Cross-Cultural

Coaching

I help Chinese Internationals who Strive to Thrive in the US, so they can gain confidence in language & culture, create happiness in work & life.

Who Do I Empower?

International Students

  • You can be feeling a bit overwhelmed starting a life in a brand new country with a significant language barrier and an unfamiliar, often confusing culture.

  • You find yourself questioning yourself daily whether your current major is your true passion, or if it will provide you the qualifications to achieve your short and long term goals.

  • You are feeling that you don’t have all the information you need to successfully make your first significant lifetime decision, whether you should choose a career in academia or the corporate world.

Cross Culture Professionals

  • You feel drained by your workload and expectations from your “team.”

  • You are disappointed to find that you aren’t the good fit for your current job that you thought you were, but you’re not sure what you could have done differently in your job search and interview process.

  • You might feel trapped in your current position, and unable to create a strategy and timeline that you can follow to break out and find a position that will provide you with the environment to continue to move ahead toward your professional or academic goals.

Cross Culture Families

  • Your search for a loving, supportive partner has not been successful and you don’t know how to decide who is the right partner for you, and how to find them.

  • You find that your cross-cultural marriage or relationship has turned out to be much more difficult and complex than you anticipated. You want to understand why your marriage or relationship isn’t working, and how to either start again, or start over with someone who is right for you.

  • You want your relationship with your child(ren) to be better but you’re having difficulty navigating a loving, supportive path that bridges your home culture with the culture your children are growing up in every day.

What’s In It For You?

With Yourself

  • Stop being a victim of life and become your own life designer

  • Shake off the self doubt/blame and fuel yourself with love and compassion

  • Break from your current status quo and feel powerful in everything you do

With Your Career

  • Gain clarity in your next career step by finding the overlapping area among your passions, skillsets, and available career options in the job market

  • Find your true passion and create strategic action plans to push your career to the next level

  • Create a sustainable lifestyle and your unique way of work life balance that serves you

With Your Family

  • Create healthy boundaries to protect your intimate relationships

  • Create peaceful atmosphere in your cross culture marriage life

  • Have joyful conversations with your spouse and child

How Will You Evolve?

Private Coaching

Work with me in my private coaching packages designed for you

Group Coaching

Join my group coaching program to learn how to thrive in your cross culture life within a community

Team Coaching

Sign up in my team coaching sessions to help your team accomplish it’s goals

Welcome to Light On Coaching!

Hello I’m Dr. Lu

I am a cross culture coach for individuals who live at the intersection of different cultures. I spent over 10 years in my previous education and career development at Bilingual Education & Human Development. In 2021, after obtaining my PhD degree in Human Resource Development, I started my own coaching business and helped internationals worldwide to find who they truly are, what their true passion is, and where they belong when navigating important life stages within different cultures.

I rely on my bilingual and bicultural educational, personal, professional, and coaching experience to help my clients achieve a loving, harmonious, and peaceful relationship with themselves, their career life, and their family life. I have helped my clients to get real results - like graduating with their PhD degree in 4 years, leaving their corporate jobs, reducing anxiety in intimate relationship, and more.

I believe that everyone can unleash their personal power and live a bright and flourishing life. I am determined to help my clients turn their inner light on and create a roadmap to success in their own definitions.

  • “I highly recommend Dr. Lu as a coach. She is reliable, honest and very helpful. She helped me recognize steps I could take in order to achieve certain goals. She helped by holding me accountable for these actions and was a great partner and guide through my journey.”

    Chiwila Mumba-Black

  • "I was struggling with a challenging project with looming deadlines when I started working with Dr. Lu. Feeling hopeless and lost, I was full of negativity at the beginning. However, after just a few sessions with her, I was able to turn things around completely -- not only in positive results (crushing the obstacles one by one) but also in my changed mentality towards accomplishing the project. "

    Henan Li

  • "I highly recommend Dr. Lu as a coach. She is trustworthy, always encouraging, and can connect with her clients quickly. Her bilingual and bicultural background is so valuable in that she can relate to the issues and challenges I am facing and provide individualized feedback for me. She listens to me patiently without judgements and provided insightful resources for me. I am a more confident and fulfilled individual today. Start a session with Dr. Lu now, and you will like it!"

    Lu Yang

  • “I wanted to thank you for all the coaching and mentoring you provided for our team. Without your valuable input during this internship, I do not believe we would have had such a successful outcome. The team building tools and principles you taught us how to use really made the difference in our success for our team communication and final presentation and for that we are eternally grateful. We wish you the best in your future coaching endeavors and hope we get a chance to one day work with you again!”

    Jenna Wong, Megha Arya, Honing Wang, and Saul Parra