Say “No” More: The Art of Saying ‘No’

Sha-En Yeo

Sha-En Yeo is a TEDx speaker, best-selling author and a graduate of the prestigious Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been featured on national TV documentary ‘Chasing Happiness’, MyPaper, Business Times; and shared her wisdom on 938LIVE & MONEY 89.3FM.  Over the past 10 years, she has trained and spoken to more than 20,000 people in Singapore and beyond. Her clients include YPO Japan, Google, & local brand Love, Bonito. 

Uma Thana Balasingam

Vice President – Partner & Commercial Organization, Asia Pacific & Japan, VMware

Co-Founder Lean In Singapore

Founder Lean In Women in Tech Singapore & Women in Tech Asia

Uma Thana Balasingam is Vice President – Partner & Commercial Organization, Asia Pacific & Japan at VMware. In this role, Uma is responsible for driving the regional commercial segment strategic plan and revenue attainment, in addition to driving execution of go-to-market plans with VMware’s ecosystem across 48 markets. She was recognized in CRN’s The Most Powerful Women of the Channel global list, and Singapore’s Top 100 Women in IT.

Uma is also the co-founder of Lean In Singapore and the founder of Lean In Women in Technology Asia & Women In Technology Singapore. LeanIn.Org was founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to empower women to achieve their ambitions. Lean In Singapore, founded in 2016, is a community of 4000 women, men and others that comes together to be inspired, empowered and educated with a focus on driving gender diversity in the workplace.

Ken Ratri Iswari

Ken was the best achiever for Business Leadership and Human Capital Management. Ken is also awarded scholarship from Total E&P for 9 consecutive years and a recipient of Australia Awards Indonesia’s Short Term Scholarship. Ken started her professional career as Account Manager in P&G and as Recruiter in Shell. Pursuing her passion in entrepreneurship, she decided to quit her multinational corporation career and joined a start-up incubator, Contenga International (now Liv.it) as Human Capital Manager. In 2013, Ken officially established Geekhunter, IT recruitment consultant together with her business partner, Yunita Anggraeni.

With Geekhunter, Ken is aiming to help companies hiring the right IT professional; help IT professional to have a better and meaningful career; and promote Indonesia’s tech talents. After-all, it’s about improving life through opportunities. Her skills and expertise are especially on Tech Recruitment, Entrepreneurship, and Business Development. Ken is actively involved in various start-up communities and shaping Indonesia’s tech talent ecosystem. 

Moderator 

Anjali Sharma

Anjali is one of the leading business storytelling consultants, author, global keynote speaker, and founder of Narrative: The Business of Stories.  Anjali has helped companies increase staff engagement and performance, increase client satisfaction and sales, define company values and effectively position brands by embedding story skills into their organisations. Her work with business organisations has involved Narrative’s own programs in corporate consulting to identify and solve difficulties and promote strengths, teaching and incorporating story skills to present brands and products successfully and engage customers and speaking on business storytelling at keynotes in conferences.  

Anjali has worked with a wide variety of private and government organizations in corporate roles for over 18 years. Having taught business storytelling to clients from a wide variety of industries including airlines, education, health, IT, tourism and pharmaceuticals she knows that this is a skill that can be learnt and applied to all workplaces and companies for enduring change.  She has been publishing her ideas on storytelling on  www.narrative.com.sg since 2014.