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Member Spotlight: LeanIn.Org
LeanIn.Org was founded by Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg in 2013 and is a global women’s network focused on helping women achieve their ambitions and to create a more equal world. Founded in 2016, Lean In Singapore’s mission is to inspire, equip, and empower the women of Singapore to fulfil their career ambitions and lead successful, happy lives. Today we are a community of over 3,000 women and men, and over 89 circles across all ages, backgrounds and profession. We are a non-profit, volunteer run organisation and we host monthly events/workshops that encourages women across Singapore to Lean In together. We believe that women accomplish amazing things when we support each…
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“Search inside Yourself” Members Workshop
SCWO was pleased to have Marion Neubronner, a learning specialist with over 18 years of experience and author of “Turning Gen Y On: What Every Leader Needs to Know about Recruiting and Retaining the Millennials”, hold a mindfulness based emotional intelligence training for SCWO members. Titled Search Inside Yourself, the training was developed and tested within Google and created by thought-leaders in mindfulness, emotional intelligence and neuroscience to make complex concepts highly practical, accessible and easily applied to the on-the-ground challenges of daily work. It was an intimate workshop where participants were able to share their personal stories and challenges they faced at work and in life. They not only…
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SCWO Insights Series: Women and Employment with Minister Josephine Teo
On 13th May 2019, SCWO held the 4th installment of the SCWO Insights Series, in partnership with its member organization, the NTUC Women and Family (NTUC WAF). This installment centered upon prominent concerns and matters relating to work and employment from a women-centric angle, and is the first of more collaborations between SCWO and NTUC WAF to support working women. The panel of this dialogue session was led by Minister Josephine Teo, Minister for Manpower & Second Minister for Home Affairs and Ms K Thanaletchimi, NTUC Women’s Committee Chairperson. It was a lively and engaging session. Minister Teo shared about the progressive employment practices and broad efforts by the Government…
