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The Adrian Tan Show

By Adrian Tan

This is my podcast where I speak with folks that are having a great impact on what we call the Future of Work. Beyond just the enablers and vendors who are transforming this space, I will also be including intimate conversations with people who are navigating the Future of Work. They have successfully transitioned to their new careers and I hope to distil their ups and downs in this unstructured journey so the rest of us can learn from their best practices.
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The Adrian Tan ShowNov 12, 2020

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93: Prudential Jaslyn Ng on rejecting a $250k package as Global HR Director and her leap into the insurance sector

93: Prudential Jaslyn Ng on rejecting a $250k package as Global HR Director and her leap into the insurance sector

Jaslyn Ng is a former Compensation & Benefits leader at companies such as DHL, Sodexo, Coca-Cola, Du Pont and Archroma.

In 2017, she took the leap of faith in joining the insurance industry after rejecting a quarter million package to become a Global HR Director.

This happened due to the relapse of a health condition as well as suffering from the mother's guilt.

She has since flourished in the insurance space and is currently Financial Services Director with Prudential Assurance.

Interestingly, many of her team members are also former HR Professionals!

You can also learn more about her at her IG @jaslyn.ng.worklifeintegration

What we discussed:

  • What encompasses the Compensation and Benefits role and attributes needed to excel in them (empathy is a huge requirement)
  • The 20-hour working day broke her physically
  • The mother's guilt that occur when her daughter contracted severe pneumonia
  • What made her consider the insurance industry (the NLP event she attended was the key trigger
  • And many more...

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Jun 19, 202244:50
92:  EngageRocket Leong CheeTung on the struggles with Return-to-Office

92: EngageRocket Leong CheeTung on the struggles with Return-to-Office

Leong CheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, the fastest-growing Asian people analytics tech company that helps businesses improve talent retention and productivity.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was Regional Director of Gallup in Southeast Asia. He read Economics at the University of Cambridge and has an MA in Political Science from Columbia University under the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS).

CheeTung is a Generation T honoree for Asia Tatler, awarded to young leaders shaping the future of Asia, and was listed by Prestige Magazine as one of their ‘40 under 40’ business leaders.

What we discussed:

  • Why companies and employees are struggling with return-to-office?
  • Reasons companies are (still) reluctant to pursue flexible work arrangements
  • Will Singapore employees truly pursue greener pasture should remote work be taken away?
  • How to do flexible work arrangements right (with examples from how EngageRocket is doing it)
  • And many more...

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Jun 12, 202224:23
91: Livspace Joyita Poddar on Plugging the Employee Welfare Gap

91: Livspace Joyita Poddar on Plugging the Employee Welfare Gap

Joyita Poddar is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Livspace. She brings to the company over two decades of experience in human resources having worked with companies like Sabre Corporation, eBay Inc., Star India Pvt Ltd, Piramal Enterprises and Saint Gobain in the past.

Her key specializations are in the field of organizational change management, M&A, culture and people strategies, leadership growth and leadership coaching. An alumnus of Symbiosis International University, she will lead critical people strategies and optimizing talent at Livspace.

The core of her focus will be in driving engagement and investing in a high performing team with ensuring the core of the unique organization culture is retained.

What we discussed:

  • Why are employee welfare important for organisations?
  • What are some common employee welfare to consider?
  • Guiding principles on creating or revamping employee welfares
  • Employee welfares that Livspace is currently providing
  • Upcoming employee welfare trends
  • And many more...

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May 12, 202220:16
90: Skilio Felix Tan on Skills-Based Hiring

90: Skilio Felix Tan on Skills-Based Hiring

Felix Tan is the co-founder & CEO of Skilio, an edtech startup that helps youth build up future-ready skill sets that are attractive to employers. As a student entrepreneur, Felix started Skilio in his freshman year in university and has since helped the startup grow 11x in average recurring revenue and 14x increase in user base. He is passionate about the space of youth development and education.

As a lead trainer at Reactor School, a leading provider of entrepreneurship education to youth from 13 to 24, Felix has clocked over 300 training hours, equipping youths in Southeast Asia with entrepreneurship skills. In his spare capacity, Felix also volunteers to mentor youth in areas of entrepreneurship and soft skills development.

What we discussed:

  • Why companies have always been using academic qualifications as a prequalifying criteria
  • Benefits of skills-based hiring
  • Is skills-based hiring only suitable for Gen Z?
  • Can skills-based hiring be applied to jobs that are soft skills heavy?
  • And many more...

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Apr 27, 202223:31
89:  Career Coach Samantha Ng on modern day career management

89: Career Coach Samantha Ng on modern day career management

Samantha Ng is an international certified behavioural and career consultant and a certified career services provider. She has spent the past ten years working with thousands of professionals, graduates and undergraduates in Asia and Singapore on personal development and career charting.

She scouts for upcoming and future trends that will allow her clients to position themselves better to stay relevant and competitive. She also volunteers her time and expertise in various communities. She is recognised as an Associate Adult Educator by the Institute of Adult Learning by Skillsfuture Singapore.

Out of her coaching work, she has a strong interest in education start-ups. As a result, she has founded/co-founded three companies (all are still in operation) based in Singapore and one based in China.

You can follow her works on various platforms:

What we discussed:

  • Her entrepreneurship foray into China
  • How has career management evolved from her time as a graduate
  • The first career baby step every working professionals need to think about
  • How to quickly identify your strengths
  • And many more...

