A house of work for the second half of life.
Most leadership development runs on a first-half operating system.
We work at the threshold where midlife’s transformation becomes complexity-capable leadership.
Aramyss originates in the work of Aneace Haddad, former tech CEO now advisor to CEOs and C-suites.
“What is it that we create in our 60s and 70s?
When I turned 60, I found myself asking that question.
Earlier in life, I built and scaled a software company. The work then was fast, ambitious, and full of momentum.
At 65, the work feels deeper, more spacious. And more connected with others.
Aramyss emerges from that shift. Not as a firm in the traditional sense, but as a house of inquiry and practice. A place shaped by presence, intention, and the deeper capacities that come forward in life’s second half.”
—Aneace
Our Philosophy
Midlife is the human system reorganising itself in nonlinear ways.
What once felt like disruption is actually a developmental forge, loosening old certainties and bringing forward the capacities today’s world demands: synthesis, paradox-holding, steadiness.
The so-called “midlife crisis” was simply this inner reorganisation meeting a world that didn’t yet need it.
Midlife is not a breakdown.
It is the architecture of complexity-capable leadership.
Our Stance
Our belief in the team has to be 10/10.
Total, unwavering belief in their capacity to orient collectively under complexity.
This isn't naivety or blind optimism. It’s pragmatism. Because anything less collapses the conditions for a C-suite to become complexity-capable.
If our belief drops to 9/10, the smallest sliver of doubt, we risk:
Stepping in two seconds too soon, interrupting a struggle that was just about to evolve the team’s way of working under pressure.
Filling a silence that was moments away from becoming the system’s insight.
Relieving a tension that was actually the pressure required for reorganization.
Asserting even a trace of control just as the room was discovering its own authority.
Acting from the fear that letting things get messy — even appear to fall apart — will be seen as us not providing value.
Each is a micro-interruption of emergence, a tiny flinch that often looks like masterful facilitation. Yet it causes the team to hesitate at the threshold instead of crossing it.
What makes this stance difficult is the practitioner’s need to be seen as valuable, to justify the fee, to demonstrate expertise. These are the exact forces that interrupt emergence.
When we hold at 10/10 — even when our instincts pull us to lower our conviction — the team finds its own coherence.
And that stays with them long after we’re gone.
A circle of senior practitioners
with decades of executive and coaching experience.
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Aneace Haddad, Founder
Singapore | English, French
25 years in executive leadership (Founder & CEO of a payment software company operating in 30+ countries).
Plus 15 years coaching and facilitation (1,500 executive coaching hours, 200 executive team facilitation days).
Lived and worked in France, Italy, Singapore, and the US.
McKinsey Senior Advisor | ICF PCC | Author of Soaring Beyond Midlife and The Eagle That Drank Hummingbird Nectar.
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Mariana Passos
São Paulo | Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
24 years in executive leadership at Unilever, Parmalat, and PepsiCo (LATAM and global roles).
Plus 12 years coaching and facilitation (1,300 executive coaching hours, 200 executive team facilitation days).
Lived and worked in Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa.
McKinsey Advisor | ICF PCC | MBA, FIA Business School.
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Noel Sy-Quia
Berlin | English, French, German, Spanish
23 years leading regional business units at Accenture, Motorola, and SAP.
Plus 14 years coaching and facilitation (700 executive coaching hours, 500 executive team facilitation days).
Lived and worked in France, Germany, US, and the UK.
McKinsey Senior Advisor | ICF PCC | MBA, Kellogg | BA, Oxford.
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Sahar Schwaninger
Zurich | English, French, Persian, Spanish, German, Italian
15 years in executive leadership (global and regional roles at Nestlé, Nespresso, Mondelez International).
Plus 10 years coaching and facilitation (500 executive coaching hours, 100 executive team facilitation days).
Lived and worked in France, Switzerland, and Iran.
McKinsey Advisor | ICF PCC | MBA, ESSEC.
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Malti Bhojwani
Singapore | English, Malay, Hindi, Indonesian
20 years coaching and facilitation (1,000 executive coaching hours, 200 executive team facilitation days).
Lived and worked in Singapore, Sydney, Jakarta, and Madrid.
McKinsey Senior Advisor | ICF PCC | Author of Mastering Your Life and Don’t Think of a Blue Ball.
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Thierry de Panafieu
Singapore | English, French
20 years in private equity leadership (CEO, Managing Partner, Board Director).
Plus 10 years coaching and facilitation.
Lived and worked across Europe and Asia.
ICF ACC | Co-founder & Managing Partner, Hera Capital and Shift4Good | MBA, ESSEC.
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Dr. Roslina Chai
Singapore | English, Mandarin, Teochew, Hokkien, Malay, Cantonese
20 years in executive leadership in consulting, technology, and executive education.
Plus 15 years coaching and facilitation.
Lived and worked in New Zealand, China, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Faculty, Mobius Executive Leadership | Executive Doctorate, École des Ponts.