Strategyleadexecute | Executive Coaching & Leadership Training Malaysia

About Gerald Ebenezer

Gerald Ebenezer

Executive Coach | Leadership Development Specialist | Podcast Host

Gerald partners with mid to senior-level corporate professionals, guiding them through leadership development and successful career transitions. His approach centers on helping individuals harness real-time leadership—transforming experiences into powerful moments of personal growth across internal, interpersonal, and external dimensions.

Gerald's mission is to equip clients with practical, proven tools that foster mindful awareness in day-to-day high-stakes leadership moments. He helps create elegant strategies tailored to each person's unique challenges, enabling them to navigate complex organizational dynamics with confidence and influence.

With over two decades of corporate experience spanning Malaysia and New Zealand—including roles at BAT, Canterbury District Health Board, and Danone—Gerald understands the nuances of organizational culture and stakeholder engagement at all levels.

Credentials & Expertise

Chartered Accountant (ANZ)
MBA, Manchester Business School
Certified Executive Coach, International Coach Academy
John Maxwell Team Certified Coach
Typecoach Consultant, Malaysia

Gerald serves as a Typecoach Consultant in Malaysia, helping leaders unlock authentic self-awareness to bring out the best in their teams. Fluent in English, he is passionate about inspiring leaders to develop influence that drives meaningful results.

An elegant strategy is simple to describe and hard to stick with. It makes the maximum impact with the minimum effort.

— Seth Godin

Featured Podcast

Art and Science of Influence

Ordinary Leaders Doing Extraordinary Things

Business leaders generously share their stories on the "art and science of influence" focusing on leadership development for organizations and what it takes for mid-career corporate professionals to breakthrough to the next level in their leadership journey.

Mid-career corporate professionals stand to benefit from simple yet highly effective strategies to accelerate their career growth and/or avoid unnecessary struggle early on in their careers.

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Executive Coaching Specialty

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Technical → Strategic Leadership

The Market Need:
Organizations struggle when brilliant technical experts (engineers, scientists, data leaders, technical architects, accountants) are promoted into leadership roles. These leaders excel at technical problem-solving but often struggle with strategic thinking vs. tactical execution, leading through influence vs. doing the work themselves, organizational dynamics and politics, executive presence and communication, and business acumen beyond their technical domain.

Our Coaching Approach:
We coach technical leaders to shift from technical problem-solver to strategic thinker, ask strategic questions like "What problem are we solving?" vs. "How do we solve this?", understand organizational dynamics beyond their technical function, communicate strategic value in business language, lead teams vs. being the smartest person solving problems, and navigate ambiguity and incomplete information.

This is coaching, not consulting. We don't teach frameworks—we coach them to see patterns, ask different questions, develop strategic thinking capability, and support them through the identity shift from "expert" to "leader."

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Systems Inspired Leadership

The Market Need:
Organizations face challenges where individual leader development isn't enough. The real issues are systemic: leadership team dysfunction (individually strong, collectively ineffective), recurring problems despite leader changes, silos and cross-functional breakdown, culture change initiatives that don't stick, post-merger integration challenges, and scaling challenges where old approaches stop working.

Our Coaching Approach:
We coach leaders to see organizational dynamics and patterns (not just individual behaviors), understand how systems shape behavior and outcomes, ask systemic questions like "What patterns do we see?" vs. "Who is the problem?", recognize their role in maintaining or shifting system dynamics, influence organizational systems through strategic intervention points, and navigate complexity and interconnected challenges.

This is coaching, not organizational development. We don't redesign structures or processes—we coach leaders to SEE and INFLUENCE systems through coaching questions and presence. Developed with organizational psychology research advisors to ensure evidence-based rigor.

Training Specialty

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Equip Middle Managers to Lead with Influence

Designed for middle managers navigating between first-line managers and the C-suite

Key Topics:

Identifying Your Weak Links: Discover where your influence breaks down and learn to recognize critical relationship gaps that impact your effectiveness
Leveraging Neuroscience (SCARF Model): Apply brain science to understand what drives people's behavior—Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness—and use these insights to influence more effectively
Applying the Platinum Rule with Typecoach: Move beyond the Golden Rule to understand different personality types and adapt your influence approach to how others prefer to be influenced
Strategically Focusing on Where It Matters: Learn to prioritize your influence efforts on high-impact relationships and situations that drive real results

This interactive training equips middle managers with practical tools to build influence across organizational levels, even without formal authority.

Strategy. Leadership. Execution.