Senior Partners
Marcus Marsden
Managing Partner And Director of Training
Marcus Marsden is a leadership development trainer and executive coach, based in Singapore with clients throughout Asia. His work is informed by more than 30 years of business and management experience, developed in senior management roles in Europe and Asia. He specializes in experiential leadership development, top team dynamics and coach training as well as coaching senior executives and teams in leadership, interpersonal excellence, engagement and change.
Having joined TWP in 2002, Marcus quickly developed into one of the organisation’s leading trainers and coaches. Marcus has worked extensively with businesses throughout Asia and Europe, including Unilever, PETRONAS, Prudential, Danone, SHELL, Aditya Birla Group, Wika Construction, La Prairie, Live Ramp, AXA, Glenmark, VNG and Syfe.
Marcus is a lead trainer for the ICF ACTP Newfield Coach Training program and published Start With Who, a book that challenges conventional thinking in the fields of coaching and personal development, in 2022.
Marcus began his career as a management trainee with Unilever in London and went on to develop a career that progressed through Brand Management, to General Management and Change Management. Arriving in Asia in 2002, Marcus joined TWP in Indonesia, where he ran the local business while honing his training and coaching skills. After a four-year stint in Hong Kong, he moved to Singapore, where he now lives with his wife.
Graduating from Oxford University, Marcus is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC™) of the International Coaching Federation and Newfield Certified Coach (NCC™) from the Newfield Network.
When not working, he is passionate about health, fitness and nutrition. His wife, Sari, is a Nike+ Training Club trainer, ICF- certified PCC Coach and championship-winning fitness model. Together, in 2012, they co-founded Sarius Performance International and five years later they published their first book, Fit To Lead, a book that emphasizes the role of the body in leadership and performance.
In 2022, Marcus authored a second book, Start with Who, that discusses the power of identity and context via provocative questions such as ‘who have you decided you are? When and why did you decide that? What evidence do you use to reinforce your beliefs about yourself?
Marcus is a passionate fan of Liverpool FC and the Las Vegas Raiders, both of which have taught him a healthy relationship with failure.
Tini Fadzillah
Founding Partner And Director of Coaching
Tini Fadzillah is an executive coach and trainer based in Singapore with clients throughout Asia. She specializes in coaching C-suite and senior executives in performance, leadership and change; with a reputation of surfacing and creating sustainable shifts to the underlying conversations needed to unlock a leader’s full potential and drive results.
Tini co-founded TWP in South East Asia in 1996 and has worked with thousands of people from diverse cultures on both personal and professional goals. Her passion is working with people to design a compelling future and to translate their goals into reality.
Tini is a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach and is a MCC level certified coach with the International Coach Federation. Her clients include PETRONAS, La-Prairie, Aditya Birla, Prudential, AXA, Singapore Airlines, Mastercard, Mekong Capital, Accenture, Save the Children, Eastspring Investment and Afton Chemical.
Tini is a passionate advocate for the role of the body in creating a powerful leadership presence. She is certified to use Tension Releasing Exercises™ and Wendy Palmer’s Leadership Embodiment curriculum. She also co-designed and delivers the “Women & Leadership Presence” program and was an active member of the team that designed the Character Building component of the National Service in Malaysia. Tini is also a certified health coach and embeds wellness within her coaching narratives as well.
In addition to her own coaching and training, Tini runs the coach development program for TWP and The Coach Partnership (the coach training school, owned by TWP)
Tini’s experience includes running the TWP offices in Singapore and Jakarta and she now serves on the TWP leadership team, responsible for running the business.
As a daughter of a Malaysian diplomat, Tini experienced many different cultures from a young age. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising and Design from Bradley University, Illinois and has worked in Nara Advertising in Korea, Grey Advertising and the Malaysian Design Council. She has lived in Canada, Libya, USA, Indonesia, Fiji, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and currently lives in Singapore with her husband and daughter.
Tini has served on the board of the Down Syndrome Association and outside of work she loves reading, cooking, K-Pop ☺ and spending time with her family. You can also tune in to her podcast called Tinitalk which explores the underpinnings of what it means to be human.