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Mar 30, 202235:26
88: New Campus’ Will Fan on building the first Asia focussed leadership school

88: New Campus’ Will Fan on building the first Asia focussed leadership school

Will Fan is the co-founder and CEO at NewCampus, a modern leadership school looking to equip a new generation of critical thinkers and infinite learners.

As the cheerleader of changing the way people learn, he works with the government, corporates, universities, and startups to build a modern learning experience for the changing workforce. Find him writing on the future of work and learning, speaking and lecturing on scaling culture at hypergrowth organizations, and occasionally illustrating for the world of NFTs.

Before founding NewCampus, he was a debt capital analyst at Nomura and a management consultant at Accenture. He also previously co-founded an ed-tech, QLC, which helps millennials try new career experiences from anywhere in the world.

He is a member of Forbes Business Council and was previously awarded Forbes China’s 30 under 30 (Education) in 2017.

What we discussed:

  • They are reducing management training costs to 1% of traditional management schools.
  • Why curriculum design takes so long and how they endeavour to solve that problem.
  • Key management challenges that Southeast Asian leaders face
  • Startup management issues
  • And many more…

Connect with Will on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hellowillfan

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Mar 23, 202223:07
87:  Safe Space's Antoinette Patterson on mental healthcare, when to consider it and the ROI on good mental health

87: Safe Space's Antoinette Patterson on mental healthcare, when to consider it and the ROI on good mental health

Antoinette Patterson is the co-founder of trusted B2B2C digital mental healthcare provider Safe Space™. With 11 years of startup experience and an avid mental health advocate, Safe Space™ combines her love for technology and positive social change.

What we discussed:

  • Her burnt out during the days in advertising and how it led to starting a mental healthcare provider
  • The current perception of mental healthcare
  • The ROI on mental wellness
  • Solving the problem, not the symptoms by developing psychological safety
  • And many more...

Reach out to Safe Space via contact@safespace.sg

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Mar 16, 202223:22
86:  Steven Lock on career switching from IT to training and into Executive Coaching

86: Steven Lock on career switching from IT to training and into Executive Coaching

As a Global Executive and Leadership Coach, Steven Lock runs Executive Leadership Coaching International to help Senior Executives and Leaders overcome challenges associated with leadership, motivation, engagement, and performance. His passion is to help senior leaders and executives become even more effective leaders and reach their professional and organisational goals in the shortest time possible.

As a Certified Solution Focused Coach (CSFC), his conviction is that coaching should be Short, Sharp, and Impactful™.

Steven serves an international client base – from Singapore, Malaysia, India to Switzerland.  His coaching clients include a wide spectrum of professionals, including CEO, COO, CFO, CISO, MD, Senior Leaders, Heads of Departments, senior medical consultants (Specialist Doctors) in the private and public sectors. He works with Microsoft, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Novartis, and General Electric.

Steven is currently on the panel of Executive Coaches for the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Executive MBA (EMBA) programme and a Senior Career Fellow (SCF) with Nanyang Business School (NTU NBS).

What we discussed:

  • What motivated him to pivot from IT to training and executive coaching.
  • The mistakes he made along with his career pivots (and what he would do differently with hindsight)
  • The lessons he carried from his training business to his coaching business.
  • Three key things every career switcher must consider
  • And many more...


Mar 09, 202231:41
85:  Shaswat Kumar on Darwinbox unicorn journey, the future HR tech landscape and enterprise HRMS reluctance to localise

85: Shaswat Kumar on Darwinbox unicorn journey, the future HR tech landscape and enterprise HRMS reluctance to localise

Shaswat Kumar is the Senior VP, Global Customer Success and Delivery for Darwinbox, where he helps accelerate the drive to value realization for large and medium enterprise customers, building the leading HCM provider’s reputation as a trusted advisor for its 600+ customers, and accelerating the company’s global expansion.

In his rich career, he has worked with erstwhile Hewitt, Aon and Alight Solutions, where he was instrumental in driving HR transformations anchored on outcomes across the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. For the last 4 years, at Alight he helped HR transformations for leading organisations in the region helping them use Digital tools to drive talent and business outcomes.

Shaswat is an Engineering graduate from the Delhi College of Engineering and holds an MBA degree in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.

He is passionate about children's education, economic empowerment and science and technology-related issues.

What we discussed:

  • Darwinbox's unicorn journey
  • The impact on the future HR tech ecosystem
  • Importance of localisation
  • Why many other enterprise HRMS are reluctant to localise
  • And many more...

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Mar 02, 202234:56
84: Sanjeev Magotra on the state of mental wellbeing, and making mental fitness into a habit - your '10,000 steps' of mental wellbeing

84: Sanjeev Magotra on the state of mental wellbeing, and making mental fitness into a habit - your '10,000 steps' of mental wellbeing

Sanjeev Magotra is a Digital, AI and Cloud technologist, with over 27 years of leadership experience with companies like Accenture and IBM.

Over his career, he has led diverse teams and managed regional technology businesses. He has been living in Singapore for over 21 years. Prior to this, he has lived in Australia and India. He is a thought leader in digital technology and has helped many enterprise clients in their digital transformation journey. His passion for how digital technology can be used for social-wellbeing has driven his journey and helped bring Joye to life!

What we discussed:

  • Megatrends in mental wellness
  • His personal motivation to leave the corporate world after 27 years to create Joye
  • Why mental well-being is no longer a taboo subject
  • What the 10,000 mental fitness steps are
  • Preventive steps individuals can take to better their mental state
  • And many more...

