About The Moderator

Mette Johansson is a highly awarded author, keynote speaker and entrepreneur. She worked in leadership roles for multinational corporations for 15 years before founding MetaMind, a training consultancy providing learning programmes in the people side of leadership skills. MetaMind won the “Best Leadership Development 2020” award from APAC Insider.

Other awards include the AmCham HERo award, the Asia Women Icon Award, the Golden Door – REX Karmaveer Medal, and Insight Magazine’s “50 Most Promising Women in Business” award. Mette has been featured in a range of media – both representing her business, as well as in her capacity as the founder of KeyNote Women Speakers, a non-profit directory of female speakers.

As the founder and relentless driver of KeyNote Women Speakers, she is on a mission to bring diversity to stages around the world.

Having lived, studied and worked in 11 countries, Mette is a global citizen who speaks fluently in four languages and now calls Singapore home.

She is a judge for Women of the Future awards, providing young women recognition for their achievements and the winner of several awards.

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Shari Van Cleave is the Global Head of Commercialization and Client Experience for Standard Chartered Bank, where she delivers banking transformation at-scale across 50+ countries by driving the commercialization of data, APIs and leading-edge digital experiences.

Shari builds diverse teams of change agents to evolve the role financial services play in developing a sustainable and equitable global future. She serves Opportunity Bank, a global NGO with 15 million clients working their way out of poverty, as a member of the Board’s Stewardship & Impact Committee and Technology Advisory Council.

Prior to Standard Chartered, Shari led Wells Fargo’s Digital Labs, and before that, she was a founding member of Prudential Financial’s strategic venture capital and innovation lab. In the first decade of her career, she held senior-level marketing and product positions at World Vision, a global humanitarian organization. Shari earned her bachelor’s degree in international political economy from the University of Washington, and her MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

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Aradhna Dayal is the founder and CEO of Access Alts Asia, a Hong Kong-based investment club that aims to bring global investors and technology to Asia. She also manages her family office investing in real estate, technology and healthcare.

Aradhna was the first female Chief Investment Officer in Asia, setting up her family office in Hong Kong 25 years ago. A power networker, she pioneered the “Asia-Global Summit.”

She is passionate about women’s empowerment and building a diverse inclusive society. She chairs Women on Boards, a powerful network of women leaders from around the world to mentor female talent in boardrooms.

In 2020 Aradhna was invited by The Milken Institute and former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, to lead a discussion on mentoring Future Women Leaders in Abu Dhabi.

In recognition of her work, Aradhna was awarded the American Chamber of Commerce “Women of Influence” Award.

About The Panelist

Kripa Patel has over 2 decades of working experience across various Global Financial Institutions. Her main roles have been within financial markets/ investment banking and technology managing large-scale initiatives across regions. Her more recent position was as the Head of Global Outreach and Partnership at Standard Chartered Bank.

She is originally from the UK and has lived and worked in London, Sydney and Singapore. Being one of a few females from an ethnic minority background and working in technology, Kripa was always a diversity & inclusion advocate and has always positively challenged the status quo.

Kripa recently decided to take a brave step to make a career change after over 2 decades in Investment Banking to offer Life and Wellness Coaching. Her passion has always been to help people to reach their highest potential.

On a personal note, Kripa is a mother of 2 teenagers, loves outdoor activities, is a certified yoga instructor and has commenced training in Pranic Healing.

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Meenakshi SP has been with Citi for over 20 years and is currently the Digital Strategy&  Client Engagement Head for Citi Private Bank. She also has been a passionate  Steer co-member of Citi Women Singapore holding the partnerships portfolio  and has led many initiatives like I am remarkable, Lead, and now is the lead in the change-making space on the pioneering initiative – “Male Allyship” in partnership with Aware – Catalyse and Dr. Michael Kaufmann.

Meena has been a coach and mentor in grooming the talent from the Leadership development program and Management associate program. She represents Citibank in industry seminars on Wealth Management, FWA  and has participated in panel discussions during talent forums for nurturing young talent. Meena has conducted a few sessions on LEAN IN inspired by Sherry Sandberg of Facebook to nurture O&T women to raise their hands for new opportunities.

