BoardAgender had the privilege to host Lady Suzanne Heywood and Emma Sinclair for a breakfast session with mentors of BoardAgender’s Mentoring Programme for Aspiring Women Directors 2023 and BoardAgender Committee Members at the Fullerton Hotel.  Suzanne Heywood was born in the UK but for a decade of her childhood, sailed around the world with her family with limited access to formal education. She came back to the UK aged 17 and won a place to study at Oxford University. After her PhD at Cambridge University, she joined McKinsey and Company where she became a senior partner. She is now the Chief Operating Officer of Exor and Executive Chair of both…

Many thanks to Noelle Lim, one of the mentees of BoardAgender’s Mentoring Programme for Aspiring Directors 2023, who orchestrated an informational session with LinkedIn editors, Ms Serla Rusli and Mr Ting Wei Toh, on how one can boost their presence and build a voice on LinkedIn. This session equipped attendees with the key skill sets and techniques of how they could boost their online presence on LinkedIn, by managing their profiles, exploring the varieties of posts they could leverage, interacting with other users and amplifying their presence. Attendees learned how to address and overcome challenges they might face when using LinkedIn. These included having insufficient time, imposter syndrome and the…

BoardAgender’s Committee Member, Jovina Ang, conducted an informative session on the importance of building and leveraging one’s personal brand for the BoardAgender Community at CATAPULT on October 5, 2023. This session aimed to equip attendees with skills and knowledge on how they can build and leverage their personal brands such that they can demonstrate their value propositions and make their personal brands even more compelling. The session kicked off with an introduction to the various types of boards and the needs of these boards, followed by the various ways in which boards appoint their directors. Attendees were introduced to the concept of personal branding and its significance in today’s context…