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Feb 23, 202227:03
83: Daniel Goldstein on disrupting the world of talent acquisitions, why it shouldn't be a sales game and why they don't hire the highest biller

83: Daniel Goldstein on disrupting the world of talent acquisitions, why it shouldn't be a sales game and why they don't hire the highest biller

Daniel Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Elements Talent Consultancy. He founded the business in 2009 and first piloted the concept of Embedded Talent Consultancy roughly five years later.

He is a passionate advocate of the true value of excellent talent acquisition professionals and is on a mission to change perceptions of an outdated industry.

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Feb 16, 202232:22
Season 2 Epilogue
Jan 19, 202215:02
83: Bjorn Lee on mental wellness and baby steps for individuals and companies

83: Bjorn Lee on mental wellness and baby steps for individuals and companies

Bjorn Lee is the Founder and CEO of MindFi, a corporate mental wellness company.

A serial entrepreneur and technology executive with experience in Asia and the US, he has a strong track record of building businesses and products globally.

Previously, Bjorn served as the Head of Product Innovation at Zopim ($ZEN) in 2014.

Prior to Zopim, Bjorn was cofounder of Stickery, an educational games startup in San Francisco that was funded by Google Ventures.


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Jan 12, 202236:07
82: Rick Hammell on picking the right Employer of Records partner, accelerating business expansions and supporting employees to work anywhere

82: Rick Hammell on picking the right Employer of Records partner, accelerating business expansions and supporting employees to work anywhere

Rick Hammell is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Elements Global Services. He has extensive experience in HR having served as a Director of Human Resources and Chief Operating Officer before launching his own business.

Under his leadership, Elements Global Services has pioneered a new business model for the global employment industry and has become one of the fastest growing, risk diverse and high profit Employer of Record in the sector.

Rick is shepherding Elements Global Services through its transition from start-up to scale-up by further diversifying the company with innovative and custom-built HR technology platforms and e-commerce products.

Rick has a degree in Business Administration with a focus on HR and holds the highly regarded SPHR certification. He is an active participant in several HR organizations including the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), Certification Institute & NAPEO.

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Jan 05, 202221:11
81: Alex Martin on the evolution of virtual career fairs, using data to maximise career fair ROI and how candidate can stand out

81: Alex Martin on the evolution of virtual career fairs, using data to maximise career fair ROI and how candidate can stand out

Alex Martin is the VP of Sales for SeeMeCV – a SaaS based HR Technology platform that specialises in Virtual Fairs, Video CVs, Career Portals and Virtual Coaching.

Alex has spent over a decade working in HR, both in Global Mobility, as well as 7 years managing recruitment teams in Singapore and China, across several functions.

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Dec 29, 202132:42
81: Dr. Wolfram Jost on L&D Analytics, learning trends & putting learner at the centre

81: Dr. Wolfram Jost on L&D Analytics, learning trends & putting learner at the centre

Dr. Wolfram Jost has been a member of the imc AG Executive Board since April 2019.

His particular focus was on API management, Internet of Things (IoT), application development, application integration and business transformation.

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Dec 22, 202125:57
80: Craig Brown on creating a great working environment, employee wellbeing & being culturally sensitive

80: Craig Brown on creating a great working environment, employee wellbeing & being culturally sensitive

Craig Brown is the CEO of Everest Engineering, one of Australia’s most respected software development agencies listed by BOSS Magazine and the Australian Financial Review as one of the “Best Places to Work”.

Everest is at the forefront of modern software product development practices, valuing mastery, collaboration, and making an impact on the world.

Craig has long been an early adopter of agile methods and practices and believes improving and developing the skills of people is critical for innovation and product development.

Craig is an international speaker on human-centric workplace management and agile methodologies.

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Dec 15, 202124:60
79: Arun Sundar on enterprise of tomorrow, performance management & impact from Covid19

79: Arun Sundar on enterprise of tomorrow, performance management & impact from Covid19

Arun Sundar is the Chief Marketing Officer at entomo. entomo is a modern performance management software built for the 'future of work.’

Powering 30mn+ users, entomo enables 'enterprises of tomorrow' to drive performance by aligning goals and nudging actionable insights to distributed & remote teams.

In his personal capacity, Arun is an eminent champion and commentator on the trending subjects of ‘Leadership and Enterprises of the Future’ and ‘Technologies for People including Analytics and AI’.

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Dec 08, 202126:18
78: Jonathan Passmore on coaching psychology trends, values and benefits

78: Jonathan Passmore on coaching psychology trends, values and benefits

Professor Jonathan Passmore is the Senior Vice President of Coaching with CoachHub, the leading global talent development platform that enables organisations to create a personalised, measurable, and scalable coaching program for the entire workforce

Professor Passmore is one of the top ten professional coaches in the world. He also serves as Professor of Coaching and Behavioural Change at the University of Reading's Henley Business School.

In addition to leading Henley's Centre for Coaching, Jonathan is also a chartered psychologist and author who has published hundreds of scientific papers on coaching.

What we discussed:

  • How a typical coaching session looks like
  • The ability to embrace coaching is a strength, not a weakness
  • Why coaches are your best key accountability partner
  • Should you stick to the same coach for life?
  • Will your next coach be an AI?
  • And many more...

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Dec 01, 202128:24
77: Gaurav Chaubey on performance management rethink, convincing senior management and the great resignation

77: Gaurav Chaubey on performance management rethink, convincing senior management and the great resignation

Gaurav Chaubey is the co-founder of Mesh, a modern performance management platform backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator.

Gaurav has been a lifelong student of people management and HR technology. He is a former People & Culture consulting leader with experience of over 300 people performance, pays, engagement, and analytics client assignments, across 30+ countries. In addition, he helped organize over 500 people and culture transformation workshops with leadership and management teams in those roles.

