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CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTE

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AGENDA

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SPEAKERS

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SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS

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EVENT PARTNERS

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ASSOCIATION & MEDIA PARTNERS

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Achieve real business results from your people development experiences “BTS is unique in the investment they make in getting to really understand your situation and challenges and in seeking to enable your organization to develop its own responses, as opposed to providing simplistic answers that will have short half-lives. The culture that BTS brings to the table is one of humility and learning. BTS, through their unique simulation-based approach, is in the business of enabling people to better fish for themselves as opposed to providing a fish that will only last a day.”

Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware

We create powerful experiences that help leaders build the future of their business BTS is a global professional services firm supporting world leading businesses with strategy execution, leadership development and sales transformation.

We focus on the people side of strategy, turning strategy into action and results.

We design powerful experiences that have a profound and lasting impact on people and their careers, inspiring new ways of thinking, building critical capabilities and unleashing business success.

Strategy Execution

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Leadership & Management

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EDITOR’S NOTE A TOOLBOX FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING Lifelong learning continues to be a nationwide agenda for Singapore, and countries across Asia. Not only is there emphasis on making the workforce more productive, there is also an equal focus on building next-level capabilities in areas where talent continues to be hard to find.

In line with Singapore’s SkillsFuture programme that promotes continuous learning, local employees have started using their SkillsFuture Credit on a range of courses to upgrade and deepen their skills – an important step in allowing for individuals to be empowered and to take their own steps towards skills advancement.

At the same time, the Ministry of Manpower has announced a commitment of an additional S$35 million a year from the Lifelong Learning Endowment Fund and Skills Development Fund as part of the Adapt and Grow initiative that will help people to adapt to changing job demands and grow their skills.

Building a pipeline of home-grown talent is of paramount importance for organisational growth in this increasingly competitive business landscape.

Equally important is for HR and learning leaders to adapt to new implements in their learning toolkit, with a growing number of technologies and formats available at their fingertips.

Over these two days, you can expect the opportunity to network, and get ideas about innovative L&D strategies from a number of organisations. We also promise you thought-provoking discussions through case studies and keynote sessions, and how to build best-in-class learning programmes and leadership initiatives.

With the changing workforce in Singapore – and across the region – it is now more important than ever to plan learning strategies with effective longterm capabilities.

Let us pledge to keep continuous learning on top of each of our priority lists – for ourselves and our teams.

Please keep sharing your feedback with us during these two days or leave us a comment on Twitter using #TDA2016.

Enjoy the conference.

Companies that are able to leverage on newer learning technologies and formats to engage employees, and maximise their return on investment, will be essentially laying the groundwork for a successful L&D programme.

To discuss exactly that, we are proud to bring you the third annual Training & Development Asia to enable HR leaders to map the changes within the L&D space and determine key skilling strategies for an increasingly diverse workforce.

Training & Development Asia has grown to become the leading annual conference for senior HR professionals from large organisations, hosted across Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Aditi Sharma Kalra Regional editor Human Resources aditis@humanresourcesonline.net

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AGENDA | DAY 1 8.00am

Registration

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

8.50am

Welcome address

11.10am

Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor, Human Resources

9.00am

• Turn the forgetting curve into a “mastery” curve that drives individual growth and organisational capability.

• Design the best learning experience for today’s leader, with the optimal blend of learning assets and methodologies.

• Transform L&D professionals into “learning experience managers”.

Erwin Lennertz, senior consultant, DDI

Speed networking

TRAINING AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE 9.10am

Progress starts here: Putting employees in the driver’s seat of their career • Enabling employees to choose to own and drive their career through a sustained culture change initiative.

• Providing the tools and resources for employees to build a successful career by having insight into both their current performance and future aspirations.

• Encouraging employees to have honest development conversations, to access world-class learning and development, and have a robust plan for the future.

• Utilising social and collaborative platforms that include meaningful development experiences, exposure to others and structured education.

Sara Roberts, managing director, head of talent and learning, Citi Asia Pacific

9.50am

Panel discussion: Beyond the basics – elevating your global learning organisations and strategies • Global development objectives in the local context: How can L&D professionals in global companies overcome challenges such as shorter business cycles and a multi-cultural and multi-generational environment?

• Strategic development: aligning learning initiatives with your business goals.

• How to create an ultimate L&D culture that looks beyond teaching new skills.

