Name: How to Make Better Business Decisions (AMER)
Start: 2025-11-18T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-18T19:00:00+00:00

AMER

Every decision carries weight—from day-to-day trade-offs to high-stakes calls with lasting impact. This session gives Rising Leaders the confidence and structure to make choices that move the business forward.

Strong decisions don’t happen by chance. They require clear thinking, structured tools, and the ability to balance competing priorities. In this session, you’ll learn proven frameworks—from SWOT and RACI to risk mapping—alongside real-world insights from WeQual leaders who’ve made tough calls under pressure. Expect candid discussion, practical strategies, and the reassurance that you are not alone in facing these challenges.

Jennifer Kong-Picarello (AMER) SVP & CFO, Terex. Senior finance leader balancing discipline with growth, with direct experience making high-stakes decisions in competitive global industries.

Takeaways

Apply structured tools for clarity

Balance short- and long-term priorities

Broaden perspective across departments

Mitigate risk with confidence

Strengthen decision-making presence

Jennifer Kong-Picarello

Terex

SVP & CFO

As SVP Chief Financial Officer of Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX), Jennifer believes in a zero-touch finance vision, enabled by finance and digital transformation, to support scalable and profitable growth. Jennifer’s visionary leadership and collaborative approach is to bring strategic and financial planning, business partnering and risk management in an end-to-end enterprise planning framework to support appropriate capital allocation. Her relevant experience with large and complex multi-national organizations, including Schneider Electric (CAC 40: SU.PA) and Honeywell International (Nasdaq: HON), helps drive business model change which increases enterprise value.

Jennifer was the Segment CFO of Energy Management, a €28B reportable segment within Schneider Electric, from 2022 to 2024. During her tenure, Jennifer deployed Schneider Electric’s first Future Ready Research & Development (“FRRD”) performance transformation on €1.6B of annual investments. She created 6 performance KPIs to measure development progress and facilitated early exit triggers which enabled capital to be redeployed on other initiatives to support innovative growth. Vitality Index improved from 22.3% to 24.8% while project cost deviation reduced from 49% to 33% and internal rate of return improved from 30% to 34% by 2024.

Prior to Schneider Electric, Jennifer served in multiple progressive roles with increasing responsibilities in Honeywell International including a $3B warehouse automation division which contributed to 300%+ growth in revenue and 200%+ growth in spare parts/service business unit.

Jennifer started her career in 2000 in her home country Singapore. With over two decades of international experience, Jennifer has learned to privilege speed over perfection. She has deep finance experiences across Data Center, Power & Grid, Building, Mobility, Warehouse Automation, Retail, Oil & Gas, Power, Mining, Gas, Electricity, Water and Grid Distribution industries.

Fostering a One Finance culture is important to her. Her philosophy of winning as a team, and likewise failing as a team, has cultivated a deep culture of followership. As a leader, Jennifer devotes her time and energy to cultivate an environment where people can achieve their full potential. She is also a firm believer in authenticity.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Memberships & Programs

Emma is an experienced strategic leader, specializing in professional development at C-suite and senior management levels. With a track record for delivering solutions across a broad range of global sectors and industries, Emma brings a wealth of experience and a deep passion for continuing professional development.

Emma is a Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Learning Performance Institute (LPI), holds certifications from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Association for Talent Development (ATD), and is a former Education Committee member at the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa).

Outside of WeQual, Emma has a young family (8-year-old Joshua, 6-year-old Jasmine, and a recent ‘furbaby’ addition, Monty the cockapoo), who keep her equally busy, active and above all grateful.

Ovin Mohan

WeQual

Director of Leadership Development

Ovin Mohan has coached over 1000 senior leaders representing the world’s largest companies. As a result, he is recognized as a “Brilliant” (CPO – JustEat), “Exceptional” (CTO – Prologis), and “Amazing” (CFO – Holcim) Executive Coach.

He has created award-winning coaching programs for Apple and received five-star feedback from 360-degree Coaching at Christie’s for leaders C-suite -2. He is a guest lecturer on various MSc programs focusing on strategic leadership development. He advises on a Board that informs the training for the leading coaching training company in the US. Ovin has led large-scale leadership development programs for NATO, the NHS, Barclays, and HSBC and has lived and worked in Chicago, NYC, Valencia, and London.

He was previously Head of Leadership Development, managing the largest CMI centre in the UK, delivering and assessing leadership capabilities up to PhD level. He also designed the curriculum for the Institute of Leadership and Management at L7 (MSc equivalent), which received an “Outstanding” award from ILM.

As a former athlete, in both martial arts and football, his approach to leadership development is driven by teaching deliberate practice of tools, providing feedback to refine those skills, and holding the highest standard of competitive accountability. This is further strengthened by his master’s in occupational psychology.