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Lakshmi Murlidharan is a passionate, energetic, top-performing sales and consulting leader with over 18 years of recruitment experience in Recruitment Process Outsourcing, and Talent acquisition solutions. She has a strong track record of consulting sales and account management catering to “C” Level Executives globally.

She is well-travelled and a fitness enthusiast and is always on the move. She strongly believes that “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony” and happiness is the highest form of fitness.

Lakshmi is a strong advocate for diversity & inclusion and front ends DEI initiatives through her current organisation. She is also an active member of ENG women’s leaders’ group. She holds a postgraduate degree in Human Resources.

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Leveraging over two decades of expertise in cross-cultural environments, Christina Themar’s passion and ambition for learning and development paved the way for her to found Next Chapters, a social purpose business that seeks to reduce social inequality through coaching and facilitation.

She is an activator of meaningful career advancement and a catalyst for career confidence, empowering professional women to make decisions and take actionable steps to follow through on their greatest ambitions.

Specialising in career development, Christina brings to light the value of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging of women, enabling them to activate their empowerment and write the next professional chapter in their life.

Throughout this experience, Christina supports her clients to gain a renewed perspective, motivates them to unlock their highest potential, and encourages them to take a fresh approach towards their work.

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Rasyida S. Paddy describes herself as a mum, millennial and marketer, “in equal parts”.

Coming from a working-class family, Rasyida is a firm believer in the power of education as a great social leveller. She never believed that coming from an ethnic minority or being a woman and a mother should stop her from pursuing a path to success and claiming a social narrative that empowers the communities she represents. She is the youngest of three children and the first college-educated member of her family.

Professionally, Rasyida is an enterprise technology marketing manager with a background in strategic communications and content marketing. She is a proud mother of two girls and considers herself a feminist. Outside of work, Rasyida is passionate about causes that support female representation in the digital economy and spends her time volunteering for organisations whose missions align with this ideal.

About The Panelist

Ghenwa Habbal was born and raised in Lebanon.

She is a well-rounded global HR/Talent Leader with over 15 years experience in strategising, designing, leading and delivering large scale operational and talent initiatives.

Ghenwa is first a human, then a leadership coach, an epigrammatist, strategic thinker, and a futurist as well as a strategic HR professional with experience across various industries and countries.

She is a passionate and strong advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and equal representation of genders across organisations. Ghenwa is focused on strategising, developing and retaining diverse talent and help build an environment that cultivates inclusion and belonging whilst building capabilities and transforming organisations into talent factories.

About The Panelist

Ruchira Raj works to decode, unblock, enable and maximise people, businesses and social purpose organisations. She is an autodidact problem solver with a unique perspective powered by ~20 years of diverse Big Corporate experience across industries (FMCG, Consulting, Banking), functions (Brand management, Innovation, Process Improvement, Risk Governance and Compliance), and roles (Country as well as Global).

Ruchira learned her first lessons in equity, diversity and inclusion growing up in multicultural India, and the past 13+ years in Singapore have further built on the same. She has extensive lived experience managing teams of diverse individuals and working with global stakeholders across organisational levels .

She studied Business Management at IIM Bangalore and Social Sector Leadership from ILSS India. She is also a certified SF Coach Practitioner (practices as an executive coach) and continues her learning journey by pursuing a Master’s Degree in Counselling.

When not coaching, consulting, or working as a Board advisor with social purpose organisations, Ruchira loves hiking the lush trails of Singapore and is a recent Krav Maga enthusiast, an interest she shares with her teenaged daughter.

About The Moderator

Divya Anand is a marketing and strategic communications leader with extensive experience across B2B and B2C brands in the Asia Pacific region. Divya has built successful launch platforms for trucks and telcos alike. Having lived and worked across India, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Singapore.

Divya has worked across different cultures and teams to deliver to the corporate mandate and regional imperatives. In her current mandate, in addition to driving the reputation mandate she is also responsible for enabling the regional revenue growth imperative. Divya is also a qualified, Indian, classical dancer and works with children, in her free time, to enable effective communication, using dance as a medium.

About The Panelist

Dr. Noura Al Obeidli is a research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Through her research work as an emerging ethnographer and academic author, she observes the journalistic practices and newsroom norms to highlight specific themes including gender dynamics, tribal patriarchalism, and the media culture in the Emirates.