• A sharing of some innovative projects and initiatives in L&D. Moderator: Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor, Human Resources Panellists: Magali Simon, vice-president, learning, talent development and perspectives, BASF; Angelo Pinto, regional head of learning and development, head of APAC campus, BNP Paribas; Anjali Parmar, firm-wide talent development lead, Asia region, Gensler; Raman Sidhu, global head of learning and development, Shell Eastern Petroleum

10.40am

Networking tea break

Crush the forgetting curve: Getting leadership development advocates to drive learning mastery

11.50am

Executive leadership development and succession management • Co-ordinating learning, talent development and succession management.

• MasterCard’s best approach to designing and developing training programmes for the next generation of leaders to prepare them to assume these roles.

• Determining key leadership behaviours and skills that can drive a competitive strategy and secure the future of your business.

• Integrating HR and talent management by incorporating learning in key stages of the employee life cycle.

Rajan Krishnakumar, head of talent, APAC, MasterCard

12.30pm

Networking lunch

1.30pm

Refining your high potential leadership and talent strategy for impact • Designing and implementing a top-down training approach that is critical to your talent pipeline.

• Incorporating high potential in-house development as part of your leadership strategy without neglecting organisation-wide development.

• What are the challenges that may arise and what are some of the best practices for success?

Dr Roland Smith, senior vice-president, APAC and managing director, Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING 2.10pm

Competency based development for new hires that emphasises on performance • MUFG’s transformation journey in its expansion into Asia and new hire onboarding considerations.

• Developing a competency based learning framework to reduce the adjustment period of new entrants – mapped against core values, global and functional competencies, diversity and inclusion, and expectation of leaders within the organisation.

• Creating a high-performance culture.

• Use of blended learning – OJT, e-learning, classroom, actionlearning projects, coaches and mentors, overseas attachment, involvement of seniors leaders in their leadership programmes.

Bernard Ho, head of talent development and learning, Asia, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

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AGENDA | DAY 1

AGENDA | DAY 2

LEARNING ROI AND PRODUCTIVITY 2.40pm

Developing middle management capability • Middle managers have the greatest impact on company performance than any other function of the organisation. What are some L&D initiatives for this group that will boost productivity?

• Customising a L&D strategy and solutions for middle management level to maximise impact.

• Training middle managers to drive engagement, productivity and rapport with their people.

• Finding the key to employee engagement and sustainable performance.

Phillip Raskin, learning and development director, Asia, Golin

3.10pm

Networking tea break

3.30pm

Is your L&D investment producing business results?

• Explore ways to measure and quantify the impact of training programmes on your employee performance.

• Strategic L&D: Are your learning investments developing effective people capabilities?

• Justifying the costs incurred in your L&D programme.

• Building talent and striving for continual improvement.

Alexandre Paitre, vice-president, BTS

4.10pm

8.00am

Registration

8.50am

Welcome address Akankasha Dewan, senior journalist, Human Resources

9.00am

CREATING A HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURE 9.10am

4.40pm

Closing remarks

5.00pm

End of day 1

The journey to a culture of learning: the map, the road, the quest • The map: Why a learning culture? What’s the business rationale?

What’s the plan?

• The road: How does learning happen? Building the awareness, reflection and intentional action loop. Organisational distractions and driving positive momentum for development through systemic coaching.

• The quest: The learning organisation – embedding a fail-forward approach through reinforcing systems and building organisational resilience with the capacity to adapt.

Abhilasha Krishnan, head of human resources – Singapore, JTI (Japan Tobacco International)

9.50am

L&D’s role in driving culture transformation • The burning platform – Keysight Technologies’ separation as an independent public company.

• How did the learning and leadership development function contribute towards driving the company’s culture transformation following the split?

• What are some of the important building blocks in driving a performance culture from scratch?

• Insights into strategies for developing shared values and updating leadership competencies that drive the business.

Christopher Goh, director, global learning and leadership, Keysight Technologies

Unlocking employee productivity through training and development • Do your training programmes actually translate to greater employee productivity?

• Making ROI work for you: Using comparative evaluation techniques to improve and select training programmes that best improve productivity.

• Systematically manage learning investments needed to achieve visible targeted results.

Raman Sidhu, global head of learning and development, Shell Eastern Petroleum

Speed networking

10.30am

Networking tea break

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AGENDA | DAY 2 1.50pm

BUILDING INNOVATION CAPACITY 10.50am

How ongoing career conversations drive business success • Research report: The balance of power has shifted and employees now recognise they must take control of managing their own careers. Talent is in high demand; and annual reviews are no longer able to provide the ongoing instant feedback that individuals seek.

