Rise Through The Ranks - Programme
Sally Helgesen
Day One
How Women Rise - Get Your Next Raise, Promotion, Job
Sally Helgesen is a best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership. For the last thirty years, her mission has been

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Umesh Ramakrishnan
Day One
Advancement Strategies Of Top Executives
Umesh Ramakrishnan is a member of the Office of the CEO with Kingsley Gate Partners. He was most recently Vice Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer of one of the largest retained executive search fir

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Dr Timothy Low
Day One
Leadership In A Dynamically Evolving Industry
Dr Timothy Low is currently the Head of Medical Affairs Asia Pacific at Shire, a position he assumed on October 2, 2017, based in its regional headquarters in Singapore. He was awarded 2018 Rare Di

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Mark Laudi
Day One
Executive Media Savvy - A Key Leadership Skill
Mark Laudi is an accomplished media mentor, business conference anchor, and radio and financial television current affairs show host. He is a veteran of the traditional and new media, with 25 years||

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Simone Heng
Day One
Authentic Personal Branding Across Social Platforms
Simone Heng is a broadcasting talent with rare global appeal. She has worked as a broadcaster in Australia, Asia and the Middle East for brands like Virgin Radio, HBO Asia and CNN. Simone’s l

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Karsten Warnecke
Day Two
Breakthrough Your Career Bottleneck
Ambassador Karsten WARNECKE is the Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). He joined ASEF as Deputy Executive Director in August 2012. Before joining ASEF, he was Counselor at the Ger

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DeAnne Aussem
Day Two
Coaching For Leadership Impact
DeAnne Aussem is a Managing Director and founder of PwC’s U.S. Leadership Coaching Center of Excellence. As a leadership development expert and Executive Coach, DeAnne draws upon 22+ years of p

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Mario Singh
Day Two
Mentorship - The Secret Sauce To Success
As a world-renowned Forex educator, Mario Singh has trained private bankers from Julius Baer – the third largest Swiss bank in the world with assets under management of CHF 340 billion, and bank

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Su-Yen Wong
Day Two
Getting A Seat In The Boardroom
Su-Yen is Founder and CEO of Bronze Phoenix, a premier provider of solutions that help organisations and individuals reinvent themselves. She is an internationally recognised thought leader, professio

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Chris J. Reed
Day Two
Leveraging LinkedIn For Success
Chris J. Reed is the only CEO with a Mohawk! With three #1 international bestselling books, he is the most recommended LinkedIn marketing entrepreneur. Chris has been awarded Official LinkedIn Power

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Eugene Lam
Day Two
Built To Last - Sustainable Leadership
Eugene has more than 18 years of HR experience, covering a broad spectrum of HR functions. He has led HR teams across various geographies (US, Latin America, CEEMEA and Asia Pacific), working closely

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John Chen
Day Three
Storytelling to Power your Personal Brand
John Chen is the Founder of LinkedInPedia, a LinkedIn marketing agency which specialises in helping brands and professionals win the LinkedIn Marketing game, with clients from over 15 countries worldw

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Wendy Tan Siew Inn
Day Three
Leading with Wholeness
A consultant, author and speaker, Wendy’s work is about learning and bringing forth ideas to help us act with wisdom for the greater good. Being a Chinese with a Western education, Wendy dr

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Vineet Rai
Day Three
Maximising Impact - Enhancing Personal & Business ROI
Vineet Rai is the Founder of Aavishkaar Intellecap group. The Group manages assets worth US $ 650 Million meets the funding needs of all entrepreneurs providing capital from US$ 150 to US$ 15 Millio

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Anne Marie Droste
Day Three
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact
Anne Marie is a partner at Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading company builder. EF brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong

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Terry Smagh
Day Three
Be A Rainmaker - Building Blocks for Success
Terry Smagh has been Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan at BlackLine, Inc. since March 2018. He is responsible for spearheading the company’s ongoing regional growth strate

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Rich Fernandez
Day Four
A Future-Ready Mind - Achieve Goals & Well Being
Rich Fernandez is the CEO of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute ( SIYLI). Search Inside Yourself was born at Google when a team of leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience and emotional

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Michelle Tillis Lederman, CSP
Day Four
Get Known, Get Connected, Get Ahead
One of Forbes Top 25 Networking Experts, Michelle is an author, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and executive coach. She is the author of three books including internationally known The 11 Laws of

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Rajiv Bhalla
Day Four
The Relevance of Staying Relevant
An industry veteran with more than 25 years of senior leadership experience, Rajiv Bhalla is the Vice President & Managing Director at Barco India . Rajiv spearheads the formulation & executio

