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Are you looking for thought leaders and experts in the areas of leadership, marketing, HR, diversity and inclusion, technology, finance, sustainability, transformation, politics, mindfulness, or sexual health? We have them all! You can have a diverse and balanced speaker panel at your next conference, convention, or corporate gathering.

Santa Meyer-Nandi

Santa is an award-winning advocate on how to create environmental and societal change and what kind of mind- and skill-set Change Agents need to drive forward change and navigate uncertainty, crisis, and resistance in our environment.   Santa has trained thousands of public servants as well as managers in the private sector on how to burn for a cause without burning ourselves out and create powerful visions through the FindingSustainia VISH mental contrasting method.   Trained as an environmental lawyer, Santa is a senior fellow at the Think Tank 30 of the Club of Rome Germany, and a Board Member of the Stuttgart Innovation Fund. Santa was elected Best Sustainability Blogger in Germany for her blog FindingSustainia as well #FutureWoman and Germany's Top 100 sustainability influencer #Nachhaltige100. She gave a Tedx Talk on "Loneliness in Change Agents and what can do about it" #ABetterMeForABetter World.

Sustainability - Better Futures- Mindset & Behaviour Change

Claudia Stuckmann-Invernizzi

Currently, at the helm of the Head of International Public Affairs for a leading animal health company and a member of the senior leadership team, Claudia brings 20 years of experience in strategic global stakeholder management and diverse public affairs, government relations, public policy, and communication experience to the table. She has gained perspectives from different roles and projects across various industries and organisations: she worked in politics; for multinational corporations; an industry trade association and a public affairs and communication consultancy firm.     Her expertise covers a variety of sectors including environment, agriculture, biotechnology, and healthcare. Having been politically active and held various leadership positions at a non-governmental organization for over a decade, Claudia’s passion for sustainability runs deep. She was the Chairwoman of several EUW International Commissions, a candidate for the European Parliament elections in 2004 and 2009, and was elected twice as a personal substitute to a member of the European Parliament. It is Claudia’s intention to drive sustainability at executive & board levels and to ensure it is hardwired across the business, in both operations and innovations while enhancing corporate reputation.     In so doing she builds on her passion for sustainability and 20 years of experience in complex and diverse strategic global stakeholder management, as well as her track record of successfully influencing the external business environment. Claudia believes that in a complex external environment, managing the external environment beyond a business’ focus on the direct customer is key. It is not the only key for the company’s reputation and sustainability efforts, but also for the company to gain and keep its social license to operate as well as to drive short-term business success, e.g., in the context of product introductions & adoptions. Claudia displays a great ability to see issues through different lenses. Her extensive network and multi-disciplinary knowledge across industries and organisations are key attributes that make her a leader in her field. She speaks English and German and also communicates fluently with colleagues, stakeholders, and friends in French, Italian and Dutch. 

Leadership

Environment

Sustainability

Communication

Senela Jayasuriya

Senela Jayasuriya, Awarded “Exceptional Women of Excellence” by the Women Economic Forum and recipient of the “Women Icons Asia Award”. An Award-winning leadership, business & communication coach. She is the Founder & CEO of Women Empowered Global which is a global platform that empowers women through education, career advancement, and entrepreneurial programs. Former Country Head for a British tech firm headquartered in the UK, with a background in HR, Marketing & Global Brands, CRM, Global business & Business performance.     She is a Certified transformation coach and a recognized expert in Personal Agility Systems. She has trained teams from the World Bank, United Nations, and Multinationals as well as Small & Medium Enterprises. Senela has been invited as a global Keynote speaker and panelist to numerous local and international events and summits to share her experience, ideas, and inspiration on Entrepreneurship, Women's Empowerment, Career advancement, and Leadership. Senela is also a Judge, Speaker & Mentor at various startup events and incubator programs locally & International. She has been featured and interviewed in magazines and podcasts in the USA, UK, India, Sri Lanka, and more.     Senela’s motto is to help others achieve higher performance for a higher purpose. Much of Senela’s work focuses on heart-centered leadership and conscious goal setting. She has multi-sectorial training and coaching experience having worked with a diverse portfolio of companies and professionals on various training, coaching, and development needs. Senela especially enjoys working with programs that empower entrepreneurs, start-ups, and individuals pursuing C-level careers. She has received numerous awards internationally for her work in empowering individuals for peak performance. She is passionate about helping people discover their potential for higher performance, for a higher purpose.    Senela has been interviewed and featured on panels & talk shows, magazines, and podcasts in the USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Australia, and more. Senela is a contributor and featured with a dedicated chapter after her in the Amazon Best Selling book "Women Going Global'' which was released in November 2020 during Entrepreneurship week in the USA! www.senelajayasuriya.com  

Inspirational Leadership

Diversity & Inclusion

Change Management

Aurelie Saada

Aurelie is currently APAC Risk Lead for Microsoft Asia. She has over 15 years of international experience in risk management and audit, mainly in banking and insurance. Her journey brought her through different risk areas (operational, credit, regulatory, market, and cyber risks) different countries in Europe and Asia, and different sectors (private banking, asset management, corporate banking, and general insurance). Aurelie is also a fervent supporter of women’s professional development and leadership.     She's the former President of PrimeTime Business and Professional Women's Association, whose vision is to help professional women to achieve their highest potential through training, networking, and events. She also leads the Women at Microsoft Singapore Chapter and is a strong fervent supporter of diversity and inclusion at all levels. Born in France, she discovered Singapore through an exchange programme in 2004. She fell in love with the country its culture and the food and has built her life here with her family and friends. 