Prior to joining academia, she worked as a PR professional for nine years, in which she developed promotional marketing plans, created crisis communications policies, and managed stakeholder relationships.

Through her work and interests in gender equality and feminism, she has published numerous news features about empowered Emirati women in male-dominated sectors such as aviation and engineering, lectured at undergraduate level on gender politics, organised campaigns to raise awareness on women’s health and welfare, and received professional internships on news reporting at Al Rai News Centre in Kuwait and The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in England.

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Kelly L. Kuhn serves as Special Advisor to Executive Leadership of CWT. In this role, Kelly provides advice, coaching, and mentorship to key executives across the company. She also maintains strategic client relationships, a dedicated focus on customer engagement, and is a sponsor of CWT’s global Responsible Business efforts. Prior to this she held the position o Executive Vice President & Chief Customer Officer as well as President of EMEA and APAC. Kelly is recognised as an expert in the travel industry and was recently named to the Top 50 Women in Travel by @GBTA WINiT. Kelly also serves as a Senior Advisor to the @McChrystal Group.

Additionally, Kelly is an experienced Non-Executive Director. Currently, she is an independent Non-Executive Director of ISS A/S, a Danish publicly listed global workplace experience and facility management company, and is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of SSP Group Plc, a FTSE 250 multinational foodservice company operating globally.

About The Panelist

Mukta Arya is a Human Resources Professional with 24+ years of experience in multiple industries and locations in APAC.

Starting her career with Essar group in Mumbai, India, after completing Masters in Management Studies, she worked in Tata TD Waterhouse Securities/Tata TDW Asset Management, before joining Ogilvy and Mather as Talent Head for Mumbai, Advertising. In 2006, she joined Societe Generale in Mumbai as Head of HR for India and has been with them for the last 16+ years.

She worked in Hong Kong as Regional Head of Talent Development and Inclusion since 2010 and as Head of HR for SEA for Societe Generale in Singapore for 4 years, before being appointed as the CHRO for Societe Generale, APAC, now based in Hong Kong.

She is a Certified Coach (ACC) accredited by International Coaching Federation. She is also a Global Fellow in Talent Management at Wharton University and a Global Talent Management Leader with certification in Diversity and Inclusion, MBTI, FIRO B, Experiential Learning, HR Audit, Competency Mapping, and Leadership Development.

She is a published author with 4 books till now- Wanton Thoughts, 3:15 PM- Musings in Hong Kong, Whimsical Times, and Criss Cross- A Medley of Thoughts.

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Princess Nwakego Ibrahim-Pam is a seasoned expatriate spouse, an educationist, linguist,  inspirational speaker, transformational leader, social entrepreneur, mentor, philanthropist, employer, trainer, and administrator.

She is the Founder and Chairperson of the Expat Professional and Business Women’s Network International. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Petra Speech and Early Childhood Developmental Centre, Co-Founder of the Korea Africa Economic Association, and Co-Founder of the Spousal Association of the Green Climate Fund.

Princess Nwakego worked with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, and with the British Council in Nigeria. She is a member of the Ifez Community Consultative Committee. She received the Medal of Honour from the Nigerian Government and also received an Award of Appreciation from the IFEZ Authority. She is a member of the International Society of Female Professionals (ISFP).

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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.

About The Panelist

Vikas Srivastava is the Country Manager at Quess Singapore. Quess Singapore, part of publicly listed Quess Corporation is the 4^th largest staffing company globally in terms of headcount. With annual revenue of $1.5B USD and operations in 10 countries including Middle East, South East Asia, India and North America, Quess is a leading business service provider and among the top-3 largest IT Staffing firms in Singapore.

In the current role, Vikas has the overall P&L responsibility of managing $130M+ local Singapore operation covering 3 service lines of IT Staffing, General Staffing and Permanent Recruitment Solution.

In his career span of 18 years, Vikas has gained extensive experience in leadership roles in Key Client management, IT Staffing operations, workforce solutions and Pre-sales at ManpowerGroup, Azilon and Ness Global. Most notably prior to Quess, Vikas spent over a decade as Regional Director- Asia Pacific with ManpowerGroup, a US Head-quartered one of the world’s largest workforce solutions company.

