Marlous Teh

Certified Leadership, Mindset & Energy Coach, Consultant & Facilitator, Accredited Being Profile Practitioner & Ontological Coach, TEDx Speaker

Sydney, NSW Australia

From ‘hustle culture’ to authenticity and congruence

Marlous Teh has an impressive CV. She has multiple qualifications, including a Master of Commerce in Marketing, Business Management and Organisations, is fluent in four languages and, before commencing her one-on-one coaching business, worked internationally across Europe, China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia in various government, university, SME, corporate and charity roles.

Professional career highlights include:

Working for the Dutch Consulate in Shanghai
Consulting to SMEs and startups
International recruitment and business development for Australian University in Sydney
Professional Conference Organiser and Business Relations Director in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia
Leading multi-million-dollar fundraising events, campaigns and partnerships for major Australian charities
Consulting and facilitating to corporates in the finance and wealth management sector
From a high-paying corporate career with the status and lifestyle to match, to pivoting into fundraising millions of dollars for the most personally-aligned major Australian mental health charities, Marlous appeared to be living the dream.

But after two decades of 'having it all' – money, status and lifestyle, something didn’t feel right.

Not only did Marlous burn out twice, but she also realised she was subscribed to the ‘hustle culture’ and living someone else’s version of so-called success.

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The path to purposeful work

On a quest to find true meaning and make a difference, Marlous became a leadership development and transformational program facilitator. She spent the next 10 years mentoring and coaching young professionals and emerging leaders through various programs, including Rotary, Initiatives Of Change and MAXPotential, to help them discover their purpose in life. In the process, she also found hers.

The spark to help others was ignited

In July 2019, Marlous realised her professional life’s passion and purpose by becoming a certified leadership and mindset coach. She continued to expand her coaching skills, certifying in energy and ontological coaching, and spent three years as a life coach trainer for an ICF-accredited coaching academy supporting new and emerging coaches from across the globe to become qualified life coaches.

In the same month, Marlous opened her own coaching business, Marlous Teh, offering one-on-one coaching to support each client to ignite their inner confidence and purpose in life and business, elevating their effectiveness, fulfilment and impact. She also helps them:

Define or redefine their vision, mission and values
Cultivate courage and an abundance mindset for vibrancy, alignment and new possibilities
Create their coaching business and personal brand
Expand their emotional, mental and physical capacity to support them in navigating transitions as they grow.

The desire and need for work-life integration is on the rise

In working with clients on their self-leadership, responsiveness, courage, confidence and capacity-building over the last decade, Marlous discovered an increasing collective desire and need for work-life integration. This realisation was further cemented when she became a mother.

Supporting others to step into their purpose and be fully self-expressed

Marlous has witnessed many ambitious high performers feeling stuck and not fully seen, heard or valued at work and in life along with the ripple effect of this – a lack of engagement, longevity and dysfunction for themselves, their workplaces and the community at large. And she relates on a personal level, as that’s how she often felt before starting her coaching business.

As a Certified Leadership and Mindset Coach, Consultant and Facilitator, Accredited Being Profile Practitioner and Ontological Coach for the past five years, Marlous supports clients to:

Discover and express their unique being
Meaningfully contribute to a bigger vision and create the impact they desire in their career and lives
Expand their leadership and energetic, emotional and mental capacity and resilience to more effectively navigate life’s increasing complexities
Understand that work-life integration is not a luxury but a necessity for sustainability and effectivenessReplace transactional interactions and tokenism with trusting and meaningful relationships

Some companies Marlous has worked with

Who Marlous helps and how she works

Marlous works with ambitious professionals, emerging coaches, community leaders, working mothers and organisations.

Her work is grounded in ethical, inclusive, trauma-informed and heart-centred coaching principles and blends the methods of intuitive, mindset, energy and ontological coaching.

As a Being Framework™ Accredited Coach, Marlous is guided by the principles and tools of the Being Framework™, including its ontometric assessment tool, the Being Profile^®, and the Transformation Methodology™. She also applies her accreditation and extensive experience in other coaching methods and practices to her work.

In her one-on-one coaching, Marlous invites clients to intentionally create time and space to identify and unpack their greatest challenges. She also supports them to find ways to be more effective and feel more fulfilled and connected in their careers and lives. The pillars of her unique coaching model include authenticity, wellbeing, connection and ownership.

In working with organisations, Marlous helps leaders shift a culture challenged by a lack of trust, healthy relationships and engagement to one that is ready to thrive and support the success and longevity of the business as a cohesive, unified team.

Passionate advocate becomes TEDx speaker

As an advocate for inclusion and belonging as well as work-life integration, holistic wellbeing and redefining success, Marlous was invited to deliver a TEDx talk in September 2022.

View her TEDx talk, ‘The cost of fitting in’ here.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Business Administration (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)
Master of Commerce in Marketing, Business Management & Organisations (Macquarie University)
Diploma of Events (TAFE NSW)
Diploma of Interpreting Mandarin (TAFE NSW)
Certified Life Coach (Beautiful You Coaching Academy)
Certified Devoted Energy Coach (Devoted Energy Coaching School)
Accredited Being Profile Practitioner (Engenesis)
Qualified Thrive Coach in Ontological Coaching (Engenesis)
Certified Mama Rising Facilitator (currently in training)

About Marlous

Born and raised in the Netherlands as the eldest daughter of immigrant parents, Marlous was the first of her Chinese Malaysian family to be born overseas. Her upbringing gave her a profound sense of the importance of belonging and inclusion, the subject of her TEDx talk in 2022.

After living and working overseas for many years, she chose to call Sydney, Australia home. Today, she is a wife to her husband and partner in life and the proud mother of a daughter. Marlous cherishes spending time with her little girl and witnessing the emergence of her being and who she is becoming.

Fluent in Dutch, English, Mandarin and Cantonese, Marlous finds rich, meaningful and soulful conversations with loved ones in various languages energising. Other activities that bring her joy include being in nature, cooking, watercolour painting, dancing and listening to 80s and 90s RnB, hip hop and pop music.