Leadership

Management

Diversity

Magdalena Poulin

Magdalena has over 15 years of diversified and multinational work experience in the EMEA, Asia Pacific, and Oceania regions. Currently based at Macquarie University, she oversees the design and implementation of the Workplace Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy, builds strategic partnerships, and fosters a culture of belonging. Prior to Macquarie University, she designed Diversity & Inclusion strategies and large-scale programs at AIG, HP, and EMC.   Magdalena seeks to transform workplaces and cultures through people, governance, and technology. She is passionate about empowering underrepresented communities and bridging the gaps of inequitable access to resources and opportunities. Magdalena is one of the Founding Members of KeyNote, a non-profit organization that aims to promote gender diversity on speaking stages and she founded the Two-Way Mentoring Program at PrimeTime, Business and Professional Women’s Association in Singapore.  Having lived in 6 countries, Magdalena is a global citizen who currently lives in Sydney with her partner and two children. In her leisure time, she mentors women globally leads KeyNote Women Oceania chapter expansion, and volunteers at a Polish Community Language School in Sydney. Magdalena likes staying active through aerial arts, yoga, and rock climbing, and she loves traveling around the world with her family.   

Equity

Inclusion

Intersectionality

Leadership

Jacqueline Kerr

Dr Jacqueline Kerr is a behaviour scientist and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide. Dr Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of burnout, to prevent burnout through comprehensive strategic planning for employee well-being aligned with DEIB, and to create sustainable and impactful organisational change informed by her two decades as a behaviour change and implementation scientist and practitioner.    Her TEDx talk (How to stop burnout before it starts) explains how burnout is a multi-level problem and provides actionable solutions that we can all use to change the social norms around burnout based on behaviour change science.

Burnout

Behaviour change

Gender equity

Wendy Leong

"Wendy brings with her over 2 decades of sales & marketing, customer experience, and talent development expertise working with iconic companies like Procter & Gamble, The Body Shop, and Olympus. Recognized for her mastery in customer experience design and learning & talent development initiatives, Wendy was awarded the Procter & Gamble CEO Award, bestowed to global top performers. An experienced facilitator with the ability to engage multicultural audiences, Wendy has delivered transformational keynotes and training sessions in Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, and Sri Lanka.  Wendy is the Summit Director of Rise Through the Ranks, a global online leadership conference that has reached out to thousands of executives from over 70 countries. She is also currently the Head of Strategic Solutions at Influence Solutions, a consultancy that partners with organizations to develop learning solutions that help them become Future-ready, Innovative, Relevant, Strategic, and Trusted."

Self-development

Change Management

Communication

Erika Balzarelli

Erika is a purpose-driven thought leader in agriculture, ex-corporate marketeer, entrepreneur, and consultant. With over 20 years of experience in agriculture, she has worked in corporates, NGOs, governments, consultancy, and start-ups. Erika holds an MBA (Netherlands) and an MPA from Harvard University.   Erika has worked across Europe, Africa, and APAC developing and implementing impactful projects in climate-smart agriculture.  Mid- 2021, Erika founded The Sustainable Smallholder consultancy studio offering services to the private sector, social enterprises, and start-ups to help transition to sustainable, profitable, innovative agriculture models. Erika also serves on the Board of Advisors for many other social enterprise start-ups that bring regenerative agriculture to smallholder farmers across ASEAN, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa.    Prior to this, Erika leads the rice business at Corteva Agriscience; she has worked in different capacities for IFAD (Ethiopia), Agricultural Transformation Agency (Ethiopia), Dalberg (India), and Syngenta (USA, Switzerland, Singapore, Indonesia).

Sustainable / climate smart agriculture

Smallholder farmers

Business Model innovation (in ag)

Sweta Mishra

I am an HR practitioner with 17+years of varied HR experience and also an ICF certified coach. During the span of my career, I have set up people functions, conceptualized and implemented HR solutions such as competency frameworks, career progression models, leadership development initiatives, diagnostic interventions for culture assessment, and delivered more than 10000 hours of stand-up training.   I have worked in the capacity of a generalist as well as a specialist in a few domains; additionally, I have had the opportunity to deliver these solutions in mature as well as start-up environments. And one thing that has held me in good stead all these years is my passion is to integrate wellbeing principles into core people practices, processes, and solutions. Having worked across an array of industries such as consulting, banking, finance, IT, and ITES, I realize that conscious intentions lie at the core of the most effective people processes and policies.

