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KeyNote Speakers in Asia

All the KeyNote speakers on our directory are screened by our recruitment team. They are inspirational thought-leaders, and experienced and accomplished speakers. Our teams are here to advise you on the most suitable speaker for your event. You can rest assured that you will get the inspirational subject-matter expert that you are looking for. Our speakers have typically spoken to large audiences (hundreds of people). In addition, we are training experts and thought-leaders to inspire from stage.

Are you looking for thought leaders and experts in the areas of leadership, marketing, HR, diversity and inclusion, technology, finance, sustainability, transformation, politics, mindfulness, or sexual health? We have them all! You can have a diverse and balanced speaker panel at your next conference, convention, or corporate gathering.

Asia

Neha Mehta

Neha Mehta is the Founder of FemTech Partners and world top Fintech 50 International Panel, 2019. A consulting company based out of Singapore; helping fintech startups get a foothold in Asia and to promote Women in Fintech; Neha is a recipient of the Nav Shakti Award at 11th National Women Excellence Award 2018, conferred by the Indo European Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises (IECSME); for her contribution for the empowerment of women. Neha is also the Founder of the ASEAN Women in Payments Network (AWPN). In her previous role, Neha worked to deploy BlockChain technology for financial inclusion in areas such as payments, remittance, and micro-loans/insurance to help the world’s  2  billion unbanked people. Neha is Global People’s Fellow 2018, an initiative by the United Nations towards the fulfillment of SDGs. Neha represents Singapore and is working towards Financial Inclusion; she will be attending the UN General Assembly in September. Neha is a Chevening Financial Services Fellow, 2017, and studied financial risk management at Kings College, London.  Neha is a Lawyer and has worked in different areas of finance such as hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and been recently focusing on Fintech. Over the last five years, Neha’s work has centered on lobbying with financial regulators across the ASEAN region.

Digitization

Technology

Asia

Lissy Puno

Lissy focuses her practice on promoting emotional wellness. In her 27 years as a counseling psychologist, she has helped children, teens, couples, and families achieve emotional and psychological wellbeing. Not surprisingly, she has been sought after as a professional speaker across the region - delivering live talks and presentations, facilitating wellness workshops, and appearing on television, print, and radio. With such a background, Lissy now has a wellspring of insight to guide and share with many.     Lissy's professional career has brought her to live and practice in five countries, with Singapore being her base for the past 11 years. With Lissy as one of its founding directors, International Counselling & Psychology Centre was established in 2015. She has authored two books on building and maintaining genuine connectedness as the basis for lifelong relationships and marriages. Her first book, Affairs Don't Just Happen: Protect, Repair, Recover, was launched in 2016, Stay connected (2018)and Couple goals (2019) are interactive journals.   Armed with a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Clinical Fellowship from Harvard University, Lissy is also a Certified Imago Therapist (advanced clinician) and a Certified Imago Workshop Presenter. 

Psychological Wellness

Relationships

Health & Wellness

Asia

Bhali Gill

Bhali Gill is a psychologist, professional speaker, and executive coach with over 10 years of experience in Australia and Singapore. She has worked with global organisations such as SAP, Randstad, Accenture, Abbott, and IBM. Currently, she is lecturing the psychology program at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and James Cook University (JCU). With a reach of over 100,000 readers, her writing has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Golf/Women, SUSScribe, and Medium.   Bhali is also the founder of Corporate Wellbeing and Conscious Unicorn, where her work and dedication to creating productive, mentally healthy, and positive workplaces for employees and organisations have come highly recommended. Her wellbeing/leadership workshops have been applauded by many employees who have testified to having developed new skills, transformed their lives, and created the resilience needed in global organisations.   As an experienced, certified and highly skilled executive and personal coach, Bhali has enabled her clients to discover and reach their potential whilst remaining aligned to themselves. She has a broad range of coaching experience including coaching leaders to develop an effective team, thinking more strategically, and increasing emotional intelligence. She has worked with directors & C-suite leaders from various organisations such as Unilever, Nike, Standard Chartered, Airbnb, and Uber.    

Positive Psychology

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Conscious Living

Asia

Annie Lim

Annie is native Singaporean and gained over 20 years of HR experience in the areas of Talent Management & Acquisition, Career Transition & Leadership Development, HR transformation, Change Management and Executive Search. She graduated from The George Washington University (USA) with a Master's in Human Resource Development and a Degree in Business Marketing from Monash University (Australia). She is also an alumnus of the IMD and certified coach in 360 degrees, SHL OPQ and DISC. Currently, as Global Lead- Diversity & Inclusion at global French Pharmaceutical, she catalyzes gender balance, embed D&I into human capital strategy to shape and evolve culture transformation to leading the company brand building (EVP) and reputation.     Her past experience includes working regionally with GSK, Pall Life Sciences, Adecco/Lee Hecht Harrison. Having lived, studied and work in Asia, Australia and based in Shanghai for 10 years to setting up Center of Expertise (CoEs) for APAC, Annie is well-versed in Chinese language and culture. She is active as industry panelist for associations, universities and institutes. It gives her immense satisfaction to coach and develop people to be successful and fulfilled in their roles. 

