2021 Priority

Our focus in 2021 is to help you pivot your position and adapt your organisation to respond to worldwide changes.

Our ambition is to get you to thrive in 2030 and beyond.
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CEO Conversations
across
​Asia-Pacific
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thrive2030 is an exercise in future-scaping. It is a series of Conversations with CEOs and board members from across Asia-Pacific and the Pacific Rim, about how to survive the pandemic and thrive to 2030. The aim, like in my book Stepping Up, is to search for answers to share with you.

​Leaders from across Asia-Pacific, the Pacific Rim and further afield contribute their insights, and reflections of how they have traveled through the pandemic, and suggest how to navigate the ongoing uncertainty ahead. 

During these conversations you will:
  • discover what 'brave' leadership looks like
  • ​consider what they think the 'new normal' will be
  • hear how COVID has changed people, businesses, communities, cities and nations
  • understand the impact on the intersection between business and society 
  • obtain 'diversity of thought' from male and female leaders of different cultural backgrounds
  • hear how to navigate in continued uncertainty
  • get ideas about growing your business across Asia-Pacific
  • move beyond the pandemic and explore how to Thrive in 2030
Upcoming Conversations ​include:
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Girish Ramachandran,
Tata Consultancy Services, Singapore
Girish is President Asia-Pacific at Tata Consultancy Services with responsibility for digitisation, innovation and sustainability. We discuss how 'digitising everything' calls for greater data protection and cyber security in the region, and how to stay relevant.
Simon Pugh
AusCham Vietnam
Vietnam
Simon is the President of AusCham Vietnam and Group CEO at QLM Label Makers with operations in 5 nations across Asia-Pacific. His description of living with COVID in Vietnam, a developing nation, is chilling and might make you reconsider your reality. Watch for his story to come.
David Buffonge
Lead8,
Hong Kong
David is Co-Founder and Executive Director
of Lead8, an award-winning architecture and urban design firm. David has 25 years experience in China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and the UK. We discuss possible changes to city design as hybrid working sets in.
Check below each week for a new CEO conversation

Listen to the latest Conversations below
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Pamela Young talks with Peter Varghese, September 2021
Peter is the Chancellor of University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Peter is also Chair of Asialink, and board member of Care Australia and North Queensland Airports. Prior to this he was Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and served as Australia's Ambassador to India and Malaysia.

Peter talks about the impact of COVID on the University and local and foreign students; the probable changes to business models of universities required to meet changing times; and how the hybrid model of learning will make life-long leaning more accessible enabling people in their mid-career to up-skill and maintain advantage to thrive to 2030. Peter also comments on the impact of COVID on Australia trade and how existing trade links to India can be built on to help renew growth over the next 5-10 years.
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Pamela Young talks with Ooi Boon Hoe, September 2021
Boon Hoe is Chief Executive Officer of Jurong Port in Singapore

Boon Hoe has had over 20 years' experience in public and private sectors. He started his career with the Republic of Singapore Navy and the Ministry of Defence. He also worked with DBS Bank and Portek International before joining Jurong Port.

In this thrive2030 CEO Conversation Boon Hoe helps us understand what it's like working 'at the border' at Jurong Port; how COVID brought the Singaporean construction industry to a stand still and how that impacted ships waiting to unload inventory, but couldn't. Pamela explores with Boon Hoe the role the Port will play in meeting the IMO's goals to reduce GHG emissions by 50% by 2050 and Singapore's goals to reduce carbon emissions by 2030.
Previous Conversations - click to view more
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John Denton, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, France
John is also board member of United Nations Global Compact and IFM Investors; Chair of Asia-Pacific advisory board of Veracity and Moeller Institute advisory board at Cambridge University; Co-Chair of the B20 finance and infrastructure taskforce. His enormous experience in Asia-Pacific is evidence in his commentary as he shares sanguine advice throughout the conversation.
Matthew Driver, Executive Vice President - Services, Asia Pacific, Mastercard
Matthew leads the Asia-Pacific region of Mastercard Services from a base in Singapore. He has 20 plus years experience in the region as well as having worked in USA, New York, Europe and New Zealand. Matthews share how shifts in spending patterns throughout the pandemic indicates how our lives have changed. He has great insights into expected future developments too.
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Advice
(Break-through
​thinking)
We have lived through the Share Market Crash of 1987, Y2K of 2000, GFC in 2008 and now the Pandemic of 2020. Now our focus is on supporting you to innovate, pivot and survive in the constantly changing and unknown landscape that Covid-19 has created.

