The Inclusive Mentoring Forum
Mentorship
(This is a physical event. Limited space is available, registrations will close as soon as slots are filled up.)
Synopsis
From those supporting entrepreneurs, through business leaders, mid-career professionals, senior lawyers and clinicians mentoring the next generation, to peers offering support for impact in the community, mentors are as diverse as our mentees. Yet we can all agree that to be effective as a mentor:
Mentors’ vision of themselves is continuously growing: they are on a continuous quest to grow their own capability and capacity, to become a fuller version of themselves.
There is no ego: humanity and humility that people bring with them to their relationships gives mentoring its power.
It’s all about the other person: How can I help? How can I be of service?
So how to do this when we live in a world where diversity can now be acknowledged, and must be accommodated?
Jointly organized by AIM and NUS Enterprise, this Inclusive Mentoring Forum aims to kickstart a conversation amongst Singapore's mentoring community about how we can work effectively and ethically across gender, demographics, race, culture, socio-economics, neuro-diversity and state of mind - in organizations and in the community.
The forum is not about teaching any particular practice, framework or approach to mentoring. Rather it's about respectful and open sharing between experienced diverse mentors. Let's listen actively to each other and, together, map out a bigger picture of what works to create inclusive, bias-free mentorship environments that embrace diversity. You will hear inspiring real-world stories from experienced mentors and diversity advocates who have successfully navigated cultural and socio-economic boundaries to create meaningful, supportive relationships.
Bring your insights to share as much as to take away. This event is ideal for anyone who practices mentoring in Singapore, whether you are an entrepreneur, a professional, a freelancer, or someone whose work involves supporting others.
Program:
6:00pm - Door Opens / Buffet served
6:30pm - Opening Welcome & Introductions
6:45pm - Panel One: Mentoring for All Seasons - What Great Mentors Do (to address diversity)
7:25pm - The Heart of Mentoring
7:35pm - Break / Community Happenings
7:55pm - Panel Two: Opportunities and Actions for More Inclusive Mentoring in Asia
8:35pm - Networking
9:00pm - End
Important Details:
Date: Tuesday 12 November 2024
Time: 18:00 - 21:00 SGT (GMT+8)
Location: BLOCK71, Level 2 Seminar Room (71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #02-01, Singapore 139951)
[Nearest MRT: One-North MRT]
Ho Yuen Ping
Senior Associate Director at NUS Enterprise (Ecosystem Development) | Programme Lead of the Innovation with Societal Impact (ISI) initiative
Hugh Mason
Entrepreneur | Mentor with NUS and NTU | PhD candidate at University of Canberra
His work has directly matched 10k+ new innovators and entrepreneurs to new investment and business opportunities by setting up and delivering 250+ events with key business partners.
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.
Our Panelists:
Ashokan Ramakrishnan
Chief Marketing Officer, iWOW | Secretariat, SPARK | Mentor, Neuro-diversity
Gillian Tan
C-suite Business Leader | Certified Integral Executive & Life Coach | Certified Professional Mentor | Executive Board Member
Jit Nagpal
Founder CEO, Sciente | Board Member, WWF Singapore | President, SCS Technopreneurship Chapter
Laurence Liew
Director of Innovation, AI Singapore | Author, "AI-First Nation | Entrepreneur
Nimisha Tailor
Competition and Regulation Specialist | Author, The Female Digital Revolution
Chan Ai Ling
Client Executive, Dell Technologies | SCS Women in Tech Exco | Mentor, vLookUp
James Campbell-Grant
Business Coach | Certified Professional Mentor | AIM Mentorship Program Lead
Karen Tok
Entrepreneur | Business Coach | Boundary Breaker
Madhura Moulik
Media & Strategy | Investor & Advisor | DEI | KarmaV | Skilfinity
Russ Neu
Visiting Professor | Social Entrepreneur | Mentor | Venture Partner
About NUS Enterprise
NUS Enterprise is the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS) which plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach. Its initiatives and global connections support a range of entrepreneurial journeys and foster ecosystem building in new markets. These initiatives augment and complement the University’s academic programmes and act as a unique bridge to industry well beyond Singapore’s shores.
About Asia Institute of Mentoring
Asia Institute of Mentoring (AIM) is a non-profit volunteer based organization with a mission to bring mentoring to the spotlight in Asia, raise the quality of mentors and the standard of mentoring, bringing mentoring to all facets of society to impact millions of lives.
We are committed to create an Asia-based people-powered mentoring movement to move people … to learn, to share, to give forward, to transform, to harness the deep human potential, and create social impact – bringing about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, just and sustainable world for all.
Join us as a member here.
