John Nguyen

Lighthouse Leadership …

John Nguyen

Lighthouse Leadership …

John Nguyen

Lighthouse Leadership …

John Nguyen

Lighthouse Leadership …

About Dr. “Win”
If you can SEE it, you can HAVE it!


John C. Nguyen Dr. "Win": Professional Certified Coach, Author, Speaker.

John C. Nguyen, Ph.D., PCC, is Founder and Principle Partner of Lighthouse Leadership. Affectionately called Dr. "Win" by his clients, business associates and coaching colleagues, Dr. “Win” has over 20 years of corporate experience in the Oil and Gas industry. He has experience in working for multiple major International Oil Companies in various sectors from Refining, LNG, Chemicals, Wind, R&D, Deepwater and Onshore Gas. With broad and deep experience in various roles from projects, engineering, maintenance, learning, commercial services, and Health, Safety & Environmental.

  • Dr. “Win” is a certified instructor for John Maxwell to teach “The 5 Levels of Leadership”,
  • Kouzes & Posner to instruct and assess “The Leadership Challenge and Leadership Practices Inventory”
  • Reuven Bar-On for the full array of Emotional Intelligence

He is a Professional Certified Coach through ICF and an alumni of the College of Executive Coaching. Dr. "Win” sits on many boards and presently the President elect for the Houston Coaches Inc.

As a successful entrepreneur, public speaker, “crucial people skills” trainer, adjunct professor, and professional coach, Dr. “Win” brings his diverse, rich experience and insight in leadership development together with his academic research and professional coaching to inform audiences through keynotes, workshops, and personal coaching.

This unique combination of “overcoming adversity” and passionate about leaving a legacy makes Dr. “Win” qualified to help others discover, define and deliver their dreams. Dr. Nguyen’s niche is on the topics of Leadership Development, Emotional Intelligence, and crucial Life Skills.

Recently Dr. “Win” has been selected from a nationwide search to be featured in Discover Your Inner Strength, a highly successful book series from Tennessee based Insight Publishing. The book features best-selling authors Stephen R. Covey (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), Brian Tracy (Million Dollar Habits), and Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager). Nguyen, Blanchard, Covey and Tracy, are joined by other well known authors and speakers, each offering time-tested strategies for success in frank and intimate interviews..

Testimonials

He has always been a great role model

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“I met John 5 years ago and he has always been a great role model and key in my leadership and personal development.  John has coached in different aspects from my professional development, I can say that thanks to his help, I’m now more aware of my strengths and weaknesses, and not only that, he has also provided me with tools to work on those areas that need development.  John has helped me enormously to get closer in reaching my potential, by asking the tough questions and helping me be more self aware, I have been able to improve on almost every area of my life.”

Salvador Aldrett, Process Evaluations Engineer

John, as a coach gave me the control to get my dreams.

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It all started in January 2009 when I decided to do something impossible for me: a video game. Looking back to where I started is like looking down a very tall hill. The start was fuzzy, but in a couple of months John was on board. John being action oriented and concentrating on the forward motion of our tasks, was instrumental in keeping me focused and on schedule. Even though neither of us had much experience on video game making, with my abilities and his guidance soon we had a product on the market. Now I am producing larger and larger video games. 
 As a creative person, I have a tendency to tackle many projects at once and not finishing any of them. To my husband this seemed a waste of talent and he encouraged me to acquire the guidance of a coach. John, as a coach gave me the control to get my dreams into a reality. He is someone who helps me think outside the box and inside the box while keeping my motivation high and my enthusiasm in check. With John's help I maintain a strong discipline to be able to conquer those impossible projects.


Margaret Marion, CEO
Art Echo Studios

He helped me build up my confidence

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“I found my coaching sessions with John to be very motivational and productive. He made me look at relationships (personal and business) from a different angle, which helped me positively. He helped me build up my confidence, guided me to handle difficult situations, and made me more accountable for my own career development.”

Sudini Padmasiri, Research Technologist

John helps me break down my developmental goals

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“One of the things that I like the best about John’s coaching style, is that instead of trying to solve global hunger so-to-speak, John helps me break down my developmental goals and focus on a few, practical tips every time.  That really helps me improve and work on different things without feeling overwhelmed.  Also John makes the other person feel very comfortable, he respect their opinion and he openly share his own experiences – that makes it a two-way relationship.  Basis all our coaching sessions, I am trying to look at things differently, and am trying a variety of approaches when trying to tackle a problem.”
Smita Edulji, Research Chemist

I have found the coaching relationship extremely useful

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“I have found the coaching relationship extremely useful, and I appreciate the candour and honesty with which I have been able to discuss professional issues with John. His suggestions, tools and well-structured format for regular meetings are testimony to his skills as a competent coach. Personally I have benefitted from his advice on time-management, career progression and how to conduct myself at the workplace, as well as shaping up to be a good employer and future leader. I’ve been quite lucky to have him around at such an early part of my career, and I’m sure it will hold me in good stead in the future!”

