Earth Day 2022 Virtual Sustainability Mixer: Exploring Green Career Paths | Career Mentoring Series Kick-off
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Synopsis
Are you passionate about making the world a better place to live now and for future generations? Do you have what it takes to drive the Sustainability agenda?
You are invited to this kick-off event for our new initiative on Exploring Green Career Paths, to bring awareness to the rapidly-growing Green Economy sector and to explore promising opportunities for a fulfilling career pathway in Sustainability and ESG (and yes mentorship provided!). If you are looking for a career that makes a positive impact on people, planet and profit, this is your opportunity!
We are also looking for up to 20 partners to come onboard to co-create this exciting series and for community outreach. Sign on now if you're interested!
Kickoff Agenda
Launch of Impact Underdogs / Our Story
Overview of Green Career Series
Intro to AIM & Mentoring
Green Arrow Networking
Mentoring Program: Call to Action
Throughout this series, you will connect with Eco Leaders, Gen-Z and Millennials to learn about:
The 5 green career paths you can explore around sustainability and ESG
Hot sectors in Asia hiring in sustainability
Practical steps to find your next move in this fast growing sector
Finding a mentor or mentee as you navigate an impactful sustainability career
About Impact Underdogs
Impact Underdogs is a career coaching and mentoring initiative that aims to give Millennials and GenZ the mindset, tools and network to succeed in their desired career aspirations in a post covid world. When it comes to finding happiness and a dream career, there are two ways: by chasing or by creating against all odds. Impact Underdogs believes in the latter. This initiative offers career series featuring stories of underdogs and a curated career program for sustainability and ESG.
About Asia Institute of Mentoring (AIM)
AIM is a non-profit organization with a mission to elevate mentoring to the forefront in Asia, to raise the quality of mentors and set the standard in mentoring, bring the benefits of mentoring to all facets of the society to impact millions of lives, to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just and sustainable world.
Launched three years ago, AIM is today Asia's leading institute in mentor training and certification. We have organized over 100 events with over 8000 participants, conducted 10 cycles of mentorship programs involving over 500 mentors and mentees, and 6 runs of Certified Professional Mentor (CPM) training program. These AIM initiatives collectively demonstrated the power of the community, and the unifying power of mentoring-driven human connections and care for the human spirit, showing that it is in giving that we receive. Today the community has grown to over 4700 strong, comprising nearly 400 mentors across multiple demographic segments in over 20 industry sectors.
YOUR SPEAKERS: JANET NEO, CINDI WIRAWAN & YEN-LU CHOW
Janet Neo is the Vice President, Corporate Sustainability of Lazada Group. She spearheads Lazada’s sustainability strategy and blueprint to pave the way for a sustainable e-commerce across South East Asia. Her career is dedicated to integrating mainstream sustainable businesses, circular economy and value creation partnerships.
Janet was regional APAC head of corporate sustainability and communications at global giants Heineken, Fuji Xerox and the UN. Janet serves as Board Director of Temasek Foundation Ecosperity and chairs the Youth Committee.
Cindi Wirawan is a millennial career coach and talent development manager who empowers professionals to grow in their careers. After graduating from NUS Business School, she started her career in recruitment and was the former Head of Talent for a global technology recruitment firm. After interviewing thousands of candidates, she realized that the skills needed for successful job hunting were not taught in schools. This inspired her to become a career coach in 2013. Since then, she has designed and delivered tailored career development programs for 1:1 and corporate clients such as consulting companies, banks and government agencies.
As an avid networker and community builder, she enjoys networking on LinkedIn and volunteering in various communities. She recently started Impact Underdogs, a mentoring initiative to help Gen Z and millennial professionals find opportunities in sustainability.
Yen-Lu Chow is the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, WholeTree Foundation, Over-The-Rainbow and Asia Institute of Mentoring; Founding Partner, Fatfish MediaLab; Executive Mentor, YSI SEA; and Founder of the Deep Human Movement.
Yen-Lu’s career spans nearly 40 years in the tech, media, venture capital, and more recently social entrepreneurship and philanthropy. A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, he is a successful entrepreneur with multiple tech start-ups and an active angel investor, spending many years mentoring and advising entrepreneurs, young businesses and serving on government panels on innovation.
As the co-founder of the Over-The-Rainbow youth mental wellness initiative, Yen-Lu understands the importance of mental wellness as a life priority and has given numerous talks and been featured frequently in the media. He believes every young person has a voice, an innate gift, a deeply held aspiration waiting to find creative fulfillment. When we nurture the seeds of these innate gifts with attention, acceptance, and love – by providing the right environment, and giving it purpose – these seeds sprout and grow, and the human spirit with its deepest aspirations finds fulfillment.
In a fast-paced world where the only constant is change, he believes there is an urgent need for each of us to draw on our strengths and creative potential as human beings, to connect with our higher self and our deeper purpose to contribute towards humanity in a positive and impactful way. He enjoys building ecosystems and mobilizing the community to create positive social change. With the launch of his family foundation and other social impact initiatives, Yen-Lu devotes his time serving both society and the nation in his various capacities. He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.
