Leadership

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

This confidential peer group brings together leaders across different industries 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:

Building Team Resilience
Communicating for Impact
Navigating Through New Working Arrangements
Future Leaders
Operating in a Regional Hub
Future of Work – revisited
Performance Appraisal
Communicating Effectively
Personal Development and Wellness: “New Year, New You”
Self Leadership
Cultural Awareness
Experience Sharing – Failures & Inspiration
Managing People/People Development
Leading Thru Changes

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 Global Public Affairs Leader, Essential Health at Johnson & Johnson, APJ Lead, Inside BDM, Training and Certification of Amazon Web Services, Director of Strategic Communication INSEAD, Country General Manager of IBM, Head of Ecommerce NielsenIQ, Regional Director, South East Asia of Blackmores, Singapore and many more.

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

Meet the group’s chair
and co-chair

More about Shoba Chandran

Shoba Chandran is an entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and co-author of the book on facilitation: ‘Collaboration by Design’. She has also been consulting in the space of innovation for close to twenty years. During this time, she has worked with Academia, SMEs, Government Agencies and Multinational Corporations around the world; including Cartier, TurnerKids, EY, BNP Paribas, Singtel Telecommunications and Nanyang Technological University.

More about Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandran

Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandran, with a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology, seamlessly integrates scientific expertise with leadership coaching. As an award-winning ICF certified coach and keynote speaker, Lakshmi empowers mid-senior level leaders through her P.O.W.E.R. coaching framework. With speaking engagements at esteemed organizations like Site Core and Lonza, Lakshmi is a recognized voice in leadership development. Currently at NUS Centre for Future-ready Graduates, she designs courses on career readiness and co-created an Emotional Intelligence program for scientists with a Duke-NUS Medical School grant.

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

Eugene Goh

VP Finance & Operations at Helicap

Sebastian Nummelin

Senior Business Development Manager APAC at Probi AB

Nur Baizurin Zulkanain

General Manager APAC at NTS AMEGA

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.