Jonas Ridderstrale
Global Management Guru | Thinkers50 Honoree | Bestselling Author, Funky Business | Visiting Professor, Ashridge & IE Business School
Sanyin Siang
World-Renowned CEO Coach | Founding Executive Director, Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at Duke | Bestselling Author of The Launch Book | Thinkers50 Coaching Legend
Sanyin Siang is one of the world's most influential executive coaches, named the top coach and mentor by Thinkers50. As founding director of Duke's Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center, she coaches Fortune 500 CEOs, founders, and teams to build cultures that win. On stage, this bestselling author and Thinkers50 Coaching Legend delivers an infectiously enthusiastic, practical message on unlocking human and team potential.
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Sanyin Siang biography
Sanyin Siang is one of the world’s most influential executive coaches and a leading authority on how great leaders and teams are built. Named by Thinkers50 as the world’s most influential coach and mentor, she has made it her life’s mission to enable greatness in others, helping CEOs, founders, and their teams discover their “superpowers,” humanize their leadership, and build cultures that keep on winning.
Leadership speaker Sanyin Siang is the founding Executive Director of the Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center (COLE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, a leadership laboratory that engages every Daytime MBA student and convenes cross-sector think tanks on the toughest leadership challenges of our time. A CEO coach and advisor, she works with Fortune 500 chief executives, boards, tech startup founders, venture capitalists, generals, and Olympians, drawing on patterns of human and organizational excellence across an unusually wide range of fields. She is also a Professor at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and shares her insights with more than one million LinkedIn followers.
Enabling Greatness in Others
Siang’s coaching philosophy, shaped in part by her work alongside legendary Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, centers on enabling greatness rather than chasing it: leading with authenticity and trust, connecting emotionally as well as intellectually, and building teams whose collective strengths exceed the sum of their parts. The author of the award-winning bestseller The Launch Book, which uses behavioral science to help people navigate transitions in their careers and lives, she is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s original 100 Coaches cohort and a columnist for MIT Sloan Management Review. A Taiwanese-American who immigrated to the United States at age seven and went on to earn both an engineering degree and an MBA from Duke, she was inducted into the Thinkers50 Coaching Legends Hall of Fame and, in 2026, will be honored with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. She is also an active investor in sports, from a championship-winning NWSL team to emerging global leagues.
As a speaker, Sanyin Siang is known as an infectiously enthusiastic and deeply practical voice on leadership, coaching, and culture. She speaks on building high-performing teams and “super teams,” leading with authenticity and trust, developing leaders and future-forward talent, and navigating change with a launch mindset. Audiences leave energized, equipped with actionable tools, and inspired to unlock the untapped potential in themselves and the people they lead.
Sanyin Siang Speaking Videos
The Launch Mindset
Sanyin Siang - Winner of the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Award
Sanyin Siang Keynote Topics
Drawing on decades coaching elite leaders and her front-row study of championship cultures, Siang reveals how the best teams turn individual talent into collective "superpowers." She shares practical patterns for building trust, psychological safety, and cross-functional excellence, helping organizations create teams whose performance far exceeds the sum of their parts.
What separates truly great leaders from merely good ones? Siang distills lessons from coaching Fortune 500 CEOs, founders, generals, and Olympians, and from her work alongside one of sport's most successful coaches, into a practical model of leadership that enables greatness in others through authenticity, trust, and emotional connection rather than command and control.
Based on her award-winning book The Launch Book, Siang uses behavioral science to help leaders and teams navigate transitions, whether a new role, a bold idea, or organizational transformation. She offers an actionable playbook for overcoming the fears and inertia that stall change and for launching forward with confidence and momentum.
As technology and constant change reshape work, Siang argues that the most powerful leadership advantage is a deeply human one. She shows leaders how to develop themselves and their people as "leader-coaches," cultivating the ecosystem thinking, empathy, and talent-development skills that organizations need to thrive in an exponentially changing world.
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FAQs on Booking Sanyin Siang
Why Sanyin Siang?
Booking Sanyin Siang gives audiences one of the most respected and genuinely inspiring voices in leadership and executive coaching. Named by Thinkers50 as the world's most influential coach and mentor and inducted into its Coaching Legends Hall of Fame, she coaches Fortune 500 CEOs, founders, and elite teams, and directs one of the world's leading leadership centers at Duke University. She pairs an engineer's rigor and a behavioral scientist's insight with infectious warmth and optimism, translating patterns of excellence from business, sports, the military, and beyond into tools any leader can use. With more than a million followers drawn to her practical wisdom, she leaves audiences energized and equipped to unlock potential in themselves and their teams. She is an ideal speaker for leadership summits, executive gatherings, and culture-focused events. To bring Sanyin Siang to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Sanyin Siang?
Sanyin Siang is a world-renowned CEO coach, author, and the founding Executive Director of the Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center (COLE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, as well as a professor at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. A Taiwanese-American who immigrated to the U.S. at age seven, she advises Fortune 500 CEOs, boards, and founders, and is the author of the bestseller The Launch Book. Thinkers50 named her the world's most influential coach and mentor and inducted her into its Coaching Legends Hall of Fame.
What is the Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics?
The Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center (COLE) is a center at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, founded in partnership with legendary basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski. Under Sanyin Siang's leadership as founding Executive Director, it serves as a "leadership laboratory" that provides a baseline leadership experience for all of Duke's Daytime MBA students and convenes high-level, cross-sector think tanks to explore today's most complex leadership challenges and create positive impact for society.
What topics does leadership speaker Sanyin Siang cover?
Sanyin Siang speaks on building high-performing teams, executive and leadership coaching, leading with authenticity and trust, navigating change with a "launch" mindset, and humanizing leadership in an age of disruption. Her keynotes suit leadership summits, executive gatherings, and organizations focused on culture, talent development, and team performance. To book Sanyin Siang as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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