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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...

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

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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...

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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...

Is Emotional Intelligence Important?

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