Vikas is a Bachelor in Computing from National University of Singapore with major in IT and minor in Mathematics. He also holds a post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business in a program curated by Columbia Business School and MIT Sloan Institute.

About The Panelist

Radhika Unni is a Managing Director with Accenture with over 20 years of experience working with clients driving large-scale transformation. She is very passionate about the intersection of business and technology in solving problems and changing lives.

She has travelled extensively and has lived for almost half her life in various countries in Africa. She acknowledges that part of her life that has moulded who she is today and her belief in diversity, equality and inclusion.

Radhika believes that life is all about experiences and moments of joy so never says, “no” to an adventure or to trying new things.

About The Panelist

Claude Sassoulas has been in the technology space for more than 25 years: he has run customer facing organisations for global telecoms operators like Teleglobe, China Netcom and Tata Communications, where he spent 13 years, building the Europe business from scratch to half a billion dollars in revenues. He has also worked for scale-ups and start-ups like DataQube Global where is currently serves as Interim CEO.

Claude is a qualified chartered accountant, a member of the ICAEW, and a graduate from the Paris Business School (ESG).

He is keen runner, having completed 40 marathons, and a wine educator (WSET).

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Thato Belang is a passionate keynote and TEDx Speaker, she has created a platform called Authentic Dialogues with Thato where deep, compelling, engaging, and inspiring conversations take place in a manner that shifts perspectives and propel people to serve, positively influence and make an impact in the world.

She is an Authenticity Coach, a Global Moderator and Facilitator. Her academic research on Business Executive Coaching and female leaders’ authenticity, has made her more curious and to continuously contribute to the thought leadership about authenticity and authentic leadership. Her professional speaking and facilitation experience spans through corporate events, conferences, workshops, and seminars.

Thato is passionate about people, their growth, leadership development, African problem-solving, and driven by the belief that human beings can achieve great things if they tap into their authentic self and step into their power and be their truest and highest expression of themselves.

About The Panelist

Born in snowy Siberia, raised and lived in the United States and Asia, Elena Liapounova has built her career on Wall Street in recruiting, working with major banks, hedge funds, biotech companies, and VCs. Elena came to the U.S. with only $100 in her pocket and worked her way up through college. AI and tech have become her bread and butter while building C-suite teams-her true passion.

Fascinated by the recent technology and scientific discoveries, she decided to launch her own global search firm. Her resilience, grit, determination, and positive attitude are what set her apart and are the reason for her becoming one of the few diversity female recruiting firm founders in the world. She eagerly contributes into building an international community where  democratized AI can help every individual to achieve the improved way of life, by finding the best talent for her fintech and life sciences start-up clients.

Elena believes anything is possible! Her mantra is “ If I can do it, then anyone can do it.” She dreams living a happy long life filled with joy. Elena travelled to 75 countries. 

About The Moderator

Joanna James is a Successful Business Founder and Chief Ambassador for the Successful Woman.

Joanna empowers women to rise above limitation, to star as their best self-reality creating a life of prosperity, her mantra is anything is possible!

As Australia’s youngest dual licenced Architect and builder, later embracing the science of Building Biology, her fascination grew to know how the spaces we inhabit affect our health, wealth and wellbeing.

In parallel for 20 years, Joanna has contributed to the rise of the award-winning Non-bank Mortgage Ezy business. From humble beginnings of doing it all, the group now spans internationally.

Joanna is driven to share new ways of success learning, for other women, so they may create positive change, she inspires a holistic understanding for others to realise their true freedom.

Joanna speaks on topics ranging from Mindset, Leadership, Business Culture, Entrepreneurship, Success and of course Mind-Body-Spaces.

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Ramya Bhaskar is a Program manager by education and a mentor by passion. She has over 13 years of experience in the Information Technology industry managing global projects. She has a Masters in Electronics and Communication Engineering and is certified in Leadership Principles.

A passionate mentor since 2017, she is a member of several mentoring programs run by NGOs where she guides young girls/students navigate through their careers and lead them towards their goals. She also gives Mentoring talks to inspire her fellow mentors on how mentee relationships can last a lifetime.

Ramya is a firm believer that young girls empower the world and need support in cruising through their careers and challenges.

In her free time, she loves to read contemporary novels, cook for her family, and spend time with them amidst nature. Food photography is her newfound hobby and she loads her Instagram page with colourful home-cooked food.