• Individually owned career management – employers can participate in, influence and gain value from an employee’s career journey.

• Organisations that embed career conversations will significantly increase their employee engagement which will translate into increased individual and organisational performance.

• Find out how the six-stage approach to career conversations enables employees to feel empowered about the direction of their own career and helps them to achieve their goals while driving the business forward.

Bridget Beattie, group executive vice-president, APAC and Middle East, Right Management

11.30am

• Connecting talent management practices with L&D interventions to create a leadership pipeline.

• Case study from Cargill – identifying and developing talent through a structured development journey.

• Effective methods of talent assessment and coaching, formal trainings and workshops, mentorship, on-the-job training through live business projects, and continuous career progression tracking.

Sormishtha Ghosal, head of L&D and organisational effectiveness, Cargill

2.30pm

12.10pm

Networking lunch

1.10pm

Panel discussion: Rewarding learning outcomes and incentivising performance • Employee training and development as part of your compensation and benefits plan.

• Developing employee skills by rewarding learning outcomes and incentivising performance as an outcome of your L&D activities.

• Updating your policies to build buy-in and encourage employees to engage in training activities • Driving accountability towards personal development.

Moderator: Neema Mehta, talent, learning and development director, Amcor Panellists: Gary Lee, chief HR specialist, global talent development, Grundfos; Candy Leung, head of JB Academy Asia, Julius Baer; Namrata Kohli, head of human resources, Southeast Asia, Lloyd’s Register

Networking tea break

LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES 3.00pm

Experience the future of learning • Learn about the disruptions happening today on the way learning is done.

• Experience a live gamified simulation where you interact with peers to beat others in the room in a safe learning environment, and demonstrate better leadership behaviours which drive performance outcomes.

Kulwant Singh Bardh, CEO, APAC, KNOLSKAPE

Leveraging diversity and knowledge-sharing to improve business performance through learning • Inventive strategies in L&D: Analysts estimate that Fortune 500 companies lose a combined $31.5 billion a year from employees failing to share knowledge.

• Create and leverage on diverse teams dedicated to a culture that supports learning through a sharing of skills, knowledge and experience.

• Using diversity and inclusion to increase performance and innovation through vicarious learning.

Namrata Kohli, head of human resources, Southeast Asia, Lloyd’s Register

L&D’s role in identifying and nurturing emerging talent

4.00pm

Panel discussion: Using innovative new-age platforms for the digital learning experience • The role of technological initiatives in advancing and facilitating a learning culture.

• Sharing of lessons and success stories from gamification and mobile-powered training and development.

• An evaluation of L&D best practices in technology.

• How to capitalise on your investment in learning technology.

Moderator: Akankasha Dewan, senior journalist, Human Resources Panellists: Ilja Rijnen, regional human resources director, APAC and India, Edrington; Phillip Raskin, learning and development director, Asia, Golin; Rupali Gupta, head of talent development, APAC, LATAM and MEA, Mundipharma; Jennifer Neo, global director, talent and learning, APAC, Sealed Air

4.40pm

Closing remarks

5.00pm

End of Training & Development Asia 2016

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SPEAKERS

Neema Mehta

Magali Simon

Angelo Pinto

Alexandre Paitre

Talent, learning and development director Amcor

Vice-president, learning, talent development and perspectives BASF

Regional head of learning and development, head of APAC campus BNP Paribas

Vice-president BTS

Neema Mehta brings with her more than 15 years of talent management, organisational development and HR generalist experience from leading organisations, including Chevron and PayPal. She holds a MBA in strategy, human and organisational performance from Vanderbilt University and a BA from Rutgers University. She has worked in several industries, including retail operations, energy and manufacturing.

She comes from an international background having lived in Zambia, India, US, Thailand, China and now Singapore. She enjoys cooking, travelling and spending time with friends and family.

From her graduate business studies in France and Germany Magali Simon gained immediate international exposure. In 2003, she joined BASF and has since held various leadership positions in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

In 2014, after 10 years of leadership experience in commercial roles, she created the opportunity to pursue her real passion to develop human potential and is now the vice-president of talent development, learning and perspectives for the Asia Pacific region.

