Aramyss is a house of work devoted to the second half of life.
Because most leadership was built on a first-half operating system, and senior leaders don’t lead from there anymore.
Our work includes C-suite team journeys, midlife sabbaticals, and a methodology rooted in midlife’s deeper architecture.
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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 quieter, deeper, more spacious.
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 brings a turning. Old identities loosen. Certainties soften. The self reorganizes around something steadier, quieter, more coherent.
At the same time, the outer world becomes more nonlinear, more contradictory, more complex. The remarkable thing is that midlife prepares leaders for exactly this world.
As the first-half architecture eases, deeper capacities begin to rise: synthesis, steadiness, empathy, discernment, long-arc imagination, and a grounded sense of what matters.
Aramyss lives at the threshold between the first and second half of life.
This is emergence.
We don’t teach frameworks; we reveal architecture.
We don’t push for clarity; we make room for capacity.
We don’t fix team dynamics; we help the collective identity reorganize around something more coherent.
This is the Emergence stance:
a way of working that honors the second half of life, and meets leaders exactly where they are.
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.