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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Not that I had major adversity or misfortune but there had been times where I had to make decisions or got thrown into situations that were less than desirable. In every scenario, I stick to my career resiliency framework – take a leap of faith, pick up new knowledge and skills even if it was the most boring role ever while at the same time looking out for better opportunities through my network. Throughout my 26-year career, there were several inflections points that shaped how I grow personally and professionally. I hope to share these experiences with others and at the same time learn from others.

I am based in Singapore, currently working as Operations Director for the sales organization in ACI Worldwide, a payments software company. In this role, there are 3 main responsibilities - Partner Operations, Market Expansion and Risk Officer Delegate with a common denominator of ensuring governance and compliance against corruption and bribery practices. As my role is global, I work from home and my nights are busier due to meetings with people in the US and Europe. Prior to ACI, I worked in Hewlett Packard for 11 years doing various roles in customer service and support. HP was the place where my career bloomed and ACI is the place where my career flourished thanks to investment I made getting mentors, coaches, and sponsors.

When I am not working, I enjoy cooking and baking, a skill that I picked up while working and living in the UK last 4 years. I am constantly looking for recipes that are not only easy to make but delicious and beautifully plated. I also try to exercise regularly, an area where I have low discipline and hired a trainer to keep my commitment!

One word to describe my work is growth. I gain great satisfaction seeing people grow in their skill set and get transformed in their mindset. Shortly after graduation, it was a choice between a good paying banking career and a start up focusing on youth development. I chose the latter.
But looking back, I've never regretted the choice. It means I can wake up each day knowing that I do what I believe in. This work has enabled me to inspire youths of different age group, background and culture; and engaging fellow educators and parents in their roles.

Marie-Agathe has 17 years of experience in the B2B service industry with Sodexo, focusing on B2B marketing, strategy, and innovation projects. After a career start in industrial R&D, Marie-Agathe joined Sodexo in 2003 and held various positions within the Benefits and Rewards division of Sodexo Group including:
- Global Strategic Plan Director
- Sales, Marketing and Strategy Director Asia, overseeing China, India and South-east Asia
In 2015, she launched the Singapore subsidiary of Sodexo Benefits and Rewards and set up the business as CEO.
Over the last 2 years, she focused on forward-looking R&D projects as Project Director for Robotics Integration in Sodexo Group. She led innovation projects and worked closely with local tech start-ups.
Since 2018, Marie-Agathe is a Senior partner at Actavia, a boutique consulting firm.
She holds a Polytechnicien engineering degree (Master of Engineering) at Ecole Polytechnique (X93), France, as well as a Master of Applied Sciences in microelectronics at Polythechnique Montreal, Canada

I am a former Fortune500 enterprise sales who had a career spanning ANZ (6 years) and Singapore/APAC (5 years) - I "retired" and now trade my own capital in financial markets. I could probably add the most value to new entrants to the tech sector wanting career guidance from someone outside of their business. Please view LinkedIn account for more details

Experienced and highly motivated trainer specializing in Supply Chain Management and Behavioral modules Warehouse Operations and Organizational Behavior. Skilled in Public Speaking, Curriculum Development, and Basic Counselling and Author.

I am a visionary strategist, catalyst, discipler, entrepreneur, counselor, coach, mentor, consultant, trainer, and facilitator for holistic transformational development. I love working with individuals, families, and organizations in accelerating personal and professional development, spiritual and moral formation, children and youth development, family health and wellbeing, leadership and team development, education transformation, organizational development, entrepreneurship and business development, and community development. For more information, please visit our website at www.petermang.com

More than 35 yrs experience in ict consulting , policy making , ngo , education ,, climate change , working on technologies to seve humanity

In a fast-paced world where the only constant is change, I believe there is an urgent need for 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. As an entrepreneur, social change-maker, angel investor, venture catalyst, and a seeker of Truth, I enjoy building ecosystems and mobilising the community to create positive social change. As an early pioneer in AI, I also have a strong base in the tech space. I spend much of my time and energy these days working on my family foundation, the WholeTree Foundation, building the foundation for the Asia Institute of Mentoring and the Deep Human Movement in order to impact a million lives, to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just and sustainable world for all.

