Marla Lise

Marla Lise is a global educator, eco-literary advocate, and good faith communicator. With a deep love for nature and the planet, and over two decades in language education, conservation, and sustainability, she uses words as the basis to drive systemic change.

Sitting at the intersection of language and science, her work bridges the gap – making complex concepts accessible to many. She is working to build a world of understanding, communication, reciprocity, and connection through her company The Eco Chapter.

She is the editor and co-author of the book, Dreams of Unwritten Futures, which is the first book in what she hopes to grow into a Better Future Narratives project.

Environment Education & Eco-Literacy

Storytelling & Narrative Change

Sustainability & Systems Change

Tamsin Bradshaw

Tamsin Bradshaw doesn’t fit neatly into a box. That’s the point.

Born in Hong Kong and shaped by life across continents, Tamsin has spent two decades exploring what it means to be fully, unapologetically human. After beginning her career in law and editorial work, she found her calling as a somatic and life coach, shamanic alchemist, writer and speaker.

Her work sits at the intersection of the ancient and the practical. She supports high achievers, creatives and anxious overachievers who are exhausted by the relentless pressure to do more, achieve more and be more. Through parts work and somatic coaching, she helps them regulate their nervous systems, release perfectionism and step into radical self-acceptance.

On stage, Tamsin speaks on enoughness, self-acceptance and the power of choosing your own reality. Her talks offer something increasingly rare: permission to stop striving, to arrive, and to be enough as you are.

Audiences leave feeling lighter, clearer and newly equipped to experience their work and lives through a different lens.

Enoughness & the Anti-Hustle

Radical Acceptance & the Beauty of Being Human

Your Reality: You Get to Choose

Shivon Gunalan

Shivon Gunalan works at the intersection of identity, leadership, and organizational culture, supporting aspiring leaders to navigate complexity with clarity, integrity, and cultural intelligence.

With a career spanning high-performance corporate environments, cross-border teams, and human leadership landscapes, Shivon focuses on leadership identity and how it shapes influence, presence, and decision-making. Her work explores what it takes to operate across cultures, power structures, and difference without losing conviction or authenticity.

She is particularly interested in how organizational cultures are formed and sustained, and how values, incentives, and behaviours interact to either build or erode trust.

At its core, Shivon’s work is about developing leaders who can hold complexity without becoming rigid, performative, or disconnected. She supports leaders to remain adaptive, intentional, and aligned as they shape the environments around them.

Identity-Driven

Leadership & Organisational Culture

Alya Annabi

Alya Annabi is a keynote speaker (TEDx), impact entrepreneur, and activator who helps people believe in themselves and take action, with the right push.

Often called the “Positivity Queen,” her work centres on confidence, mindset, and action. Through Positive Push, Alya empowers women to turn their ambitious goals into aligned action. She also facilitates workshops and experiences that create space to pause, reconnect with oneself, and take action with confidence. Through GreenPush, Alya has collaborated with medium to large organisations to activate employees around climate action in the workplace. Her work has been featured in BBC, Honeycombers, and the Financial Times, and she has been recognised as a Women of the Future 50 Rising Star in ESG. Across all her work, Alya’s mission remains the same: to inspire people to believe in themselves so they can create a positive impact around them, with the right push.

Action

Confidence

Mindset

Anna Joke Breimer

Anna J. Breimer Bharati is the creator of Tomorrow College and Courageous Teams, two of her solutions to support organizations in the New World of Work. Anna is passionate about the changing business landscape, globalization, disruptive technologies, and changing demographics in the workforce. Before founding her own consulting firm, Anna was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company, focusing on People and Organization. Besides consulting, Anna has extensive corporate experience in both multinational as well as family-owned businesses. Anna is a lecturer at business schools around the world, including the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, INSEAD, and Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Anna holds an MBA from INSEAD, Singapore, and a Master of Science in Architecture from Delft University of Technology. She is a Dutch citizen, residing in Singapore as a permanent resident with her American husband and two daughters.

