Join the Next HKICC Coaching Book Club on 25 Jun 2026 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Join the Next HKICC Coaching Book Club
Date: 25 Jun 2026 | Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm | Venue: TBC
On 25th June, Ian invites you to explore Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning – not as a book summary, but as a reflective conversation about what truly sustains us as coaches, as parents, and as human beings.
Why This Book, Why This Host
Frankl’s core insight – that meaning can be found even in suffering – resonates deeply with Ian’s own coaching philosophy. Frankl spoke of three pathways to meaning: through creative work, through love and relationships, and through the attitude we choose toward unavoidable hardship.
As coaches, we often sit with clients who have lost a sense of purpose – in their careers, their families, or themselves. And as human beings, we carry our own questions about what makes the struggle worthwhile.
Ian knows this search personally. He spent fifteen years working across three family businesses — his father’s, his cousin’s, and his uncle’s. He first read Frankl in 2017, in the middle of that journey. But it was only after he left that the book truly opened up for him.
Reading it again, he found himself resonating with Frankl’s observations from the concentration camp — not because the experiences are comparable in severity, but because of what they share in structure. In a family business, as in the camp, there are many things outside your control. And the harder you try to control them, the more it works against you. What Frankl offered was a different question entirely — not “how do I control this?” but “what meaning can I find within it?”
That shift is what Ian now brings to the sons and daughters he coaches — caught between personal ambition and love for the family, unsure whether the life they are living is one they chose or one that was chosen for them.
What This Session Offers You
- A safe space to ask: What gives my own coaching work meaning – beyond success metrics?
- Dialogue about how we support clients who are struggling to find their ‘why’
- Practical connections between Frankl’s ideas and our work as coaches and as human beings
- A chance to reflect on a moment in your own life where Frankl’s ideas would have changed how you saw things
- An honest look at the gap between the meaning we help our clients find and the questions we quietly carry ourselves
Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
You don’t need to have finished the book. You don’t need to be an expert on logotherapy. You just need to bring your curiosity – and perhaps a question of your own.
Event Details:
📅 Date: 25th Jun, 2026
🕒 Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
📍 Venue: TBC
Fee: Early Bird on or before 11 June 2026
HKICC Members : HK$150 (Early Bird HK$120)
HKICC Members Tickets for 2 (Extra 10% off) : HK$270 (Early Bird HK$216)
Non-HKICC Members : HK$250 (Early Bird HK$200)
Non-HKICC Members Tickets for 2 (Extra 10% off) : HK$450 (Early Bird HK$360)
Come ready to sit with questions that don’t have easy answers – and to discover that sometimes, the questions themselves are the meaning we’ve been looking for.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Host by
Ian Cheng – Family Business Coach, ICF Accredited
Ian Cheng is an ICF credentialed coach who works with sons and daughters navigating life inside a family business. With a background in engineering and an MBA, and experience living and working across the US, Canada, Japan, Thailand, and Hong Kong, he brings both analytical rigour and genuine empathy to his coaching.
His own introduction to coaching came during a period of uncertainty while working in his uncle’s business. A coach helped him clarify his identity, values, and strengths. That experience is what brought him to this work.
Ian trained in Solution-Focused coaching through Erickson International and strengths-based coaching through Gallup.
