Flying Caterpillars help people realise their potential faster and fuller
We are veterans in branding and recruitment, who are driven by the purpose of elevating others.
The Flying Caterpillars approach to coaching can benefit anyone at any juncture of their lives and careers to break through dilemmas, achieve life goals and become happy and effective people:
Learn about what makes each person tick, including yourself, and leverage the strengths of your team for more effective functioning, communication and decision making. Build a happier and more effective team with lower attrition and higher productivity.
Whether you’re vying for your first job, a higher position or a total reinvention, the difference between make or break lies in effectively planning the search and building your overall brand. We help you with search navigation and personal branding – including mapping your search, strengthening your CV, honing communication skills, preparing for interviews, and sharpening your professional appearance.
Reintegration into a corporate environment and culture can be challenging, and you don’t know what are the risks and how to manage them. At the same time, you fear the risks of not making the switch early. Flying Caterpillars help you identify the pros and cons, and the most ideal industry, vocation and /or function to pursue.
This is a crucial period when so many decisions impact the rest of our adult lives. We may know what we don’t like, but don’t know where our true passions and strengths lie, and what career paths are suitable, available and viable. We may then be overwhelmed by confusion, peer opinions and social pressures, or worse, the urge to rebel or simply give up. Flying Caterpillars help you select the learning and career path, and pursue a fulfilling future, using our comprehensive 3-step approach.
We all know that sound and solid education provides the foundation for a successful future. Yet the importance of selecting the right studies and learning environment is often overlooked or underrated. Flying Caterpillars can help you understand your learning style better, select learning or vocational paths and courses of study.
The first 5-7 years of your career will define you as a professional. Learning curves are typically steep, and often we let our destiny be shaped by chance, bosses and circumstances. Flying Caterpillars help you to delve deep, evaluate your options and bring your career to where you really want it, using the Brain-based Results System of Coaching to set goals, strategies and actions.
You’ve been promoted to your first leadership role, or you’re targeting a people management role as your next career step. With our coaching to support your journey, you can systematically map goals, strategies and actions to achieve this, while uncovering more strengths and learning along the way.
You’ve built a successful career, and even greater achievements beckon from the highest echelon. The peak has both huge rewards and huge risks. You want surer footwork for the climb, whether it's making the leap to top honcho, making an impression at the next townhall, or interviewing for a boardroom seat.
Or, you’re happy with what you’ve achieved so far, but ask “what’s next?”. Something is missing – fulfilment, security or passion. You question your past choices, and are not fully satisfied with current realities.
Flying Caterpillars support you to scale new peaks, and find new meaning and purpose.
Learn about what makes each person tick, including yourself, and leverage the strengths of your team for more effective functioning, communication and decision making. Build a happier and more effective team with lower attrition and higher productivity.
Whether you’re vying for your first job, a higher position or a total reinvention, the difference between make or break lies in effectively planning the search and building your overall brand. We help you with search navigation and personal branding – including mapping your search, strengthening your CV, honing communication skills, preparing for interviews, and sharpening your professional appearance.
Reintegration into a corporate environment and culture can be challenging, and you don’t know what are the risks and how to manage them. At the same time, you fear the risks of not making the switch early. Flying Caterpillars help you identify the pros and cons, and the most ideal industry, vocation and /or function to pursue.
This is a crucial period when so many decisions impact the rest of our adult lives. We may know what we don’t like, but don’t know where our true passions and strengths lie, and what career paths are suitable, available and viable. We may then be overwhelmed by confusion, peer opinions and social pressures, or worse, the urge to rebel or simply give up. Flying Caterpillars help you select the learning and career path, and pursue a fulfilling future, using our comprehensive 3-step approach.
We all know that sound and solid education provides the foundation for a successful future. Yet the importance of selecting the right studies and learning environment is often overlooked or underrated. Flying Caterpillars can help you understand your learning style better, select learning or vocational paths and courses of study.
The first 5-7 years of your career will define you as a professional. Learning curves are typically steep, and often we let our destiny be shaped by chance, bosses and circumstances. Flying Caterpillars help you to delve deep, evaluate your options and bring your career to where you really want it, using the Brain-based Results System of Coaching to set goals, strategies and actions.
You’ve been promoted to your first leadership role, or you’re targeting a people management role as your next career step. With our coaching to support your journey, you can systematically map goals, strategies and actions to achieve this, while uncovering more strengths and learning along the way.
You’ve built a successful career, and even greater achievements beckon from the highest echelon. The peak has both huge rewards and huge risks. You want surer footwork for the climb, whether it's making the leap to top honcho, making an impression at the next townhall, or interviewing for a boardroom seat.
Or, you’re happy with what you’ve achieved so far, but ask “what’s next?”. Something is missing – fulfilment, security or passion. You question your past choices, and are not fully satisfied with current realities.