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Neetha Sanjay is a Singapore-based, ICF Certified Life & Career Coach who is passionate about empowering women to achieve their life and career goals. A dental surgeon by training, with more than a decade of experience in healthcare management, she enjoys sharing her learning by speaking on confidence, resilience, and positivity and help women advance in life and career.

She previously served on the Board of PrimeTime Professional and Business Women’s Association, a non-profit organization with a mission to help women to live their lives to their maximum potential.

Being an advocate for women, Neetha is committed to working with organizations that help empower the next generation of female leaders, focusing on those from underserved communities. In addition to being a Board Director, she is also a member of the Communications and PR Committee at SNM ( Singapore ), Coach at PrimeTime, and a Mentor with Wedu Global, YSEALI, She Brilliance and the National University of Singapore.She’s also one of the co-authors of Amazon’s Bestselling book on inspiration called #MyVoice.

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Shikha Sarkar, Managing Partner & Director at Kit Kat Events & Marketing and Co-Founder of Global Influencers Publishing House, has more than 20 years of experience in international sales and marketing across various industries. Adding to the mixture her strong entrepreneurial skills, she knows what it takes to make things work.

Apart from building an amazing community with the MyVoice initiative which has grown to 1000s of women across the world,, she has been the Ambassador of InterNations for the last five yrs, one of the largest global expat networks, supporting a dynamic community of over 60,000 expats from 200 different countries living in Singapore.

Shikha has always been passionate about empowering and uplifting women as she has been teaching women empowerment and financial literacy to Single mothers in the community. She is also a wildlife enthusiast and an amateur photographer.

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Dr. Neera Gupta is an Entrepreneur, Event Organiser, Bestseller Author, TV host, Emcee, Champion Networker, Marketing Guru, Women Empowerment Ambassador, Charity worker……..the list goes on. Fun fact: She is also a dentist!

As the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of Global Influencers, Neera is living her goal of empowering and giving a voice to 1000s of women across the world through the #MyVoice initiative that she started in the midst of pandemic in June 2020. Providing a platform for women to come together to talk about and share their issues and challenges with an aim to become better versions of themselves by listening, learning, helping, and supporting one another through this journey.

Most recently she celebrated the creation of more than 100 Bestseller Women authors in less than one year through the internationally acclaimed #MyVoice book series featuring empowering & inspirational stories of amazing & courageous women, journeying from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

About The Panelist

Gina Marescia purpose is to be a catalyst. She lives her commitment to directly enable a more diverse, inclusive leadership voice in the world by being a certified professional facilitator, executive coach, inclusion advocate and speaker. She both challenges and defines leadership paradigms with MNCs, Asian Firms and individuals who are up for a bigger game.

Gina’s regional female leadership programs empower women to define, choose, navigate and find their unique leadership voice at home, and on global, corporate platforms. She is considered an expert on the topics of developing resilience and authentic impact & presence with her unique CABI™ model (Confidence&Courage, Articulating with impact, Branding, Inquiry). Gina has co-founded three companies like Catalyst ConsultingHK. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband and is mum to two children.

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Born in India and raised in Hong Kong, Kiran Robinson has dedicated her 30-year hospitality career to perfecting the art of service. A culinarian, food consultant, concept designer, and service curator, Kiran launched her own catering and concept company in Hong Kong.

A self-taught chef with a distinctive culinary flare, Kiran developed her own line of branded specialty foods and has partnered with some of the leading chefs in Hong Kong and the Asian region.

After relocating to San Francisco, Kiran joined one of the country’s top ten hospitals where she spent the next 17 years, serving as Executive Chef: Executive Dining Manager and Operations Manager.

Kiran’s passion for service informs her whole life — from family, community, faith, and profession to her charitable work with vulnerable children in Malawi, Africa.

Based in Luxembourg, Kiran devotes her time to writing, speaking, and coaching, on service leadership and the true art of hospitality. She recently launched her new book Seva, The Art of Hospitality.

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Valerie Chow has integrated marketing experience in both digital and offline environments, honed in retail through exposure to global brands from Nike, Marks and Spencer to Harvey Norman. She started her career in merchandising, evolving to branding and digital marketing.