He has deep expertise in designing and implementing strategy-aligned organization structures, performance management frameworks, and pay for performance programs such as variable pay, short-term incentives, sales incentives, etc.

Gaurav is an expert in long-term incentive design, including employee stock options, stock appreciation rights, and phantom stock plans. He has successfully designed and implemented over 100 such plans across both listed and unlisted organizations.

What we discussed:

  • The biggest driver in the recent performance management rethink
  • Convincing senior management to transition from traditional to continuous performance management
  • The link between performance management and the great resignation
  • And many more...

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Nov 24, 202136:25
76: Yannis Niebelschütz on digital coaching platform, coach selection and misconceptions

76: Yannis Niebelschütz on digital coaching platform, coach selection and misconceptions

Yannis Niebelschütz is co-founder of CoachHub, the global leading platform for digital coaching.

Together with his brother Matti, he founded the Berlin-based company in 2018.

A serial entrepreneur and former senior sales manager at LinkedIn, Yannis brings 15 years of experience working in New Work, startups and digital business building.

Yannis is an expert in growth strategy and is passionate about business development, leadership and digital marketing.

What we discussed:

  • How to identify the right coach
  • Benefits of coaching
  • Common misconceptions about coaching
  • How a digital coaching platform work
  • Quantifying ROI in coaching
  • Why coaching is the next best employee benefit
  • And many more...

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Nov 17, 202125:21
75: Michael Yinger on resume parsing, AI screening and biases

75: Michael Yinger on resume parsing, AI screening and biases

Michael Yinger has been in the talent acquisition space for almost 20 years, most recently as the Global Lead of Growth, Strategy and Product Management for PeopleScout.

His previous experience in the space includes Aon RPO as Global Delivery Leader, Randstad Sourceright as VP of Implementation and Technology, and as an independent consultant specializing in process and implementation for multiple clients.

A well-tenured business executive, Michael brings expertise in technology, business design, and strategy to The Sieve, as well as a passion to enhance the experience of all the participants in the recruitment process.

He and his family live in Charlotte, NC, where they take time to enjoy the outdoors and regional entertainment, taking advantage of the mild climate.

What I discussed with Michale:

  • How resume parsing works
  • Pro and cons between traditional screening versus AI
  • How to prevent biases from creeping into the screening process
  • Will grammer and spelling affect your application in the eyes of automated screening
  • And many more...

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Nov 10, 202123:11
74: Ori Gold on diversity, equity and inclusivity, challenges and best practices

74: Ori Gold on diversity, equity and inclusivity, challenges and best practices

Ori Gold is the Chief Executive Officer of Bench, a leading programmatic solutions company, which boasts a highly diverse and high performing team with over 30 nationalities.

What I discussed with Ori:

  • Best policies companies should adopt to encourage diversity, equity and inclusivity
  • Best practices when managing a diverse workforce
  • The challenges in managing a diverse workforce
  • How having a diverse workforce drives productivity, innovation and performance
  • And many more...

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Nov 02, 202123:52
73: Steve Bennetts on Employee Experience, decision-making transformation and when is too much feedbacks

73: Steve Bennetts on Employee Experience, decision-making transformation and when is too much feedbacks

Steve Bennetts is the Head of Growth & Strategy - Employee Experience Solutions for Qualtrics in APJ, leading a team of specialists in guiding organisations to optimise the EX at every point in the employee lifecycle.

He is one of the region’s most experienced EX specialists having played a crucial role in launching and developing the XM category in APJ.

Steve specialises in EX and human-centred technologies.

As businesses and governments rethink the ways they work for a post-pandemic world, Steve brings 20 years of experience as a qualified business psychologist helping organisations design and improve their employee experiences.

What I discussed with Steve:

  • What is Employee Experience and why is it exploding
  • How companies are transforming decision-making with data collected from experience data
  • Are you asking for too much feedback from employees
  • How Qualtrics conduct their own employee experience
  • And many more...

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Oct 26, 202133:45
72: Jasmine Haria on hiring remote vs non-remote, screening fraud detection and the importance of EQ

72: Jasmine Haria on hiring remote vs non-remote, screening fraud detection and the importance of EQ

Jasmine Haria is the Co-Founder of FluidTal - a platform that provides Vetted Digital talent on EQ and IQ.

Based on performance and an extensive model that is rapidly scalable, this model enables a hybrid way of working for organisations: to help bridge the gap between traditional hiring, paving way for a blended, decentralized workforce.

The company is in the incubation stage started with professional services for their clients in Asia.

The Minimum Viable Product is in the development stage to create an AI-based platform of vetted technology talents and match them with the jobs of the industry.

What I discussed with Jasmine:

  • Hiring remote vs non-remote
  • How some tech candidates try to game the system
  • Fraud detection during the screening process
  • Why EQ is crucial in recruitment
  • And many more...

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Oct 19, 202128:53
71: Amit Patel on microservices, migration from on-prem to cloud and enterprise HRMS shopping tips
Oct 12, 202122:44
70: Sudhanshu Ahuja on AI-powered chatbots, recruiting virtually and structured interviews

70: Sudhanshu Ahuja on AI-powered chatbots, recruiting virtually and structured interviews

Sudhanshu Ahuja is the CEO and Co-Founder of impress.ai, an ‘accurate hiring’ platform that autonomously interviews candidates for any job and produces a fit-score. He spearheads all sales functions and fundraising initiatives, drives the business strategy and company vision, and leads the scaling of the company’s enterprise customer base.

