Transforming the nation and how one does it with the skills and knowledge given.

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Over the past 10 years, Jessica has acquired a unique international experience across 4 continents. Jessica co-founded 3 successful organisations in Cambodia, London and Malaysia. These businesses were started from scratch, became profitable within 20 months, and have developed thousands of students and senior managers to discover, develop and deploy their leadership capabilities.  

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In addition to their desire to empower women, The Batik Boutique, a social enterprise, is passionate in making an impact in community in Kuala Lumpur. Recently, they contributed the deposit needed for Cempaka Education Center enabling poorer families free English classes for their children and Klink Kecheerian, a non profit organisation which opened in 2012 to provide good quality and affordable healthcare to the community. They also subsidised healthcare for the marginalized communities.  We speak to the founder, Amy Cox Blair.

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Norliana shares her experience in science plus her projects and breakthroughs at CERiA.

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Joanne will be sharing her 1st hand experience, how to transform a company to make it appealing to today’s Gen Y and Gen Z employees and how to cope with the career aspirations of millennial employees. On the other side of the coin are millennial customers, who also pose new challenges to the marketplace.

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PwC has surveyed over 8,000 female millennials ( born between 1980-1995) from 75 countries to find out how they feel about the world of work and their careers. Malaysia had a total of 510 respondents. The report entitled The female millennial: A new era of talent – reveals that the gender confidence gap is small, which is very encouraging. 

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Founded in 1997, this Malaysian entity has gone global in less than 20 years. Other than Secret Recipe, it also has Beyond Veggie by Secret Recipe and Red Lobster plus other brands. What is its staying power and what happens behind the scenes?

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To represent a nation, and subsequently the female collective in one's nation is a rather heavy burden. What is the philosophy of Carey Ng, Malaysia's representative at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant?

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As Malaysia struggles with evolving the education system, one largely neglected area would be sex education in schools for children aged 11 and above. Sex, puberty, menstruation. All these topics still scream taboo and it seems obvious that educators are still neglecting how to address this situation in schools. At the same time, unwanted pregnancies flourish with babies being abandoned at an alarming rate by young mothers. Enter Miss Teaspoon, a local enterprise that runs etiquette and mentoring programmes for girls ages 7-17years old.

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The Women in Innovation Academy (MyWIN) aims to create a new innovation ecosystem by entrepreneurs, for women entrepreneurs. It will do so by understanding existing gaps through in-depth research and information, addressing needs for financial access, networking, and training, and serving as a platform for peer-to-peer mentorship and capacity building for motivated innovative entrepreneurs. Set up under the chairmanship of Dato’ Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil,MyWIN will provide a ready resource pool of experienced entrepreneurs who can share their expertise, experiences, and learnings with the next generation of innovators with strong, disruptive ideas across industries.

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