Our Roots

The Open Space was founded by the late Kate Lascelles in Singapore in 2009. Kate was a passionate, positive professional who believed in connecting people with themselves to be the best they can be, while having fun doing it. She built a business brimming with inspiring ideas, people and clients through offering distinct and different learning experiences all starting from an open and safe learning space.

The Open Space specializes in designing and delivering development programs and initiatives for leaders, managers, teams and individuals that challenge thinking, are highly experiential, practical and fun.

Holly Cormack & Sarah Good
Continuing Kate's Legacy

Today, Principal Consultants Sarah Good and Holly Cormack now lead the company to continue her legacy with a broad range of clients across many industries: Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Telco, Media, Property, Retail and IT industries in Asia and across the globe.

We would love to see you in The Open Space.

Sarah Good

Principal Facilitator & Coach

Sarah is an insightful, focused and results driven international facilitator and coach. Her intuition, cross-cultural agility, natural confidence and ability to relate to all, allow her to make authentic and impactful client connections.

Holly Cormack

Principal Facilitator & Coach

Holly is an engaging, enthusiastic and focused Facilitator and Executive Coach. Her extensive corporate experience, outgoing nature and love of all things learning enable her to truly connect with a range of diverse clients and individuals.

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Sarah is an insightful, focused and results driven international facilitator and coach. Her intuition, cross-cultural agility, natural confidence and ability to relate to all, allow her to make authentic and impactful client connections.

After an extensive vocation as a Learning & Development specialist at one of the world’s largest professional services firms, Sarah established a consultancy career developing successful cross-cultural leaders in the world’s largest and fastest growing economies in 2014.  Her unique skill set and ability to recognize and enable true talent in leaders and teams has  been developed within high pressure, multi cultural environments throughout her career.

Multitasker, mother of two, Sarah has lived and worked around the globe.  Her background in leadership development, talent management, facilitation and coaching has allowed her to develop and implement enterprise-wide learning and talent management programs across the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and across Asia Pacific over the course of her 25 years living and working abroad.

Sarah is a bold and passionate people developer who is fierce about her commitments and clients. She has abundant energy and a love for new challenges and is a self-confessed planner and organizer. She is a certified running coach and pursuer of perfection, most recently learning to play Mahjong.

Client Consulting Experience
  • Coca Cola
  • ZALORA
  • Philip Morris
  • AON
  • Fiserv
  • Microsoft
  • Nomura
  • Alix Partners
  • PWC
  • Macquarie
  • Kimberley Clark
  • Deutsche Bank
  • GIC
  • BP
  • Allied World
  • Publicis
  • CBRE
  • Google
  • Standard Chartered
  • Euler Hermes
  • Westpac
  • Bank of America
  • Diageo
  • JLL
  • Bayer
  • Menarini
  • Molnlycke
  • Schroders
  • LEGO
Skills & Tools
  • Gallup Certified Strengths Coach
  • Hogan Certified Facilitator (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
  • MBTI Practitioner
  • Cultural Dimensions (Hofstede)
  • TRACOM Social Styles
  • Bachelor Education – Waikato University, NZ (1996)
  • Diploma of Teaching – Waikato University, NZ (1997)

Holly is an engaging, enthusiastic and focused Facilitator and Executive Coach. Her extensive corporate experience, outgoing nature and love of all things learning enable her to truly connect with a range of diverse clients and individuals.

Prior to joining The Open Space in 2017, Holly had a 20-year career in various senior HR and Learning roles across a range of industries and locations. Her final role in the corporate world was Head of Learning and Development for a global financial services company where she built the function from the ground up, designing and delivering a range of global programs across the talent spectrum. It was this experience that sparked Holly’s desire to really focus her efforts in the learning space and move into Consulting.

Since joining The Open Space, Holly has partnered with a diverse mix of clients across Asia Pacific to develop, design and deliver a broad range of development programs and coaching initiatives. As a coach, Holly focuses on helping her client to think differently and change direction, ultimately helping them to be a better version of themselves by unlocking their true potential. Leveraging her formal IECL training, Holly also incorporates principles around Emotional Intelligence and Positive Psychology into her sessions.

In addition to her passion for all things learning, Holly is a busy mum to three active children, a netball Coach, Podcast club member and a confidant to many. Having lived and worked all over Asia and beyond, Holly loves nothing more than globetrotting to connect with people and explore new surrounds, visiting her homeland New Zealand top of her list.

Client Consulting Experience
  • CLSA
  • GIC
  • Allied World,
  • Publicis
  • CBRE
  • Google
  • Standard Chartered, Euler Hermes
  • Westpac
  • Bank of America
  • JLL
  • Menarini
  • Molnlycke
  • Ray White
  • Keppel Corporation
  • CITI
  • AON
  • Allianz
Skills & Tools
  • HBDI Certified Assessor and Coach
  • IECL Certified Executive Coach (Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership)
  • DISC Practitioner
  • TRACOM Social Styles
  • Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (Hons) – Canterbury University, NZ (1993)
  • Masters in Organizational Psychology – Canterbury University, NZ  (1995)