Sanyin Siang

Executive Director | Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics

Sanyin helps leaders launch and create value by focusing on mindset, behavioral change, and team and culture building. Sanyin is a CEO Coach, Author, and the Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University.


The COLE center is a leadership laboratory that engages all of Duke’s Daytime MBA students and convenes high-level think tank gatherings to explore today’s complex leadership opportunities and challenges. 

Sanyin coaches C-suite executives.  She is an advisor for GV (former Google Ventures), Duke Corporate Education, and the Sports Innovation Lab. Her thought leadership has appeared in Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. She has more than 850,000 LinkedIn followers. She is a LinkedIn 2017 Top 10 Influencer and a 2018 Thinkers50 On the Radar.  She is in the original cohort of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches.

She has served on boards of startups and nonprofits including the National Board of the Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center, the Governing Board of the Emily Krzyzewski Center, and Museum of Life & Science.

Her award-winning book, The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career helps readers build the leadership mindset for addressing the changes in their careers, businesses, and lives. 

Sanyin received a BSE in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA from Duke University.

She is a member of Blacknall Presbyterian Church.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO FAITH DRIVEN ENTREPRENEUR

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Discovering God's Purpose for Your Work
Discovering God's Purpose for Your Work

Sanyin Siang’s words from our Tuesday podcast still stick with us today— her identity and value is found first and foremost in what God says is true of her—that she is a beloved child of God. To continue with the theme of ‘identity’ focus from our great podcast this week, we turn to WorkMatters for a great article from David Roth.

Seeing the Gifts God Has Given Us
Seeing the Gifts God Has Given Us

I’ve just gone through the book of Acts with my church. There's a lot there. And so some of the things I've been thinking about in relation to that is the sense of control. And this relates to leadership, too, because the more successful we become or the more validation there seems to be, the more we start to think that we actually have control over everything.

Podcast Episode 69 - "One Million Followers Wasn’t in My Obituary" with Sanyin Siang of The Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics
Podcast Episode 69 - "One Million Followers Wasn’t in My Obituary" with Sanyin Siang of The Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics

We are so excited to get to share today’s interview with Sanyin Siang. She is the executive director of The Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, and in addition to sharing what makes Coach K such an excellent coach and leader (hint: it has to do with enabling greatness instead of chasing it), she also told us why having 1 million followers on LinkedIn isn’t the thing she wants to be remembered for. It was so encouraging to hear her share how her identity and value is found first and foremost in what God says is true of her—that she is a beloved child of God. We think her energy and passion is contagious and hope you get a chance to listen in!

Faith Driven Team