Marshall Goldsmith, Leadership Thinker
Marshall Goldsmith is recognized as one of the world’s leading executive educators and coaches. He was a pioneer in the use of customized 360-degree feedback as a leadership development tool. His early efforts in providing feedback and then following-up with executives to measure changes in behaviour were precursors to what eventually evolved as the field of ‘executive coaching’.He is one of a select few executive advisors who have been asked to work with over 120 major CEOs and their management teams and has served on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years.
Marshall is the million-selling author or editor of 31 books including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, ‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There’ and ‘MOJO’. His books have been translated into 28 languages and become bestsellers in eight countries. Marshall was recently recognized as the #1 leadership thinker in the world and the 7# business thinker in the world at the bi-annual Thinkers 50 ceremony.
Chris Roebuck, Leadership Advisor
Chris Roebuck is an expert on delivering competitive advantage through developing world class leaders in organisations. He has developed entrepreneurial leadership in major organisations and originated the concept of Entrepreneurial support functions, in particular Entrepreneurial HR.
Chris is also a Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Class Business School, London. He has held senior roles in London Underground, UBS, HSBC, and KPMG where he was Global Head of Talent until 2007.
Chris appears regularly on TV channels and radio stations around the world commenting on business, management leadership issues. He has authored several books, including Effective Leadership and Effective Communication that have been translated into eleven different languages. He also columns in CEO and HR magazines.
Chris was nominated in 2011 as one of the top 20 most influential HR thinkers and has judged a number of HR and leadership awards. He advises professional and thought leadership bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the Corporate Leadership Council, as well as The Financial Times Non-Executive Director Club. Currently, he is expanding a case study with Aston Martin on transforming excellent customer service through entrepreneurial leadership and employee engagement.
Jeevan Sahadevan from ActionCoach
Jeevan Nadchatiram Sahadevan, is not your typical entrepreneur or Action Coach. He started his first business in his mid twenties, built and sold several companies and incurred both massive losses as well as massive profits and a whole dose of experience!
Trying his hand at various businesses, Jeevan learnt about building, growing, multiplying, profiting, making massive money and incurring losses in business at a very young age. Propelled by this exciting world of entrepreneurship, led Jeevan to explore a business coaching franchise (Action COACH) that was just starting out in the Asian region from Australia. At the turn of the century, Jeevan became one of the first coaches in Asia to sign up with Action COACH and began coaching entrepreneurs in exciting business secrets, methods and strategies to become massively successful.
Chris Ernst from Center for Creative Leadership
Chris Ernst is a recognized thought leader in developing collaborative, boundary spanning leadership capabilities within individuals, organizations, and broader communities. He has honed his research and practice through fourteen years of service with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).
Chris has served in multi-year expatriate roles in Asia and Europe, leads cross-functional and multicultural teams, and researches, designs and facilitates leadership interventions in diverse industries crossing the regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Out of this varied experience, Chris holds the conviction that spanning boundaries is critical in an interdependent world, yet appreciates first-hand that collaborating across boundaries is hard work.
Currently, Chris is a senior faculty member in CCL’s Organizational Leadership Practice, chartered to accelerate organizational impact through talent, strategy, and culture. Previously, he served as Research Director, Asia-Pacific with responsibility for the start-up of CCL’s Research and Innovation group located in Singapore.
Alex Malley, Chief Executive Officer of CPA Australia
Alex Malley FCPA, chief executive officer of CPA Australia, is recognised internationally by business peers and the wider community for his innovation and independent thinking.
Alex’s journey has included being a CEO, board director, life coach, consultant, educator and benefactor in business, government, higher education and non-profit sectors.
Most recently, Alex was CEO of an international professional medical association where he secured global alliances to effect positive outcomes in health care and management worldwide.
Kris Taenar Wiluan, tips on being an entrepreneur
Mr. Kris Taenar Wiluan serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of PT Citra Tubindo Tbk (“Tubindo”), an Indonesian public listed company which manufactures and supplies oilfield tubular equipment to major oil and gas companies in Asia, Australia, Middle East, Russia, South America and USA. Mr. Wiluan is the founder and President of the Citramas Group, of which business activities include oilfield equipment manufacturing, shipping and logistics, drilling services, infrastructure development comprising port, ferry terminals and telephone companies, and the hotel and leisure industry.
Betty Lim, tips on starting our your business in Vietnam
Betty Lim gives us some insight on how to start a business in Vietnam!
In year 2006, Betty relocated to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam after selling her shares in Accelgo to her partner as she was head-hunted by a company in Vietnam specializing in HR services and import of frozen food from overseas as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In the view of upcoming business opportunities in Vietnam and the growing economy in the Indochina region, Betty set up Finex Company Limited with her associate local Vietnamese friend providing a full range of human resource services and business consultancy in year 2007. As of today, Finex has grown to a size of 280 employees and has offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Chon, Yong Ho, Director of Small & Medium Business Corporation S. Korea.
Growing economic globalisation creates increasing competitive challenges and new business opportunities for SMEs. South Korea offers big potential in technology partnerships and bilateral trade for South East Asian region.
This interview covers how the government of South Korea assist companies like Hyundai to reach the global market.
Robert Levitt, Social Entrepreneur
Mr. Levitt employs a unique investment philosophy that identifies developing global trends and recognizes the countries and their industries and companies, which will greatly benefit from these trends. Traditional money managers usually learn about a country, especially an emerging economy, by reading industry produced studies and visiting that country for 24 hours–meeting representatives of local companies in the suite of a posh hotel. Instead, when Mr. Levitt zeros on a country in which to invest, he relocates to that country (for a period of minimum 90 days) to attain an intimate understanding of the local culture. By steeping himself in the local everyday life, seeking to live as much as he can as a local, he attains a powerful knowledge of the country and its culture, which in turn enables him to make better investment decisions. Most recently, he has lived in Indonesia and Malaysia, as they have been his favorite investment regions. For many years, he has been a strong advocate of the growth potential and economic success of Indonesia and Malaysia. This has won him the attention of a major global TV network: CNBC where he is a frequent guest on their key programs in their studios in Asia, Europe and the U.S. He’s also been frequently interviewed by The Edge, and BFM 89.9 Business Radio Malaysia, The Jakarta Globe and The Jakarta Post.
Kevin Gaskell, MD of Porsche on Leaderononomics Show
Kevin is an energetic and passionate leader with a proven record of managing growth, driving successful turnarounds and delivering substantial improvements in companies already considered to be market leaders. Recognised as one of the most capable managers of his generation he is able to define and implement positive change within organisations large and small.