Observing that large enterprises struggled with best practices in recruiting when evaluating job candidates at scale, Sudh co-founded Ideatory, a platform to discover and recruit technology talent, with Dr Amrith Dhananjayan and Dr Vaisagh Viswanathan.

Sudh’s experience in working with large enterprises and government organisations enabled him to identify their recruitment pain points and tailor the solution to optimise the process. In 2017, Ideatory evolved into impress.ai and now assists recruiters in large enterprises such as DBS, Singtel, ADB and government organisations in autonomously evaluating candidates for any role anywhere in the world.

Before co-founding impress.ai, Sudh was an Associate at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where his team was responsible for the regulation of equity markets and the clearing houses that were operating in Singapore.

Sudh holds a Certificate of Readiness in Business Administration and Management from the Harvard Business School Online in the US, as well as a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

What I discussed with Sudh:

  • How AI-Powered chatbots work
  • Structured interview questions
  • How recruiting evolved during hybrid or virtual work
  • And many more...

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Oct 05, 202131:43
69: Sonali Sharma on data paralysis, getting started on people analytics and connecting analytics to bottom line

69: Sonali Sharma on data paralysis, getting started on people analytics and connecting analytics to bottom line

Sonali Sharma is a business professional with 12+ years of experience with McKinsey & Company, Deloitte Consulting and Uber in the US, UAE, SE Asia, ANZ and North Asia.

She is currently heading Product and People Science at EngageRocket - an Employee Experience platform provider.

In her previous role at Uber, she set up and was leading the global Continuous Listening program as Sr Product Owner within People Analytics.

Prior to her global role, she was the People Analytics lead in APAC.

She has been solving talent and business problems using cross-functional expertise in consulting, data science and people development.

What I discussed with Sonali:

  • Why are some HR paralysed by data analytics
  • How to get started on people analytics
  • Connecting the dots between analytics and bottom line
  • And many more...

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Sep 28, 202134:40
68: Kartik Krishnamurthy on never-ending rounds of interviews, conversational assistant and his personal job interview journey

68: Kartik Krishnamurthy on never-ending rounds of interviews, conversational assistant and his personal job interview journey

Kartik Krishnamurthy leads the overall growth & business strategy for Paradox APAC.

Prior to Paradox, he led the Cornerstone OnDemand business in Asia across Hong Kong, ASEAN, South Korea, and India markets.

Kartik has over 17years of experience in HRTech, of which he has spent 11 years across APAC managing all aspects of the business for global firms like Cornerstone OnDemand, ADP and LinkedIn.

What I discussed with Kartik:

  • Never-ending rounds of job interviews.
  • Difference between a conversational assistant and a chatbot
  • His personal job application journey before Paradox (it wasn't ideal)
  • Opportunity costs on poor job applicant experience
  • And many more...

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Sep 21, 202135:24
67: Oussama Labib on common missing L&D ingredient, team learning and the impact of culture

67: Oussama Labib on common missing L&D ingredient, team learning and the impact of culture

Former Head of L&D at IKEA Singapore and APAC Director of Instructional Design & Facilitation in a leading training company, Oussama Labib experienced first hands the challenges of delivering ROI from learning interventions, engaging learners and teams in a remote and virtual environment with Covid-19 as well as empowering teams and their leaders to take responsibility for their own development process.

Plus, he quickly realized that while a slew of digital learning solutions exists in the market for individuals to improve their performance, very few were tailored to the team as a whole.

Built on this ambition to enable teams to accelerate their performance and become High Performing, he founded aeqlia, a digital learning company at the intersection of experiential learning and gaming, technology and data as well as behavioural science and research.

Its digital team development journeys are personalized based on teams' needs and diagnostic, highly engaging and fun using a game-based learning program Miki Island and ROI-driven, using a team assessment to track and measure team effectiveness.

What I discussed with Oussama:

  • the missing ingredient in many L&D initiatives
  • Team learning versus individual learning
  • How gamification can accelerate learning
  • Do culture and nuances impact learning?
  • And many more...

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Sep 14, 202121:03
66: Paul Keijzer on recruitment gamification, the key target users and the time a recruiter scans through a new resume

66: Paul Keijzer on recruitment gamification, the key target users and the time a recruiter scans through a new resume

Paul Keijzer is the CEO of The Talent Games – an HR Technology company that pioneers in gamified virtual hiring solutions.

With over 40+ years of experience in talent management and recruitment strategies, Paul is a highly sought-after speaker on topics such as HRTech, Gamification, Leadership and Talent Management

Paul also writes for a number of websites, including his personal blog – www.paulkeijzer.com

What I discussed with Paul:

  • Gamification in recruitment assessments
  • The demographics that this is best suited for
  • Whether gamified assessments turn off non-gamers
  • The ridiculously little amount of time that a recruiter scans through a new resume
  • And many more…

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Sep 07, 202126:60
65: Gary Gan on skills inventory, how to embark on skills journey and the indecisions to train employees

65: Gary Gan on skills inventory, how to embark on skills journey and the indecisions to train employees

Gary Gan is an experienced entrepreneur and marketer, involved in the startup of several successful companies across a broad spectrum of industries.

He is currently co-founder of JobKred, a skills intelligence platform that uses AI and data science to understand the evolving industry skills demand, and guides people to close their skills gaps and navigate the future of work. JobKred is used by Fortune 50 enterprises, top-ranked universities, government agencies and international aid agencies like the World Bank.

Gary has been invited to speak at conferences such as Asian Development Bank’s Skills Forum, World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 and PASET Forum 2019, UNESCO AI and Education Forum, NTUC’s Shaping Careers and Channel NewsAsia SingaporeTonight, on entrepreneurship, AI and the future of work.

