Poyee Chiu

"Change is an opportunity to create an even better future. My goal is to provide creative and sustainable learning journeys to give our clients the roadmap to walk into an unknown future with confidence."

Poyee Chiu is a Co-Founder of UpSpiral Leadership®. Poyee works with clients across a wide-range of industries to generate positive and transformational workplace change. Together with the UpSpiral Leadership® Team, Poyee helps companies build and deploy strategies that drive leader development, build critical experiences, and energize the workplace with purpose, creativity and inspiration. Poyee leverages her extensive background in talent management, leader development, team effectiveness, organizational development and employee engagement with organizations such as Chubb, AllianceBernstein and Johnson & Johnson to design, prototype and facilitate innovative and powerful development and coaching journeys for our clients.

Poyee received her Doctor of Psychology degree in Organizational Psychology from Rutgers, Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and is insatiably curious about new discoveries in the areas of positive psychology, habit research and brain science.

“A recent staffing change left our team with additional workload that we would be unable to absorb with current resources. Applying UpSpiral Leadership’s strategies for Leading Change, we sought input and brainstormed creative ideas and were able to focus on a positive solution to give us the best possible desired outcome.”

Areas Of Brilliance:

Interactive leadership program design and facilitation (in-person and virtual), team effectiveness, organizational development, 1:1 leadership brainstorming and coaching for aspiring leaders and current leaders, organizational psychology, survey design and analysis, positive psychology, change management, fluent in Cantonese Chinese

Certifications:

  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

  • Tiny Habits® Certified Coach

Education:

  • Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Organizational Psychology, Rutgers, Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

  • M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Brooklyn College, CUNY

  • B.A. in Mathematics & Psychology, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Prior Work Experience: 

  • Succession & Talent Planning Manager, Assistant Vice President, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, May 2012 to March 2016

  • Assistant Vice President, Talent Management, Human Capital, AllianceBernstein, October 2010 to March 2012

  •  Adjunct Instructor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Fall 2010 Semester

  • Succession Planning Manager, Global Talent Management, Johnson & Johnson, 2007-2009

  • Manager, Knowledge Management, Global Talent Management, Johnson & Johnson, 2006-2007

  • Sr. Organizational Development Specialist, Johnson & Johnson Consulting Group, Johnson & Johnson, 2002-2006

Speaking Engagements:

  • Featured Speaker on leadership at the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Global conference in NYC in 2017 and Chicago conference in 2018

  • Featured Speaker at the Diversity & Inclusion Festival of Insurance (Dive In) in Chicago – 2018

  • Panel Speaker for UpSpiral Leadership’s Leading with Families Virtual Chat, 2020

Professional & Community Involvement:

  • Somerset County YMCA Career Forum Speaker (six presentations between 2018 – summer 2021)

  •  Leadership Forum Community, Board Secretary, January 2020 – December 2021 

  • Leadership Forum Community, Board Member, January 2022 - Present

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