Leena Kapil practices living a life of consciousness, presence, and authenticity every day. She believes that as we nourish ourselves, we live a life with deeper connections, authenticity, and acceptance of ourselves and others. She is passionate about helping parents strengthen relationships, increase connection, and improve communication with their children of all ages.

She is a Certified Parenting Coach through Dr Shefali Tsabary’s Conscious Coaching Institute in the Conscious Parenting Coaching MethodTM and through the Jai Institute for Parenting. Leena is also a certified ThetaHealingTM and NLP practitioner, which has given her the specialised skills required for coaching.

She has conducted workshops for working parents, in which she shares mindfulness tools and techniques on how to connect with the self and children.

Leena is also a Vipassana meditation practitioner. She is involved in voluntary work at the Vipassana center in the UAE. And has been recently appointed as a Children’s (Meditation) Course Teacher for the UAE.

Kal started her career in Indian classical dance and was a world-renowned dancer, teacher, choreographer in Kuchipudi for more than 23 years before embarking on her counselling journey. She is the Director of Kalm Wellness Centre and Counselling Services, Singapore.

Aldwyn Altuney is a mass media marketing expert, based on the Gold Coast in Australia.

Known as the Media Queen, she is a TV host, speaker, photojournalist and author of multiple international best- selling books.

With 37 years of media experience, her PR company, AA Xposé Media, is the only one she knows of that guarantees results in the mainstream media.

She is passionate about inspiring more truth and good news in the mass media to help decrease depression and suicide rates and lift people’s spirits.

In 2018, she founded the Mass Media Tribe Meetup group and a global Good News Day, which is run annually on 8 August. In June 2020, she also launched the monthly Global Good News Challenge.

Aldwyn is also an animal activist. She founded Animal Action Events in 2007 and has run 14 annual charity events so far raising awareness, appreciation and respect for all animals.

Amrita Mukherjee was born in Kolkata, and raised in Chennai where she pursued her schooling. She holds a degree in Management and specialises in Branding Strategies, and corporate tie-ups. She has worked with multiple multinational corporations in a variety of roles. Currently she is pursuing a career in Talent Acquisition and People Management.

Amrita has a passion for singing and has sung for many charitable events across the USA. She is also a voracious reader and an avid traveller.

Writing short poems and shayaris (Hindi/Urdu) is another passion dear to her heart and is something she has pursued since childhood.

Amrita now resides in New Jersey and is keenly involved in the Bengali community and cultural organisations focusing on community development and keeping in touch with her Bengali roots.

Lilian Gowers has over 30 years of experience supporting people to achieve their goals, reach their life aspirations and perform to a high standard. As a coach, counsellor and therapist, Lilian connects readily with people to identify their core values and empowers them to take steps leading them to fulfil life and work outcomes.

Lilian has over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She worked in the public sector in hospitals and in the community as a therapist, and as a counsellor in the private sector, not for profit organizations and charitable agencies, and had a private practice. When she was a child in Trinidad and Tobago, she first became aware of her spirituality. As an adult, she experienced personal healing and transformation from her childhood trauma.

Currently, Lilian delivers coaching to carers in a national program designed to help build their resilience and self- empowerment skills.

Priya Subberwal is a qualified classical Feng Shui practitioner. A trained interior designer, her interest in Chinese metaphysics was sparked by a chance look through a coffee table book on the subject in 2000. After extensive reading on the subject, she formally started studying in 2007 and applying it to her daily life. Friends and family too gained from her knowledge and fascination.

In 2016 she formed the company “Disha” which comes from the Sanskrit word “Dishadhara” meaning direction – something that she strives to give her clients.

Priya is a yoga enthusiast and an avid reader. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband and a dog. She is a mother of two adult daughters, who love giving her unsolicited fashion and make-up advice. Interestingly, she previously co-owned a cricket team “Kowloon Cantons” in Hong Kong.

Catherine Gurtin has worked on child rights and protection across Asia for almost a decade and is passionate about connecting and bringing people together in pursuit of solutions and common goals.

Catherine joined PathFinders as Chief Executive Officer in February 2019, following seven years with Save the Children, where she worked as a consultant Project Manager for Save the Children International’s Asia Regional Office, and most recently as Chief Operations Officer for Save the Children Hong Kong.

Prior to joining the NGO sector, Catherine worked for over ten years in communications and public affairs, lately as an Associate Director in the International Public Affairs team at Pfizer.

Catherine earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Surrey, England. She has lived in Asia for over ten years and has a seven-year-old son and six-year-old daughter.

Abhilasha Parikh is a career woman, mother and wife by day who shapes her passion with paper by night. She is the creator and sole entrepreneur of PaperSimplicity, which has handcrafted paper goodness for over 15 years. She has designed custom branded products for corporate clients, blended her creativity to highlight the work-life of women in her artwork which was later introduced as motivational cards, alongside a tribe.

Originally from India, Abhilasha holds an MBA from University of Technology, Sydney. She has lived in Sydney for over 20 years. With a strong IT career and in a lineup of multinational companies the creative urge of doing something different or for herself always stayed.

Commonly described as a woman of few words, rather no words. Strong but shy. Reliable but independent. Her life is a contrasting journey of sole entrepreneurship, career woman, motherhood and passion for the ancient art of quilling.

Sharon McEneff is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Minerva Group, a holding company for a diverse portfolio of organisations ranging from Association Management and Consulting, Medical Training, Corporate Administration to Marine Services and Boat Chartering.

