Thomas De Brun

Thomas De Brun is Founder & CEO of Wolfhound Influence, an executive coach, corporate trainer and AI advisor. Originally from Ireland, he has lived and worked in Europe, the United States and Asia, including eight years in Hong Kong. He is now based in China’s Greater Bay Area, near Hong Kong.

His career spans more than 40 years. He began as an electronic engineer and operations manager, then built executive search businesses in Tokyo and London, where he founded Tower Executive Search and placed more than 200 mid- to senior-level professionals in the financial sector. For over a decade he was a Corporate Solutions Trainer with Dale Carnegie in Hong Kong, and he has delivered programmes for organisations including Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, BMW, LVMH, MTR and The Peninsula Hotel Group.

A Dale Carnegie Senior Trainer, qualified psychotherapist and NLP practitioner, Thomas combines strengths-based insight with advanced communication and influence skills. His facilitation style is personal and responsive: he builds trust early, reads the energy of the group, and helps people turn learning into behavioural change that lasts. His coaching focuses on peak performance in high-stakes environments, especially for leaders in finance, and he advises leaders and teams on practical AI tools for their daily work.

On The Adaptive Edge, Thomas shared how he rebuilt his life and work after the pandemic left him without income and separated from his wife by a closed border, and the four things that carried him through.

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