Survival to 2030 and beyond requires ability to work within the new 'normal', agility to respond quickly and confidently to regular and unexpected change, and a culture of cooperation and collaboration to keep your people focused on organisational priorities. 
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Applying our experience and passion we help you to revive your vision of the future, prepare more agile strategies, align cultures that work 'with' you and deliver transformation - painlessly!
1  Get the Ah Ha - Growth strategy
1.  Get the Ah-Ha! - Growth Strategy
Refine your growth strategies using growthcurv’s Growth Curve - identify elements impacting your growth performance and formulate strategies to catapult into the next century.
2  Discover the magic - Aligning culture
​2.  Discover the Magic - Aligning Culture
Identify the Cultural forces that aid or inhibit Strategy delivery using growthcurv’s Culture Circuit . Each Culture in your Circuit has the ability to make-or-break your performance. Learn how to use it and start driving change.
3  make the switch - transformative change
3.  Make the Switch - Transformative Change
Transform your business using our unique method to help you turn strategy into reality. We guide your leaders to transform business practices by shifting beliefs and behaviours to ensure the change is sustainable. Correctly aligned cultures fuel growth, productivity, and performance.
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Advance
(Programs and Coaching)
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CEO and Top Team Programs
Advance is a series of Programs designed to upskill  your executives to lead strategic transformation 'from the top'. Delegating this task to change managers is a thing of the past. In pandemic times, Top Teams need to be broadly skilled and highly agile, and you can be!

We transfer knowledge and skill to you, so you can:
  • lead your own Strategy Review, Culture Alignment and Transformation
  • upgrade your Top Team Tool Kit
  • boost individual and collective confidence
  • learn to be brave
  • and make a compelling difference.

Using growthcurv's Culture Circuit we show you how everyday actions affect links between strategy, culture and your bottom line.
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Learning Focus: Leading Business Growth
Advance 1 - Linking strategy and culture to bottom line
Advance 1: Linking Strategy and Culture to Bottom Line
Knowing how culture impacts your bottom line and which levers to pull, is crucial to how quickly you can pivot your business in the post-COVID world
advance 2 - creating your own culture circuit, then working  it!
Advance 2: Creating your Culture Circuit, then working it!
Cultures around you shape the beliefs and behaviours of each Top Team member. Understand individual influences and collective forces that underpin performance and work it!
Learning Focus: Inspiring Your People
advance 3 - teaching leaders to gain followship
Advance 3: Teaching Leaders to gain Followship
Leadership - your number one weapon and most expensive people asset - are you using it? Raise the bar on executive performance by turning the spot light on ability to obtain followship. Leaders are only 'being' successful when others are following.
advance 4 - Being Global while staying local
Advance 4: Being Global while Staying Local
While globalization and executive travel is on hold, strengthen your ability to be 'global-while-staying-local'. Develop effective ways for your business to be both at the same time.  Expand your horizons, be bold about setting strategy, use local diversity and reach out to the world.
Meet Pamela Young
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Adviser, leader, executive, strategist, change agent, advocate, commentator, coach, motivator, ​future-thinker, author... 
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Talking with NBRs Victoria Young on "People in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones', [Click to listen]
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Advising AustCham members in Singapore on 'How to Improve Business Relations Across Asia-Pacific'
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Speaking on ABC TV Breakfast News about 'How to better prepare for Doing Business in the Asian Century.' [Click to listen]
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Presenting to 'Stepping Up' to women leaders in Singapore at the Annual Conference of BoardAgenda
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A conversation with Alan Kohler on Qantas Talking Business about "Business in The Asian Century.' [Click to listen]
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Addressing Alumni of the University of Sydney Business School on 'Aligning Strategy and Culture'
Book
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Stepping Up: Lead Culture Change for Diversity and ​Growth in the Asian Century
by Pamela Young
This leadership book details the Australian Business Culture and presents growthcurv's Culture Circuit which outlines how to build the right cultures (organisations, industries and nations) to deliver strategies and be effective in the Asian Century.

Stepping Up helps leaders remove obstacles that limit people of all races and gender from reaching their full productivity and performance. 

It's about being more global, adaptable, inclusive and having courage to make the change needed for sustained growth. It calls on people everywhere to step up and lead.
What clients say...
"Pamela is dynamic and innovative.
She is passionate about change and achieving success for the businesses she advises.​
​She brings a wealth of experience to bear on issues and ​is a pleasure - and challenging - to work with."
Ian Terry, Global CEO Partner, 
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,
London, United Kingdom 
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