Pivot Up to Success.
FOUNDER & CHIEF COACH
Eya Pagdanganan-Sicat is a Business Executive, Coach, Wife, Mother and Daughter. She inhabits these roles without hierarchy because she knows that in real life, at any given time, one of them could be very significant, or a couple of roles could intersect and demand much attention.
As a successful business executive of more than 25 years in large global companies (Unilever, Mead Johnson Nutrition, American Express and Royal DSM), Eya knows that we learn leadership from a place of grit to meet tough challenges. Eya is passionate about nurturing a healthy balance between well-being and high performance to genuinely achieve and be more.
In every company she worked, she brought her organisational, marketing and people skills to full strength. She can speak the jargon of bottom lines, innovation, strategic alliance and emerging markets. She also knows that the same jargons gain more significance with an agile, healthy, and resilient leader.
Eya’s calling as coach happened when she needed a coach as a business executive leading multi-cultural global teams. With a helpful coach, she was able to sift through her uncertainty over a corporate job offer in another country, and how it may affect her family and her career goals. With that initial experience and other coaching occasions, she realised that coaching is meaningful and impactful to someone needing a partner for work or personal uncertainties. Then and even now, Eya continues to invest time and energy to take the top of the line courses for professional coaching to add to her current certifications.
Eya has a Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of the Philippines and certified in Columbia Business School’s Strategic Consulting program. She is taking graduate studies in Human Nutrition at Deakin University and Psychology at Monash University. Eya is a graduate of several certificate programs, including Health Coaching (The Coach Partnership), Tension Release Exercises (TRE), and Somatic Coaching (Strozzi Institute). She is also taking courses in Cancer Journey Coaching (USA) and Mindfulness (Netherlands).
Eya’s coaching experience, formal and informal, spans more than a decade. Her coaching experience includes leaders from the corporations where she worked plus Alquity Investment Management and health care professionals in Europe and Asia, to name a few. She was CEO of Newfield Asia (a leading ontological coaching training school, now known as The Coach Partnership) and served in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Executive Committee of Singapore. She is an ICF Credentialed Executive and Leadership Coach specialising in Health and Wellness.
For Eya, her family is her centrepiece of being and her inspiration as a health and wellness coach. She understands the immeasurable value of a compassionate and trusted coach to help navigate the intersection of work and family to meet serious health concerns. Health and Care Coaching have not yet reached mainstream proportions like Leadership or Executive coaching, but Eya believes the time has come and glad she is among those who saw them coming. Eya embraces the significance of a healthy mind and body as a life philosophy and an opportunity to provide helpful coaching to executives needing to resolve work and health uncertainties.
TESTIMONIALS
“It was clear from the first session that Eya was attentive and intuitive. The comfort in discussing any and all topics meant that I felt I made great progress with every session. Eya was particularly good at explaining what drives actions or feelings and providing even a neurological conceptualisation in some cases.”
— Liam Kelly, Alquity Investment Management
“Thank you, Eya for our lovely and uplifting coaching sessions. Eya's training on mindful breathing exercises and tension releasing exercises were especially helpful and memorable. It was a good experience to get me in a more open and positive frame of mind.”
— Surgeon
“Eya is an excellent coach. She was able to address concerns and give an impartial assessment of the issues discussed. This process helped gain some insights to certain aspects of professional growth and will certainly be valuable moving forward. I gained deeper insight to discuss issues and strategies to improve on. The coaching helped and gave the additional tools to use in my professional growth.”
— Healthcare Professional
“Eya helped me uncover, explore and address blind spots, which I felt posed constraints to my professional development. Her questions about my priorities and why I find specific topics important to discuss put these issues into a new context and highlighted aspects I had not been conscious of before.
Eya is a highly professional and dedicated coach with great insights. Eya's astuteness is vital to steer conversations in the right direction.”
— Gergely Ürmössy, Macro Strategist
“I entered the HealthPivot program, with Coach Eya, in March 2020, just before the lockdowns.
I was in surreal disbelief of what was happening in the world, but it was also the perfect time to enter the program.
With Coach Eya's mentoring and nutrition plan, I was able to lose over 12% body fat and almost 40lbs! Unlike any other coaching programs I’ve attended, Coach Eya not only monitored my physical health but my mental health as well, she truly cared...which made all the difference!”
— Raymond Michael Z. Gonzalez, President, Hoppler, Inc., Philippines Leading Online Real Estate Brokerage
“Eya's style and guidance have provided much-needed clarity in all areas of my life. On the career front, she has helped me navigate the big questions and concerns I had. These have included my confidence, my outlook and self-awareness of the kind of leader I want to be. Healthwise, I have so many practical takeaways to help me manage my migraine better, my sleep and how to listen to my body actively.”
— Elizabeth Oni-Iyiola, London
“The sessions gave me a better understanding of myself, my colleagues and my motivations. They were invaluable in determining my career path and goals and achieving my maximum potential. With boosted confidence, I see myself and my colleagues in a different light. I would recommend the coaching process to others as it helps you be the best version of yourself.”