Growth Leaders

Wilf Blackburn, CEO of Prudential Assurance Company Singapore, shares his insight on transforming the workplace to become future-fit while maintaining the organisation’s legacy. Wilf speaks to growth expert, Dr. Alison Eyring, about putting customers first, and adapting the employee value proposition to attract and nurture talent across multiple generations. 

Troy Engle, Head of Academies and Clubs at Sport Singapore, shares his learnings about leadership and development based on his experience coaching elite athletes. Troy speaks to growth expert, Dr. Alison Eyring, about tailoring leadership style to develop individuals and understanding how the whole system impacts performance. 

Joel Leong, Co-founder of ShopBack, shares his experience of leveraging partnerships to create a unique business model and rapidly diversifying across APAC markets. Joel speaks to growth expert, Dr. Alison Eyring, about the importance of empowering local leaders to help the business grow.

Dan Neary, Vice President Asia-Pacific at Facebook, shares what he has learnt at the helm of some of Asia’s fastest-growing businesses. Dan talks to growth expert, Dr. Alison Eyring, about the value of influence over control when scaling your team to support hyper-growth. 

Rosaline Chow Koo, Founder and Group CEO of CXA Group, shares how she has focused on customer needs and involved her entire ecosystem to disrupt the healthcare industry in Asia and achieve growth. Rosaline talks to growth expert, Dr. Alison Eyring, about applying outside-in thinking and having courage to be a disruptor.

Welcome to Series 2 of Growth Leaders! We have a bumper-packed season featuring some of the most talented growth leaders in Asia and global business today. Make sure to subscribe so that you don’t miss an episode. 

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In this episode, Mark Gainsborough talks to Dr. Alison Eyring about leading Shell New Energies, a brand new business within the energy major that is focused on cleaner energy solutions and reducing carbon footprint. It covers areas like electric vehicles charging, wind, solar and biofuels.

Mark talks about balancing resourcing and investment capability with a start-up mentality. They talk about the importance of an external market view, working customer-back and maintaining exposure to high-growth markets and striking the right growth ambitions.

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Julie Tay, Managing Director and Senior Vice President for Asia-Pacific of Align Technology (best known for Invisalign clear dental aligners) on how maximum capacity is relative to what you are driving, growth beyond numbers and why we need more Asian leaders in top jobs.

In this episode, Julie talks to Dr. Alison Eyring about being at the helm of one of the fastest growing healthcare businesses in Asia. She talks about how maximum capacity makes for a difficult conversation in such a fast-growing category, how growth is a mindset rather than a number and why we need more Asian leaders in top jobs.

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Joachim Ackermann, Managing Director Global Product Partnerships at Google speaks to Dr. Alison Eyring about how you scale an idea for mega growth.

Joachim talks about how he manages a growth portfolio, so he can seed lots of different ideas and then scale the ones that can grow fast. He shares about the importance of scaling people in parallel with the capabilities and experiences to support the growth. Joachim also talks about how Google’s 10x growth strategy is at the heart of the company’s growth mindset and drives employees to scale ambitiously and fast.

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Pacing For Growth: Why Restraint Drives Long-Term Success

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In this episode, Julian Persaud of AirBnB talks to Dr. Alison Eyring about how he retains a growth mindset. A self-professed 46 year old millennial, Julian is Head of Global Operations at AirBnB Experiences. He talks about how he retains a hunger to grow and surrounds himself with life-long learners.

Julian shares what his experience in several high-growth environments has taught him about pace, the importance of being able to press pause and why growth leaders need to be able to say no.

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• Pacing For Growth: Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-Term Success
• Dr. Alison Eyring’s LinkedIn
• Twitter: @DrAlisonEyring
• Vikram Rupani’s LinkedIn

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When opportunities abound it’s easy to get caught up in the execution of pursuing them and not build the capabilities you will need for the future. So how do you focus your energy on what really matters?

Vikram Rupani, Co-founder and President of RedMart, talks about how he and his partners have used customer focus to scale up RedMart to be one of Asia’s fastest growing retailers, recently acquired by Lazada, owned by tech giant, Alibaba.

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• Organisation Solutions
• Pacing For Growth: Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-Term Success
• Dr. Alison Eyring’s LinkedIn
• Twitter: @DrAlisonEyring
• Vladimir Makatsaria’s LinkedIn

How do you build an organisation with growth leaders at every level? Over the past decade, the healthcare industry has seen unprecedented growth in Asia. Johnson & Johnson President, Vladimir Makatsaria talks about why people are at the heart of growth.

How having the right leaders in his team, listening to his employees and remaining true to the company’s credo have allowed him to balance driving results today with transforming the business for tomorrow, all the while keeping people energised.

Key Links:

• Organisation Solutions
• Pacing For Growth: Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-Term Success
• Dr. Alison Eyring’s LinkedIn
• Twitter: @DrAlisonEyring
• Parry Singh’s LinkedIn

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Parry Singh, Chief Commercial & Digital Officer at MediaCorp, shares insights he has developed during his career in the technology and media industries on continually navigating our new disruptive normality to be successful in the future. He talks about how in this age of disruption, it is essential for companies to hard-bake transformation into their business. But they first need to have a clear understanding of why they exist and what they are good at.

Parry shares how his experiences at Google taught him that the pace of growth needs to be adapted to cultural context in global organisations.

He talks about how technology can dilute focus if there is not a clear understanding of the company’s direction. He calls out today’s ‘reply all’ syndrome that is rampant in many businesses and how it saps focus and energy in organisation. He also share how he uses routines to manage his own energy and that of his teams - conserving precious energy for important decisions.

Parry gives us an insight on how he uses an abundance mindset to identify talent and hire and promote growth leaders.