The biggest “change” in her career was her first 180-degree pivot into the insurance industry, thrown into an agile working environment that needed a continuous growth mindset. Valerie’s motto to keep developing led to her second career pivot into the finance industry.

She is a chameleon in career pivots and with her love to learn and grow, she has successfully reinvented herself with her drive and determination to push forward on new career frontiers.

This same motivation fires Valerie’s passion for D&I and the leadership journey with her “I am Remarkable” training to empower others in building self-confidence.

This has led to her building her voice as a speaker and advocate for self-development for success.

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Kristy-Ann Waugh is passionate about growth and development and has been coined an “Education Junkie” and alumni of the “University of Life” (UOL)!

She has a multidisciplinary business background spanning over twenty years in both public and private enterprise. Kristy-Ann has worked across several industries – including Government, Defence, Finance, Recruitment, Consulting, Training, Education and Utilities – domestically and internationally.

Kristy-Ann holds a Diploma of Business, is a student of Positive Psychology, a recognised Credentialed Advanced Practitioner of Coaching*, Certified Trainer, Consultant & Master Coach of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Certified Master Practitioner of TimeLine Therapy®, Certified Master Hypnotherapist (Clinical). She is an International Speaker and an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author.

She possesses an insatiable curiosity and unshakable optimism dedicated to ‘inspiring transformation’ and ‘empowering performance’ – moving clients from where they are to where they want to be in career, business and life.

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Dr.Nosheen Taqvi is a renowned clinical nutritionist with a medical background and master’s in public health, she is a certified nutritionist from UK and a PCOS Nutrition specialist USA.

Running her nutrition and fitness clinic under the name of Nutradvice in Islamabad.

The aim is to help people bring changes in lifestyle and achieve their targeted health objectives through nutrition.

She’s been regular in doing multiple TV shows on PTV Hum News, Ary digital, and other social media channels.

Nutrition awareness sessions have been conducted in different multinational companies to help employees lead a balanced healthy lifestyle, along with their busy work schedule.

Nutradvice and Dr.Nosheen aim to help people understand YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!!

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Bindu Sanganee is a Chartered Accountant, a Law of Attraction (LOA) Coach, a Global Keynote Speaker & an Author.

Bindu coaches working professionals and entrepreneurs to “consistently/’ take their life to the next level. Through her signature program – Vibes@work (Gold Level), she coaches working professionals to achieve “a completion & success” in their current role before they move onto “hi-greener pastures”.

Bindu firmly believes that “when” people aren’t living an abundant life, they are living “A- Lie”. So, through her another signature program called “From a-Lie to Alignment” (Platinum Level), she coaches her clients to manifest abundance in all areas of their life (Health, Wealth, Relationships & Career/Business). Both her programs are based on tools and techniques of Law of Attraction. Her clients have reported life-changing results in surprisingly shorter time frames.

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Mawada Alwazir is a Life Coach living in the UAE. She is the mother to three boys, owner of “Me Myself and I Life Coaching” and a woman who is devoted to helping people live their best life possible. She created Me My Self & I Life Coaching, to help her clients reach a fulfilled and happy life. She believes that there is always room for improvement or redecorating as she puts it.

Each individual has the ability to choose to be happy therefore the name, Me My Self & I – it all starts with you. Blaming others for your misfortunes will not lead to any results.

Mawada has traveled and lived in different countries, including Lebanon, the USA, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia. She moved to the United Arab Emirates 15 years ago.

The experience gained through traveling and living in different countries has helped her achieve a greater understanding of cultures and has been beneficial in serving and coaching members of multinational communities.

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Angela Hancock  specialises in helping women achieve time and financial freedom and in the process become the healthiest version of themselves.

Her mission is to empower women to live out loud in every area.

She is a professional NWM, fitness leader, hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner.

She loves dogs, live music, travel, and of course her family.

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Mahal Rajan is a speaker, trainer and author. After being diagnosed with a critical condition, she emerged from the ordeal mentally stronger and with a renewed sense of purpose. She is also the founder of MetaDestiny Pte Ltd, through which her speaking engagements and training bring clarity to youths and women who struggle with their sense of identity. Her signature topics are centred on change, identity, self-care and purpose. 

