I develop learning processes and create the conducive learning environment, which activates the skillset, toolset, and mindset in others to solve their life problems, grow their capacity, achieve their dreams, and live a meaningful and significant life. I do that by using my strengths of deep listening; coaching, counseling and therapy; training, facilitation and hosting; public speaking; and the willingness to help others achieve what they want.

I want to be remembered as a person living a harmonious, fulfilling, abundant life, who leaves behind a legacy including a lifestyle of highest self-awareness and maturity, a community of minimalistic and sustainable living, and a learning process that anyone can use to develop themselves as mature and worthy human beings.

🎁 I moved through a few places throughout my life: I was born and raised in Hanoi, I moved to Singapore for study and work, I lived briefly in Sweden, I came back to "settle" in Ho Chi Minh City, but I'm staying in Dalat (for now).

🎁 I was twice a TEDx speaker, once by myself when I talked about "The Art of Doing Nothing", once with my wife when we talked about "Simply Love".

🎁 Now I'm a trainer, facilitator and I practice coaching, counseling, hosting on the side; however I started off as a research engineer on audio and sound technologies, and I was good at it. I even produced 10 patents during that stage of my career.

🎁 In my struggling time to find my own path, all I knew was engineering. To find what I'd love to do, I'd tried cooking, singing, graphic designing, event organizing, opening a business, public speaking, finally training and coaching. The last was my stop, I finally discovered what I would do for the rest of my life.

🎁 I used to sing in a few bands: one acoustic band, one acapella band, and one rock band; we only performed for leisure and fun, not for profit; all of us had other jobs.

🎁 I like traveling and I have been to more than 20 countries. I love unexplored places that tourists normally wouldn't visit.

🎁 I like adventurous activities. I have been on the tops of 3 tallest mountains of South East Asia. I once skydived from 18000 feet.

🎁 My most profound experiences included the moment my wife and I were solemnized in front of 30 family members and friends, the moment I was on top of Mt. Kinabalu, the moment our baby boy was born at home, and the moment I sat silently in a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat.

🎁 My wife and I welcomed our baby boy to our lives in 2019, and this experience has changed how we make decisions. We moved to Dalat because we want our family to live in a good and clean environment, with more opportunities for our son to experience his life.

🎁 When I find partners to work with, I don't see them just as working partners. I see them as friends and aim for long-term engagement with them. To really know for sure that we could work together, I always suggest us to immediately start a small project and work through it. As such, it took me a long time to find the partners I'm comfortable with.

🎯 SUSTAINABLE LIVING: I want to build a harmonious and natural living space near the mountains, where like-minded people and communities can stay and be a better person when they leave. In that space, the food we eat and the medicine we take are grown in the garden. 

🎯 SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: I want to live in a sustainable community where people care  to connect with themselves, connect with others, and connect with the living environment.

🎯 RETREAT: I want to organize retreats for people to experience and explore a "real" way of living, where they discover their dreams, their purpose, their passion, and live in a fulfilling vision of who they could be.

🎯 CONNECTION CIRCLES: I want to host connection circles for members to share, practice, and grow in their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual selves.

🎯 FULFILLING LIFE: I want to live a life of fulfillment, meaning and sustainability, without unnecessary stresses and worries. We only need to be stressed about things worthy of our concern.

🎯 WELL-BEING: I want to maintain my physical, financial, emotional, mental and spiritual health, so that I can create significant and meaningful experiences for my family, especially my son. I want to be able to climb mountains and sky-dive with him.

🎯 HARMONIOUS TEAM-BUILDING: I want to create a sustainable and harmonious methodology of team and organization building, where all members have their own voice. They are responsible for their own growth, leading to the team and organizational growth.

🎯 TRAINING & FACILITATION: I want to create a nation-wide community of trainers and facilitators, who believe that we can "Save the world from boring training". Yearly conferences can connect us with international communities and experts.

🎯 LEGACY: I want to leave a legacy including books, training programs, communities of practice, and guidebooks for trainers and facilitators to become proficient in their practice.

🎯 EXPERTISE: I want to be recognized as an international training, facilitating and hosting expert so that I can share my gifts to more people, more communities. I want to conduct my programs everywhere I go.

🙏 Life is an experience, to live is to feel the moments of life. Achievements are only the side effects.

🙏 Life is full of colors, good and bad, happy and sad, up and down, in and out... all of them make life meaningful. We should enjoy and allow all of those colors to show their beauty.

🙏 Connection is the key to a fulfilling life: connecting with self to know who we are, connecting with others to express it fully, connecting with the Earth to feel that we're all one.

🙏 The people we spend the most time with are our partner and our children, they should be the focus of our life and everything else follows. Happy family is the foundation for every life achievement.

🙏 Living is the art of balance: balance between using and charging our energy, balance between our masculine and feminine side, balance between doing and being, and balance between our own needs and the needs of others.