I am a 42 yo Single lady who loves God and the outdoors and strives to maintain a good work-life balance and a healthy boundary in my relationships. I am a trained counsellor and trainer and a pastoral staff in my organisation. I am living with my parents and have a younger brother who is married with 3 kids. I love spending time with my niece and nephews and make sure I set aside time for them in the midst of meeting people in my job.

Arvin is the person responsible for growth strategy and demand generation at AKÏN. As the Managing Director, he champions brand storytelling, inbound marketing strategies, and technological innovation for both internal and external stakeholders. Through AKÏN, he has delivered digital transformation interventions for government bodies, regional enterprises, and global software companies.
Aside from his role at AKÏN, Arvin is also an advisor to digital identity authenticator AI start-up GTRIIP, a certified associate of Emergenetics®, an Executive Committee Member of SAFRA Punggol and Singapore Computing Society New Media Council, and volunteers at Quartz Initiative (QZI), a social enterprise based in Singapore that aims to redefine social change by inspiring and empowering tomorrow's leaders.

I'm a Sales & Digital Marketing, Business Development enthusiast who believes in creating a strong value for customer hence converting into meaningful win win situation to help reach their fullest potentials.
I have been associated with Bose for more than 4 years, deeply inclined towards constant learning and being better through process optimisation.

Guided by his childhood passion for nature and garden landscapes, Alexius Yeo graduated from The National University of Singapore and The University of North Carolina with an Honours degree in Geography. He later went on to attain the Permaculture Design Certificate in 2014 from The Permaculture Research Institute.

Alexius began his career with NParks as a Streetscape Manager. After gaining 3 fruitful years of experience and amazing memories, he left NParks and Singapore for the Philippines to work with the poor at the country’s first Farm University and Social Enterprise Incubator. There, he quickly fell in love with the joys of farming and landscaping edible gardens that are both beautiful and productive. Returning to Singapore, he worked with local social enterprise, Edible Garden City, to continue to build urban edible landscapes and champion Singapore’s grow-your-own-food movement.

Today, he is the Director of Carbon InQ Pte Ltd - a local company that teaches Agriculture-based experiential learning programmes at schools and corporate firms. Furthermore, he is also the founder of Project 33 - a family initiated farming movement that aims to unite neighbourhoods through community farming, cooking, educational activities and the practice of sharing first.

Traveling down an unusual career path as an urban farmer, Alexius is driven by the mission to help fellow urbanites reconnect with Nature and with one another. He strongly believes that everyone can have green fingers. And that it is never to late, or frivolous, to strive for food quality, purity and self-sufficiency.

An accomplished senior IT professional, with more than 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, taking on leading roles in Change-The-Bank, Run-The-Bank and Architecture function. Possessed deep and broad-based knowledge across various disciplines, from regulatory requirements such as MAS TRM, to implementing innovative financial services in the Digital Banking arena. Experienced in engaging C-Level stakeholders in the formulation and execution of IT Strategies, and as a trusted partner to the Business. Led high-performance teams in delivering quality outputs and supporting mission-critical applications in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Daniel Yeo has 26 years of extensive corporate experiences in the medical technology businesses in American and German multi-national companies in the Asia Pacific region. Trained as an engineer and later moved into the areas of: a) Business development, channel management, sales performance enablement training.
a) Working with middle and senior managers in Asia and Europe to develop their people skills, growth mindsets and competencies to accelerate and sustain their level of performance.
He is currently the Director (Asia Pacific) of EQ Asia and founder of the Mindful LeadershipTM Program at Alive Consultancy (Pte. Ltd) with strategic partners in Indonesia and China. Daniel work with individuals and leaders in Asia to develop their resilient/growth mindsets in order to adapt and thrive in this ever- changing world. Some of his clients included, Dyson, DELL, Telenor Group, Agilent Technologies, Singapore Ministry of Education, Keppel Land China, Geely Auto, School of Management, Fudan University (Shanghai).
Daniel is active in International key note speaking, change consultancy and facilitating workshops in Asia and Germany. He has spoken at several high-level Human Resources summits in China and at the Fudan University, School of Management in China. Daniel is also a mentor at the Asia Institute of Mentoring.
He is also deeply concern with the high level of stress teenagers are experiencing today. Therefore, he partners International Schools and Singapore Ministry of Education in helping children and teens to build their resilience muscles through the “Resilience for Teens Program”. Link to student testimony of Daniel’s “Resilience for Teens Program”

