Better work begins with better thinking and better conversations.
About Walkabout Pathways: Many workplace challenges are not quite what they first appear to be. A presentation issue may be a thinking problem. A confidence issue may come from limited practice. A leadership challenge may be rooted in communication, trust, hierarchy, or context.
Walkabout Pathways helps people and organizations understand what is getting in the way, then build the skills and behaviors that make a practical difference.
The Team Behind Walkabout Pathways
Ho Le Khanh Uyen (Ami Ho) | Founder & CEO
Ami is an entrepreneur, business strategist, and investment professional with experience across finance, business development, partnerships, and community building. At Walkabout Pathways, she leads strategy, operations, partnerships, and organizational growth.
She is also Founder and Managing Director of The Invitation Asia and a Senior Investment Consultant at ABS Securities. Her work brings together commercial thinking, long-term relationship building, and a strong understanding of the Vietnamese business environment.
Paul Allen Benavides | Founder & Principal Consultant
Paul is a speaker, lecturer, trainer, researcher, and media creator whose career has spanned military service, hospitality, real estate finance, higher education, and international business.
After years living and working across the United States, China, and Vietnam, his work now focuses on communication, leadership, public speaking, cross-cultural performance, and professional development. At Walkabout Pathways, Paul leads training, speaking, research, and program development.
International experience changes the questions you ask.
Walkabout Pathways is based in Da Nang, with experience shaped across the United States, China, England, Singapore, Vietnam, and professional environments throughout Asia.
Working across cultures changes how you understand communication. Silence, confidence, hierarchy, trust, and even “professionalism” can mean different things in different settings. That perspective influences how we approach leadership, training, research, and organizational development.
Da Nang is our home. The wider region shapes our perspective. Start the conversation →
Before Walkabout Pathways, there was Walkabout Rojo.
Walkabout began with travel, cameras, conversations, and years of life across China and Vietnam. What started as documentary storytelling grew into YouTube, interviews, writing, a book, and a deeper interest in how people communicate and understand one another across cultures.
Those questions eventually moved the work from documenting the world to working directly with the people and organizations inside it.
Walkabout Pathways is the next chapter. Discover the Walkabout journey →
Experience built across industries, organizations, and environments.
The experience behind Walkabout Pathways has developed across education, hospitality, technology, finance, media, automotive, professional services, international business, and community initiatives throughout Asia and beyond.
The organizations represented here reflect that wider professional journey, including employers, training engagements, speaking engagements, academic institutions, business collaborations, media projects, partnerships, and other organizations that have contributed to the experience we bring to our work today.
