Dr. Belinda Chiu is an author, executive coach, and scholar-practitioner who helps individuals and organizations co-create healthier ecosystems and lead with authenticity, compassion, and joy. With 20+ years at the intersection of leadership development, applied contemplative practice, and organizational design, she works with leaders across academia, government, and industry — grounded in the belief that we are not separate from the natural world, and that the wisest leadership draws from the intelligence of the entire living ecosystem.

Leadership, Credentials & Global Work. An award-winning ICF-PCC executive coach, Belinda has worked with organizations including Burberry, ESPN, Headspace, Paramount+, Regeneron, Sony, Stanford, and UNOPS, among others.  As an International Liaison with the U.S. Department of State and Capacity Building Specialist with UNOPS, she brings a global lens to leadership and systems change. A featured speaker at the World Economic Forum, AdWeek, CIES, and EARCOS, she is also the world’s first certified consultant with CreativeID and serves as a board member of Music to Life supporting artist-social change entrepreneurs.

Faculty & Teaching. Belinda serves as lecturer and program faculty and coach across leading executive and leadership development programs — including  Tuck Bridge,  Tuck Executive Education,  Dartmouth’s LEADS Program for high-potentials, and  Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Leaders Fellows Program. She is a Senior Certified Teacher and Teacher Training Faculty with  SIY Global and  Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Senior Faculty with  Embrace Change LLC and  Beyond EI LLC, and a  Mind Gym Coach and Certification Trainer.

Books & Publications. Belinda is the author of  The eMBA Coach Playbook: Preparing Future-Ready Leaders (Business Expert Press, 2025),  The Mindful College Applicant: Emotional Intelligence for the Admissions Process (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019),  Action Compassion: Improv Playbook for Those Who Care, and The One-Hundred-Year History of the Phelps-Stokes Fund as a Family Philanthropy. She has also written  We Are One: Yoga Meditations for Children and  The Ladies’ Practical Guide to the Camino de Santiago: Walk Your Way—both offered freely as gifts to the world.

Her writing has been featured in Mindful.org, Inside Higher Ed, and UNESCO, among other publications and academic journals. She is a regular contributor to Goleman EI, Key Step Media, and Thrive Global. Her whitepaper, Wisdom of Mycelial: Generativity, Innovation, Future-Ready, is freely available on this site.

Education & Certifications. Belinda holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a doctorate from Columbia University. She is a certified RYT© yoga teacher and  ANFT Certified Forest Therapy Guide, and student of kyūdō, tai chi, and improv—practices that ground her work in the body, the natural world, and the generative power of play.

She is based in New Hampshire with Bandit, the pink-nosed puppy (aka, Queen Amygdala).

Belinda’s work has been recognized with a 2023 Brandon Hall Gold Award for Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring and a 2025 Brandon Hall Bronze Award for Best Leadership Development Program. In 2024 she received the Global Ties Outstanding Group Collaboration Award for the U.S. Department of State’s public diplomacy program, A Global Moment in Time. As part of the team recognized with the 2025 ATD In Practice Award, she continues to contribute to programs advancing the field of talent development.

ICF-PCC · Search Inside Yourself · Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Meta-Coach (EICC-MC) · Everything DiSC© · Hogan© • Association for Nature & Forest Therapy Certified Guide · CreativeID© • Emotional & Social Competency Inventory (ESCI)

+ Additional certifications including Noble Story Group EI 5-Square Meta-Coach, NLP, MBTI, MBSR, RYT© 200 Yoga. Please reach out for full list.

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