Kathleen Yu

Expertise

Kathleen focuses on talent and leadership assessment. She has deep expertise in designing and deploying assessment frameworks and tools to help organisations identify future leaders. She is also passionate about coaching and supporting people to unleash their potential and to attain their aspirations.

Prior to joining Kiddy & Partners, Kathleen worked in various talent consultancy firms for 14 years, offering bespoke solutions to support clients’ talent management and leadership development strategies. Working across Hong Kong and the UK, she partnered with global and APAC clients across sectors, with expertise in areas include high potential identification, leadership assessment, leadership competency framework, 360 and psychometric feedback, 1:1 coaching. She also had experience working in an in-house role with a Fortune-500 company, overseeing the talent assessment strategy to support the management and development of the company’s leadership pipeline.

Kathleen is a BPS Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an ICF Certified Coach. She is accredited users for several psychometric tools.

How do you help clients?

I help clients to identify and develop their future leaders. This can be through defining their future leadership competencies and values, designing robust assessment frameworks, and deploying coaching and development interventions.

I undertake recruitment and promotion assessments for clients, providing clear analysis of strengths and development needs, as well as clear hire/ no hire recommendations and onboarding/ development suggestions.

Through my coaching practice, I help individuals to access their strengths and values, to shift their mindsets and behaviours, and to attain their goals and ambitions.

Experience

1. Designing and managing a global talent assessment programme for an insurance company, running immersive 2-day virtual development centres for high potential staff across the globe on a monthly basis. This supports the company to identify key talent and accelerate their growth.
2. Designing immersive business simulation exercises to assess people leadership capability to operate at senior executive levels within a manufacturing organisation.
3. Developing leadership competency framework and leadership potential model to be used with clients, enhancing the rigor of high potential identification and succession planning.
4. Conducting executive assessment for recruitment and promotion across sectors (e.g. financial services, manufacturing, retail), enabling clients to make well-informed hiring and promotion decisions.
5. Providing 1:1 coaching and team facilitation across a variety of sectors.