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2-Day The Leader Within: Uncover Your Authentic Leadership Style

“The Leader Within: Uncover Your Authentic Leadership Style” is a two-day training programme that teaches attendees how to develop their own leadership style through role modelling, being forged in crisis, servant leadership, Ikigai and finding their True North.

Objective

Every leader should develop his own leadership style so that it’s immediately recognizable and remembered for the right reasons, meaning that, his followers are convinced that he’s a great leader who will inspire them to do great work and become great leaders in the future.

Outline

Module 1: Role Modelling

• Good, Bad and Anti-role models
• Behaviours and Traits
• Choosing a role model
• Hybrid/Blend and Goal Declaration

Module 2: Forged in Crisis

• Triggers for Change
• Emotions/Feelings
• Call to Action

Module 3: Servant Leadership

• Called to Serve
• Called to Lead
• Serve to Lead and Lead to Serve

Module 4: Ikigai

• Is it a Venn Diagram?
• Daily Consistent Practice
• Finding Delight and Contentment

Module 5: True North

• Finding Your True North
• Emotions/Feelings
• Persistence/Passion

Who should attend

Individuals who are leaders or who see themselves as leaders in the future in a formal or informal setting

Profile of Leong Yoke Leng

Yoke Leng is a trainer, speaker, mentor, coach, writer and poet. She’s also a LKY Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School (2019), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) Master in Public Management alumnus and winner of the LKYSPP Case Writing (Merit) Award.

She has more than 20 years of leadership experience in General Management, Human Resource Management, Learning & Development, Strategic Planning and Enterprise Risk Management in healthcare, education, social security and real estate.

She has spoken and trained on women empowerment, risk management (including sustainability), financial management, leadership, effective communications, strengthening partnerships across teams, borders and generations. She was most recently a panelist on the Golden Door Dialogues and invited to Ho Chi Minh City to conduct a leadership workshop for senior managers.

In an earlier life, she had chaired cross-functional taskforce and projects, meetings with University Principals, Deans and faculty members (in Malaysia, China and Hong Kong) and heads of Multi-national Companies (MNC) where she represented her then employers and school (LKYSPP).

She was the first and only one in her LKYSPP MPM class of 20 to be interviewed by LKYSPP for her outstanding contributions.

She continues to shine in her roles outside of work – she was Vice-President of the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) Council, the current President of the Lions Club of Singapore Raffles City, Organizing Chair of the inaugural Young Lionhearts Competition, Professional Member of Asia Professional Speakers Singapore (APSS), mentor to ASEAN scholars, Raffles Institution (RI), St Joseph’s Institution (SJI) and Temasek Junior College (TJC) students, winner of many awards, including the Gold Award at Lions’ Oscar Nite, the Silver Ribbon (Mental Health) Award, the CMO Asia Dr Tarita Shankar Award for Excellence in Leadership, the Global Woman of Influence Award, the TIAF Award of Women Leaders and the Top 5 Emerging Influencer Award by Digital Confex in 2025 alone. She’s featured in New in Asia’s SG60 showcase of the most celebrated speakers and trainers in Singapore and 13 times on LinkedIn News Asia and Get Hired by LinkedIn News Asia.

She was invited by National Trade Union Congress (NTUC) to be an “Every Worker Matters Conversations” (EWMC) Ambassador at May Day Rally 2023 and made a pitch on Retirement Adequacy to then Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, whereupon the PM asked the Ministers and Parliamentarians present to vote for Retirement Adequacy as the key thrust for NTUC to focus upon.