She has always been passionate about human relations in business, which led her to become certified as a professional coach and bring her passion to BASF by inspiring those skills in leaders across the region. She aspires to serve the development and growth of leaders and seeks to help transform organisations by bringing the energy and essence of what makes us human into the corporate world.

She believes it is with a human touch a leader will have a sustainable impact on business growth.

Angelo Pinto has been the regional head of learning and development and the head of the APAC campus for BNP Paribas since July 2013.

He leads the learning function for the bank in APAC while managing a team of learning professionals across APAC and the BNP Paribas APAC campus in Singapore.

He is responsible for establishing the bank’s learning strategy in the region and delivering high-impact programmes at the APAC campus.

He was previously the head of HR for BNP Paribas in India for 12 years, and the regional HR business partner for the IT and operations function for APAC. In 2005, he was one of the founding members for two of the largest offshore entities of the BNP Paribas Group in India.

Before BNP Paribas, he managed HR for a Tata Group company in India, bringing with him more than 27 years of experience in the HR industry.

Alexandre Paitre is the vice-president at BTS and a founding leader of BTS Asia. He set up the BTS Asia business across eight offices and played a central role in establishing the global BTS innovation practice.

As a business and people leader, account manager and facilitator, he currently heads the BTS Asia regional headquarters in Singapore.

By leading organisational change projects, he is supporting companies in accelerating their strategy execution across strategic alignment and business acumen, leadership development, sales transformation and innovation.

Before working with BTS, he launched and headed the learning solutions and change management practice of IMS Health in Asia Pacific, a global leader in healthcare services.

He is a French native and has lived in Asia for more than 13 years. He is a graduate from ESSEC Business School and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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SPEAKERS

Sormishtha Ghosal

Dr Roland Smith

Sara Roberts

Erwin Lennertz

Head of L&D and organisational effectiveness Cargill

Senior vice-president, APAC and managing director Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

Managing director, head of talent and learning Citi Asia Pacific

Senior consultant DDI

Sormishtha Ghosal has 15 years of expertise in the learning and development space with global giants in diverse industry segments, including IT, agribusiness, commodity trading and manufacturing.

She has worked extensively in conceptualising and implementing L&D/TM/OE interventions in India and the rest of APAC. Her primary practice areas include restructuring organisations to meet business objectives, leading re-engineering and change management projects, creating a learning culture to enable individual success, building behavioural and functional competencies towards nurturing high-performance teams, leadership coaching and succession planning.

She currently heads L&D and OE for Cargill India, and oversees learning delivery for the rest of APAC. She has a master’s degree in HR and a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

She enjoys travelling, reading, painting and creative writing. She is married and has two kids, and lives and works out of Gurgaon, India.

Dr Roland Smith is the senior vicepresident and managing director for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Asia and an accomplished author with Talent Conversations: What They Are, Why They’re Crucial, and How To Do Them Right and Influence.

In his role as a senior business leader as well as a leading faculty for the exclusive “leadership at the peak” programme for the C-Suite, he has been heavily involved with initiatives around global talent, global senior executive engagement, high performing teams as well as notable research on the paradoxes of leadership development in Asia, India and South Africa, in addition to guiding CCL’s regional strategy and operations in Asia Pacific.

His past appointments within CCL include being an executive and organisational coach, and in leading CCL’s legal sector and professional service practice.

Sara Roberts is the managing director and Asia head of talent and learning for Citi Asia Pacific where she focuses on senior leadership succession planning and the development of a leadership pipeline in Asia.

In this role, she is also responsible for learning, diversity and inclusion and performance management.

She joined Citi in May 1997 in New York as a leadership staffing and development manager for the North America consumer bank and carried on in the role in Hong Kong’s Citi Asia Pacific corporate bank.

She later moved to Singapore as regional senior HR generalist and was head of Singapore country HR services. Before Citi, she worked at ICL as a HR generalist and management training and development head for the international trade division covering East and Central Europe and Africa.

She then moved to Allied Domecq spirits and wine to be HR head for Europe and was later the Asia Pacific HR director.

Erwin Lennertz is a senior consultant at DDI for leadership development programmes and assessments.

He brings with him more than 12 years of multi-cultural and international experience in leadership facilitation and coaching and more than 10 years of experience in different leadership roles, including area manager for a recruitment and staffing MNC, talent acquisition manager, global learning consultant and practice lead leadership development.