Leadership

New work

Teamwork

The New World of Work

Danielle Van de Velde

Dani Van de Velde helps others understand and master the art of meditation, transformative inner practice, and healing through private coaching, energy sessions, courses, and tailored programs for individuals, schools, and organisations. She is a popular speaker at industry forums, a published writer, and holds regular retreats in Asia and Australia. Dani is a qualified meditation teacher through the Awareness Institute, Australia, a member of the Meditation Association of Australia and the International Meditation Teachers’ Association, recognising the standard of her teaching and program development. Dani draws from techniques and wisdom of numerous world traditions, current research, and her own experience. She is a Reiki Master and a sought-after healer and spiritual mentor with an international client base. Her focus is on enabling others to understand and work with the design and function of their mind/body/energy system, to engage in the transformative inner practice for purpose-driven direction, maximum performance, self-healing, and intuitive living.

Conscious Living

Adeline Tiah

Adeline is a Leadership Coach and CMO on Demand with experience across top banks and telco. An insights-driven marketer, she thrives in building brands, driving revenue growth, and building teams for peak performance. Her goal is to lead the charge to have a more data-driven approach in marketing and to play a part in transforming an organisation towards more customer-centricity through big data & AI. She is a strong collaborator across C-Suites. Adeline is an ICF Certified Executive Coach (ACC) & NLP Practitioner. She is also a mentor to undergraduates at social initiatives such as MentorsHub and co-founder of abcwomen.org, a movement that empowers women in transition to living their lives to the fullest. Adeline also founded Soar Global a coaching practice to help women create possibilities to be the best version of themselves. As a marketing expert, she has taken to many stages across Asia and continues to engage and challenge her industry in its exciting & evolving future.

Marketing

New work

Reinvention

Katja Forbes

Katja is a seasoned leader in the digital industry with a proven track record of driving growth and innovation. As an expert in areas such as CX, UX, data science, and product design, as well as emerging technology, she is a highly sought-after keynote speaker. She has been recognized as one of the top 50 Australian professionals, Top 10 Women Disruptors, and as one of Westpac/Australian Financial Review’s ‘100 Women of Influence’. Currently, as Head of Client Experience at Standard Chartered Bank, she leads a team to create high-impact products and services that promote financial inclusion and contribute to a net-zero carbon future. She has also served as an International Director and Vice President on the Global Board of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). As a published author and regular media commentator, she is not only known for her professional achievements but also for her determination and sense of purpose as a thought leader and inspiration for women around the world.

Customer Experience

Human-Centered Design

Veronica Llorca

Veronica is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant and advocate specialising in Cultural Agility. She has 2 decades of professional experience, both in the corporate (Apple and Estée Lauder) and public sectors. As the published author of 2 books on Amazon, 3 articles in The South China Morning Post, and over 400 articles on Medium.com, Veronica is an avid DEI advocate on social media and was nominated for the Diversity Lead of the Year Award 2023 by Women in IT Asia. She speaks 6 languages and uses the language of inclusion to bridge cultures and help individuals and teams excel in diverse environments. As an amateur triathlete, Veronica transfers her energy from the field to the stage.

Cultural Agility

Growth Mindset

Inclusive Language

Aliza Knox

Aliza is a seasoned executive who built and led APAC businesses for three of the world’s top technology firms—Google, Twitter, and Cloudflare. Named APAC IT Woman Of The Year 2020, and Top 100 Woman in Tech (Singapore), Aliza is the best-selling author of “Don’t Quit Your Day Job (Six Mindshifts to Rise and Thrive)”. She has spent decades as a leader in global finance, consulting, and Tech; and has real-life experiences to back up her keynote talks. As a non-executive board director, BCG advisor, and Forbes columnist, Aliza shares her lessons learned with the next generation of business leaders tasked with guiding companies across new frontiers. Her years of experience leading Asia for global firms make her an expert in taking the “r” out of “remote”- engaging employees across locations- pertinent to our new hybrid world. Aliza has spoken internationally to corporate audiences including Visa, 3M, and AWS on Leadership, Employee Engagement, Diversity, and Career Growth.

Culture

Empowerment

Women in Leadership

Country & Region: Asia