🙏 Our values are determined by what we can give to others to help them in any way we can. Our purpose of life is to discover those values and find our place in the world. The best thing we can give to others and to inspire them is our own example of a fulfilling life.

🙏 The first step to do something always fails in some way, it's better to fail fast, fail early, and fail small rather waiting for things to be perfect.

🙏 Life can be easier if we accept and let go: we accept every experience as it is, and we let go of our need to control.

🙏 Problems are signs of growth, overcoming problems is the best way to grow and be a better person.

🙏 The simplest way to overcome an argument is listening, seeing the needs of the others, and expressing our own needs.

⭐ TRAINING: I can help you develop your competency in Instructional Design and Learning Experience Design through training programs conducted through Game Đào Tạo, an initiative to "Save the world from boring training".

⭐ ID CONSULTANCY: I can provide consultancy should you need expert's insights on your training programs, to improve their effectiveness. This is a long-term engagement, any training programs need constant revision and improvement. This process needs an objective and methodological view.

⭐ PUBLIC SPEAKING: I can give you the experience and the tips to become a good public speaker. I'm an Introvert myself, resulting in a quiet and withdrawn personality. But I can still be a good speaker in front of thousands of people if I want to, because I have the skills and I have practiced them well.

⭐ HOSTING CIRCLES FOR TEAMS: I can conduct conversational circles and spaces for your team and your organization to discuss difficult matters in a safe environment, so that you can tap into your collective wisdom to solve your problems or achieve a common goal. Within those conversations, I use effective team processes to elicit the needs and commitments of all members in your team.

⭐ COACHING & COUNSELING: I can be a listener and accountability partner in case you are facing difficult blockages that stop you from moving on to a better stage in your life. I practice Life Coaching and Counseling, I hope you will be in good hands if I'm allowed to sit and listen to you.

⭐ GROUP COACHING & CIRCLES: I can hold a space for groups to explore your own selves and develop a deeper awareness of who you are, what you really want and how you can create a life that's worth living.

⭐ RELATIONSHIP: I can be a safe catalyst for you and your partner to share your problems and communicate your needs in a safe container. You may come to me when you feel troubled and disconnected from each other, but you may leave as a stronger couple with a deeper bond.

⭐ LIVING ENVIRONMENT: I can show you another way of living, outside the normal "rat race" of a modern life, into a simple yet profound way of living in accordance to the most important aspect of life: connection and experience. My family left the big city to live in Dalat, near the forest. We have a small garden, where you can relax and ponder the big questions in your life.

⭐ PARENTING: I can show you how to raise a kid in peace and fulfillment, and how to provide a supportive environment in your home for your kid to properly and freely grow up and express itself. I'm learning to be a Dad alongside the growth of my son, I'm sure this learning journey is better shared than reserved.

⭐ A LIFE WORTH LIVING: After all, I can be an example of someone who makes difficult choices and decisions, but finally can surround himself with only the things he really want and people he really love, and can say "no" to the rest.

💡 SELF-AWARENESS: I have deep awareness about myself, what I want, what I have, what I can provide to others, thus attaining an inner confidence that puts me at a world-class performance, and allows me to achieve high professional standards.

💡 PERSEVERANCE: I am persevere on my chosen path, not giving up because I know what I do is deeply meaningful to me and others, and I know what I must do to move forward; I'm ready to spend as much time and energy as possible to achieve what I want. 

💡 LEARNING DESIGN: I am proficient in designing training programs, learning activities, experiences for self-awareness so others who come to me will become a better version of themselves.

💡 PRIORITIES: I keep my focus on my top priorities: family, life, health and wellness; all other aspects are built around these core focuses.

💡 MIND & GROWTH: I research deeply and broadly on beliefs, personal growth, psychology and how people think and feel.

💡 SELF-IMAGE: I develop a distinct image of myself and create a good impression on others, I am consistent in portraying myself to others.

💡 LIFE-LONG LEARNING: I have a mindset of life-long learning, I dare to accept my flaws to overcome their limitations, I care to express my strengths to build up on them.

💡 INSPIRATION: I lead and inspire others so they can confidently embark on their own life path.

💡 COMMUNITIES: I create a working environment and connection space so groups and communities can collaborate and create.

💡 LETTING GO: I am ready to let go of expired constructs to arrive at new and better outcomes.

📜 Rapid Instructional Design: Analyze and design an effective training program.

📜 Learning Activities Design: Design the learning activities and experiences for the learners in a training program.

📜 Using Learning Science & Instructional Strategies to Shape Your Design: Understand how people learn and how to facilitate their learning.

📜 Dreams: Lost & Found: Discover your sweet-spot, your passion, your purpose, your dreams, and your life journey.

📜 Relationship Detox: Connect deeply with your partner to create a stronger bond.

📜 Master Yourself & Master Your Future: Understand yourself and build the habits for a better future.

