Navigating Leadership in the Age of Accountability
Leadership Series
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Synopsis
In this Leadership Series on Navigating Leadership in the Age of Accountability, Dr. David Ng, Partner, Authentic Solutions LLP, and Sharon Tan, Head of Asia Pacific at the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), will explore the evolving demands placed on leaders operating at the intersection of capital markets, organisational governance, and multi-stakeholder accountability. The session will be facilitated by Yen-Lu Chow, Founding Executive Chairman of WholeTree Foundation, Over-The-Rainbow, and the Asia Institute of Mentoring.
What does it mean to lead when the scorecard is no longer purely financial?
The conventions of shareholder primacy and short-cycle performance metrics — long the dominant leadership paradigm — are being challenged by an expanding accountability architecture: ESG disclosure obligations, workforce expectations of authenticity, community demands for genuine corporate citizenship, and capital markets beginning to price governance quality differently.
The concept of TRUST lies at the foundation of every leadership relationship — between executive and board, organisation and investor, leader and team, institution and society. Yet the leadership profiles most organisations select and reward are frequently misaligned with the trust-building behaviours that sustained stakeholder relationships actually require.
The question is: can leaders make the shift — from transactional accountability to transformational stewardship — before the cost of the trust deficit becomes impossible to ignore
David Ng PhD
Partner, Authentic Solutions LLP
Dr. David Ng is a PhD-qualified executive coach, practising Chartered Accountant and Certified Professional Mentor. He works at the intersection of industry, venture capital, leadership development, and academia — bringing field data from senior leader engagements across Asia-Pacific into frameworks that connect boardroom behaviour to systemic outcomes. David is a long-standing member and contributor to the Asian Institute of Mentoring.
Sharon Tan
Leadership Team Coach | Coach Supervisor | Chartered MCIPD | ICF PCC & ACTC | Gestalt OSD | Asia Pacific Global Partner of AoEC
Sharon Tan is Head of Asia Pacific at AoEC (Academy of Executive Coaching) and Executive Director of Besonder Consulting. With over 30 years of leadership experience across Finance, HR, and Organisation Development in global corporations, Sharon has held senior executive roles including CFO Asia and VP HR/OD Asia at GROHE, Chief People Officer at New Energy Nexus, and other senior finance roles. That career arc — from financial leadership to people and organisational development — gives her rare first-hand insight into the competing pressures leaders face in delivering results while building the trust and culture that sustain teams. She now partners with senior executives and leadership teams to drive systemic change through coaching and shared leadership approaches.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Limited / Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, Yen-Lu is an award-winning visionary entrepreneur, technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author and keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator & change-maker, ecosystem builder, philanthropist and humanist.
As an angel investor and venture catalyst in the tech ecosystem, Yen-Lu has mentored young entrepreneurs and businesses for many years. He has made significant contributions to the Singapore tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem, serving on countless startup business plan competitions internationally, government panels on innovation and entrepreneurship, and as mentor and advisor to the major universities. He co-founded a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government, served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise, mentor to INSEAD, plus numerous panels on entrepreneurship and innovation internationally. As an expert and practitioner in speech recognition and language processing (with 6 international patents and having worked in the field for over 20 years since early 1980’s while leading Apple’s initiative in this area in the early 1990’s), he was an early pioneer in the application of AI with a strong base in the tech space.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.