Featured as one of the ten most influential professional speakers in Singapore, Karen Leong is a global transformation thought leader, heralded as the Decisive Woman Leader 2020 and Visionary Woman Leader 2019 by Business APAC magazine. An amazon best-selling author, TEDx speaker and coach, Karen is a Certified Speaking Professional, a designation conferred to the top echelon of speakers, globally.

Karen is the founding director of Influence Solutions, an award-winning learning and development firm and the co-founder of Rise Through the Ranks, a global leadership online summit that has inspired thousands from over 70 countries.

A Women Icons awardee, Karen is regularly featured as an influence expert in global media such as BBC World, Reuters, Channel News Asia and The Straits Times. She is a sought-after expert commentator on geopolitical events such as the USA presidential debates and The Trump-Kim summits.

Karen is a chartered accountant with a corporate career spanning audit, consulting and corporate education. She specialised in business consulting and IPO projects with KPMG and KPMG Consulting in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Karen’s vision is a world of influencers who are inspired to take positive action.

Hailed as The Change Maker, Mukul is a highly sought after keynote speaker, executive coach, professional mentor and facilitator. He has helped thousands of senior civil servants and corporate leaders achieve fantastic transformational results in very short time frames.

An alumni of La Martiniere College, Lucknow, the National Defence Academy Pune, and the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, Mukul was commissioned as an officer in the SIKH LIGHT INFANTRY of the Indian Army in 1981.

Honing his leadership skills in the crucible of combat, with a decade of operational experience in India and overseas, Mukul then turned his attention to the corporate battlefield and his first love – writing. His entrepreneurial journey resulted in two companies that have touched thousands of lives in a dozen countries. And his books, fiction and non-fiction, in five different genres, have been applauded and appreciated the world over.

Well known for her vivacious personality and interactive training style, Wendy has 2 decades of experience working in global, regional and local roles for Procter & Gamble, The Body Shop Asia Pacific and Olympus Asia Pacific. Wendy loves building up trainers; she has mentored and conducted train-the trainer sessions for both new and experienced trainers and managers.

An experienced facilitator and a solutions-focused coach with the ability to engage multi-cultural audiences, Wendy has delivered transformational keynotes and training sessions in Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hongkong, China, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Retail & Training Organisations Expert

With 12 years of learning & development experience in both the retail and FMCG industry, Wendy has advised a variety of brands across the region on how to create an effective training organisation and develop training programs that can motivate people to drive results in a fast moving and ever-changing retail environment.

Throughout her career, she has won numerous business awards recognizing her expertise in the area of learning and development. One prestigious award was the Procter & Gamble CEO Award which is only bestowed to global top performers.

Executive Presence Evangelist

Wendy has been instrumental in unleashing the power of presence for diverse audiences and worked with multi-national corporations like Watsons, Tesco, Swarvoski Crystal; as well as educational institutes like Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Polytechnic, and the Institute of Technical Education.

She has honed the art and science of nurturing an effective personal and professional brand. A staunch believer that people can leverage on the transformative power of projecting their best at all times, she has partnered with dozens of dermatologists, creative agencies, beauty bloggers, media, well-known personalities like Nadya Hutagalung and celebrity make-up artists like Clarence Lee for product launches, workshops and social projects.

Josephine Chow, in her role as the Chief Marketing Officer at Influence Solutions, leads the capability arm for business transformation and customer-centricity. She is dedicated to empowering organisations to thrive through talent development and strategic marketing initiatives.

Josephine’s focus lies in enhancing business acumen and service leadership, drawing deep expertise from her senior leadership roles in the highly competitive retail sector. With an extensive track record spanning over 25 years of experience in P&L management, brand marketing, CRM, commercial initiatives, digital transformation, omni-channel strategies, and sales & retail operations, Josephine brings a wealth of expertise to drive impactful results.

Su Hock is passionate about helping people enhance their wellness through mindfulness and organisations achieve mindful leadership for an optimal work culture.

Combining modern scientific mindfulness approaches with traditional methods from Asia, including yoga and meditation, Su Hock has been helping companies and teams achieve their wellness goals since 2019, transforming their potential from within.

Two decades in the technology sector has enabled Su Hock to experience first-hand the challenges that corporate leaders face in balancing results orientation with mindful leadership and wellness of their teams. He is hence deeply motivated to create practical methodologies which both leaders and employees can use to transform their mindfulness and wellness mindset.

Su Hock is currently a Senior Consultant with Influence Solutions. He is an accredited yoga coach and mindfulness trainer and holds a certificate from Brown University.

