Executive Leadership

Cultivate a network that is built on mutual professional aspirations and personal ventures with other senior executives.

This confidential peer group brings together business executives that lead in their organisations to form a collective network, discuss and define best practices towards both daily challenges as well as strategic directions.

The group shares their experience in areas ranging from strategy development to effective execution with a view to identifying “best practice” and creating “next practice”.

The current key topics that are being explored during our meetings, and we regularly seek our members’ input to flex and change these as situations change:

Consumer insights + your challenges
Workforce of the future: Work from home keeps changing/evolving. How are we addressing it and find the right balance? How do we drive creativity, collaboration and build cultures?
Geopolitical and macroeconomic developments
Conflict between the E, the S and the G in ESG
Deep dive into the environment: “Carbon neutral – the elephant in the room”
Personal Branding: your authentic brand
Employee Wellbeing & Your Wellbeing: “The Corporate Athlete”
Future of Singapore as a Regional Hub
Growth innovation in a digital world
Managing global Leadership expectations
How to survive a downturn
A practical path to diversity and inclusion
Leveraging AI – a primer
C-Suite Development Targets for 2023
Agility as Organisational Workstyle
The New Marketplace: Metaverse, NFT, Crypto, Blockchain
Eco-system strategy
Entre-/Intrapreneurial Leadership
Geopolitical shifts & impact on businesses
Managing up – when global leadership don’t get Asia
Hybrid working what have we learned?
ESG a practical guide
Managing spiralling costs
The Vulnerable Leader – how to become one?
AI for business leaders

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.
Members of this group are from large or mid-sized Singapore-based companies include the Regional Head – Global Selling of Amazon, Senior VP of Kuehne + Nagel, Global CSO & Managing Director of AS-Schneider Asia-Pacific, Director of Mercuri Urval, Director, Development Planning Radisson Hotel, Managing Director of Uhlmann Singapore and many more.

Meet the group’s chair

More about Avi Liran

Avi Liran is on a mission to spread workplace delight worldwide. With over two decades of leadership experience, Avi inspires organizations to create positive cultures and empower employees for exceptional customer experiences, working with organizations such as Dell-EMC, Lenovo, and Marriott.

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.
Members of this group are from large or mid-sized Singapore-based companies include the Regional Head – Global Selling of Amazon, Senior VP of Kuehne + Nagel, Global CSO & Managing Director of AS-Schneider Asia-Pacific, Director of Mercuri Urval, Director, Development Planning Radisson Hotel, Managing Director of Uhlmann Singapore and many more.

Meet the group’s chair

More about Simon J. Littlewood

Simon has spent more than 30 years advising CFOs and business leaders on risk and growth issues in Asia and is a well-known Singapore-based voice on BBC TV and radio. He has an MA from Oxford University, is a columnist for CFO Asia, Asia Finance and Global Finance NY, and is a retained adviser for several leading MNCs.

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.
Members of this group are from large or mid-sized Singapore-based companies and include Managing Director of of Chubb Global Risk Advisors, Vice President, Communication & Public Affaris of Johnson & Johnson, Senior VP, Country Director of Subway Systems Singapore, COO of Thome Group, Managing Director of Leprino Foods, CEO of Space DC, Managing Director of International SOS, and many more

Meet the group’s chair

More about Grant Bosnick

Grant ‘Upbeat’ Bosnick is an award-winning Author, Keynote Speaker, Musician, and the Managing Director of YES (Your Empowering Solutions), a boutique HR consultancy. Using psychology and neuroscience, he has partnered with over a hundred Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 clients in 45 countries on 6 continents to transform people’s mindsets and behaviour to achieve results and perform at a higher level.

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.
Members from this group are from large or mid-sized Singapore-based companies and include the General Counsel, Assistance Global Services at International SOS, CEO of HumanInc, Managing Director of Johnsonville Sausage, Chief Executive Officer Revantage Asia, Senior Director Product Management of Rapiscan Systems, and many more

Meet the group’s chair
and co-chair

More about Ross Swan

Ross Swan helps business improve the performance of their people. This is achieved by working with managers to become better leaders and helping them create an environment where employees want to come to work and contribute.

Peer Group Details

Confidential peer group with 30-35 members
6 Meetings per year
Multidisciplinary events and networking seminars
Access to a virtual global network with more than 15,000 members in 15 countries

To give you a feel of EGN, listen to how our members have benefited from their membership:

Edwin Lee

Chief Executive Officer at Cybernatics

Mathias Schröder

Head of Marketing and Sales Asia / Managing Director at EuroChem Agro Asia

Nitin Govila

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer (CSMO) - Executive Comex – Global Strategy & Execution at Serge Ferrari at Serge Ferrari

Our networks operate within the following frameworks:

Join a group of six (6) peer group meetings each year for a half-day at a central Singapore location (in-person and virtual options available) with dates set a year in advance.
You get access to weekly Cross-Functional events (interactive knowledge sharing sessions that are held both physically and virtually), including focus groups on digital transformation, innovation, human capital, future of works, developing markets, personal development, and networking evenings.
EGN provides an experienced and certified facilitator to run all aspects of the group and meetings.
The group has its own website with contact data, calendar, documents, presentations, and mail.

Frequently Asked Questions

An EGN membership varies in price, depending on your locality, seniority and the specific benefits applied to the EGN Group.
Our Network Advisors can help you find the right group based on your managerial level and professional needs.
Enter your contact info here and one of our Network Advisors will get back to you.
With the support of a professional network, you get the opportunity to exchange experience on a high professional level, strengthen and develop your own skills within management and specialised areas.
As a member of EGN, you get direct access to Top Executives, Business Leaders and Specialists in most parts of the world via our online Members’ Universe where you can ask questions, join debates and network with more than 15,000 other members.
Your personal EGN group represents a confidential forum where all ideas and challenges can be discussed with peers at your own, professional level. To ensure confidentiality, no competitors or significant customer relationships are allowed in the same group.
All our peer groups are managed by a professional and experienced EGN Chair, who facilitates and mentors the peer groups, ensures output both at and between meetings and focuses on your professional and managerial development.
We also offer events and seminars, networking tours, an Between Jobs Scheme, mentoring programmes, CEO coaching and much more.
Contact us for more information
You can apply for membership by filling out this form
When we have received your application, you will be contacted by a Network Advisor for a more in-depth interview to find the right peer group for your managerial level and/or professional need.
All candidates must be approved by both the Chair and specific peer group members before joining a group. This is done both to match relevant peers and also to avoid private friends, customer relationships and competitors being placed together in the same network group and to help facilitate honest and fruitful discussions.