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What Happens When 130 L&D and HR Practitioners Stop Talking About Teamwork โ€”and Start Feeling It

At #play14 Singapore last weekend, we experienced Upbeatยฎ: Better Teams Through the Science of Drumming.ย  At first, there were 130 individualsโ€”each with a different rhythm, energy, and way of...

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What Do You Do When A 4-year Old Boy Wins A Copy of Your Leadership Book?

You sign it as: ย  โ€œ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ____ ,๐˜ˆ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ง-๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฑ ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ!โ€Grant ย  He may not understand it now, but in time he will. And it will help set him up for his journey. And...

Resilience in Uncertainty

The power of collective wisdom! As the Chair for one of EGN Singapore (Executives’โ€‹ Global Network) Executive Leadership Groups, itโ€™s my honour and pleasure to lead the discussion with this...

From Seed to Fruition

Iโ€™ve been dragon boating for 10 years, an active member in the Canadian community in Singapore, and the President of Queen’s University Alumni Branch. In February this year, I had a seed of an...

What Does Employee Happiness Mean to You?

Not the surface-level version. Not the ping-pong tables. Not the Friday drinks. Not even the engagement survey scores.Iโ€™m talking about the deeper layer. The one leaders ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ but often struggle to...

What Do You Get When You Have A Room Full of Top Executives From Different Companies?

Theย powerย ofย #collectiveย #wisdom. ย  As the Chair for one of the EGN Singapore (Executives’ Global Network) Executive Leadership Groups, itโ€™s my honour and pleasure to lead the discussion with...

What Truly Happens When We Put Humans – Not Systems, Not KPIs, Not Technology – At The Center of How We Lead?

Last month, I had the honour and pleasure of delivering the opening keynote, โ€œ๐—›๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—”๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต: ๐——๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ ๐—›๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป-๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฝ ๐—–๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ฒโ€, at the ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฐ๐˜๐—ต ๐—š๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—›๐—ฅ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ...

When I first arrived in Singapore, I didn’t know the city would change me as much as I hoped to help change others

I came here with a passion for organizational culture, a belief in the power of emotional intelligence, and a desire to help leaders not just manage teams but inspire them. My โ€œ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆโ€ in those early...

Would You Like An AI Avatar Coach?

I posed this question last week. With 5000 attendees and 100+ companies, it was my honour and pleasure to deliver a keynote talk at AI CON in Singapore last week titled: “Human, Still โ€“ Thriving...

Are We Losing the ‘Human’ part of Human Resources?

It was my honour and pleasure to present the closing keynote for the 3rd Edition of the Economic Times Future Forward Summit in Singapore on 25 July 2025.ย  ย  Entitled Bringing ‘Human’ Back...