As a trainer, coach and an assessor he has worked with an extensive pool of multinational clients across different industries, including, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, logistics and warehousing, heavy industries, finance (banking and insurance), manufacturing, shipping, logistics, information technology, oil and gas, liquid chemicals, telecommunications and energy.

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SPEAKERS

Ilja Rijnen

Anjali Parmar

Phillip Raskin

Gary Lee

Regional HR director, APAC and India Edrington

Firm-wide talent development lead, Asia region Gensler

Learning and development director, Asia Golin

Chief HR specialist, global talent development Grundfos

Ilja Rijnen joined Edrington in September 2015 as HR director for the region as part of the Asia Pacific and India leadership team.

He functionally heads up HR in the region and works closely with the senior leadership teams and the HR team in the region in building a strong people culture with an enhanced capability.

Edrington’s people development programmes are a significant priority for the region and he is spearheading the design and delivery from the HQ in Singapore, while working with the global HR team to implement its 2020 HR strategy globally.

Before joining Edrington, he gained significant HR experience through Diageo in Southeast Asia where he was the business partner and head of HR for various teams in the region. He also brings a wealth of organisation design experience which is being applied in building up the training and development activity in the region and launching the The Edrington Academy and Sales Academy.

As Gensler’s firm-wide talent development lead for the Asia region, Anjali Parmar leads the organisation’s human capital initiatives across nine regional locations. These include developing a 360-talent strategy, approach and delivery method, as well as measuring ROI for talent development, talent acquisition, licensure management, training and development, leadership development and succession planning initiatives.

Talented, enthusiastic and with a passion for human capital initiatives, she ensures Gensler’s policies, processes and programmes are aligned with the firm’s Asian business objectives leveraged on local voice and ownership.

Before Gensler, she had over 14 years of experience as a strategist, partner and thought leader for numerous multinational firms in the public and private sector working on higher education, corporate, hospitality, municipal, and visual arts projects in the US, India, and Singapore. She has been featured prominently as a speaker at management schools, multinational organisations and conferences.

With more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry, Phillip Raskin has led teams in global public relations agencies across Asia, the US and Europe.

Throughout his career, he has developed a strong passion for the art of communications, as well as employee training and development.

As the learning and development director for Asia, he strives to provide platforms for Golin’s staff to reach new heights through combining training and learning sessions with self-development, opportunities for exposure and experience, mentoring, outside learning and study. He is constantly looking for innovative ways for the team in Asia to learn, collaborate and evolve as communications professionals.

Gary Lee is the chief HR specialist of global talent development with Grundfos. Before this, he was the regional head of training of a consultancy firm with a presence across seven countries in APAC. He concurrently held the position of director of a group of learning centres. As a seasoned facilitator and people developer with over 12 years of experience in L&OD, talent management and training and consultancy, he has facilitated for participants from diverse backgrounds in the areas of personal development, leadership, change management, innovation and strategy.

He has also held the position of head of learning and development for a SGX-listed company. MBA qualified and accredited with various psychometric tools, he has developed and implemented numerous change initiatives and facilitated for over 200,000 participants across Asia.

An interest in leadership development, his MBA dissertation was titled “Leadership in the 21st century: Effectively managing Generation Y employees in today’s 21st century workplace for greater productivity in Singapore.”

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SPEAKERS

Aditi Sharma Kalra

Akankasha Dewan

Abhilasha Krishnan

Candy Leung

Regional editor Human Resources

Senior journalist Human Resources

Head of human resources – Singapore JTI

Head of JB Academy Asia Julius Baer

Aditi Sharma Kalra leads all editorial content for Human Resources in its print, online and social media forms.

In her role, she is responsible for leading thought-provoking and quality industry content for a growing senior-level HR readership, as well as strategically growing the brand’s presence and reach online, and through a growing number of industry events, conferences and awards shows.

Kalra joined Lighthouse Independent Media as a senior journalist in September 2014, having worked previously at Hay Group as part of the marketing team.

Before Hay Group, she worked with monthly HR magazine The Human Factor, published by New Delhi-based Planman Media, where she was part of the core team to transform the publication from an academic journal to the most widely read HR magazine.

As a senior journalist at Human Resources, Akankasha Dewan takes a lead role in producing thoughtprovoking editorial print and online content across Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Dewan enjoys leading compelling HR-related conversations with senior industry professionals, and is establishing herself as an insightful columnist who is dedicated towards continuously exploring the wideranging secrets of the HR industry.

