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…

“Embrace your uniqueness as it is what sets you apart from everyone and makes you irreplaceable.” This was one of the key messages our speaker aimed to put across to the attendees. On May 15 2023, BoardAgender invited Ilaria Chan, Chairperson of TechForGood Institute to share her invaluable knowledge and personal experience during her career and board director journeys. This session was moderated by Georgette Tan, Chairperson of BoardAgender. Thank you, WeWork, for hosting us. Some of the discussions included how one should always present themselves with confidence coupled with humility, the importance of mutual respect between board members, board dynamics, how one should understand their purpose in joining the…

In celebrating women for the month of March 2023, we are pleased to announce the launch of the 3rd BoardAgender Mentoring Programme for Aspiring Women Directors. The programme will run from July to December 2023. This flagship programme has been specially designed to groom and advance more women into senior leadership roles and boardrooms in Singapore. And we are pleased to announce that mentees of the first cohort of the programme were presented with 13 opportunities to serve on boards, of which they were successful in securing 8 new board roles. Know that each of the 10 selected mentees will be matched to a dedicated mentor who is an experienced…