Swati Ambastha, Supply Chain Consultant

I am grateful for the coaching relationship I have with John.

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“I am grateful for the coaching relationship I have with John. It is useful to talk openly about career advancement with a professional coach since he brings an objective point of view . Coaching  has made me aware of my weakest point in the emotional intelligence arena and I have started to proactively  focus on this aspect to take my work-related interactions to the next level.”

Lizbeth Cisneros, Ph.D., Process Engineering & Evaluations

He helped me find out the pillars of my personal and work life

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“Before meeting John, I was not aware of the weak spots of my emotional intelligence, and I was not comfortable to lead under uncertainty.  Not only did John help me be comfortable with uncertainties and improve my EQ, he helped me find out the pillars of my personal and work life.  Now I am happier, more motivated and better positioned to succeed professionally and personally.”

Vincent Liu, Project Manager

John...genuinely cares about my personal success

Sabrina Cruthird Photo“John is very competent and genuinely cares about my personal success.”

Sabrina Cruthird, Department of Homeland Security

I really appreciated John’s coaching

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“I got a lot out of my coaching relationship with John. It takes courage to seek inputs and be coached by someone and act upon them. John helped me a great deal in a sense that he not only acted as a sounding board, but also helped me come up with many of the actionable items, either on a specific task or behaviour changes. With the help from John and others, I have improved my confidence/comfortable level, been more assertive and further expanded my skills in leadership and motivating others; all of these have shown up very positively in both my professional and personal lives. I really appreciated John’s coaching; it has been a very rewarding experience working with him”.

Quin Yu, Process Research & Development Chemicals Engineer

Thank John for his effective and professional coaching

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When I first met Dr. John Nguyen in one of his seminars talking about the power of Emotional Intelligence for a non-profit women group--Asian Women Empowered, I thought he might be the right person who can assist me to reach a higher platform in my life through the EI coaching. I did not regret my decision when my 6 month coaching sessions with John ended in November 2010. I looked back and co uld not believe how far I’ve achieved during the 6 month coaching---I gained more self confidence, more happiness, and closer relationship with my family members. There are still unsolved issues in my life, however I am confident that I can control the situation and handle it better. Thank John for his effective and professional coaching which helped me find my inner strength. John is a passionate inspirer, his encouragement and inspiration is a fuel to push me to face more competitive challenges which I did not expect I was able to face before. I couldn’t have organized a big event of over 700 guests with a big success during the coaching period without his continuous encouragement and support. John is a reliable instructor who would always find a creative solution for me when I felt helpless to manage my negative emotion sometimes; John is a patient listener who understood my frustration, anxiety and fear, he designed different strategies to tailor my specific demand; Last but not least, John is more like a friend other than an instructor, he can feel what you feel, and shared his own experience and stories with you, so you do not feel alone. I can feel a brighter future of my life now, as John told me, “If you can SEE it, you can HAVE it.”


Elaine Zhang, VP and Attorney
China Real Estate

I am tremendously grateful for the help

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It is my pleasure to recount and commend the great coaching provided by John Nguyen, thru Lighthouse Leadership Coaching, in helping me improve interactions with others as well as developing a healthier self-regard.  In my role as a technical leader of a corporate group for many years, there were occasions when differences in judgment with colleagues arose. There were times when I did not handle these smoothly, allowing tensions to fester between me and my colleagues.  To address such situations and eliminate the associated awkwardness and difficulties, I was paired with John to examine my behaviors and develop alternative methods of engagement.  Through his recommendation, a “360-degree evaluation” was initiated to ask my boss, peers, and direct reports about my strengths and weaknesses.  In response to the findings of the evaluation, John worked with me to plan activities to address the weaknesses.  The activities centered on building more rapport with colleagues as well as determining why I held a generally-negative view of myself.  Time management and priority-setting were also examined.  For the activities, I engaged in more personal conversation with colleagues (that is, not simply work-related talk, but sincere dialogue on how things were going in their lives) and spent time to recognize my own accomplishments on a daily basis.  These actions have been and continue to be extremely valuable.  Soon after this effort was launched, my company went through a major reorganization, resulting in a need for me to find a new position.  This was certainly a time of bewilderment and introspection (made moreso by questionable claims in the management decision).  With the steady encouragement and guidance provided by John, I was able to overcome this period of self-doubt and focus on positive steps to improve my chances of securing a position.  My success in winning another position within the company and forging better ties with others has been a tangible outcome of his competent coaching.  A follow-up 360-degree evaluation reflected improved interactions, as well.  In short, John was effective in revealing areas for improvement and showed great skill and insight in aiding the development and implementation of a plan to achieve this.  I am tremendously grateful for the help he provided and the empathy he showed through the entire process.


Marc E. Levin
Process Safety Advisor for Shell Canada Ltd



John C. Nguyen is a recognized leadership expert, speaker, coach, and author. He has trained thousands of employees in the Energy sector in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, and organizations as diverse as the Transportation Security Agency to major Oil and Gas companies.

His credo is “If you can See it, you can Have it.”

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