Michael’s passion lies in helping individuals and teams hit peak performance in the areas of marketing and sales. He brings more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience across a diverse range of industries, working with various multi-international companies such as Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Epson, Ricoh and Asus.

With a strong background in business development and a proven track record of driving growth, Michael currently spearheads the business expansion efforts for Influence Solutions in Vietnam.

Wan Pin’s corporate experience spans over a decade in business development across the region. Known for her expertise in channel marketing, Wan Pin has worked with top French beauty and spa brands, Yves Saint Laurent, Sothys and Payot, helping them to expand their reach in Asia Pacific, more notably in China. Wan Pin’s proficiency in channel marketing and change management was honed by driving growth in the highly competitive and dynamic retail sector.

A serial entrepreneur, Wan Pin’s journey began in 2009, when she co-founded Pure Senses Pte Ltd, now a highly successful home fragrance distribution and retail business with 13 flagship stores in Singapore. She then expanded into online retail in 2011 and built businesses in Singapore and Myanmar.

Wan Pin discovered that her passion is working with people. She honed her skills in coaching and personal development with internationally renowned mentors. As a trainer and coach, Wan Pin is heart-centered, enabling people to feel heard, understood, supported and motivated to achieve the results they desire. Passionate about all things digital, she believes in continual learning and growth. This has benefited her coaching practice, giving her clients access to resources most relevant to their needs.

A mother of three with a deep sense of purpose, Wan Pin run an online community supporting entrepreneur mothers in being happy and empowered. Wan Pin also has a personal mission of helping one million orphans receive improved health, quality education and find loving families.

Angelina has lectured ⁄ trained in a variety of communications programs at Diploma and Degree levels. She holds a degree in Journalism and English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She also has a Master in International Tourism and Hospitality Management. And is fully certified in ACTA (Advanced Certification in Training and Assessment). She is now completing her DACE (Diploma in Adult Continuing Education) and is also enrolled in CDITT (Cambridge Diploma in Teaching and Training).

Angelina also provides media coaching and corporate training; she has previously worked alongside with Kaplan, PSB Academy and NTUC Learning Hub to train corporate executives in Email Communications, Crisis Communications as well as Business Communications Presentation ⁄ Writing, respectively.

No stranger to public speaking, Angelina also collaborated with National University of Singapore – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) to bring to their graduating students a program that readies them for the workplace. She also teams up with NUS Extension to deliver talks to visiting students from Chinese universities. She recently gave a talk on Crisis Communications to international senior executives of the Keppel Academy in collaboration with Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Prior to academic ⁄ public teaching, Angelina has had nearly 30 years of diverse corporate ⁄ agency experience – always with a bent towards communication. The many years of running the Singapore ⁄ ASEAN arm of Text 100 – a public relations agency has allowed her to experience and deliver all levels of counsel as well as training where applicable. Her early days were spent in creative departments of global advertising agency, Saatchi and Saatchi Singapore where she learnt the basic ropes of smart communication – with an unwavering exposure to creative density and a relentless commitment to daily innovation.

Zann Kwan brings with her 20 years of professional experience in finance and investments, of which the last five was spent working in cryptocurrency.

The co-founder and CEO of Bitcoin Exchange Pte Ltd, a cryptocurrency pioneer that launched the first public bitcoin machine in Asia in early 2014, Zann is also a board member of InfoCorp Foundation, which governs the token sales of InfoCorp Technology, a FinTech company harnessing blockchain technologies for financial inclusion.

She also sits on the board of ACCESS, the leading blockchain and cryptocurrency association in Singapore, and is a fellow of the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), providing support for and advice on their FinTech education and research activities.

As a highly sought after speaker on FinTech and blockchain technology, Zann has delivered keynotes in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and China. She has also been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Channel News Asia, The Straits Times and The Business Times, amongst others. Zann has also presented at various cryptocurrency conferences and events organised by leading universities, societies and leading financial institutions in the SE Asia region.

Zann began her career in 1998 in financial auditing with Arthur Andersen and KPMG in Singapore and the United States, before moving to real estate investment with GIC, one of the world’s largest global investors. She subsequently worked in real estate investments in New York City, covering assets in hospitality, retail, office, industrial and mixed-used developments. She has led teams on a range of operations, such as fund-raising, deal sourcing, due diligence, asset management and disposition.

Zann is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder, Chartered Accountant (CA, Singapore) and a Fellow of Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA).

Wendy Tjen is a customer-focused leader with a demonstrated history of building relationships to form bonds and partner with clients to help them achieve their desired outcomes.