Leadership

HR

Self-development

Asia

Anupama Murali

Anupama has spent over 15 years as an IT consultant in multiple roles across Asia, Europe, and North America. She has led transformation projects for global financial institutions, constantly raising the bar in the way clients implement change within their organisations. It was during her successful professional life, combined with evolving family life, that she discovered that living life being inspired and relaxed at the same time is not so much about adopting new strategies, it is rather about realigning oneself.   She now empowers professionals to shift from reactive to intentional living through her 'Achieve with Equilibrium' coaching, transformational talks, and leadership development programs. She is a specialist in enabling highly accomplished individuals to overcome imposter experiences through the ‘Ignite the Leader Within’ coaching program. Her mission is to empower people to discover their personal resilience comprising resilient thinking, emotional balance, and recovery through personal congruence. She has spoken at several universities in Singapore namely NUS Medicine, Duke NUS, and NTU, and given talks at HP Enterprise, Swiss Re, and Alcon, to name a few.

Self-Awareness

Self-Leadership

Well-Being

Emotional Balance

Self-Empowerment

Asia

Aurelie Saada

Aurelie is currently APAC Risk Lead for Microsoft Asia. She has over 15 years of international experience in risk management and audit, mainly in banking and insurance. Her journey brought her through different risk areas (operational, credit, regulatory, market, and cyber risks) different countries in Europe and Asia, and different sectors (private banking, asset management, corporate banking, and general insurance). Aurelie is also a fervent supporter of women’s professional development and leadership.     She's the former President of PrimeTime Business and Professional Women's Association, whose vision is to help professional women to achieve their highest potential through training, networking, and events. She also leads the Women at Microsoft Singapore Chapter and is a strong fervent supporter of diversity and inclusion at all levels. Born in France, she discovered Singapore through an exchange programme in 2004. She fell in love with the country its culture and the food and has built her life here with her family and friends. 

Leadership

Management

Diversity

Asia

Corinna Lim

Corinna Lim is the Executive Director of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), Singapore's leading gender equality group. She has championed the rights of women for close to 30 years and has advocated on issues such as gender-equal workplaces, gender violence, and greater support for single parents, lower-income women, and caregivers of the elderly. Corinna is also the Director of Catalyse Consulting, the consultancy unit of AWARE which provides advice and training to companies and other organisations in Diversity and Inclusion and Workplace Harassment.     Her experience includes 10 years in practice and partnership in Allen & Gledhill, Khattar Wong & Partners, and Koh Ong & Partners. For five years, she was also the CEO of Bizibody Technology, a dot com start-up that transformed into an IT company providing IT solutions for the legal industry. In Feb 2021, the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) announced the appointment of Corinna as its 8th SR Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. As an SR Nathan Fellow, Corinna will pursue research related to public policy and governance in Singapore. 

Equity

Empowerment

Gender

Asia

Uma Rudd Chia

Uma Rudd Chia is an award-winning Executive Creative Director and co-founder of a boutique ad agency, KVUR. She has two decades of experience as a global creative director at various multi-national advertising agencies. She holds an M.A. in Digital Media Management and Technology from Hyper Island. She authored Hey Pastor! Your Church is Going Out of Business and Who Killed Death? At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, she authored her third book, 10 Things Brands Could Do to Survive a Crisis, which became a Kindle bestseller overnight and a playbook for brands to navigate the Covid-19 climate.    Uma is a keynote speaker who has spoken at global conferences to over 200,000 people across 14 countries in the past 5 years on topics of innovation and technology, women leadership, and creativity. She is the wife of one husband and mother to two human babies and one fur baby. She loves physics and wakes up dreaming of walking on Mars. 

Creativity & Artificial Intelligence

Diversity & Inclusivity

Mental Health & Wellness

Asia

Karin Barry

Karin is an Executive with 20+ years of experience in Operations, Finance, and Strategy across the International Development, Banking, and Professional Services Industries. She is passionate about driving transformation and innovation at an individual level and across corporate culture. With her diverse background, she has a special talent for consolidating learnings from across multiple domains.     Her corporate experience has included leading change initiatives, defining and leading strategic transformation alongside Boards and Executive committees, and conceptualizing corporate reorganization plans.  Karin has lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, Singapore, and the USA. Originally hailing from the USA, she leverages her international experience to craft cross-culturally compelling leadership and change initiatives.   