A dedicated and self-driven L&D professional adept and experienced in organization learning and performance, particularly in leading change in strategic digital transformation initiatives in the L&D space.

Key career highlights in my last 15 + years of experience working in both the public and the private sector include high-profile digital learning transformation projects with the Home Team Academy and the Changi Airport Group that I personally spearheaded. The unprecedented scope and scale of such projects were immense and their far-reaching outcomes in touching every single soul in the respective organizations has no doubt, brought about tremendous joy to me. Other stints I have had the privilege to be part of the action include leading human capital development efforts, particularly in the set-up of the RWS Academy and heading the L&OD team over at the Singapore Institute of Technology.

Dr Easwaramoorthy Rangaswamy, Principal & Provost of Amity Global Institute, Singapore, is distinguished management professional. He holds a PhD in Management and has degrees in Master of Business Administration, Master of Commerce Master of Philosophy in International Business, Bachelor of Commerce and Specialist Diploma in Applied Learning and Teaching from Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. Embracing Lifelong Learning, he has recently graduated from Cardiff University, UK, with MSc Skills & Workforce Development. With nearly 22 years of experience, he has taught management courses from University of Northampton, Anglia Ruskin University, University of London, London School of Economics, UK and Victoria University, Australia.

"Phey Teck Moh is a mentor and angel investor in the Singapore entrepreneur ecosystem. He cofounded AngelCentral, to build a community of angel investors; offering education workshops and curate startups for angel investments.

He had retired as Asia President, Motorola Solutions."

Markus is an Associate Partner at Antler, a global startup generator and early-stage VC.

am Shanti Sharma and Developing and Growing people is my passion. I am very fortunate to live my passion both at work and off work.

I am Learning and Organizational Development professional with 24+ years of work experience out of which 22+ years have been dedicated to Learning and Development (L&D). Experience ranges from end to end management of the L&D function to supporting organizational development initiatives.

I am an ICF ACC certified coach, working towards PCC certification. To nurture my coaching skills I am also pursuing Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) certification and Transactional Analysis (TA). Applying coaching and NLP in my day to day life has helped me become a better, happier, and more composed person. My intent is able to use these tools and techniques to transform as many lives as possible.

Have a breadth of experiences across various industries such as IT, BPO, and Banking. Managed small, medium sized to very large multi-location, cross-disciplinary complex projects, I can strike a great balance between big-picture planning and daily operational management. Have lead several lead initiatives around social learning, innovation and content curation. I enjoy solving real time organizational issues through customer centric mindset in a fast-paced landscape with ambiguous outcomes.

I am motivated, task-oriented, and efficient. My knowledge of the Learning industry is comprehensive and current.

You can view my complete profile at: www.linkedin.com/in/shantisharma

Nicholas Smalle is a Partner at Apis Partners. Apis Partners is a private equity firm focused on investments in the Financial Services (FS) sector, including Credit, Insurance, Payments, Asset Management and FS-Focused BPO’s. We invest growth equity in the range of US$20-70m in companies looking to expand into new geographies, complementary product verticals or across their value chain.

Prior to joining Apis, I was at Old Mutual (JSE:OMU) were I was responsible for their Strategic Investment Fund, an on-balance sheet investment vehicle that focused on the expansion of Old Mutual's operations into key Emerging Markets via controlling and minority investments in the Financial Services sector. Preceding OMU I was an Associate Director at Standard Chartered (LON:STAN) and part of the Wholesale Banking Strategy team based in Singapore. The majority of my projects covered the development of SCB's Emerging Market franchise through both organic and inorganic means.