Mahal is a former educator who has served in the Ministry of Education in Singapore for 2 decades. She holds a Masters of Education in English Literature and Bachelor of Arts in English. As an experienced educator, Mahal also works with other educational organisations in Singapore as a facilitator for various programmes. She is the co-author of “Shaken Stirred But Not Deterred – A Collective Memoir of Inspiring Stories from Around the World(project tbc with Global influencers). She serves as a Speakers Tribe Singapore leader and Program Manager in the organisation, Speakers Institute.

She lives with her husband and 2 beautiful daughters in Singapore. Her daily therapy is enjoying a cuppa tea.

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Nashya Haider (Innotech Consultants) is an internationally experienced (Europe, America and SE Asia) Program Manager within the Healthcare and Health-Tech industries, and academic research environments. She is an executive and consultant, enthusiastic about promoting technology-driven business solutions. 

She focuses on both internal innovation that drives better customer-facing business processes and external innovation that drives new product adoption with industry key opinion leaders.

She has a proven track record in implementing AI business growth strategies by establishing strong partnership networks, organising international conferences and training events, and developing programs and training curricula. 

Nashya is the Program Manager of complex projects involving interdepartmental and multidisciplinary stakeholder groups across ICT/AI, healthcare, health-tech and marketing functional areas.

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Tidimalo Shabalala is a South African Public Relations Specialist with a wide scope of integrated communication experience. She has over 10 years of working experience in the Public Relations industry having worked for global agencies launching international brands across Pan-African countries. She has been living in Hong Kong for 4 years and after some time, realized how social innovation through PR could support ideas and brands to elevate their visions and brands.

At the beginning of 2021, she opened her own Public Relations small company called Tidi Consulting Limited. Her vision for her company is to use it as a platform to assist and support Start-Ups and Influencers through integrated communications as a means of enhancing their brands. Her passion lies in supporting people that want to create cool brands and expand their share of voice in their markets.

She is also a loving wife and mum of two who enjoys living in a multinational country and connecting with women from all over the world.

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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.

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Julie Aswani was born with a rare physical condition called Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) which affects 1 in 3000 live births around the world.

Despite having gone through bullying, harassment and discrimination, Julie has come a long way to becoming the leading spokesperson for AMC in Hong Kong.

Julie is a mental health counsellor in Hong Kong. She possesses degrees in Psychology, Education and Counselling. She has worked with all age groups, from children to adolescents and adults. Currently, she is working as a high school teacher and also provides counselling services to her students. She dedicates her time to raise awareness on different mental and physical health issues on social media.

About The Panelist

Michelle Harris is the Founder of Michelle Harris International and been guiding women and children to empower themselves for 25 years. A mum, natural counsellor, intuitive energy healing specialist, empowerment mentor and guide, Michelle offers emotional healing, mental health shifts, soul mentoring, energy tools and effective life solutions to those seeking peace, growth and transformation. She is also a channel and the founder of a crystal healing system she developed in 2000 and has pioneered various initiatives in Hong Kong, including The Empowerment School platform for kids/teens.

A sought-after healer who is well-known for her impactful, deep work to overcome lifelong issues and trauma, Michelle draws upon her inspiring personal journey and shares her discoveries and wisdom in authentic teachings. Her signature individual and group sessions (online and in-person) ignite clients to live their magnificence – personally, spiritually and professionally.

A two-times best-seller author and award-winning healer and women of wellness, Michelle has featured in various media and publications and shares her work worldwide.

About The Panelist

Binu Balan is a business expansion champion and business strategist with over 20 years of experience helping individuals & global brands create lasting brand equity.

Through her organisation B.Connected Pte Ltd, a B2B business matchmaking consultancy, she drives business partnering & stakeholder management with a unique service offering that combines market intelligence, business model diagnostics and access to a local and global network of service providers. She is passionate about customer experience and is an avid people connector, ignited by two decades of leading international operations for global fashion brands across Middle East & APAC.

Binu volunteers full-time at KeyNote Women Speakers Directory leading Speaker Placement, Business Development & Partnerships globally for the 300+ speakers in the directory and its partners.

Born in India and bred in the Middle East, Binu now calls Singapore home; she lives here with her two daughters. She holds an MBA in Marketing & International Business and is also a trained yoga practitioner and classical dancer.