Leadership

Management

Diversity

Asia

Melanie Voskamp

Melanie works as a Revenue Controller in Singapore and has over 12 years of experience from a Magic Circle law firm as well as a premier international law firm. She chairs the Women in Business Community at ADB-Dutch Cham which has been an active partner with KeyNote on various events covering bold, food-for-thought content. Melanie is passionate about making people aware of their ability to evolve and grow.     She is originally from the Netherlands but has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. She speaks 4 languages and describes herself as honest with a hint of Dutch directness, balanced by a respectful and serviceable attitude. She has a bachelor’s degree in Hotel Administration from the Hotel school "The Hague". This has engrained in her a “getting things done with a smile” approach that serves her well in the industry she now works in. 

Empowerment

Self-development

Health/Well-being

Asia

Mahal Rajan

Mahal is the founder and voice behind MetaDestiny, through which she advocates Well-Being, specializing in Resilience, Change Management and Self-Care. As a Speaker, Trainer and Author, she is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations in spreading awareness and need to cultivate well-being.   After surviving a critical medical condition, she emerged from it stronger and with a renewed perspective of life and purpose. She is a firm believer in the simple philosophy that, by taking care of ourselves, we can better care for those around us and create a more positive future for ourselves and our communities.   She is the Amazon Best-Selling Author of 'Repurposed - Finding the New You' and co-author of 'Shaken, Stirred but not Deterred.’   A highly experienced educator, Mahal holds a Masters in Education and has served in the Ministry of Education in Singapore for more than 20 years. Mahal is currently an Associate Lecturer.   

Resilience

Change Management

Self-Care

Asia

Shehara Viswanathan

Engineer by nurture, feminist by nature; Her first award-winning keynote, aged 20, was titled “Am I Being Too Ambitious?”, referring to comments she received for studying engineering. Her decades of keynote and panel moderation experience range from Cloud Asia and TechXLR8 to teaching Cloud and AI at the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisation’s ITHub.   She was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Australia, and now resides in Singapore. Shehara’s relentless passion for innovation enabled the design of game-changing digital experiences. She has taken leadership roles at SingTel, Telstra, and Cisco, in Cloud Computing, Security, and Software. She was the Head of International Cloud Portfolio at Telstra, helping the company create award-winning differentiation in Asia Pacific’s highly competitive cloud market, resulting in 6 industry awards.   Shehara recently served as Vice-Chair of the Asia Cloud Computing Association and is now a Lead Advisor for Cisco APJC.   

Innovation

Creativity

Technology

STEM

Asia

Murshidah Said

Murshidah has run successful businesses for more than 20 years expanding throughout Asia as well as teaching entrepreneurship to teenagers and adults. Murshidah has over 18 years of personal grooming and personal image transformational training experience to teenagers, corporate executives, and government level executives.     Prior to training, she owned a convention organizing and event management company and has organized over 150 projects spanning the Asia Pacific region (including Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing, Sydney) since 1993. Murshidah: In a nutshell, I am a speaker, corporate trainer, life coach, Love and Respect advocate, social entrepreneur, humanitarian, mom and wife, I help press the Re-Set button on people (only if allowed to). 

Leadership

Management

Business

Social

Asia

Carolyn Lam

Dr. Carolyn Lam is a Senior Consultant of the National Heart Centre, Singapore and Professor of Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Program, Director of the Clinical & Translational Research Office at NHCS, Scientific Advisor to the Clinical Trials Coordinating Centre at SingHealth, and Affiliate Member of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, completed advanced specialty training in Cardiology in Singapore, and pursued her Research Fellowship at the Cardiorenal Laboratory, Heart Failure Fellowship at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Advanced Cardiology and Master of Biomedical Sciences at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN. She further received training in clinical and genetic epidemiology at the Framingham Heart Study in Boston, MA, graduated from the Stanford Executive Programme and obtained her Ph.D. at University Medical Centre Groningen.

Health/Well-being

Asia

Ivy Esquero

Ivy is currently Head of Marketing, APAC for Hilton’s Enterprise Brand and Loyalty Program, Hilton Honors. Previously, Ivy’s experience includes a variety of insights and analytics roles with Discovery, Microsoft, and Prudential, covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.   During her time with WE Communications and Nielsen, she worked with clients including Tencent, Lenovo, J&J, VISA, Citi, and American Express. Ivy grew up in Manila and New York City. Her career began in the US before she moved to Singapore in 2016. She speaks four languages and is working on her fifth. Her work has been covered by Campaign Asia, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Marketing Magazine, and CNET and she is on the Advisory Board for BEETc’s Martech Summit.   Ivy is fascinated with people and has had a lifelong interest in understanding what motivates them to act. She’s forever asking why and pushing people to look below the surface. 

Empowerment

Marketing

Culture

Communication
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