What I discussed with Gary:

  • Skills inventory
  • How to embark on a skills journey for a newbie
  • What if companies train their people and they leave?
  • And many more...

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Aug 31, 202121:16
64: Charles Ferguson on Employer of Record, employee experience and work passes

64: Charles Ferguson on Employer of Record, employee experience and work passes

Charles Hamilton Ferguson is the General Manager and head of Globalization Partners business in Asia, where he is responsible for establishing scale and efficiency for the company’s business expansion in one of the most dynamic markets in the world.

Charles has worked with private equity and leading brands in the business enterprise and technology space. He was most recently the group chief commercial officer for Tricor Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered business expansion specialist.

The Permira investee company brought Charles in to design and execute global sales, marketing, and product innovation strategy.

Prior to Tricor, Charles was president and general manager for the Asia Pacific at ADP, a payroll giant. Before ADP, Charles co-founded ReedHamilton, which focused on talent acquisition to go-to-market strategy across industries.

During his corporate career, Charles held senior roles at SAP, salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Intel.

Outside of his corporate life, the US-born Singapore citizen started and managed “Number Five” a jazz club and bistro on the Bund in Shanghai for almost a decade up to 2011.

Charles holds a master’s degree in innovation management from the Helsinki School of Economics at Aalto University and did his undergraduate studies at Bard College in the United States.

What I discussed with Charles:

  • The process of using an Employer of Record (EOR) provider to hire employees in a new country
  • The employee experience under EOR
  • The percentage of companies in Singapore jumping into EOR over Covid19
  • His take on the Singapore government's current direction in work passes restriction
  • And many more...

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Aug 24, 202137:20
63: Derick Teo on HRIS implementations, common pitfalls and reasonable implementation cycle

63: Derick Teo on HRIS implementations, common pitfalls and reasonable implementation cycle

Derick Teo is the Director of Enterprise Go-Digital Solutions at BIPO, a one-stop, global Human Resource service provider.

A graduate of the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Computing, including a PMP certificate from PMI, Derick has spent the last ten years of his career leading HR transformational initiatives, specifically in spearheading the implementation of large-scale PeopleSoft projects for leading companies such as Keppel, Singapore University of Technology and Design, ParkwayHealth, Singapore Tourism Board and Starhub.

Derick’s unique combination of software applications and broad knowledge of technology and software concepts, principles, and processes has seen him champion large-scale projects over the years from lifecycle development to regional responsibilities with Hewlett Packard covering Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, Korea, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

What I discussed with Derick:

  • Difference between tier 1 and tier 2 HR software
  • Important things to look out for in HRIS implementations
  • A common cause of HRIS implementation delays
  • How to measure a reasonable implementation cycle
  • And many more

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Aug 17, 202128:25
62: Manu Khetan on security in HR software, AI use cases and when SMEs should move into enterprise software

62: Manu Khetan on security in HR software, AI use cases and when SMEs should move into enterprise software

Manu Khetan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rolling Arrays Group of Companies, which includes Reimbur$e and CICO.

A recognised HR Transformation Leader, Manu has more than 15 years of rich experience in HR Processes, HR Functions and HR Software.

With a reputation for adopting futuristic HR Automation techniques and investing in young Talent, Manu’s work has been instrumental in establishing Rolling Arrays as one of the most trusted HR Transformation Solution Provider in the Asia Pacific with offices in 6 geographical locations, ‘SEA's Cloud Champion' of the year award for FY-2015, Singapore’s top 100 fastest growing companies in 2020.

Prior to Rolling Arrays, Manu has worked for SAP Labs in Germany, Bulgaria, Israel and India and there-after consulted for various blue-chip clients worldwide.

What I discussed with Manu:

  • Key differences in SME and Enterprises' HR software requirements.
  • The importance of security and repercussions when neglected.
  • What are current AI use cases in HR
  • Upcoming exciting development in AI
  • And many more...

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Aug 10, 202134:18
61: Leong CheeTung on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement

61: Leong CheeTung on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement

Leong CheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, the fastest-growing Asian people analytics tech company that helps businesses improve talent retention and productivity.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was Regional Director of Gallup in Southeast Asia. He read Economics at the University of Cambridge and has an MA in Political Science from Columbia University under the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS).

CheeTung is a Generation T honoree for Asia Tatler, awarded to young leaders shaping the future of Asia, and was listed by Prestige Magazine as one of their ‘40 under 40’ business leaders.

EngageRocket has been named one of 20 Hottest Startups by the Singapore Business Review and has been featured in multiple outlets like Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Channel NewsAsia, Tech In Asia, The Straits Times, The Business Times, NewsRadio 93.8, Money FM, Berita Harian, e27, DealStreet Asia, and others.

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Aug 03, 202124:41
60: Rolf van der Pol on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement

60: Rolf van der Pol on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement

Rolf van der Pol started his career in information technology and moved to the financial services industry in 1990. He has a broad experience in line and project management roles across Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific working for international banks.

Since 2006 he is working with Cadena – an HRM and Payroll solutions company with its service and development centre in Vietnam - and is the director for Cadena in Singapore since its inception in 2015. He has worked with a large number of regional companies, ranging from SMEs, local and regional corporates to MNCs in the field of HRM system implementation and consultation.

Rolf has a Masters degree in Economics and Organisational behaviour from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

What I discussed with Rolf

  • Applying his KYC experience into HRMS
  • Efficiency tends to be overlooked during digitalisation
  • Why do companies struggle to digitalise
  • Digging deeper to uncover the problems beneath the symptoms
  • And many more...