📜 Presenting Like a Pro: Discover and practice the exercises to build your confidence and skills of a good speaker.

📜 EQ for Personal Awareness: Understand your emotions and navigate them.

📜 EQ for Teams: Understand others and their emotions to build stronger connection with teams.

📜 Leading Self & Leading Teams: Become an example yourself and inspire others to work together to achieve a common goal.

🚩 Game Đào Tạo & Group "Chia sẻ - ứng dụng game trong đào tạo/facilitate": Build the competencies for trainers and facilitators to "save the world from boring training".

🚩 Connection Coach: Create deep connection with self, with others, and with the Mother Earth.

🚩 Open Space - Không gian mở: Hold spaces for people to develop awareness about who they are and who they can be.

🚩 Nhà Mình: Build a harmonious living space among nature, to create an example for a new choice of living away from the busy races of life.

🚩 Gạch Sinh Thái - Ecobricks: Use unusable plastics to make eco-bricks, which can be used as building materials, to save them from being deposited to landfills and thrown to the environment.

🚩 Toastmasters: Practice public speaking and leadership skills by completing projects on multiple development pathways, all of which are designed by world-class experts in Toastmasters International.

🚩 Musical Shows in Singapore: Organized and performed at musical shows, and judged at musical competitions.

🚩 Ychallenge & Yplatform: Organized Business Case Competitions to connect international talents to top corporations in Vietnam.

🚩 ProjectV: Created the first talent competition for the Vietnamese student community in Singapore, which led on many other competitions.

🚩 BKEC: Organized activities for Bach Khoa English Club.

🎓 Master's Degree in Training and Development, Griffith University, Australia

🎓 Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment, Singapore Workforce Development Agency

🎓 Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering, First Class Honor, Nanyang Technological University

🎓 Minor in Entrepreneurship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

🎓 Distinguished Toastmaster, Toastmasters International

🎓 Therapeutic Coaching & Practitioner of NLP, American Board of NLP

🎓 Certified Practitioner of Time Line Therapy, Time Line Therapy Association, USA

🎓 Certified Hypnotherapist, American Board of Hypnosis

🎓 Life Coaching Certification, Achology Ltd.

🎓 Counseling Certification, Achology Ltd.

📚 "The Four Agreements" and "The Fifth Agreement" by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz

📚 "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles

📚 "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck

📚 "Put Your Dream to the Test" by John C. Maxwell

📚 "The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth" by John C. Maxwell

📚 "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl

📚 "On Becoming a Person" by Carl R. Rogers

📚 "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by John M. Gottman and Nan Silver

📚 "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life" by Marshall B. Rosenberg

📚 "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life" by David Foster Wallace

📚 "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain

💬 "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)

💬 "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." (Maya Angelou)

💬 "The most important things in life aren't things." (Anthony J. D'Angelo)

💬 "It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." (Mark Twain)

💬 "To err is human, to forgive divine" (Alexander Pope)

💬 "It takes a village to raise a child" (African proverb)

💬 "Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." (Alan Watts)

💬 "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." (Alan Watts)

💬 "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

💬 "Your children are not your children / They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself / They come through you but not from you / And though they are with you yet they belong not to you

You may give them your love but not your thoughts / For they have their own thoughts / You may house their bodies but not their souls / For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow" (Kahlil Gibran)

🎨 TRAVELING: I enjoy planning my own itinerary to explore places that not many tourists would normally go. I especially prefer staying with the locals for an extended period of time to experience the culture.

🎨 SINGING: I enjoy singing and recording songs that I love, mostly rock and indie, sometimes country and alternative.

🎨 COOKING: I enjoy cooking the dishes that my wife and son love. I also enjoy good food everywhere I go, that's why I constantly search for new places to try out.

🎨 GARDENING: I enjoy working myself in the garden and especially love to see the garden grow day by day.

🎨 CAFÉ: I don't drink coffee, soft drinks or alcoholic drinks. But I enjoy going to hidden cafés among nature, with rustic decorations and quiet atmosphere.

🎨 MOVIES and DRAMAS: My wife and I both enjoy watching movies that strike an emotional note in our heart, make us feel deeply. We enjoy movies that make us think with a twist and an interesting story. On the other hand, we also enjoy superheroes and fantasy movies, albeit mindless ones.

🎨 READING and WRITING: I enjoy psychological books about how we humans think, feel and act, and how we can make our life more meaningful. I write a lot about my own experience of growth and maturity, about life and the divine meaning of it. I already compiled a book of my own and I intend to write a few more.

🎨 CONVERSATION: I enjoy deep conversations about ourselves and life in the aspects that not many people would touch. My wife and I can spend hours to talk about those life experiences.

🎨 CREATING A SPACE: I enjoy making my home worth living by decorations or continuous improvements.

🎨 HOSTING: I enjoy holding the spaces for people to converse about difficult and meaningful topics, which they normally can't talk about elsewhere.