Name: How to Make Great Career Decisions (APAC)
Start: 2025-09-17T03:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-17T05:00:00+01:00

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APAC

Are you ready to take control of your career and make intentional, strategic choices about your future? Join us for an energizing session designed to empower you with the confidence, clarity, and accountability needed to steer your professional journey on your terms.

Guest Speaker: Ryan Zanin, Chief Risk Officer, Westpac Banking Corporation

Ryan brings more than 30 years of global financial services experience, with a distinguished track record in risk management. As Chief Risk Officer at Westpac, he oversees the Group’s credit, operational, compliance, and conduct risk, as well as financial crime. Before joining Westpac in 2022, Ryan held executive roles at Fannie Mae, GE Capital, Wells Fargo, and Deutsche Bank. His career journey offers a powerful example of how intentional decision-making, personal accountability, and resilience shape long-term success.

What to Expect
Hour One: Explore the art of decision-making. Ryan will share practical insights into evaluating opportunities, owning your path, and balancing ambition with personal fulfilment in an ever-changing world. An interactive Q&A will follow, giving you the chance to ask questions and learn from Ryan’s deep leadership experience.

Hour Two: Connect with global peers, brainstorm real-world scenarios, and emerge with actionable strategies you can implement in your organization—and your career—right away.

Ryan Zanin

Westpac Banking Corporation

Chief Risk Officer

Ryan was appointed Chief Risk Officer in May 2022. Ryan is responsible for risk management across the Group, which includes credit risk, operational risk, financial crime, compliance and conduct.

Ryan has more than 30 years experience in financial services specialising in risk management. Prior to joining Westpac Group, Ryan was at Fannie Mae as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer overseeing the company’s governance and strategy for global risk management.

Prior to Fannie Mae Ryan held senior positions at GE Capital, Wells Fargo & Company and Deutsche Bank.

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 Csuite -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.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Memberships and 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.