Applying Quantum Thinking in Leadership and Sustainability Management to Foster Change, Transformation, and Resilience

Dr Tan held senior leadership roles including Dean of OCTAVE Institute, Dean of Certis Corporate University, Director at SMU, and GM at Legacy Foundation Consultancy. With over 20 years of corporate experience, he specialises in Leadership, Curriculum and Organisational Development. His expertise includes culture transformation projects with notable companies like Standard Chartered Bank Singapore and Wunderman. He is also a Certified Gallup and Association of Talent Development Coach, an Agile-methodology certified SCRUM Master, an MIT-SLOAN certified AI Business Strategist, and a Harvard certified Design Thinking practitioner. He has published articles on topics including Psychological Safety and Leadership Development and is also a senior reviewer for IAFOR Asia and UK conferences and has presented research in countries like Hong Kong, Edinburgh, Singapore and the United States.

Dr Lim is a leadership and organisational development practitioner, with background in Organisational Psychology, Learning and Development. He has been with the public, healthcare and private sectors, employing organisational psychology and applied behavioural sciences to enable leadership and organisational change. He has also on the leadership teams of the Singapore Psychological Society and volunteered on the advisory committees of various educational institutions.

Joanne, a seasoned executive coach, is one of the first seven ICF-Master Certified Coaches (MCC) in Singapore, with 3,500 coaching hours under her belt. With over a decade of experience in finance and government leadership, Joanne focuses on helping leaders manage large-scale change, build stakeholder alignment, and bridge generational cultures. Her coaching expertise has benefited executives across diverse industries, ranging from MNCs, to government and startups. Joanne is passionate about driving impactful change and empowering people to achieve breakthroughs in life. As the Head of Coaching Practice for OCTAVE Institute, Joanne has been instrumental in establishing the coaching department within TPC Group, and leads her team in creating an integrated ecosystem that encompasses coaching, healing, and learning for the holistic development of leaders on a global scale. Leveraging on her previous experiences, Joanne equips leaders with a powerful coaching toolkit for creating thriving cultures and empowers leaders to embrace the quantum mindset — a transformative approach transcending conventional leadership paradigms.

Sook Yee, a Certified Public Accountant (Malaysia), has accumulated nearly 40 years of experience in various areas, including governance, corporate affairs, investments, strategies, and business leadership. Her career has taken her from family businesses to multinational companies, with bases in Malaysia, the USA, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Singapore, and China. She has also served as a board member, audit/ risk, and nomination/ remuneration committee member of listed entities in Australia and Malaysia. Since 2007, she has held various leadership positions at TPC (formerly IMCPAA Group), including Group Managing Director of its industrial unit and Chief Operating Officer of OCTAVE, its lifestyle unit. However, her journey has been dynamic. She has transitioned from these executive roles to focus on quantum leadership work, providing training, mentoring, coaching, and advice to leaders, and serving as a Non-Executive Independent Director for two listed entities in Malaysia and on the Advisory Board of OCTAVE Institute.