Name: The Future of Leadership: Developing a Global Mindset (APAC)
Start: 2025-08-14T03:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-14T05:00:00+01:00

APAC

Leadership is no longer about maintaining the status quo. In today’s fast-evolving world, developing a global mindset means leading with courage, curiosity, and connection — across cultures, technologies, and priorities.

Wendy Mak brings a uniquely bold perspective to this challenge. A seasoned CMO with a career spanning fintech, digital product innovation, global sustainability, and brand strategy, Wendy combines entrepreneurial spirit with corporate insight. She’ll share how to lead with purpose and clarity in an increasingly complex world.

🎯 Key takeaways:

Lead through change with clarity and confidence

Align digital, sustainability, and business goals

Build inclusive, high-performing global teams

Stay grounded in values while thinking big

Prepare for AI-driven workforce shifts (WEF: 44% of skills will change by 2027)

What’s in it for you?
✔ Tools to level up your leadership now
✔ Career insight from one of the industry’s top tech leaders
✔ A chance to reflect and network with peers globally

What to Expect
🔹 Hour One: Wendy’s candid insights, practical tools, and live Q&A
🔹 Hour Two: Peer breakouts to apply learning and share experiences

📅 Save your spot via your Teams invite and bring your leadership into the future.

Wendy Mak

MUFG

Chief Marketing Officer

Wendy Mak is Chief Marketing Officer at MUFG Pension & Market Services. Wendy has run their global marketing & communications team for the past 5 years. Wendy has also held a global remit for sustainability for the organisation. Prior to that, Wendy was Chief Product Officer for their digital product suite, running a P&L and frontline business development and relationship management teams.

Wendy’s focus is on digital technology and sustainability, and has a background spanning fintech start-ups, private equity, boutique managed funds and large global organisations such as GE.

Outside of corporate, Wendy has also started up her own fashion styling business and written a book on fashion that has been published in Australia and the US, making her a highly commercial and entrepreneurial marketer.

She also has a soft spot for senior dogs and has an Instagram influencer account for women over 40, focused on fashion, beauty, fitness and food at https://www.instagram.com/wendymak_stylist/

She is an accomplished speaker and MC, a member of the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia’s (ASFA) Conference Committee and a WeQual 2022 Finalist for Marketing, Asia-Pacific.

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.

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.