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Suman is a senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in Payments, Technology, and Healthcare services. Experienced in company start-ups, growth and failure; business transformation, downsizing, digitalization and restructuring, Suman brings together a unique blend of coaching/facilitation skills with a strong business-building background to help leaders build awareness and capacity to live and lead consciously and show up in the way the world needs them.

She delights in empowering leaders to go beyond their own limits and embrace life with confidence. With teams, she builds connections and trust in teams through a safe space for authentic conversations that lead to innovative and collaborative outcomes. She loves the magic of coaching and coaches and aspires to see both thrive to transform the world.

Suman served as the President of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Singapore Chapter in 2019, driving initiatives to introduce coaching to the community and shape the coaching landscape in Singapore. She is also a Board Committee Member of SPD, a non-profit organization creating inclusivity for persons with disabilities, and a member of the planning committee of Over-the-Rainbow, an organization that aspires to transform youth mental wellness through self-care and service projects.

In her over 30 years of being a leader and now mostly coaching leaders, Suman has witnessed how having a focus on a networking mindset has catapulted many individuals far ahead in their careers. She has worked with numerous leaders, including the hard core introverts, to build their social capital and widen their network of influence to positively impact their performance at work, as well as create resiliency in their long-term careers. Suman will help you re-frame your thinking on networking and help you to embrace it effortlessly in your personal and professional lives.

Synopsis
Anxiety and panic continue to dominate active job seekers who live in the midst of the worst recession ever. Besides hundreds of thousands of job losses due to global market disruption, the pandemic has brought about a drastic change in the way we work and live, resulting in certain jobs becoming obsolete.

However, it is not all doom and gloom, many businesses are still hiring during this period, especially those in the digital economy, banking and finance, insurance, healthcare, education, technology, cyber-security and government. The surge of digitization across various business functions and processes has also created new jobs that didn’t exist before.

But the job competition will be more intense. Job seekers will need to work harder than ever to market themselves as employees of choice. What should job seekers do to stand out among the crowd? And where should they look? What are the in-demand areas where one could look to up-skill?

Find out more from our panel of experts in this Fireside Chat. You'll learn:

How to power up your job search

How to ace your interview to land the job you love

Learn how Artificial Intelligence recruitment tools have changed the traditional recruitment process and hiring behaviour

Discover what kind of jobs and industries are trending in the next 3 years and beyond

How Artificial Intelligence can help with your skill gap analysis

Synopsis:


Are you debating over your next career switch or what skills to pick-up? You’ve probably done enough research to know that digital marketing is the new normal and digital marketing skills are in great demand. No doubt the job market is booming for digital marketers and even more so with the current pandemic - which has also shown us the digital transformation of several traditional businesses.


Knowing the need of digital marketing in today’s industry is great, but how do you know to find the right role for you?
We have 2 industry’s thought leaders who are directors of digital agencies and active in educating PMETs and senior managers in transiting to the Digital Marketing industry.
Speaker 1: Ms Michelle Lim, Co-founder and CEO of Make The Change and M.A.D. School
Speaker 2: Mr Hendry Goh, Director of Strategy of NEO360 Digital
How will the audience benefit from the session?


Participants will be able to learn about the top most sought after digital marketing positions and its job prospects within the field.
Understanding the job position from an agency’s (hirer) perspective
Learning the trending approaches in digital marketing
Learning what it takes to become a successful digital marketer
How to kickstart your digital marketing career

We are living in an increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) World. The pandemic that is sweeping the globe is just the latest example of the new normal. What started out as a health crisis has metamorphosed into a financial crisis. Many have lost their livelihoods as the economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. We may be entering a global depression. The future seems more uncertain than ever.
In this brave new world, entrepreneurship has been touted as a career of choice, and entrepreneurship has become one of the most pursued career choices globally. But is entrepreneurship for everyone? Could it be overrated as a career choice, glamorized by the media in “rags to riches” stories, an easy get rich path to money, fame and IPO? Does every entrepreneurial journey have a happy ending? Is there a dark side to entrepreneurship?


Entrepreneur as a career choice, is it... or not? Come find out for yourself…
Join Anuj Jain, Co-founder & CEO of Startup-O, Bernadette Cho, General Manager of Entrepreneur First (EF) Singapore, and Yen-Lu Chow, Co-founder of Asia Institute of Mentoring, serial entrepreneur, angel investor and social change maker, in a fireside chat to explore the topic of Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice.

With no definite time-frame for a COVID-19 vaccine in sight, the road ahead of us looks to be long, winding, and fraught with uncertainties, difficulties, and challenges.

Sean Tan, a lawyer by training with restructuring expertise, is the Chairman and Director of the True Group, which operates 10 fitness centers in Singapore and 14 in Taiwan under the “True Fitness”, “TFX” and “Yoga Edition” brands. The fitness business has not been spared, and in fact, has been hit hard by the crisis.

Regarded widely as a global creative and innovative thought leader in the fitness industry, Sean will share how he has steered the business through the Circuit Breaker and has restructured his team and the business to meet the challenges in the future. Grab this opportunity to take a glimpse into Sean’s playbook for survival, where Sean shares practical tips on how you as a business owner, leader or manager can prepare yourself and then your business for the challenges that lie ahead, including protecting your cash flow, cutting costs and expenses, re-purposing staff and resources, and pivoting.

How will the audience benefit from the session?

