“My goal is to lead with care, compassion, and love to insure an environment where we can look at the hurdles that are holding us back.”
Calvin Chen, Founder & CEO
Calvin Chen is a seasoned Executive Coach who helps emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives to sharpen their leadership effectiveness and successfully lead their teams through complex challenges.
In nearly 2 decades of coaching leaders from nonprofit orgs to Fortune 500 companies, his clients have achieved record revenues, vibrant team synergy, and relationship turnarounds in their professional and personal lives. His coaching has also yielded some big sporting moments, such as a first-round knockout in the UFC. His approach is personalized and holistic, informed by systems thinking, relationship systems intelligence, behavioral science, sports psychology, mindfulness, and various modalities emotional trauma work.
He is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP, a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, Leadership Circle Profile Practitioner, and an instructor at the Center for Coaching Mastery. Calvin has also been a long-time coach and sought after trainer for LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics), where his love for the Asian American community intersects with his passion for personal growth that leads to professional success.
Calvin has a BS in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego, written computer code for NASA, and even closed over $4M in sales for Anthony Robbins, a titan in the field of peak performance coaching. Calvin has also won many championships as a blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do. His diverse experiences are an expression of his adaptable nature and love of mastering new things. When the stakes are high and the path is unclear, he navigates the uncertainty with curiosity, compassion, and courage. It’s where he thrives.
At home, he is likely to be found tinkering in the kitchen, dancing and laughing with his wife and children, learning something new (his latest obsession is ChatGPT), hiking, rock-climbing, or snowboarding. Calvin is also an Escape Room enthusiast with a 43-1 record.