Will Sung is a British born Chinese, educated and worked in London until 2010 where he then moved to Asia. His corporate background is in International Banking, specifically Investment Banking, Technology and Operations – his last role was COO of Operations in Guangzhou for HSBC overseeing 14,000 people and a budget of c~US$360M. He has worked in over 8 different country jurisdictions, building teams and businesses, Business Contingency, Incident Management and Projects. In his 18 years corporate roles, Will has driven agile tech teams, run regional team (APAC), Country head (China), and enterprise global teams – being the Chairman of the D&I committee and creating the PRIDE stream in China.
His passion for people development occurred when he moved to Asia where he started to coach and mentor more; being a coaching since 2008, Will decided to officially certify and accredit as a ICF PCC Coach to work with Youth and Mental Health in 2017 – the time he quit and started his own coaching and consulting practice in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. In this time he started a FinTech in the Philippines and Hong Kong, being the first Central Bank Backed Digital Currency Exchange, partner and former staff member is now the CEO of Octopus Limited Holdings in Hong Kong, which he still coach as an individual and leadership team.
More proudly he is a mentor of the Lean In Guangzhou organisation for over 6 years, mentoring dozens of ladies that have limited access to mentoring and leadership coaching; Will is also a honourary member of SHERO working with APEC Women’s forum. As a British citizen, his roots are still deeply entrenched in the UK, so living in China, given back is through the British Chamber of Commerce South China where he is the current sitting Vice-Chairman, working closely with members and UK’s DBT here in Guangzhou.
Whilst he works extensively with corporates in Asia Pacific (clients include HK Jockey Club, Swire Group, MUFG, Vitasoy, Miele, AveryDennison, Bosch etc); his work with Universities is diverse, Will has a role as an Ambassador for the Co-op program at Chinese University Hong Kong, a Leadership Coach for the MBA Program at HKUST and Mentor for students at HKU and Duke University, he also provides charity work to those in need and started his own charity with 3 others in 2013 building schools for the under privileged in African countries.
His passion for personal development still sits with the Youth, being a father of a teenage boy, it’s important that he makes advisory accessible to them, and more important access to mental health support, which caused him to launch the BMC (www.betterme.community) – a tooling platform those that find it hard to speak-up and speak-out. Being a certified CBT Practitioner and Behaviour Coach allows him to speak to teenagers and their parents to support them mental wellness and well-being. Will is also a co-founder of the LAWS (Learning and Wellness Support) group in South China; support the education sector to learn more about mental health.