I started my career with McKinsey and Company in London as a Business Analyst. Over the course of the two-year program, I worked largely for Mckinsey's Finance practice. Projects covered the breadth of financial services, as well as spanning clients across four continents.

Finally, I completed my MBA at INSEAD, and was a Shell Scholar at Cambridge University. I am a Belgian & South African citizen.

An ex-banking executive with 20+ years across investment and private wealth in operations, finance and project management turned certified coach in 2019.
Trained in multiple disciplines from performance coaching to Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP), Clean Language (use of metaphors), & Mental Fitness where the industry called Positive Intelligence. Today, I helped my client to embrace their true essence (authenticity) in their leadership calling.
I am also a strong Diversity Advocate where I was the executive committee member serving as the Partnership and Mentoring chair over the 7 years with Financial Women Association of Singapore (FWA).
I continue my volunteering capacity as a solution coach supporting health and care workers (NHS) in the UK and Junior Achiever in Singapore

Managing Director, Behavioural Consulting Group; Co-Founder, Made of Brilliance, Catalyst, Gastro-geography of Singapore; serial entrepreneur, a strong advocate for business with a heart; more than 30 years in talent solutions and HR consulting in Asia. She has held senior leadership roles within Kelly Services, Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Services in the Asia Pacific region and is the founder of Business Trends.
She is passionate about growing local edible plants, educating on the application of local produce.

More than 20 years of regional business, operational and management responsibilities.
Have taken on various regional and country roles as senior manager, and also engineering role
Worked across multiple industry sectors
Previously traveled extensively and oversea postings
Started entrepreneurial business
Contributed in committees for in a number of industrial associations, alumni groups, grassroots and work groups
Served as mentor and judges, webinar speaker for start-ups and entrepreneur

Philip is currently the Chief Risk Offr at A*STAR. He was Chief Executive Officer of A*ccelerate Pte Ltd from nov 2009-dec 2020. The A*STAR subsidiary managed all A*STAR IP through to commercialization as well as technology maturization and productization projects in A*STAR. Philip led the company to significant improvements in performance outcomes comparable to world benchmarks, especially in licensing and start-ups. He was instrumental in introducing several innovations and productization initiatives such as the Diagnostics Development Hub and the A*StartCentral Incubator. These brought new impact to the technology transfer ecosystem in Singapore with emphasis on collaboration and joint programmes.

Philip spent 20 years with the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF). In his last appointment as Brigadier General/Head Joint Logistics, he was the leading senior specialist on logistics and engineering matters to the Chief of Defence Force. Prior to this, he was Chief of Logistics in the Army, where he led the development of SAF logistics in the areas of infrastructure, re-organisation and information technology. He was also Chief of Engineering in the Army. In that role, he was responsible for the buildup and transfer of new engineering capabilities into the rank and file of the Army.

Born in France, but grew up in Guadeloupe Island, French Guyana, Reunion Island, Australia, Spain, I have been in Singapore for 10 years now and married with a Chinese Singaporean, we have been together for 7 years.
Studied Pharmacy in France and worked in the Healthcare industry for 18 years, in many different commercial roles from sales, marketing, SFE, BD and building and managing teams. My specialty is business set-up and turn around. I did my MBA at IE business school in Madrid, specialized in BD and entrepreneurship.
When managing teams, I always focus on helping the members take control of their thinking to properly analyze the challenge and come up to me with solutions, not problem.
I am currently working as GM for APAC for Pharmaceutical company; my mission is to optimize the current commercial platform and to drive inorganic growth via in-licensing and M&A for the whole APAC region.
My nature is quite introvert, so I had to work harder to get out of my shell. I value integrity, hard and smart work, and resilience.
What I enjoy the most in building businesses, is the process of transforming an idea into a tangible reality thanks to the effort of a team of minds and personalities.
The reason why I entered the corporate world is to understand and learn how businesses run and are built, to be able to build and run my own very soon.
I am looking for mentor to help me move the next level of my Managerial and Strategic thinking skills to outperform in my new job.
And I am also looking for a mentor to help me prepare the transition to having my own businesses.