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Jul 27, 202124:43
59: Mitchell Goh on debt traps, earned wage access and employee benefits

59: Mitchell Goh on debt traps, earned wage access and employee benefits

Mitchell Goh is the founder and CEO of GetPaid, an earned wage access start-up in Singapore.

A new employee benefit concept in Singapore, it allows employees to access their salaries that they have earned but not yet received.

Mitchell has over 10 years of expertise in the employee benefits space. Prior to this, Mitchell was a trained and practising social worker.

The cumulation of his experiences is now driving his passion to improve financial wellbeing amongst employees which gave birth to GetPaid.

What I discussed with Mitchell

  • Debt traps
  • Difference between Earned Wage Access vs PayDay Loan
  • Why Earned Wage Access could be the next competitive employee benefits
  • And many more...

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Jul 20, 202119:60
58: Vidya Santhanam on connecting team and business performance, common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons

58: Vidya Santhanam on connecting team and business performance, common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons

Vidya Santhanam, is the co-founder and CEO of Fitbots OKRs.  Vidya leads Growth and Customer Success for Fitbots and is passionate about building a SaaS business.

Also a certified OKR coach, Vidya has coached over 400 teams on OKRs and certified 100 as part of the OKR certification program in collaboration with OKRs Training, US. Vidya brings this experience in building Fitbots, along with her co-founder &CTO Kashi.

Prior to Fitbots, Vidya was leading Leadership Building and Performance in Mindtree Ltd, rolling out large scale organizational development practices for 20000+ employees.

What I discussed with Vidya

  • Connecting team and business performance
  • OKR versus annual KPI
  • Why companies insist employees come back to the office
  • Common challenges to OKR implementations
  • And many more…

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Jul 13, 202124:14
57: Jin Choeh on common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons

57: Jin Choeh on common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons

Jin Choeh founded Swingvy with his co-founders in 2016 with a mission to create a workplace where work empowers people. As a founder, he focuses on product, team building, fundraising, market expansion, and team culture.

Prior to founding Swingvy, he worked at AhnLab as a regional manager for the South-East Asia market covering six countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.

He also co-founded two startups Zibro and Ssamtong, which are online real-estate platform and tutor matching platform respectively.

Jin grew up in Korea, France, Japan, and the US, and has an Architectural Engineering degree from Hanyang University in Korea.

What I discussed with Jin

  • The key HR issues he observed during his first two startups
  • Why digital transformation adoption co-relate to a country's GDP
  • The people management lesson he learned during COVID-19
  • How the talent pool has radically widened due to the pandemic
  • The State of Employee Benefits in Singapore eBook
  • And many more...

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Jul 06, 202121:15
56: Jayant Paleti on investment by SalesForce, why companies fail to digitalise and coming ahead in a cluttered HRMS market

56: Jayant Paleti on investment by SalesForce, why companies fail to digitalise and coming ahead in a cluttered HRMS market

Jayant Paleti is the Co-Founder of Darwinbox. Recognised as the most preferred HCM solution in APAC by Gartner, Darwinbox is used by 550+ large enterprises to manage their end to end HR needs.

Prior to Darwinbox, Jayant was an investment banker at Ernst & Young. Jayant worked across functions like M&A and private equity. He is an IIT Madras and IIM Lucknow alumnus. He has advised several large corporates on big investment and strategic decisions.

A visionary of the underlying scope of HR Tech, Jayant heads all sales and marketing activities at Darwinbox. Given his exposure to the corporate org structure and human capital-intensive decision-making practices, he strongly believes the HR function can be a source of great competitive advantage for an organization. And also, that this underlying potential can be optimally harnessed through technology.

What I discussed with Jayant:

  • Their investment by SalesForce
  • Why they are confident in coming ahead in Singapore's cluttered HRMS market
  • How to reduce digitalisation failures
  • Should companies digitalise during uncertain times?
  • And many more...

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Jun 29, 202135:58
55: Benjamin Croc | Automate all your HR processes, focus on People

55: Benjamin Croc | Automate all your HR processes, focus on People

Former McKinsey consultant, and head of Lazada’s strategy department, Benjamin Croc developed a deep passion for people management in a career that spanned continents and industries.

Noticing a pattern among companies that wanted to help their people achieve their full potential, he created BrioHR together with fellow INSEAD alumni in the hopes of transforming the workplace stories of millions around the globe and improving corporate performance for companies big and small at the same time.

BrioHR is a new kind of HR management software covering the full employee lifecycle in a modern and user-friendly platform.

Its modular offering allows SMEs in Southeast Asia and beyond to digitize and automate their HR processes such as recruitment, onboarding, core HR (payroll, leaves, employee records and document management, expense claims…), as well as performance management.

What I discussed with Benjamin

  • His motivation to exit a cushy job at Lazada to start BrioHR
  • The main people issues he kept seeing across his past jobs
  • BrioHR unfair advantage
  • Difference between an all-in-one solution versus using many one-trick ponies
  • And many more...

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Jun 22, 202128:44
54: Kuljit Chadha | AI-powered right skilling suite that helps enterprises unlock business potential

54: Kuljit Chadha | AI-powered right skilling suite that helps enterprises unlock business potential

Kuljit Chadha is the Co-founder and COO of Disprz, an AI-powered skilling platform.

A serial entrepreneur, Kuljit relishes taking nascent technology products to new markets and has a proven track record of taking at least three products that were category-defining across media, formal education and enterprise learning to both emerging and developed markets across the world.

He holds a master of business administration from the prestigious Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.

