Who we are

Jaya Machet

Founder and Executive Coach

Jaya Machet, founder and managing director of Coaching Tiger, has inside knowledge and knows the pressures and challenges of the corporate world first-hand.

Jaya is a specialist in senior leadership coaching and fostering high-performance team dynamics. Jaya has extensive experience leading diverse, high-performing teams across continents, demonstrated by her over two decades experience in senior management roles at Nokia Treasury in both global and regional capacities. Based in Singapore, she extends her impact internationally.

Jaya’s coaching approach is rooted in cultivating insight, raising awareness, posing challenges, providing support and establishing a safe space in her engagement with leaders and teams. Her extensive tenure in a global organization has afforded her profound insights into the professional landscapes of her clients. Jaya brings to her clients deep expertise across areas, including:

Executive presence: assisting leaders in cultivating presence & self-awareness
Communication: guiding leaders to harness the power of storytelling for influencing, engaging and inspiring others
Leadership: developing strategies for building high-performing teams
Transitions: supporting leaders in navigating transitions to new roles
Culture: helping leaders bridge Eastern and Western thinking as she is a third culture kid herself, having grown up in India and spent 23 years in Switzerland before moving to Singapore

With thousands of hours dedicated to leadership coaching & training, Jaya has partnered with executives worldwide, spanning diverse industries such as financial services, technology, shipping and government sectors.

Education:
Masters in Counselling, Monash University Australia

BA in Psychology & Economics, Bombay University, India

Professional certifications:

Newfield Network Certified Executive Coach in Ontological Coaching

Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Storytelling for Leaders practitioner, Anecdote International Pty Ltd.

Bikablo Certified Global Trainer for Singapore & South East Asia

Credentials

Certifications

Hogan

Hogan Assessments

Hogan assessments provide a clear, research-backed view of how you lead—at your best (HDI), under stress (HDS), and when the stakes are high. You’ll gain insight into your strengths and blind spots, the behaviours that can derail performance, and what truly motivates you (MVPI). With a coached debrief, the results translate into practical development goals so you can lead with greater self-awareness, credibility, and impact.

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Individual Directions Inventory (IDI®)

Management Research Group (MRG)

Individual Directions Inventory (IDI®) helps you understand what truly drives you at work—your motivations, needs, and the conditions that help you perform at your best. It highlights the environments you thrive in, what drains your energy, and where misalignment can create stress or disengagement. With a guided debrief, the insights translate into practical shifts in role focus, communication, and development—so you can work with more clarity, motivation, and sustainable performance.

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Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360 (LEA 360)

Management Research Group

Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360 (LEA 360) gives leaders a clear, data-driven view of how they’re experienced by others—through confidential feedback from managers, peers, direct reports, and key stakeholders. The report highlights strengths, gaps, and the leadership behaviours that most influence performance and culture. With a coached debrief, you turn insight into a focused development plan with practical actions you can apply immediately.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI® Step I & II)

Myers Briggs Type Indicator

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI® Step I & II) gives individuals and teams a practical, shared language for understanding personality and working better together. Step I introduces your core type preferences—how you take in information, make decisions, and engage with the world—while Step II goes deeper, showing the nuances within your type so you can spot default patterns, strengths, and stress behaviours. Participants leave with clear insights and actionable strategies to improve communication, collaboration, and leadership impact.

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NEO PI-3

Hogrefe

NEO PI-3is a gold-standard, research-based personality assessment that provides a deep, nuanced picture of how you operate—your strengths, stress patterns, and interpersonal style. It maps the Big Five traits at both high level and facet level, giving exceptionally clear insight into how you think, relate, and perform at work.

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Work Place Big Five

Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (CentACS)

Work Place Big Fivegives you a clear, evidence-based view of your personality at work—how you communicate, manage pressure, collaborate, and lead. You’ll understand your natural strengths, likely blind spots, and what you need to thrive in different environments and teams. With a guided debrief, the insights turn into practical actions to improve performance, relationships, and leadership impact.

EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360

MHS

EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360 measure emotional intelligence in a practical, workplace-focused way—showing how you understand and manage yourself, relate to others, and perform under pressure. EQ-i gives you a clear picture of your strengths and growth areas, while EQ 360 adds feedback from the people around you to reveal how your impact is experienced day to day. With a coached debrief, you turn the insights into specific actions to strengthen resilience, communication, leadership presence, and relationships.

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Influence Style Indicator

MHS

Influence Style Indicatorhelps you understand how you naturally influence others—and how to flex your approach to land with different people. You’ll identify your default style, what it looks like under pressure, and where it creates trust or resistance. With practical strategies and real-world practice, participants learn to influence with more clarity, credibility, and impact—without relying on authority.

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CCL Benchmarks® 360

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

CCL Benchmarks® 360is a powerful leadership assessment that gives you clear, actionable feedback on how you’re experienced by the people you work with—managers, peers, direct reports, and other key stakeholders. You’ll receive a detailed report on core leadership strengths and derailers, plus practical development priorities. With guided debrief and coaching, you turn insight into a focused plan to strengthen your leadership presence, effectiveness, and impact.

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Leader Motivation and Business Acumen Assessment

IMD

While only 12% of leaders show up as ambidextrous, our belief is that most leaders have the capacity for ambidexterity. IMD Strategic Talent uses a science-based approach to enable you to build a stronger talent pipeline to support sustained success. With the right leadership performance model encompassing the factors that really make a difference to organizational performance today, precision insights using cutting-edge tools, and targeted, personalized development, IMD offers a methodology to capitalize on your existing talent and deliver increased impact on performance.

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2,000+ hours of executive coaching

Deep experience partnering with senior leaders across financial services, technology and government sectors.

Global leadership perspective

Bridging Eastern and Western ways of working, with on-the-ground experience in India, Switzerland and Singapore.

Senior leadership & high-performing teams

Specialised in executive presence, storytelling for influence, and building resilient, high-trust teams.

Senior management global and regional roles

Her long tenure in a global organisation gives her deep, firsthand insight into the realities and pressures her clients navigate