Wellbeing at work

Communicating with confidence

Leading with presence

Nimisha Tailor

Nimisha is a competition and regulation specialist with 20 years of international experience. Having worked in consultancy firms and competition regulators in the UK, New Zealand, and Singapore, she has a deep understanding of how regulators operate and how markets function. She has led high-profile merger investigations, drafted merger regulation guidelines, assessed complaints of anti-competitive behavior, and advised government agencies on competition matters. As a former Deputy Director at the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, Nimisha supervised in-depth market studies on e-commerce and various consumer products. As an expert, she was seconded to the Singapore Tourism Board to lead a regulatory review. With an evidence-based approach, Nimisha has advised companies on the competition effects of their business strategies.     She has written articles on competition matters in industry publications and has presented her ongoing research on Competition in the Data Economy. Using case studies and practical examples, Nimisha has conducted competition training workshops, presented to industry associations, business schools, universities, workshops for ASEAN government agencies, as well as at the International Competition Network Conference. Having spoken at both academic and Tech Industry conferences, her expertise connects public-private sector perspectives and is invaluable to businesses, governments, and academia looking to understand the growing competition issues in the digital economy. Nimisha is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders and in her spare time she volunteers as a mentor to university students planning their careers. She also supervises a team of students leading consulting projects for non-profit organizations. Nimisha is a former member of the UK Government Economic Service and has a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science.       

Competition

Regulation

Digital Economy

Raquel Ark

Raquel Ark (MA, CPC) is a podcast host, speaker, mentor, and trainer. She has over 25 years in multinational corporations and academia. She is the founder of listening ALCHEMY, a communication training and coaching organization including foundational evidence-based listening programs.   Raquel has spoken on the TEDx stage, as well as at conventions, organizations, and schools both in person and remotely. Her clients include HelloFresh, hotjar, commerce tools, Codility, BASF, Fairtrade International, and more. She is the podcast host for, “listening SUPERPOWER podcast” which focused on listening in teams and organizations beyond what we typically consider. She is the Vice President of the International Listening Association and a university instructor at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences.   Raquel was born and raised in Puerto Rico and Ohio, USA, and is now living in Germany.    

Listening

Communication

Leadership

Dr Olivia Ong

Known as the Heart-Centred Doctor, Dr Olivia Ong is a professional speaker, author, and physician with a thriving medical practice in Melbourne, Australia. After a serious car accident in 2008, Dr Ong became a paraplegic but began walking again 3 years later. She resumed her career in 2013 and became an accomplished dual-trained rehabilitation and pain management physician.   She wrote her first book “The Heart-Centredness of Medicine” about physician burnout, and today Dr Ong also runs programs helping doctors transform their lives from burnout to brilliance. She speaks on burnout in the healthcare industry and has appeared in the media regularly including Sky News, Channel 10, Yahoo Finance, ThriveGlobal, International Business Times Singapore, and Australian Business Journal. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts and speaks about resilience, overcoming her spinal cord injury, and compassionate leadership, with which she leads her medical teams wholeheartedly.

Burnout & Resilience

Pain & Rehabilitation Medicine

Compassionate leadership

Murshidah Said

Murshidah has run successful businesses for more than 20 years expanding throughout Asia as well as teaching entrepreneurship to teenagers and adults. Murshidah has over 18 years of personal grooming and personal image transformational training experience to teenagers, corporate executives, and government level executives.     Prior to training, she owned a convention organizing and event management company and has organized over 150 projects spanning the Asia Pacific region (including Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Sydney) since 1993. Murshidah: In a nutshell, I am a speaker, corporate trainer, life coach, Love and Respect advocate, social entrepreneur, humanitarian, mom and wife, I help press the Re-Set button on people (only if allowed to). 

Leadership

Management

Business

Social

Valerie Chow

360 marketer - Valerie’s moniker and branding with her versatile integrated marketing experience in both digital and offline. Her strong marketing experience in Retail was honed through exposure to global brands from Nike, Marks, and Spencer to Harvey Norman. She started her career in merchandising, evolving to branding and marketing – inherent in her the ability to upskill. Pivoting her career to the Insurance industry to deepen her digital skills was the biggest “change” in her career – thrown into agile working needing a continuous growth mindset.    Change, she did, and keep on developing is her motto! With the love to learn seeded since young, she was awarded a scholarship by the Japanese government to study MBA in Tokyo, an eye-opening cultural and immersive knowledge experience. Her nature to keep on evolving in both career and life fosters a strong self-development for success. She mentors and coaches to help others to flourish onwards. 

Marketing

Self-development

Success

Karin Barry

Karin is an Executive with 20+ years of experience in Operations, Finance, and Strategy across the International Development, Banking, and Professional Services Industries. She is passionate about driving transformation and innovation at an individual level and across corporate culture. With her diverse background, she has a special talent for consolidating learnings from across multiple domains.     Her corporate experience has included leading change initiatives, defining and leading strategic transformation alongside Boards and Executive committees, and conceptualizing corporate reorganization plans.  Karin has lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, Singapore, and the USA. Originally hailing from the USA, she leverages her international experience to craft cross-culturally compelling leadership and change initiatives.   

Leadership

Management

Diversity
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