Flying Caterpillars support you to scale new peaks, and find new meaning and purpose.
The Flying Caterpillars approach can benefit anyone at any juncture of their lives and careers to gain self awareness, break through dilemmas, achieve life goals and attain confidence.
We help you take flight faster and fuller, using
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment has helped millions of people worldwide gain insights about themselves and how they interact with others—and improve how they communicate, learn, and work. It provides a powerful framework for building better relationships, driving positive change, harnessing innovation, and achieving excellence. The MBTI® assessment makes Carl Jung's theory of psychological type both understandable and highly practical by helping individuals identify their preferences in four areas:
In addition, MBTI® Step II Interpretive Report reveals facets of each of the four preferences, and how they interact with one another to result in your unique personality.
The MBTI® Tool was first developed more than 70 years ago and is backed by 50 years of scientific research. Today, it continues to be researched and developed globally. It is currently used by 89 of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as thousands of smaller companies to promote team cohesiveness, higher productivity and talent development by improving people's understanding of themselves and one another. Deepening self-awareness in the workplace can aid communication, leadership development, conflict resolution, dealing with change/change management, and stress management.
The MBTI® Tool is also being used in high schools and universities, social organizations, churches, and with individuals who want to be better equipped to make important life choices and decisions around relationships, careers, career transitions and even parenting!
There are numerous options available to meet a variety of requirements. If you are interested to find out more about the MBTI® tool and how it can help you, drop us a line:
Charles@flyingcaterpillars.com
Jacqueline@flyingcaterpillars.com
The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment is one of the world’s most respected and frequently used career planning tools. It has helped both academic and business organizations develop the brightest talent and has guided thousands of individuals in their search for a rich and fulfilling career.
The Strong Interest Inventory® is based on the understanding that:
The Strong® assessment is a trusted tool because it is empirically based, underpinned by rigorous science and research and regularly updated to reflect changes in today’s world of work.
The Strong® assessment is ideal for a wide range of applications:
Balance and fulfillment – helps identify activities that a person can pursue to balance or counter dissatisfaction resulting from working in a contradictory Theme.
Employee engagement and career development—helps employees align interests with areas of responsibility in their job that reflect those interests, and heighten self-awareness to provide deeper understanding of individual strengths and blind spots.
The Strong® assessment is also being used to help students choose courses of study and career interests; and with early- and mid-career professionals to explore career transition options.
If you are interested to find out more about how the Strong® assessment can help you, drop us a line:
Charles@flyingcaterpillars.com
Jacqueline@flyingcaterpillars.com
In Brain-Based Results Coaching, we use neuroscience findings to help elevate your thinking and drive your actions towards your visions. Here are a few examples of situations where it can help achieve calm and clarity, and result in fulfilment faster and fuller:
Are you facing a decision you can’t make? Do you wish to accomplish something but can only see the obstacles standing in your way? Are you unable to choose between two (or more) alternatives?
Speaking to a coach can help open up your thinking so that you view the problem from new perspectives you haven’t considered before.
How it works:
Brain-based coaching works by elevating your thinking to visioning outcomes and moving you away from issues and details. Recognizing that every brain is unique, and from the knowledge that we all hold the answers to solve our own issues, we work using questions that challenge you to stretch your thinking. Coaching can be uncomfortable and difficult, and the answers you find can sometimes lead you to more questions, which are the doors to more insights.
Habits, both good and bad, come in all forms and sizes. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’ve been doing something habitually. If you have noticed and identified a habit that you want to stop or change, or have had difficulty doing this on your own, then having a Habit Conversation with a Coach could be the solution you’re looking for.
How it works:
Neuroscience tells us that habits cannot be broken, that all our behaviors once hardwired cannot be “erased”. We help you understand your habit by breaking it down, and help you to understand how to use neuroscience to overcome the old behaviors and develop new habits.
Feeling a little lost with your career planning? Do you want to be more effective in your relationships? Something seems to be missing from your life?
Consciously setting goals and planning actions is often something we have neither time nor energy for, even when we know its importance.
How it works:
Over the course of an agreed number of structured sessions, we will support you to set inspiring goals in important areas of your life, develop strategies and follow up with actions to achieve them.
To find out more, contact us at
Charles@flyingcaterpillars.com
Jacqueline@flyingcaterpillars.com
Style Coaching is a unique specialization that brings together Personal Styling and Life Coaching.
Style Coaching helps you make positive changes to your outer appearance while empowering you to grow in confidence and self-belief with the help of simple coaching exercises. A Style Coach helps you improve not just the image in the mirror but the image in your mind as well. This is called the Body-Mind link and is an integral part of Style Coaching. How we (and others) see us on the outside has a huge impact on how we see ourselves on the inside, and vice versa.