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Freda Liu
Day Four
Bursting Fixed Mindsets
Freda Liu is a Producer and Presenter on the only English business radio station in Malaysia. She has conducted over 5000 interviews with the likes of Stephen Covey to Julian Assange. She has also

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Ranjeet Banerjee
Day Four
Learning Agility - The X-Factor For Career Growth
Ranjeet Banerjee is the worldwide president of the Medication Management Solutions (MMS) business unit for BD. Mr. Banerjee began his career with BD in 1995 as a plant manager. In January 2001, he re

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Alan McDougall
Day Five
Authentic Optimism in Leadership
Alan qualified in medicine in 1984 from the University of Glasgow.  He trained as a family doctor and worked in Clydebank, near Glasgow.  His interest in diabetes led to him joining Novo No

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Tay Guan Hin
Day Five
Creativity Can Take You Further Than You Can Imagine
For over 25 years, Tay Guan Hin has helped Shell, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, P&G, HSBC, Unilever, and other global brands improve market share and solve business challenges. He operates well

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Sumita Ambasta
Day Five
Listening For Success
With over two decades of experience in Human development, Sumita has founded and leads Flowering Tree, Inc, an International Foundation that supports Children||s Education and Women||s Development in

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Joanne Flinn
Day Five
Succeeding In Times of Change and Disruption
TEDx Speaker, business woman, best selling author and international artist, Joanne’s spoken at the Asian Banker, led multi million dollar businesses for PricewaterhouseCoopers and contributed to

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John G. Rakocy
Day Five
Succeeding Beyond Borders
John Rakocy is a proven senior executive with extensive business turnaround and transformation experience with a particularly unique background in building services businesses in high growth global/em

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Jayesh Parekh
Day Six
Unleashing The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Jayesh is a Co-Founder of Sony Entertainment Television, a major television network of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which he successfully exited in 2013. Jayesh Parekh is a Managing Partner & Se

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Ron Kaufman
Day Six
Rise Through Service Leadership
Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for uplifting customer service and building service cultures. Rated one of the “Top 25 Who’s Hot” speakers by Speake

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Priscilla Chan
Day Six
Seek and Live Your Passion
Believing that it is ideas that bring about changes and advancement, Priscilla founded Speakers Connect and China Speakers Agency to help spread good ideas. With an Asian focus and a global perspecti

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Andrea Edwards
Day Six
Why Social Leadership Will Be The Only Leadership
Andrea Edwards, The Digital Conversationalist, is a globally award winning B2B communications professional with more than 20 years’ experience from around the globe, including 12 years exclusive

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James Tan
Day Six
The Resilient Leader
James Tan is Chief Executive Officer of Tokio Marine Life Insurance Singapore (TMLS). He also chairs the Management, Financial Management, Product Management and Compensation Committees at TMLS. A se

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Gil Petersil
Day Six
Stress-Free Strategic Networking
After living, studying and working in Israel, Canada, USA, England, Russia, and Singapore, Gil used his broad knowledge in human psychology, creative marketing mindset and a multitude of business expe

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Dr Marshall Goldsmith
Day Seven
Stakeholder Centered Leadership
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Th

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Mervyn Koh
Day Seven
Developing Business Savvy
Mr. Mervyn Koh joined UOB in May 2002 and has more than 16 years’ experience in the banking industry covering a variety of functions, including Human Resource and Business Banking.  He cu

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Tay Bee Kheng
Day Seven
Thriving in The Digital Age
Bee Kheng joins Cisco after 20 years at HP, where she was most recently Vice President and General Manager for HPE Software for Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role Bee Kheng was responsible for drivi

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Andre Van Straten
Day Seven
Versatile Leadership - Succeeding Across Situations
André van Straten is currently the Counsellor of Political and Economic Affairs for the South African Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. With a strong interest in international politics and economic

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Cathy Johnson
Day Seven
Becoming and Being Seen As A Leader
Cathy Johnson is an ICF Certified Professional Coach, a Global Speaker and a Senior Facilitator who has lived and worked in Asia for the past 20 years. She has 28 years of international corporate exp

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Zann Kwan
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How Blockchain Is Shaping The Future
Zann Kwan brings with her twenty years of professional experience in finance and investments, of which the last five was spent working in cryptocurrency. Ms Kwan is the co-founder of Bitcoin Exchange

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Danielle Kayembe
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The Critical Role of Women in Future Businesses
Danielle is a female futurist and serial entrepreneur dedicated to empowering women through her global work in business, social impact, writing and public speaking. ​Through her company GreyFire, s

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Vikram Kalloo
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Executive Presence - Leader to STAR Leader
Coach Vikram is a Star Maker! He helps develop powerful Executive Presence, stand out, and build market dominance in as less as 21 hours! He applies the latest in neuroscience research from Harvard an

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