Rising To the Leadership Moments - A Talk with Tsun-Yan Hsieh and Huijin Kong
Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of Singapore is delighted to invite you to an engaging in-person session on: Rising to the Leadership Moments. The session will feature Tsun-Yan Hsieh (HBS MBA 1980) and Huijin Kong (HBS MBA 2005), authors of the new book Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership.
They will be sharing their extensive experience in counselling founders, owners, and CEOs around the world: the key leadership moments that few have aced and many have missed, how to bring one’s being to bear in the most difficult moments, and how to improve self mastery in the cut and thrust of exercising positive influence on adversarial stakeholders. Their experiences in the boardroom and c-suites in India, China, North America and Europe across the last four decades give them the conviction that one of the most powerful things a leader can do is develop a personal, unique craft for positive influence.
When: Thursday, April 4, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: The American Club, 10 Claymore Hill, Singapore 229573
Who: All members of HBS Club of Singapore, Harvard Club of Singapore, select partner schools, their spouses/ partners/guests
What:
- 6:30pm to 7:15pm - Registration and Networking. Light refreshments will be served
- 7:15pm to 8:15pm – Interactive session with the authors
- 8:15pm to 8:30pm - Q&A and wrap-up
Cost:
- $15 for paid members of HBS Club of Singapore. Please log in to see the member pricing. Sign up for Premier Membership to avail of the discounted price
- $20 for other members of HBSCS and Harvard Club of Singapore
- $25 for members of partner schools and guests
Seats are limited so please register early.
About Tsun-Yan Hsieh
Tsun-Yan Hsieh is the Chairman and Lead Counselor of LinHart Group. In a career spanning 30 years with McKinsey, he served clients in as many countries and industries in corporate transformation and leader development. His leadership positions in McKinsey included Chairman of Professional Development Committee, Managing Director, Canada and ASEAN practices, Chairman of Asia Client Committee, and the Directors Committee till he retired in 2008. He founded McKinsey’s Leadership Services globally to help clients grow more, better leaders faster.
Tsun-Yan is a Harvard M.B.A who earlier earned top honours at the University of Alberta, where he studied mechanical engineering as a President's Scholar (Singapore's most prestigious scholarship) with an award under the Colombo Plan.
About Huijin Kong
Huijin works with CEOs, future CEOs, and business owners one-on-one on their most difficult professional and personal issues. Her fervent belief that everyone has a leader inside of them motivates her to mentor many people and create learning environments where people discover the leader in them. She also builds communities among people who are on this type of development journeys.
While at McKinsey, Huijin worked with both MNCs and local companies (some state-owned) in the U.S., China, and India. She also served as a senior executive at an Asian media company. Her clients include financial services and telcos. She has a strong affinity for businesses that require innovation and transformation. She co-founded a youth leadership program operating in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Huijin earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with distinction of Baker Scholar, and a B.Sc. in Economics, summa cum laude with perfect GPA, from the Wharton School of Business.