Your Style Coaching journey is customized just for you and aims to help you discover and express your own personal style, expressed in your best colours, taking into consideration your body shape and lifestyle. It may include:
To find out more, contact us at
Charles Sng (Charles@flyingcaterpillars.com)
Jacqueline Loh (Jacqueline@flyingcaterpillars.com)
Charles@flyingcaterpillars.com
Charles has 20 years’ of experience in uncovering & developing the potential of companies and individuals. As a recruiter, he has helped numerous talents spread their wings and identify their ideal flight paths. As a branding & communications veteran, he has helped SGX, Tiger Airways and Nokia in their metamorphosis into more powerful and successful entities. He has advised CEOs and given training in brand building across industries, including B2B sectors such as precision tools and industrial lighting.
Throughout his career, he has advised candidates, colleagues and friends on selling their candidacy and ideas. He has also given counselling to those seeking calm and clarity when facing career and life decisions.
Charles is a certified practitioner of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Strong Interest Inventory®, and is trained in Brain-Based Results Coaching by the NeuroLeadership Group.
Charles started his career in recruitment advertising in 1991, helping companies find their position and voice as choice employers. Two years later, he branched into advertising & promotions at ABR Holdings, where he helped create three new F&B brands in one-and-a-half years, and drive sales for a dozen outlets.
Charles also helped create the new brand of SGX from the merger of SES & SIMEX, as well as lead its evolution through subsequent restructurings in the 10 years he was with the organisation.
When with Bates 141, Charles helped the through-the-line agency clinch Best Campaign in Asia in the prestigious Promotion Marketing Awards of Asia 2006, for the branding programme to reconnect its client Nokia with Asian youth. The Awards recognise real results in marketing and sales.
From 2006 to 2009, Charles was a specialist recruiter for the PR & Communications industry at global search firm Aquent. There, he became a member of the Golden Club, which includes coaching colleagues and supportiveness in its admission criteria.
In 2010, as Head of Branding & Communications, Charles helped Tiger Airways transform into a listed company with more muscle and maturity, and win three new awards supported by strong growth in size, sales and profits.
In 2013, he co-founded Flying Caterpillars to continue helping people and companies realise their potential faster and fuller, using internationally recognised methodologies and practices.
Jacqueline@flyingcaterpillars.com
Jacqueline has 20 years’ of experience in helping companies and individuals understand, develop and market themselves.
After a successful decade and a half in marketing (L’Oreal, Burger King and Fonterra) and advertising (McCann-Erickson, FCB-Lloyd Martin and Spenser-BBDO), Jacqueline took on a new challenge in recruitment at global search firm Aquent. There she built the FMCG/Consumer Marketing practice, focusing on the search and selection of senior level sales and marketing roles before leaving to co-found Onezta Executive Search.
At L’Oreal, Jacqueline was Head of Marketing for Maybelline and Garnier where she was responsible for top-line value and volume sales as well as bottom line brand contribution. She was accountable for the performance of the key account and field sales teams, and worked with the Head of Sales on team incentives and motivation, as well as product and selling skills training. Jacqueline was also directly responsible for Marketing and PR, and led her team to deliver campaigns and retail launches.
Over the course of her marketing career, Jacqueline has spoken at regional conferences and in-house training seminars on topics such as product development, brand management and merchandising, as well as conducting workshops on go-to-market strategies and marketing activation.
During her corporate career and over the past 6 years in recruitment, Jacqueline has helped numerous colleagues and candidates grow and to achieve their career goals by providing guidance and advice at different junctures of their careers.
Realizing that she gained the greatest fulfilment from these engagements, Jacqueline is now dedicated to providing counsel and advice in a structured manner that can better benefit the candidates who seek her out for advice. She combines her knack for investigative analysis and creative thinking with the Brain-based Results Coaching System to bring about the changes her clients seek in their lives and careers.
A certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Strong Interest Inventory®, she uses these and other tools to help clients gain deeper self-awareness, and identify the most effective route on their journeys of self-discovery and metamorphosis.
Jacqueline is also an IASC certified Style CoachTM who combines her love for fashion with the Style Coaching tools to help clients create an impactful professional image.
When I was confused and depressed over my lack of clarity with my career progression and personal goals a few months ago, my close friend noticed and recommended that I speak with Charles, as he himself had benefitted from Charles’ guidance before.
I contacted Charles and he was extremely approachable yet professional. My first impression was that he was very meticulous and patient in understanding my situation.
We met in person a few times and also followed up via phone calls and messaging. Throughout the process, he made it very meaningful, beneficial and enjoyable with his easy-going personality and clear communications.
We set clear, achievable goals and laid down strategies within my time-line. With Charles’s help and encouragement, I’ve been walking with confidence towards what my heart really wanted, and the courage to make changes. With that, I am now at peace with myself, totally satisfied with the outcome.
My sincere thanks to Charles whose help made it possible!