Known for his straight-talking and hands-on style of management and leadership, Sean gives practical advice without the fluff. The advice is geared towards both the individuals (whether business owners, leaders, or managers) and businesses, and one can expect to come away with something that will either inspire, motivate or cause one to think critically of another way of doing things.

While many sales reps are struggling to conduct sales engagement remotely, the most successful ones understand how to achieve this through phone and video-based calls using Hangouts, Teams, and Zoom. So how can you more effectively use technology for non-face-to-face selling?

In this session you’ll learn how to:
/ Find Your Audience
/ Demonstrate Your Expertise
/ Deliver Sales Presentations

Huan Song is a SOCO Certified sales trainer, blended learning coach, and curriculum designer. He has years of experience in business development, retail sales, and strategic enterprise account management. In his most recent stint, he was a Business Development Manager focused on B2B sales and sales management.

Huan Song is also one of the co-founders of a technology startup that successfully raised Series A funding. He is passionate about sales and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

We need to be creative to be innovative. But the relentless push to innovate faster is producing a toxic culture that may undermine the whole creative process. In our rush for end results fast, we could ironically be killing the very thing that will lead us to innovation: creativity. Creativity and innovation are not interchangeable words, and it’s important for effective businesses to understand why. In this session, we explore why we need both and the paradoxes behind this that can impact our work.
Innovation is key for organizational transformation - but to prepare for innovation there needs to be both a culture of creativity (at the organization level) and creative thinking mindset and skill development (at the personal level). There are no shortcuts, and this is why many companies that only focus on embracing design thinking, agile, digital, and other innovation activities & tools (such as innovation labs, hackathons, sprints, scrum, and design thinking models) often fail.

This fireside chat with Andrew Grant and Dr. Gaia Grant (the authors of several books including: “ Who killed creativity? and how can we get it back? And “The Innovation Race”) will focus on the potential psychological and neurological blocks to critical and creative thinking, and the practical process leaders can engage in with practical strategies to achieve more innovative results in themselves, their team, and their organization.

www.whokilledcreativity.com

The physical and psychological well-being of our healthcare workers are being tested during these unprecedented times. The front-lines are delivering heroically but the shock waves from this pandemic could potentially be massive and long-lasting.



Self-care is often the first thing that gets sacrificed when life is hectic and stressful, and people often think that taking time for themselves seems indulgent. But looking after your own well-being is imperative through this challenging time, and to better care for others.


Amidst implications for individuals and collective health, incorporating self-care practices into your daily rituals can help you sustain your well-being in offering your BEST SELF in your daily interactions.




How will the audience benefit from the session?


Understand self-care as a superpower in your caring role
Learn effective ways to reconnect and replenish your reservoir
Ways to build resilience to flow and thrive in disruption

Now, more than ever, we rely on a healthy immune response against infections.

In this webinar you will appreciate the basics of immunity (delivered in plain/simple language) and how it responds to infections.

In addition, Stephanie will review several simple nutritional lifestyle strategies that you can implement today for improved immune resilience.

Despite the progressive roll back of the Singapore’s Circuit Breaker in June 2020 that allows majority if not all of businesses to resume operations, the outlook for many organizations is still highly uncertain.

A recent survey by SSON in collaboration with Edgeverve, Assistedge and Infosys-BPM Ltd points out that businesses report 30% increase in delayed collection of sales revenue, 14% increase in cost of operations and 20% increase in gaps in back office service delivery. These statistics reiterate the difficulties for many businesses in “returning to normal” which in turn could impact hiring decisions and employment opportunities.

Among the working population, PMETs (Professionals, Managers, Executives and Technicians) forming more than 50% of the Singapore’s workforce is the group that faces greater risk to redundancy and retrenchment based on past years’ evidence.

The webinar shares strategies for PMETs on:

1. How to rise above this environment of uncertainty and volatility
2. How to differentiate themselves from the crowd at the workplace
3. What to do in times of such business uncertainty and employment risks
4. What are the the possible action plans if your employment has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic

In the current COVID-19 crisis, many jobs and business opportunities are wiped out resulting in many feeling lost and affected financially. Also, because of the lock-down situation, social media and the online space have become the primary communication channel which led to it being overcrowded with lots of “noise”.

How do you then stand out from the crowd? What can you do to showcase your value to prospects/employers by cutting through these distractions?

In the upcoming session:
- Pick up practical tips on ways to build your personal brand
- Learn to leverage on LinkedIn and online mediums to boost your outreach

This event is for you if you are thinking of starting a business, worrying about the unknown challenges of starting in a down economy, struggling with finding viable business ideas, thinking about scaling up your small business or just looking for inspiration and purpose.

Discover for yourself what you "don't know that you don't know"

Pick up tips and valuable advice on the business fundamentals for a successful start-up and scale-up
How to 'win with fears' mindset and scale up with the principle of People First, Always!
Learn from proven start-up processes


Karen Tok shares her struggles and successes of how she grew a 10K shoestring start-up into a thriving multi-award-winning business with a 10 million dollars valuation.

Karen start-up weathered the storm of two recessions: she first started her business during the 2001 recession post-dot-com bubble crash and was further hit by the Global Financial Crisis in 2009 during the scale-up stage. Tons of near-fatal business mistakes were made with six-figure sums spent on an expansion that went down the drain. With escalating overheads, fierce competition, high staff turnover, and unfavorable economy, they didn’t just weather the storms, they thrived.

Discover for yourself her secrets of turning her crippling fear into a significant success. How as a failure in school, with no degree, no financial backing, and no relevant industry knowledge, she was able to build a multi-award-winning biotech recruitment business.