She joined Lighthouse Independent Media as a journalist and content producer towards the end of 2013, and has also produced conferences themed around topics such as training and compensation.

A master’s graduate in English, Dewan has been in Singapore for more than two decades. She has interned as a reporter in various local media houses, and has worked in Unilever’s HR division.

Abhilasha Krishnan is the head of HR – Singapore for JTI. A strategic HR leader with a decade of experience, she works across the spectrum of HR functions to unlock potential in the organisation through nurturing a high-feedback and high-performance culture.

In close collaboration with her leadership team, she has helped JTI Singapore create a transparent and empowered culture, maintaining close to 95% engagement levels since 2012 and winning the Aon Hewitt Best Employer 2015 in the first year of participation.

With experience in building organisational resilience and learning agility, she strives to influence the white spaces between organisational boxes, create reflection points for personal growth and unlock enterprise performance.

Based in Hong Kong, Candy Leung joined Julius Baer & Co in February this year. She is responsible for learning, talent and leadership for the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining Julius Baer, she worked for Standard Chartered Bank for more than 11 years in country, regional and global roles in talent and learning.

She has led the talent and learning team to win several awards, including “Excellence in Training & Learning Development” by Hong Kong Management Association; “Best Practice Award in Training and Talent Development” by Best Practice Management Association; and “Best HRM Talent Management Award” by Human Resources Management Association.

She was the executive member of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers and also a member of the Banking and Finance Training Board in Hong Kong. She is a chartered fellow of CIPD, a certified Gallup Strengths coach, a certified practitioner for MBTI and a certified coach for Hogan personality assessment.

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SPEAKERS

Christopher Goh

Kulwant Singh Bardh

Namrata Kohli

Rajan Krishnakumar

Director, global learning and leadership Keysight Technologies

CEO, APAC KNOLSKAPE

Head of human resources – SEA Lloyd’s Register

Head of talent, APAC MasterCard

Christopher Goh is the director of global learning and leadership development at Keysight Technologies. He is accountable for the global implementation of its enterprise-wide leadership development solutions.

He leads a global team of programme designers, trainers and facilitators. His areas of specialisation and interests are in designing and implementing strategies, systems and processes in the field of leadership development, performance management, succession planning, change management, coaching, mentoring, 360-degree feedback and competency modelling.

He is certified in NeuroLeadership Institute’s brain based coaching; Ken Blanchard’s “Situational Leadership II”; Kouzes and Posner’s “Leadership Challenge”; and the “Crucial Conversations” programme by Patterson, Grenny and McMillan.

He holds a bachelor of arts and social science (economics) from University of Malaya, Malaysia; and a master of science in Asia Pacific human resource management from National University of Singapore.

Kulwant Singh Bardh has nearly 30 years of MNC and SME experience in various industries. He was formerly the managing director of Asia for a public listed global strategy and technology consulting firm and was based in the US for two years.

His most trying time was when he returned to Singapore to juggle managing his family, doing his MBA with the University of Chicago and starting two companies and two nonprofit organisations.

These critical experiences prepared him when he subsequently joined Mercer as the APAC business leader for HR transformation where he also doubled as lead faculty for leadership development, a new practice at Mercer.

His most recent two roles were as P&L head and director of the talent practices at DDI and Aon Hewitt respectively in Singapore.

A former military officer, he speaks five Asian languages and has worked in different Asian cities.

Namrata Kohli is the head of human resources for Southeast Asia at Lloyd’s Register.

With 17 years of specialised experience in HR, her core expertise lies in business transformation, employee engagement, coaching senior executive leadership, change management and devising HR strategies for the business.

In the span of her career, she has been in HR leadership roles across a wide range of industries, including technology, telecom, advertising, marine and energy businesses. She leads multinational teams across countries and cultures amid complex organisational matrix structures.

She has successfully rolled out numerous HR initiatives and change management programmes from start-ups to well-established companies. She believes in leveraging on diversity and inclusion to enhance business performance and productivity.

Rajan Krishnakumar is the head of talent for Asia Pacific at MasterCard where he is responsible for talent acquisition, management and development for the region.

He has more than 10 years of human resources experience with a proven track record in relationship management, performance management, talent acquisition, talent management, employee engagement, global mobility and change management.

