Samantha tan

HALC Faculty

Samantha Tan is an Executive Coach and Leadership Facilitator. She is passionate about women’s leadership, intergenerational and intercultural dialogue. Samantha helps leaders tap into emerging voices to inform and shape their organizations into the future. She believes that self-awareness is the key to empowerment and uses the integration of body, emotions, and language to create sustainable change.  

Samantha has worked with a broad range of clients, including Visa, Merck, Fidelity,  Deloitte, the Harvard Business School Club, the Federal Interagency Council on Homelessness,  the Kellogg Foundation, Greenpeace, and the Dalai Lama Peace Centre. She has spoken at numerous events, including the International Leadership Association gathering, the Organizational  Development Learning Network conference, Pegasus Systems Thinking Conference, and the Linkage Summits on Women and Leading Diversity. 

Samantha’s work has been published in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, and she is a chapter contributor to The World Cafe: Shaping the Future Through Conversations That  Matter (Berrett-Koehler) where she wrote about creating a culture of learning and care in her birth country, Singapore. Her first career was in strategy and policy development with the  Singapore government, where she worked on national reform projects in the manpower, arts, and education sectors. 

Samantha has a B.A. in Philosophy from Bristol University in the UK, a Master of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and has been a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of  Government. She serves on the Board of Directors of two non-profits, the World Café Community Foundation and The Jar, which both harness the power of dialogue to honor our differences and celebrate our shared humanity.  

Samantha lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves painting, travel, and yoga.

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