Jacqueline is a keen listener and takes a vested interest in your professional development. She offers excellent advice based on her understanding of the market and I find her a great career consultant. I will recommend Jacqueline to anyone who is looking at their next career move.
I found the MBTI profiling very useful in understanding my own personality and behaviors. With Jacqueline's questions and analysis, I gained a deeper self-awareness, which I have been using to be more effective in my personal and professional life. The coaching Jacqueline providing on enhancing communication and teamwork have been particularly useful in my workplace.
Jacqueline, for me, is the epitome of a career mentor. Contrary to the traditional headhunters, she treats her clients with a personal touch. She goes beyond aggressive opportunity matching. She listens and understands your needs and discusses her plans to align with your thinking.
Her marketing background enables her to speak with you the same language.
Jacqueline is very transparent and upfront but handles all the conversations with due care. Sincerity and integrity are her two key pillars of success in the industry.
Needless to say, it is a pleasure to have worked with her in the past.
Our customised team workshop by Flying Caterpillars was fun & educational, with insights that are useful for applying to life and work.
Charles' insights into the thinking of hirers gave me great tips on tailoring my CV to score my desired position.
Charles has inspired me to reach beyond the now and to believe that I can achieve greater things. Our coaching sessions were fun and infused with Charles' keen sense of humour and positive energy.
Working with Charles was exactly what I needed in my life. After graduation, I had spent six years working and was on my way to a new Masters program, but I lacked clarity of who I was. I did not recognize my own value, nor did I have any idea what was in store for the next stage of life. However, with his guidance and coaching, he helped me see a side of myself I never thought to look for.
Charles comes well equipped with experiences and tools to help you gain mindfulness and clarity. Thus you are enabled to help yourself in the areas you feel are necessary, in a quick and efficient manner. He listens intently and patiently in a very controlled way that always made me feel comfortable. Through colorful analogies and metaphors, he redirects what you say back to you in terms that are easy to understand and digest. I cannot believe what kind of person I was projecting! I did not like it and so it ignited a drive to work toward a better me.
Since our work together, I have developed a more confident stance in my voice and personal branding. It has illuminated a clearer path for where I wanted to grow while in graduate school and I have a strong new fervor for my next career step. It is without a doubt that Charles helped reframe my outlook to see things for what they truly are. It helped me take up a new cadence in life to which I cannot stop dancing to.
Charles has a genuine passion for you and is excited to help you in your journey. Despite original reservations of cost and "is it worth it" questions, I now whole heartedly recommend Charles to be part of your "team". Keeping you at the very center of this entire processs, he helps you see your potential, rather than limitation.
Charles helped bring out my potential when my career was causing me self-doubt & frustration.
He helped me structure a plan and secure a job I really wanted. He also trained me to keep focused - something I'm not good at, being an ENFP. With Charles’ guidance and encouragement, I identified and pursued other things in life that energise me. While maintaining professionalism as a career coach, he also made every session meaningful and fun!
He polished this raw diamond (*ahem*) and for that, I am forever grateful. This journey of self-discovery has made me a better person - compassionate, passionate, driven & purposeful.
I hope Charles can continue working his magic on others!
What a breath of fresh air! Working with Flying Caterpillars truly opened up the eyes of my team members to each individual personality and helped each of us appreciate our innate strengths and weaknesses. The honesty and openness over the few hours certainly helped to bond us all as one. Couldn’t have asked for more!
Initially, I was skeptical about the entire exercise, however I left the workshop with a better understanding of myself and how I will react during stressed times. So, good job on that!
You guys did a very good job explaining how the profiling should be done, and were careful to steer us away from potential pitfalls. You were patient with our questions, and open to listening to our stories. I appreciated that you took time to explain things in context and to contextualise the examples and activities you used. The activities were also interesting, and there was enough variety that we were kept interested while at the same time allowing us to absorb better.
Understanding the preferences helped me to grasp the motivations behind my choices, and the kind of reaction I would effect on others when I’m behaving a certain way. The conscious effort to recognise and, in a way, "weigh" my possible actions and words, can help me to make better choices, especially when working in a team. Thanks again for the great session :)
The MBTI session was definitely a very useful opportunity to understand myself better, even though I had done this some time back. I find the session beneficial as I learn how to be more conscious of myself and turn my weaknesses into strength.
I found the session very informative and really beneficial in helping us understand ourselves better. Once again, thank you for the workshop and I do look forward to more interesting sessions with you at Flying Caterpillars.
I enjoyed the session very much and it was extremely fun and useful. It provided vital, structured insights into why/how I approach issues. The customised workshop allowed me to better understand my team and using that knowledge to communicate in a way which will resonate with them.
Thank you for the most interesting session. I enjoyed it thoroughly and wished we had more time. Overall, I think the profiling session was insightful, not just to better understand myself but how I can better work with my colleagues.