He has previously been with Dell, Standard Chartered Bank, and the business process outsourcing industry with multicultural experience covering India, United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Southeast Asia, North Asia, and Australia over the past 13 years.

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SPEAKERS

Bernard Ho

Rupali Gupta

Bridget Beattie

Jennifer Neo

Raman Sidhu

Head of talent development and learning, Asia Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Head of talent development, APAC, LATAM and MEA Mundipharma

Group executive vicepresident, Asia Pacific Middle East Right Management

Global director, talent and learning, APAC Sealed Air

Global head of L&D Shell

Bernard Ho leads the talent development and learning function in Asia covering 18 countries. He is responsible for setting and driving the learning agenda for the bank and ensuring all developmental interventions are competency based aimed towards enabling a high-performance culture, building organisational capabilities and enhancing operational excellence, thus bringing about sustainable business results and growth.

Before joining the bank, his career spanned industries in insurance, retail, hospitality, telecommunications and manpower security, in areas such as HR management, talent development, talent management and organisational development where he held leadership roles. He is a strong advocate of “growing the people to grow the business”.

Rupali Gupta is the head of talent development for APAC, LATAM and MEA and has been in this role for three years. She brings a unique mix of design ability along with implementation capability due to her experience in management consulting and line HR. She has international exposure in the US, UK, Brazil, Netherlands, Canada and Asia Pacific (Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea).

Her specialties include leadership development, culture transformation, organisation design and effectiveness, HR transformation, change management, performance and rewards, recruitment and staffing as well as process design and implementation.

Bridget Beattie is the group executive vice-president for Asia Pacific and the Middle East for Right Management, the global leader in talent and career management workforce solutions within ManpowerGroup.

In this role, she is responsible for the strategy formulation and execution of Right Management’s vision for all markets within Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

She also heads up strategic partnerships globally. In addition, she continues to lead the Australia and New Zealand operations of Right Management as general manager.

She has an extensive commercial background in senior management, consulting and the law, gained over 30 years. She is a regular commentator in the Australian, Indian and New Zealand business press, and a regular speaker at conferences in Asia. She and her family live in Melbourne, Australia.

Jennifer Neo sits on the people development and sales capabilities committees of Sealed Air in APAC. She is the global director for talent and learning and also oversees the APAC region in talent and learning, including talent acquisition, organisational culture, employee engagement, talent management and learning.

She has more than 10 years of HR experience spanning organisational design and development, talent management, performance management and HR business partnering.

Before this, she had years of experience in customer management and business development with MNCs.

Raman Sidhu is a global learning and development professional with a unique blend of business experience in sales and marketing, supply chain and HR, spanning over 20 years, with expertise in learning strategy and developing and deploying learning solutions.

In his role as the global learning manager for global commercial at Shell, he leads a team of senior L&D professionals and collaborates with the business to successfully deploy learning solutions that help the company address critical capability gaps and improve organisational effectiveness.

He has successfully led global teams in L&D, recruitment, sales and supply chain, and has a passion for performance consulting, OE and L&D interventions to build individual, team and organisational capability.

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SPONSORS Gold sponsor

Gold sponsor

Gold sponsor

BTS

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)

DDI

BTS is a consulting and leadership development company that helps clients drive organisational change and transform business performance. We focus on the people side of strategy by enabling leaders at all levels to make better decisions and accelerate key business initiatives.

For 30 years, we’ve been designing powerful learning experiences that have a profound impact on people and their careers.

BTS has 30 offices globally, and eight in Asia Pacific. We partner with leading local, regional and multinational companies to inspire new ways of thinking, build capabilities, and lift people’s understanding around leadership, strategic alignment, business acumen, innovation and sales.

It’s a strategy made personal.

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) is a topranked, global provider of leadership development.

By leveraging the power of leadership to drive results that matter most to clients, CCL transforms individual leaders, teams, organisations and society.

Our array of cutting-edge solutions is steeped in extensive research and experience gained from working with hundreds of thousands of leaders at all levels.

Ranked among the world’s top five providers of executive education by the Financial Times and in the top 10 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CCL has offices in Greensboro, NC; Colorado Springs, CO; San Diego, CA; Brussels, Belgium; Moscow, Russia; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Johannesburg, South Africa; Singapore; Gurgaon, India; and Shanghai, China.

One of the top talent management consultancies, Development Dimensions International has been a pioneer in the field and is currently recognised as a chief innovator.

