Navigating Your Third Transition via the Distinguished Senior Fellowship Programme
Career Resilience
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Synopsis
Join Yen-Lu and Dr. Virginia Cha for a transformative webinar to introduce Distinguished Senior Fellowship Programme (DSFP), Asia’s first life transition programme designed for accomplished senior leaders who are motivated to explore and redefine their post-professional identity and significance in the Third Transition of their lives, to further leverage on their experience and expertise to create impact in the world.
About Distinguished Senior Fellowship Programme (DSFP):
The Distinguished Senior Fellowship Programme (DSFP) by the National University of Singapore (NUS) is Asia’s first life transition programme, designed for accomplished senior leaders in the public and private sectors. This 13-week intensive course helps them prepare for a meaningful Third Transition by reigniting their learning through a blend of faculty-led seminars, collaborative team projects, practical fieldwork, and an overseas capstone trip. Through exploring their relationships with themselves, the community and the world around them, participants are inspired to redefine their post-professional identity and purpose, and to leverage their experience and expertise to create impact.
The first DSFP cohort begins in August 2025.
For more info, pls visit: https://scale.nus.edu.sg/home/dsfp
Dr. Virginia Cha
Programme Director, NUS Distinguished Senior Fellowship Programme (DSFP) | Adjunct Professor at the NUS Business School and NUS College of Design & Engineering | Head of curriculum design at the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Design (SMART)
Dr. Virginia Cha is a highly sought-after educator of innovation and entrepreneurship. She has a joint appointment as Adjunct Professor at the NUS Business School and NUS College of Design & Engineering. In addition, she also spearheads curriculum design at the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Design (SMART) for their research commercialisation programmes.
In her multifaceted industry and academic career spanning more than four decades across many countries, Virginia has been in many different roles in technology, executive management, and technology commercialisation. She was also the founder or sole founder and CEO of multiple venture-funded, high-tech companies in Singapore and China, with listings on NASDAQ and HKSE.
Virginia began her Third Transition when a chance meeting with the late Professor Phil Anderson of INSEAD inspired her to step away from a lifetime business and technology executive career. It led her to enroll in NUS to pursue a PhD, not as a career transition choice, but as an intellectual pursuit. She received her PhD five years later in her early fifties and has since found renewed joy, purpose, and new relationships as an Adjunct Professor in multiple educational institutions.
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 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.
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