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March 12, 2019 Women leading tech
Despite the IT industry being traditionally dominated by males, 3 out of 4 leaders in Quest’s management team are females. Similarly, the percentage of female leaders in Quest is also relatively higher than average. In fact, female leaders comprise 40% of their global executive leadership team. How deliberate was it for Quest to do this and how have they flown in the face of trend to do it as well? We chat with Vivien Li, HR Director at Quest Technology Systems and Susie Chua who’s a business analyst there.
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14 min
March 11, 2019 Building a pipeline of leaders for the non-profit sector
The Centre for Non-Profit Leadership (CNPL) is the leadership consulting arm of National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). Their role is to help the non-profit sector create a leadership pipeline and build effective boards. How have they been doing this and what has response been since registering as a charity in 2010? Janssen Ong is Deputy Director there and he talks us through it.
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8 min
March 11, 2019 A viable career in Singapore's robust start up space
Singapore's biggest startup career fair returned last week and was held at the LaunchPad @ one-north. How did it go? Why are events like this important to the start up ecosystem and what actionable suggestions came out of the talks that were held during the fair as well? We find out from Edmas Neo, Executive Director at Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE).
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11 min
March 08, 2019 The business of highly effective presentations
Who knew a business could be built out of presentations! Eugene Cheng and Koh Kai Xin did and that’s why they founded High Spark. Since its inception in 2013, they’ve helped C-suite executives jazz up their presentations, grown their team to 10 and earned six figure revenues.
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11 min
March 08, 2019 From pilot to piloting businesses
On International Women’s Day 2019, we speak to this 20-year C Suite veteran who’s gone from being a pilot to piloting companies. Dr Maren Schweizer, CEO of Schweizer World, has served on multiple boards across the globe and with 20 years of experience in the fields of AI, IoT, automated mobility, engineering, and electronics, she has a plethora of insights to share.
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13 min
March 07, 2019 Why some sectors of insurance are resistant to digitalisation
So much has been said about technology making our lives easier, more productive and efficient but it seems the insurance sales space hasn’t seen those benefits. The traditional sales models of insurers have proven remarkably resilient to digitalisation. Jan Weiser, partner at Simon Kucher & Partners talks us through how to turn a digital flop into success in insurance sales.
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9 min
March 07, 2019 The business case for gender equality
We're speaking to Amarjit Kaur, partner at Withers KhattarWong and an advocate for gender equality as she talks us through the business case for it. As gender bias attracts renewed attention globally, find out how making female empowerment central to your business strategy, can mutually reinforce growth and equality.
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16 min
March 06, 2019 Insure your smart phone against screen cracks! Innovating the insurtech space
Axinan, a Singapore-based insurtech firm provides digital insurance solutions for the internet economy. Founded in 2016, the firm specialises in leveraging big data and machine-learning processes to developing solutions for enterprises. And recently, they launched their first B2C brand, igloo, aimed at providing on-demand solutions that are affordable, designed with the everyday millennial in mind. Axinan is the brainchild of founder and CEO, Wei Zhu, who was also Grab’s first CTO and has held leadership roles in Microsoft and Facebook.
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13 min
March 06, 2019 Achieving your career goals through mindfulness
How effective is being mindful at advancing your career? And what does it actually mean and entail? Erin Lee is a mindfulness coach who advocates mindfulness practice on personal and professional levels. She's also founder of Mindful Moments Singapore. But is it just about hugging trees and contemplating the meaning of life or can mindfulness actually help you focus and achieve your career goals?
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16 min
March 05, 2019 Tackling retrenchment
Disruption and technological advancements such as AI and automation have eliminated some jobs, unfortunately. Retrenchment is no longer a ‘once in a blue moon’ event but a real possibility in this day and age. What can you do if you’ve been retrenched? Candy Lim is a career coach and an image consultant who talks through the steps to tackling retrenchment and getting re-employed.
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14 min