Experienced Cyber Security Senior Vice President with a proven track record of growing Asia Pacific and Japan business in network and security industries.

I am working professional in management and leadership in telecommunication MNC. My strengths mainly are creativity, inspire people, include smart trust and create space to meet objectives. Recognised on independence , preserverance, performance driven leadership on service deliver, operational effectiveness and wellness and work with woman organisation and Junior Achiever for the youngs.

I trained as a Chartered Accountant and worked with PwC and KPMG in Pakistan, UAE and UK in Audit and Consulting. Then moved to industry and joined Cargill which is a US MNC with core activities in Agriculture, Food Ingredients, Animal Nutrition and Commodity Trading. Served in business CFO roles with global/regional footprints across the diverse portfolio of businesses. This experience provided strong exposure to managing across cultures. A key success factor was in talent development and this became the basis of a second career upon retirement from Cargill in 2015 as a Executive Coach and Mentor. I have a particular interest in developing business leaders of tomorrow via sharing my experience of success factors and pitfalls to avoid. I have been based in Singapore since 1994 and am a naturalized Singaporean since 2005.

I am an indian citizen. Masters in computer applications. Worked in various MNCs and since 2009 have been in singapore.

All in all, I am a finance professional with around 18 years of experience in the field of consulting and project management.

Experienced leader with a track record of conceptualising, building and managing businesses in the services industries. Unique and diverse background with roles in the investments, government, operations and strategy across Asia

Kannan Chettiar is an award winning Global Leader with 24 years of experience in the Technology and Human Capital sectors spanning across Asia, EMEA & Americas. He is co-founder and Managing Director of Avvanz (www.Avvanz.com) – an award winning Tech-enabled Employee Lifecycle Management company that prides in its 3 business pillars – Screen, Onboard and Develop. Avvanz helps to screen for the “right” and “safe” candidates through background checks. Avvanz then helps to integrate the new joiners through comprehensive new employee onboarding solutions leveraging technologies. Avvanz enhances the talents through uniquely differentiated blended learning solutions relevant for the Digital Economy aimed at surpassing the business KPIs. Avvanz has received several awards including a Gold-Medal for Best Background Screening Provider (by Human Resources Magazine) and other nominations for differentiated and disruptive solutions.

Kannan’s technopreneurship has earned him “Executive of the Year – Human Resources Technology” award which is an extremely prestigious Management Excellence award from Singapore Business Review.

Kannan has held management and leadership positions in First Advantage, Dell Computers, Future Electronics (Montreal, Canada), Arrow Electronics (NY-listed), Farnell Group (London-listed), IBM-backed e2open (Belmont, California) and i-Sprint Innovations (Acer-backed). Kannan’s other dimensions: Certified International Trainer with very high ratings from Fortune 500 Clients and Consultant to several companies especially in areas of Digital Transformation.

Kannan regularly delivers Thought Leadership talks, keynote speeches and Masterclasses in the region and constantly offers insights and perspectives in mainstream newspapers, trade publications and TV shows (Talk show, News, Documentary). Some of these can be viewed at www.avvanz.com. Also please see end of this document.

Kannan Chettiar is an award winning Global Leader with 24 years of experience in the Technology and Human Capital sectors spanning across Asia, EMEA & Americas. He is co-founder and Managing Director of Avvanz (www.Avvanz.com) – an award winning Tech-enabled Employee Lifecycle Management company that prides in its 3 business pillars – Screen, Onboard and Develop. Avvanz helps to screen for the “right” and “safe” candidates through background checks. Avvanz then helps to integrate the new joiners through comprehensive new employee onboarding solutions leveraging technologies. Avvanz enhances the talents through uniquely differentiated blended learning solutions relevant for the Digital Economy aimed at surpassing the business KPIs. Avvanz has received several awards including a Gold-Medal for Best Background Screening Provider (by Human Resources Magazine) and other nominations for differentiated and disruptive solutions.

Kannan’s technopreneurship has earned him “Executive of the Year – Human Resources Technology” award which is an extremely prestigious Management Excellence award from Singapore Business Review.

