Coming Together - EMCC Asia Pacific Region Conference Singapore 2022

Jill Arkell is an EMCC accredited Master Coach who specialises in team coaching. She is passionate about the transformational power of positive conflict for collective decision making in teams and has worked with hundreds of leaders and their teams to build and apply the mindset and skillset of positive conflict.

Dawn Jarvis is an experienced executive director from the UK public sector and has over 30 years experience of leading successful teams. Since 2014 she has run People & OD Partners Ltd and she and her team specialise in coaching leadership teams to deliver successful organisational outcomes. Dawn has collaborated with Munu Wuthuga Dadarkiin from the Dubbi Warra tribe of indigenous Australian’s to create her next book Leading Corporate Clans. This is based on Dawn’s STELLAR MODEL® which she has been using to coach teams for over ten years.

Felicia Lauw is from Singapore and works in equal partnership with people to co-create sustainable growth for our society through healthy, energising and honest dialogue. She sees herself as a thinking partner and facilitator via coaching supervision, executive coaching, and systemic team transition consulting and coaching. She has 30 years in business and organization transformation change experience and served clients from 35 countries. She brings together critical thinking from her Computer Science background and heartfelt relational and reflective competence by weaving Neuro Linguistics Programming (NLP), Conversational IntelligenceTM, Leadership Embodiment and supervisory competence and capacity to effect behavioural and systemic change. Felicia is an EMCC EISA accredited Coach Supervisor, EIA Master Practitioner and an ICF PCC with over 3500 coaching hours. She is a winner of 2020 EMCC Global Supervision Award.

Mark has worked as a full time executive coach for the past 14 years. He has extensive experience working with C suite and MD level leaders in helping them expand their capacity to lead complex international businesses. Mark has coached over 350 individual leaders & over 40 teams in 14 different countries.
Prior to coaching, Mark succeeded in a number of different leadership challenges through his career, including 20 years in Financial Services leading newly formed business units or helping to re-generate existing businesses through innovative product initiatives. He is also a proven entrepreneur, having started 4 businesses in 3 countries.

More recently, Mark has joined the faculty of the Academy of Executive Coaching. In this capacity he develops external and internal executive and team coaches across Asia Pac. He is a strong supporter of D&I and holds a belief in the capacity of all leaders to fully respect diversity whilst maintaining their own authenticity . He is also a 4th year student of Psychodrama, and bring this into his work with individuals, teams and groups.

Ak is a Director of Perth based Beckon Business – Coaching, Mentoring & Consulting. Prior to Beckon, he was a Partner and a Senior Coach with AltusQ. He was also a Director and Deputy Chairman from 2008 to 2010, having started with AltusQ (then Shirlaws) in February 2002.

He is also Founding President of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (Asia Pacific Region).

His other enterprise is Second Squared - an Australian Search Fund Accelerator.

With over 17 years of coaching experience behind him, Ak works with Boards, Senior Executives, Teams, Business Units and owners of Mid- Tier businesses on their commercial, cultural and personal growth.

Based in Western Australia, Ak’s clients include a diverse range of Resource Industry (Hard Rock & Oil and Gas) businesses as well as businesses servicing that industry.

He also coaches businesses within other industry sectors including Banking, Financial Planning, Accounting, Property Development, Legal, Biotechnology, Government (Federal, State & Local), Health & Education Sectors, Real Estate, Engineering and Construction, Advertising, Hospitality, IT, and Manufacturing.

While the outcome for many clients results in an increased asset/commercial value, Ak delights in seeing his clients get more out of life in general, in finding the time for their families and striking an overall balance in life.

Together with colleague Vanessa Fudge, Ak developed a Corporate Mentoring ‘white label’ program which is currently being implemented within a number of corporations and industry bodies across Australia.

Ak has over two decades of experience with corporations like IBM Australia, Ernst & Young, and PMP Ltd, as well as with a number of small and medium sized businesses in the IT&T industry.

Ak is a skilled presenter and has been a speaker at conferences and events for organisations including the ANZ Bank, St George Bank, BT Financial Group, Infocus, AMP, Integrated Group Ltd, MLC, RSM Bird Cameron, & others.

Donna is Managing Director of Creating Communities, Australia’s foremost strategic advisory firm specialising in social value and impact. In this role she has pioneered approaches to improve socio-economic outcomes throughout urban and remote Australia. Donna has comprehensive corporate and not-for-profit governance experience having served on boards for 30 years. She is currently Chair of World Vision International Board and a non-executive director of World Vision Australia. She has lectured in intercultural management and strategic planning in Tunisia, Equador, the USA and Australia and led governance Peer Reviews for World Vision in Tanzania, Kenya, Haiti and Japan. Donna is also an accomplished filmmaker.

In 2020, Donna was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to children through an international humanitarian organisation. Donna was also awarded the PLC Perth Inspiring Service Old Collegians June Jones award in 2020. Donna holds a Masters in International Administration from the School for International Training in Vermont, USA. Her past board roles include: the Envirodevelopment Board for the Urban Development Institute of Australia WA, University of Western Australia Extension, Southern Arc, Ausdance WA, Chrissie Parrot Dance Collective, and the Independent Filmmakers Association.

She and her husband Allan Tranter live in Perth, Western Australia, they have three children, nine grandchildren and another on the way. Donna and Allan are members of St Philip’s Anglican Church, Cottesloe.

Mr. Anthony Teo was the Founder Secretary to the University, a member of the “Troika-in-Cabinet” and Advisor to the President’s Office at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), instrumental in setting the foundation to the university’s QS Global rising from 75 to the present 11th.

A Harvard MBA intrigued by the making of great universities-institutions and the evolution of universities-cities, he chaired the inaugural conference on “Univer-Cities 2013” as Convenor-Editor, which culminated to the publication of the series, “Univer-Cities Volume I-IV”.

He was also the “Conference Provost” for HBS Global Leadership Forum in pre-handover “Hong Kong’97” and post-WTO “Shanghai’04”with a combined global delegates of 1000 CEOs, setting a new gold standard on such fora.

Conferred a “Chevalier of the French Order of the Palmes Académiques”, Anthony’s commitment to generativity in the area of education continues with the “Lee-Teo Gold Medal and Scholarships for Neuvo Economics’, a jointly endowed S$350,000 in perpetuity at his alma mater National University of Singapore (NUS).

Anthony is currently the Adjunct Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Ivan Yong is an organizational psychologist, author, angel investor, sales coach and mentor. He is a frequent speaker on startup culture, disruptive innovation for corporate organization and sales strategy for growth. As the founder of Corporate Disruptors Forum, Ivan engages startups, corporates and academia in corporate innovation through the collaborative effort of open innovation. Corporate Disruptors Forum counts a community size of 50,000+ in its ecosystem.

Ivan is passionate about social justice, having initiated various global social responsibility programs with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) as the Head of Global Social Responsibility Initiatives and Founding VP of Social Responsibility Initiatives Asia Pacific Region. He is also an official mentor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the past 9 years.

A language enthusiast, Ivan speaks 7 languages and is a member of The International Association of Hyperpolyglots (HYPIA)