What I discussed with Kuljit:

  • The difference between learning and skilling
  • How learning differs between blue collars and white collars workers.
  • Should you still train people if training them means they will leave?
  • Why companies are so fixated on paper qualifications.
  • The low adoption rate for Skillsfuture credits.
  • And many more...

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Jun 15, 202130:50
53: CHAN Chiou Hao | Putting a bank into HRMS

53: CHAN Chiou Hao | Putting a bank into HRMS

Chan Chiou Hao is currently the COO of Justlogin, a Singapore based HR Software as a Service provider. He has been with the company for over 5 years and has grown the business from a 10-person operation to 80 employees and grown the revenue by 300%.

Prior to JustLogin, Chiou has spent almost a decade in business development roles in various notable software companies like Salesforce.com, QlikTech, SumTotal Systems and Mambu.

He was also an entrepreneur who founded two venture capital-backed internet companies which were eventually acquired.

What I discuss with Chiou Hao:

  • Their partnership with Fintech MatchMove and what it means to their users.
  • The growing trend of engaging gig workforce.
  • How the e-wallet concept can provide faster money access for gig workers.
  • The evolution of the payroll scene over the past 10 years.
  • Why traditional banks are so slow in innovating for customers.
  • And many more...

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Jun 08, 202129:24
52: Kannan Chettiar | Managing your employee lifecycle from background screening to onboarding to learning

52: Kannan Chettiar | Managing your employee lifecycle from background screening to onboarding to learning

Kannan Chettiar is the co-founder and Managing Director of Avvanz – an award-winning HRTech and FinTech company that prides itself on its 3 business pillars – Screen, Onboard and Develop.

Avvanz helps to screen for the “right” and “safe” candidates through background checks.

They then help to integrate the new joiners through comprehensive new employee onboarding solutions leveraging technologies.

Finally, Avvanz enhances the talents through uniquely differentiated blended learning solutions relevant to the Digital Economy aimed at surpassing the set KPIs.

Kannan is an award-winning Global Leader with 24 years of experience in the Technology and Human Capital sectors spanning across Asia, EMEA & the Americas.

An engineer by training, he holds an Honours degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an MBA from the University of Birmingham in the UK. Kannan holds an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment and is an accredited StrengthScope practitioner.

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Jun 01, 202141:06
51: CY Chua | Improving your offer acceptance rate with AI

51: CY Chua | Improving your offer acceptance rate with AI

Your bucket can never be filled with water if there is a leak at the bottom.

In recruitment context, that leak to the ability to close the deal with the job applicant that you may have spent more than 3 months and over 5 rounds of interview to screen and assess.

To address this "last mile problem", CY Chua co-founded TalentX.ai to provide a one-of-a-kind AI-powered job offer management platform to minimize uncertainty in transacting a Tech job for both employer and candidate.

Before TalentX.ai, CY was involved in consulting expertise and doing in-house Total Rewards, People Analytics & HRIS on a global scale.

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May 25, 202132:38
50: Chandra Sivasubramaniam | Productivity monitoring and employees insights
May 18, 202128:58
49: Andrew Stetsenko | Connecting companies with software engineers who are looking to relocate

49: Andrew Stetsenko | Connecting companies with software engineers who are looking to relocate

Andrew Stetsenko is an HR Tech entrepreneur with a coding background and a passion for machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP).

He started to learn coding in 2003 that helped him to become a tech recruiter.

Founder of Relocate.me, CV Compiler, and GlossaryTech, he aims to match companies and software engineers in a better way.

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May 11, 202127:02
48: Zac Chua | Made-in-Singapore Delicious Gourmet Popcorn

48: Zac Chua | Made-in-Singapore Delicious Gourmet Popcorn

Zac Chua is the Founder and CEO of The Kettle Gourmet.

The Kettle Gourmet is a Singapore-based popcorn manufacturer and distributor that serves fresh, hand-baked popcorn in traditional and unique local flavours.

Established in 2017 by Founder and CEO Zac Chua, The Kettle Gourmet is halal-certified and uses high-quality ingredients, non-GMO natural corn and no trans-fat.

The Kettle Gourmet’s six flavours include crazy Asian favourites Kaya Butter Toast, Nasi Lemak, Chilli Crab and Chicken Floss as well as traditional Salted Caramel and Chocolate.

The Kettle Gourmet is available for purchase online at The Kettle Gourmet or stocked via e-commerce partners Air Asia Delivery Service, Foodpanda, GrabFood and Shopee as well as in-store at NTUC FairPrice Finest.

Inspired by his late Father, a Venture Capitalist, Zac knew he always wanted to have his own business.

The Kettle Gourmet idea came to Zac when he smelt the delicious and overbearing aroma of Nasi Lemak that someone had smuggled into the theatre, whilst he was enjoying his popcorn in the cinema.

Today, the company has reached a daily sales volume of 1000 popcorn bags and accrued over 300 partners and clients.

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May 04, 202120:57
47: Brett Putter | Own Your Culture

47: Brett Putter | Own Your Culture

Bretton (Brett) Putter (@BrettonPutter) is an expert in company culture development who is consulted by companies and leaders worldwide to help design, develop and build high-performing cultures.

He is the CEO of CultureGene, a culture leadership software and services platform. Prior to founding CultureGene Brett spent 16 years as the Managing Partner of a leading executive search firm based in London working with startups and high-growth companies in the UK, Europe and USA.

In 2018 he published his first book, Culture Decks Decoded and his second book Own Your Culture: How to Define, Embed and Manage your Company Culture in September 2020.

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Apr 27, 202122:48