Joy Khoo, MCC is an executive coach and facilitator who helps leaders deepen self-awareness, navigate change and pressure, and lead with greater presence, resilience and connection. Her whole-person approach integrates evidence-based neuroscience, psychometric assessments, mindfulness, creativity, nature and embodied practices to support meaningful, sustainable change.
For more than two decades, Joy has coached senior leaders across sectors and geographies. Her clients have included leaders from the U.S. Department of State, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Meta and American Express. She has also worked extensively with women leaders and executives through Chief, where she serves as a founding CORE Guide and facilitator.
Joy brings unusual firsthand experience supporting people through high-stakes transition. While serving with the U.S. Department of State in Indonesia, she helped guide more than 350 employees and family members through two evacuations and was recognized by Secretary Colin Powell as Community Liaison Officer of the Year. That experience helped shape a practice grounded in helping people remain connected to themselves and others when circumstances are uncertain, demanding or changing quickly.
As a facilitator, Joy has worked with executive learners at Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA students and alumni at UC Berkeley Haas, and groups at organizations including the World Economic Forum and Airbnb. She creates developmental experiences that strengthen self-awareness, connection, trust and the capacity to work with challenge together.
Joy is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Integral Coach® through New Ventures West. Her developmental practice also draws from Leadership Embodiment, mindfulness, nature-based practice, art and other embodied approaches. She is the author of Nature’s Guide for Leaders, which explores what the natural world can teach us about leadership and human development.
What Sets Joy Apart
Master Certified Coach with more than two decades of experience supporting senior leaders across sectors and cultures
Distinctive whole-person approach integrating Integral Coaching, neuroscience, assessments, mindfulness, creativity, nature and embodied practice
Firsthand leadership experience in crisis and transition, including supporting U.S. Embassy communities through evacuations
Experienced group facilitator across Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, Chief and organizational settings
Author of Nature’s Guide for Leaders, bringing a distinctive nature-based perspective to leadership and human development