DDI is known to help companies transform the way they hire, promote, and develop their leaders and workforce with the outcome being peopleready to execute business strategies.

If you have ever had a leader you revered or marvelled at how quickly a new hire came up to speed, you might have experienced DDI at work.

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SPONSORS Gold sponsor

Gold sponsor

KNOLSKAPE

Right Management

KNOLSKAPE is an award-winning immersive gamification and simulation software company focusing on talent transformation.

Using experiential learning products, KNOLSKAPE helps organisations attract, grow and retain talent.

Global Fortune 500 companies and top-10 B-schools use KNOLSKAPE’s products and solutions for onboarding, training, assessments and talent engagement.

KNOLSKAPE’s core belief is that the best method of learning is by doing.

Keeping with this philosophy, KNOLSKAPE develops engaging, immersive and real life-like products and services such as business simulations, mobile learning applications, case platforms and gamified e-learning.

KNOLSKAPE has a presence in Singapore and India, with clients across the globe. KNOLSKAPE was a top 20 gamification company in the world for two consecutive years (2014, 2015). KNOLSKAPE has also won gold for “Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology” at the Brandon Hall Awards.

Right Management is the global leader in talent and career management within ManpowerGroup, helping clients win in the changing world of work by designing and executing workforce solutions that align talent strategy with business strategy.

Right Management’s expertise spans talent assessment, leader development, organisational effectiveness, employee engagement, and workforce transition and outplacement.

With offices in over 50 countries, Right Management partners with companies of all sizes. More than 80% of Fortune 500 companies work with Right Management to help them grow talent, reduce costs and accelerate performance.

For more: www.right.com.

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EXHIBITORS Exhibitor

Exhibitor

Exhibitor

British Council

FIRST FINANCE

Global Knowledge

With a range of over 60 courses that include everything from leadership, creativity, performance to communication skills we train and upskill over 8,000 professionals every year in Singapore.

We also support institutions with forward-thinking and innovative English testing through our Aptis assessment tool.

Worldwide, we work in more than 100 countries and our 7,000 staff – including 2,000 teachers – work with thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year by teaching English, sharing the arts and delivering education and society programmes.

FIRST FINANCE is a market leader in business education for financial institutions and global corporations, with offices in Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.

We have trained 240,000 executives worldwide, including 140,000 via MOOCs, and certified 25,000 finance professionals.

Our focus is digital innovation and bringing a high return on learning: – Executive MOOCs (public).

– Corporate MOOCs (company-specific).

– Executive online certificates partnering with leading business schools – Robust analytical platforms.

To serve our clients best, we are supported by a dedicated team of client-facing consultants, instructional design experts, EdTech specialists and a global network of 250 trainers.

Global Knowledge is the world’s leading learning services and professional development solutions provider. We deliver learning solutions to support customers as they adapt to key business transformations and technological advancements that drive the way that organisations around the world differentiate themselves and thrive.

With thousands of business skills and IT courses spanning from foundational training to specialised certifications, whether designed for a global organisation or an individual professional, we help businesses close skills gaps and foster an environment of continuous talent development.

Founded in 1995, Global Knowledge APAC is headquartered in Singapore with training centres in Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.

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EVENT PARTNERS Event partner

Event partner

SIM Professional Development

StrengthsAsia

SIM Professional Development provides you with a holistic range of programmes and events to grow your skills and pump up your exposure to global thinking and best practices. In a fiercely competitive world, having diverse learning experiences and exposure is crucial to one’s value add.

Annually, over 13,000 professionals benefit from our programmes and events. Our customised in-company training programmes have also helped companies optimise organisational effectiveness. We have been consistently ranked among the top three preferred providers of management and sales training at the Human Resources Vendors of the Year Awards, a testament to the quality of our programmes.

StrengthsAsia creates and delivers inspirational and transformative experiences for our clients, in creating engagement for their leaders, managers and teams.

We help our clients build a strengths-based culture that has rich conversations, impactful collaborations and real communities in the workplace.

StrengthsAsia is a key partner of The Gallup Organization, in the advocacy and practice of strengths-based thinking and performance.

We have the deepest and largest bench of Gallup-certified strength coaches serving MNCs, SMEs and government entities in Asia. The Gallup Organization considers StrengthsAsia a key mover of strengths engagement in Asia, and has named our CEO, Lim Kim Pong, as its first platinum strengths coach.

Find out more at www.strengthsasia.com.

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