About the Founders
Leadership at Home was founded by husband and wife team Esmee Ng and Jeffrey Tan, bringing together a combined 40 years of lived and professional experience across parenting, family wellbeing, and leadership.
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Like many leaders they now work with, Esmee and Jeffrey were navigating demanding roles, high responsibility, and a strong desire to lead well - both at work and at home. Over time, they began to notice something that felt deeply personal, yet increasingly common:
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What was happening at home was shaping how they showed up everywhere else.
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That insight deepened through their own family journey, particularly during their daughter’s mental health experience. It revealed a confronting but important truth many parents and leaders eventually face:
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Loving deeply is not the same as having the skills to lead well under pressure.
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Together, they are raising three children aged between 7 and 21 years old, giving them a grounded, real-world understanding of the changing demands leaders face across different life stages and a strong respect for the responsibility leaders carry across work, home and life.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to strengthen leadership capacity by supporting how leaders manage pressure, relationships, and recovery beyond the workplace.
We exist to bring a more honest and sustainable lens to leadership development - recognising that success at home directly influences success at work.
By helping leaders intentionally lead the environments they return to each day, we support clearer judgment, stronger emotional regulation, and leadership performance that can be sustained over time.
Esmee Ng
Chief Executive Officer
Esmee Ng is a Leadership and Family Wellbeing Specialist with over 20 years of lived and professional experience and supporting leaders and organisations across Western Australia.
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Grounded in positive psychology and wellbeing science, her work focuses on how life beyond the workplace shapes leadership capacity, decision-making, and sustainability.
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Esmee is the creator of Leadership at Home, a leadership performance framework that helps organisations strengthen leadership capability by supporting how leaders manage pressure outside work.
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She was recognised as one of LinkedIn’s Top 20 Voices Australia 2020 and by the WA Department of Communities on International Women’s Day 2021 for her contribution to children and family wellbeing. She was also awarded #bestplacetowork award for her mental health initiatives at Department of Finance in 2021.
Jeffrey Tan
Co-Founder | Counsellor | Trauma Informed Speaker
Jeffrey Tan is a Counsellor who brings together lived experience as a primary carer and father of three with over 18 years’ experience in emergency services, alongside formal training in nutrition, counselling, and mental health advocacy.
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Jeff’s work is grounded in a deep understanding of how emotional load, family dynamics, and recovery outside work influence leadership capacity, resilience, and long-term wellbeing. His perspective has been shaped by years as a primary caregiver, giving him first-hand insight into the pressures leaders and parents navigate across different life stages.
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He adopts a strengths-based, evidence-informed approach, drawing on positive psychology, communication frameworks, and wellbeing science to support leaders to build emotionally safe, connected, and resilient home environments.
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Jeff is also a qualified Nutritionist. His background as an endurance athlete including completing three full Ironman triathlons, informs his understanding of resilience, discipline, recovery, and the habits required to sustain performance over time.