Kannan has held management and leadership positions in First Advantage, Dell Computers, Future Electronics (Montreal, Canada), Arrow Electronics (NY-listed), Farnell Group (London-listed), IBM-backed e2open (Belmont, California) and i-Sprint Innovations (Acer-backed). Kannan’s other dimensions: Certified International Trainer with very high ratings from Fortune 500 Clients and Consultant to several companies especially in areas of Digital Transformation.

Kannan regularly delivers Thought Leadership talks, keynote speeches and Masterclasses in the region and constantly offers insights and perspectives in mainstream newspapers, trade publications and TV shows (Talk show, News, Documentary). Some of these can be viewed at www.avvanz.com. Also please see end of this document.

Kannan is proficient in several languages – he speaks fluent English, Tamil, elementary Mandarin, Malay and Thai.

An engineer by training, he holds an Honours degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a MBA from the University of Birmingham in the UK. Kannan holds an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment and is an accredited StrengthScope practitioner.

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~7 years of professional experience as Editor (Digital & Print Publishing), Copywriting (PayPal), Content (Amazon Web Services), and as an independent freelancer. I also carry a MA in Literary Translation under my belt. I'm currently building up KLIN STUDIO, a social enterprise + publishing platfornm, to empower our communities through accessible mental health literacy.

360 Marketing & Business Leader
* Strategic Business Management * Data-Driven Integrated Marketing * Creative Campaigns and Communications * I have strong management skills in growing brands, I bring forth a solid strategic and hands-on marketing expertise in digital to integrated marketing management. With my passion in digital sphere and continuously learning, I build on continuously up-skilling my digital skills. I enjoy leading and building my team members to greater success together through strong teamwork, brainstorming and collaborative decision-making that helps hone my management capabilities.
I am a strong advocate of #DiversityandInclusion and is part of my company's D&I team pushing such initiatives in the organisation. I love to learn and develop myself further not just in my career but also in mental and health well-being through hiking, yoga, meditation and mindfulness practice.

To make a positive difference and leave a legacy behind.

Even though I have been working in the corporate all the while I am passionate about matters of the heart , conscious leadership and self empowerment. I use a lot of these concepts subtly in my trainings and team buildings with the employees in my current company. I have a degree in science , completed my ACLP course, is an NLP practitioner and Add heart facilitator , have a certificate in neuroscience for well-being. 8 also do sound healing .

Currently works with a US MNC as the General Manager and has been with the company for over 20 years.

Previous work portfolios with other companies include Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Operations Manager and HR Manager. It is in HR Management that provided the most exposure to the wide network of business and personal contacts from all walks of life.

My experiences provided me the opportunity to build a company based on the solid business principles and ethos of mutual respect, trust and compassionate actions.

I graduated with a B. Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore in 1983. Companies I worked with are Philips, Siemens and Apple Computer prior to my current tenure.

I am currently mentoring an undergraduate from the NUS under the NUS Society's mentoring programme.

On a personal front I co-organize recent social cohesion projects likeThe UP Concert In The Park Picnic in 2016 for the general public at the Botanic Gardens, the charity drive to collect funds and food for the Transient Migrant Workers in 2017, the "I Belanja You" project as a reminder for all of us to share, in 2019.

I am married and we have 3 children.

l live in Singapore providing personal coaching for individual aspirations of the life they want and achieving goals they set with fun and pride.

An Information Technology (IT) leader experienced in regional Operation Management, IT management & support. Background in IT Managed Services Provider, media industry and government.

Dependable and responsible with creative problem-solving skills and proven ability to lead teams to achieve focused results and innovative solutions within challenging periods. Proven record of accomplishment in setting up and managing e-Marketing infrastructure and IT governance standards for Windows and Macintosh technologies.

I am a certified recruiter (CEI-KAH by Ministry of Manpower), a Resilience trainer and a certified Gallup Strengths | Positive Psychology Coach.

Specialties:
* Coach (Gallup Certified Strengths, Positive Psychology)
* Stakeholder management, culture awareness
* Project management, Enterprise infrastructure

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