emotional domain. That created a profound shift. I also went on a health program and lost weight. I went through marriage counselling and my marriage slowly took a turn. I also signed up for an ontological coaching course as part of my pursuit in personal transformation.
FROM SHAME TO COURAGE
Since end 2020, I felt I had made a deep emotional shift from a mood of SHAME to one of COURAGE and purpose. The journey to healing is a process. I often felt like I needed to dig deep for courage to face up to my past. I initiated conversations with people I have hurt. I initiated conversations with people I felt hurt by. Through a slow and difficult process, I found healing.
My marriage has rejuvenated and my wife and I have drawn even closer than before. I now experienced a deep sense of closeness to my three kids. On the physical front, I lost substantial weight and my back issues disappeared. On the career front, I decided to switch from focusing on training to focusing on coaching. I found a new joy and meaning in coaching others towards creating a sustainable transformation in their lives, just as I have experienced.
The change was summed up by my wife: “I felt like I have married a different man.”
The reason why I share my story is because I firmly believe that I can only coach effectively from my own learnings and personal transformation.
My Approach to Coaching
My coaching draws on three integrated disciplines that I have spent over a decade developing and practising across Singapore and Asia.
The first is CliftonStrengths - understanding the unique talent DNA that each person and team brings, and learning to use those strengths deliberately rather than accidentally. From the 34 talent themes, our results reveal our unique sequence. The more intentionally we engage our strengths, the more energised and effective we become in leadership, in relationships, and in life.
The second is Ontological Coaching - working at the level of language, emotions, and body to shift the invisible patterns that limit how people think, relate, and perform. These are not soft factors. They are the invisible architecture that determines how we show up, how others experience us, and what results we are able to produce.
The third is Relational Leadership - examining the quality of the relational field we create around us. Whether people feel seen, heard, and trusted enough by us to bring their whole self is rarely a personality question. It is a leadership question. And it is one that can be developed.
These three are not separate tools. Together they form an integrated approach to leadership and transformation that works at the level of identity, not just behaviour.
To go deeper on how these work together, read The Victor Seet Approach →
Explore Victor's thinking on CliftonStrengths, ontological coaching, leadership, and trust on the Insights blog →
Ways to Work with Victor - Start Here
1. 1-1 Coaching (Individuals & Leaders)
Personal coaching sessions combining CliftonStrengths and Ontological Coaching. Suitable for professionals seeking clarity, growth, or a significant life or career transition. Based in Singapore, available online globally.
2. Team Coaching
Ongoing or project-based team coaching for organisations in Singapore and Asia. Helps teams improve communication, trust, collaboration, and performance using CliftonStrengths profiling and Ontological Team Coaching.
3. CliftonStrengths Workshops
Half-day and full-day workshops for corporate teams, schools, and organisations. Includes Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment and facilitated debrief. Workshops can be customised for specific groups as well: high-potential leaders, new staff going through onboarding or cross-functional teams.
A specialised sales performance workshop is also available for sales teams and financial services organisations
4. Strengths-Based Coaching Skills for Leaders
A structured programme for organisations that want to turn their CliftonStrengths data into practical applications - work reviews, developmental conversations and performance conversations. Suitable for leaders and middle managers from corporate teams, schools, government agencies, and any organisation building a coaching culture from within. Based in Singapore, available across Asia.
5. Keynote Speaker & Seminars
Keynote addresses, seminars, and conference talks for organisations and events across Singapore and Asia. Topics include CliftonStrengths and strengths-based leadership, trust and difficult conversations, resilience, well-being and energy management, and strengths-based selling. Available for corporate events, leadership conferences, and industry summits.
6. Couple Coaching
Coaching with couples using CliftonStrengths to deepen emotional intimacy, improve communication and reduce conflicts in marriages.
To explore which option fits your needs, contact me.
The work experiences that have shaped me
▶ Nov 2020 - Sep 2022, I worked in Capelle Consulting as a Learning Designer, focusing on creating leadership development, team development and digital transformation programs to meet the needs of the clients we serve.
▶ The role expanded from Learning Design to include Sales Consulting. I picked up new consulting skills, learn to pitch in a team, won and delivered integrated solutions for different organizations.
▶ In Dec 2014, I co-founded Strengths School with Jason Ho. We led a team of full time employees to bring CliftonStrengths workshops and leadership development training into companies and schools in Singapore and Asia. I stepped away from the business in Jan 2020 to take a sabbatical.
▶ As an entrepreneur, I’ve pitched, sold, designed, led and delivered over 100 leadership and people development projects in the Corporate sector and acquired significant sales and project management experiences.
▶ From Nov 2022- Jun 2024, I was the resident Team Coach at Motion For Impact, helping the company grow from 12 to 25 full time staff and responsible for coaching each staff in well-being and performance.
READ: Case Study on the impact as Team Coach.
▶ After a couple of years in Corporate Real Estate (my first job), I took a step of faith and joined Church of Our Saviour as a full time Youth Pastor. My responsibility was to provide pastoral care for a group of 400 youth. I mentored and counselled young people, preached weekly, organized youth camps and outreach programs, designed and delivered leadership development training programs and led overseas mission trips.
Initially I thought this might be a 1 year stint but God has other plans. I stayed from mid 2006 to March 2015.
MY CERTIFICATIONS & CREDENTIALS
ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC)
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths Coach — Gold Award (2015) and Platinum Award (2016). The world's only coach to hold both awards. Gallup has since retired this award programme.
Newfield Certified Ontological Coach (NCC)
Newfield Certified Team Coach
Prepare and Enrich Certified Facilitator
Over 1,600 coaching hours · 3,000 facilitation hours · 13,000+ adults impacted
GALLUP WALL OF FAME - AWARDS GIVEN BY GALLUP
GALLUP COACH - GOLD AWARD
Dec 2015
GALLUP COACH PLATINUM AWARD
Nov 2016
Media & Press
The Straits Times — Featured as a Team Coach pioneering the in-house coaching model in Singapore's corporate sector. The article explored how resident team coaches help fast-growing companies address burnout, quiet quitting, and employee wellbeing in a post-Covid workplace.