Born in Durban and brought up in Edinburgh via Dublin, Sharon left school at 16. Following a number of administration and event management roles, she followed her fiancé to Asia in 2000. She grasped opportunities as they presented themselves with the mantra of ‘making a difference’ she has been pivotal in raising funds for the underprivileged.

The master of getting the job done and delivering above and beyond expectations, Sharon has focused her businesses on empowering women and bringing talented new mums back into the workplace by providing them with a flexible working opportunity to shine and still be amazing mums.

Leigh-Anne Sharland, Founder of Building Your Mindset Muscle, is a wise woman with an opinion. Having raised two strong men with a loving and supportive husband she is now a proud grandmother.

Leigh-Anne has worked in corporate life for 40 years as a system and data specialist as well as 25 years as an alternative healing therapist, life coach, mentor and speaker. Combining these different experiences, she has accumulated and developed a vast array of techniques and processes to help her clients.

Leigh-Anne openly shares her life’s journey with others so that they uncover deeper awareness into their own behavioural patterns and restart their journey to reclaim their gratitude, joy and fulfilment.

Recently Leigh-Anne has become an international bestselling Amazon author by contributing her chapter “Your Mindset Muscle” to I M Possible – Stories of Grit and Perseverance.

Cheryl Haynes CEC SPHR is a Certified Executive Coach, Speaker, Facilitator and Organizational Effectiveness Consultant with a passion for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

As the Founder and Principal Consultant for AchieveMentor LLC, she leverages her expertise attained from over 25 years of experience as a corporate HR leader, committed to the development of emerging and evolving leaders, and is living a bucket list dream of leaning into her purpose and life-long ambition to authentically empower others to discover the best within themselves, their peers, and partners. “Everyone deserves to be valued and appreciated for the unique gifts they bring to each and every effort, interaction and relationship.”

Cheryl is a mother of two teenagers, a life-long learner, and avid consumer of all forms of self-improvement education. She attributes her gift and love of storytelling to the legacy left to her by her father, and her desire and life purpose to serve others to her mother.

Joyce Teng is Senior Director in the Singapore Children’s Society, overseeing Community Engagement & Partnerships and Corporate Communications. Together with her amazing colleagues, they are responsible for donor and volunteer recruitment and management, and the organisation’s external and internal communications goals.

Prior to joining Children’s Society in 2020, Joyce had 20 years of experience in the maritime industry, in various roles ranging from marketing to corporate communications, and business development. In her last role in an international maritime NGO, Joyce played a key role in maintaining dialogues with regional maritime administrations and supporting members and associate members based in Asia-Pacific.

Carrie Bennett grew up in a small rural community in Alberta, Canada. As a child, she was inspired by the stories and images from places unlike her own that she found in her parents’ National Geographic collection. Little did she realize that those days of magazine flipping would lead her to live an international life once she finished university.

Graduating with a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Educational Leadership, Carrie has spent the last 21 years as an educator. Her career has spanned two roles: one as a high school English teacher and the second as a high school associate principal. These roles have been served in Canada, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Japan, and now in Hong Kong. She is a passionate educator who seeks to build schools where students are at the centre of their experience, academically and social-emotionally.

Carrie has a husband who is a high school counsellor, a 17-year-old son, and a 13-year-old daughter. She feels blessed to have had the opportunity to bring up a family in such culturally diverse environments.

Patricia Haywood is the founder of Master BuildhersTM, a mindset and strategic advisory firm helping solopreneurs to achieve massive growth while aligning their businesses to their values, well-being and lifestyle.

Prior to scaling her first business in 2010, she worked with various startups on their legal and business strategies. She has over 20 years of experience advising, starting, running and scaling businesses.

A qualified lawyer, Patricia studied in Jamaica, Barbados, France, Scotland and England. She holds three masters degrees with the most recent one from the University of Oxford Said Business School.

Growing up in Jamaica, Patricia dreamt of visiting various countries and immersing herself in different cultures. She achieved this dream and has lived in numerous countries, including Uganda, Singapore and Indonesia. Now a reformed nomad, she lives in London with her husband and son.

Tina Sharma is a highly motivated individual with extensive experience as a leader in Human Resources (HR). She leads HR for a bank in Singapore. She is a strong believer in the ability of HR to strategically impact and be a driver of business beyond its conventional role.

Whether it is discovering groundbreaking new HR strategies, eliminating traditional biases against women in the work-force, improving employee engagement, or getting more women into the workforce, as an HR leader Tina is making a difference every day.

She is an active speaker at various HR forums, seminars, and universities, allowing her to share the knowledge gained from her vast experience to groom, motivate, and mentor young HR talent. She is also a Senior Board Adviser with Singapore Human Resource magazine.

Originally from India, Tina has lived in Singapore for 16 years with her husband and two lovely children.

Bindu Sanganee is a Global Keynote Speaker, a Transfor- mation Coach, a Mentor and an Author. She is also a qualified Chartered Accountant turned Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach and a Certified NLP Practitioner. She is a co-author of “I M Possible”.

After investing seven years into research, Bindu has cre- ated the world-class Butter In, Bitter Out (BIBO) Frame- work.

Bindu coaches her clients on their pain points using the BIBO framework, EI, and NLP techniques. Her clients have reported life-changing results of living a “Fulfilled” Life.

Bindu has spoken at various national and international forums with the Speakers Institute, Allatra Unites and My Voice (Singapore) wherein she shared golden nuggets from her BIBO Framework.