Back to the Future

About the Webinar

COVID 19 has been a unique crisis for organisations across the globe. It has challenged leaders to re-examine every aspect of their business and to emerge new strategies for the future of work.

Leaders have had to learn quickly about how to stay connected and build trust with their teams and to drive the changing workplace culture. They have adapted to working from home and seen how technology has facilitated this massive shift towards hybrid models, flexible working and how we view the physical workspace.

As part of our Future of Work series, Our Leadership, Talent & Professional Development and Built Environment committees have put together this discussion with some of our member companies to explore the leadership strategies that are emerging.

As we slowly get "Back to the Future" what have these leaders and our audience learned from the pandemic and how are they shifting their thinking and shaping the culture of their organizations?

The event will be an interactive conversation with the panel and small breakout groups for attendees to network, make new connections and contribute their own perspectives to the discussion.

Thank you to our Official Future of Work Partner, Prudential Singapore.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

What leaders have learned about their organisation's culture through the pandemic and what impact this is having on their culture.
What leaders are doing to communicate, stay connected and build trust with teams who are been working remotely.
How they have addressed the dilemma of working from home v physical presence in the office.
What leadership strategies are emerging as we move towards very different hybrid models of the future workplace.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Directors, senior executives and people managers who are driving leadership strategies for the Future of Work.
HR professionals who are involved in the people and culture dimension of the transition to the new workplace.

Speakers

Lynn Dang

HR Director- Singapore of Microsoft

Janelle Gavin

Regional Human Resources Manager, APNA at Mott MacDonald Singapore Pte Ltd

Don Rapley

Managing Director of Transform Your Conversations

Sherwin Siregar

Head of People Experience at Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (Pte) Ltd

Tan Yoong Heng

Singapore Office Leader, Director of Arup

Lynn Dang is the HR Leader for Microsoft Singapore. She works in the senior leadership team aligning the People and Culture strategy to Microsoft's vision and mission. This includes talent acquisition and retention, compensation and benefits, talent development and organisation engagement, learning and development, as well as diversity and inclusion.

Lynn has worked in the tech industry for over 15+ years with a keen passion for leadership development, improving the employee experience and creating a strong sense of empowerment and belonging in organisations to bring commercial success.

Lynn’s personal experience as a former Vietnamese refugee living in a refugee camp has inspired her work to ensure equality and opportunity for those in disadvantaged groups.

She is a Board Director for Australia for UNHCR (the UN refugee agency) and received her Bachelors of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.

Janelle Gavin is the Regional HR Manager with Mott MacDonald’s APNA region. With 20+ years’ of strategic and hands on expertise in all aspects of people management, she has a particular interest in working to support and drive employee wellbeing and leadership capabilities to drive business performance.

Janelle has operated throughout Australia and New Zealand, taking up a regional role with Mott MacDonald in 2018. She brings direct experience across a range of industries, including engineering, consulting, local government, education, hotels and tourism. She is a qualified Executive coach and has been most recently focused on leading the regional people response to the Covid-19 crisis, creating and driving initiatives in support of people wellbeing and business continuity through these challenging times.

Bringing strengths and a pragmatic approach to strategic and operational HR excellence, she is partnering with the regional executive as they re-imagine the new ways of working in a future-focused business.

A mother to Jasper and Marlie, and supported by her husband Matt (who also happens to be a chef), together they moved to Singapore in 2019. Having grown up in the tropics of Darwin, Australia, adapting to Singapore’s climate and ways of working has been a welcomed transition.

Don Rapley is the Managing Director of TYC, which he co-founded in 2016 to help leaders transform their conversations with skills
to empower, engage and drive business performance with their teams.

Don has worked with dozens of companies, delivering leadership development and coaching programmes in multicultural and international environments and has facilitated missions in 30 countries across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Africa. His experience is across very diverse business sectors such as Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Education, Travel and Hospitality, Energy, Oil and Gas, Engineering, IT Services, Aeronautics and Space Engineering. He is a qualified Executive Coach and a certified MBTI and DiSC practitioner.

Don’s first training missions in China, Hong Kong and Singapore started in 2008 and he moved full-time to Singapore 2017. He comes from an Anglo-Dutch family and is bilingual English-French. He spent some of his childhood in the Netherlands and after leaving the UK, lived and worked in France for over 30 years, including a 3 year period in Belgium and has spent over 6 years in the USA.

Before moving into developing people, he had a successful career in retailing with Marks & Spencer, where he was involved in growing and adapting the chain of retail stores for the Continental European market as Regional Manager, Store Operations Manager and Divisional Commercial Controller. His many leadership roles included responsibility for the retail operation at various times in France, Spain, Belgium and Southern Ireland.

Sherwin Siregar is the Head of People Experience, responsible for driving an inclusive work culture that enables our employees to reach their full potential. Sherwin’s mandate includes Culture, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), People Experience, Workplayce Transformation, Digital HR and HR Service Excellence.
Sherwin’s appointment is aligned with his passion for people and coaching, as demonstrated by his roles as a PACS Coaching Champion, EVP Advocate and Culture Reboarding facilitator.
In Sherwin’s former role as Head of Distribution Business Management (DBM), he has built a strong team that is now a critical function in channels management. Beyond DBM, Sherwin has led the successful implementation of several enterprise-wide initiatives such as the roll-out of Docu-sign and COVID-19 relief measures for customers.
Before joining Prudential, Sherwin led the transformation of a specialist business in retail, sales & distribution to deliver strong business growth through harnessing digital technologies. He initiated an omnichannel approach, unifying the customer journey across all touchpoints, and personally drove many of the online-to-offline initiatives.

Sherwin believes in innovating and has applied concepts and tools to bring out the best in his teams. This is congruent to his life purpose, which is to use his Curiosity, Passion & Insight to inspire his colleagues and customers to live to their fullest and be the best version of themselves.

Outside of his day job, Sherwin is also an active member of civil society, currently serving on the Engagement & Outreach Committee of the Institute of HR Professionals (IHRP) and have previously served as a Human Capital Advisory Committee at SPRING Singapore (now Enterprise Singapore) and the SkillsFuture HR Sectoral Tripartite Committee.

Sherwin has a B.Bus from Nanyang Technological University and an MBA from the National University of Singapore.

Yoong Heng is the Office Leader and Director of Arup in Singapore, a member of the firm’s Global People Council and Australasia Board, and has taken on various leadership positions since joining in 2007. Chairing the diversity and inclusion committee in the Singapore office, Yoong Heng is wholly committed to enabling a working environment based on merit, fairness and respect – encouraging talented people of any background to produce their best work.

As a Principal leading the local civil engineering and infrastructure design teams, Yoong Heng brings over 20 years of in-depth knowledge and experience to Arup’s business in Southeast Asia. His expertise spans across diverse markets and project typologies in underground space planning, metro and airport development, coastal adaptation and resilience, and masterplanning of major precincts such as Jurong Lake District and the Rail Corridor. He has been recognised with multiple accolades particularly for his contributions to Singapore’s underground railway development.