Grace Gong is the founder of Smart Venture Media and the host of two well-known VC podcasts: Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com) and Venture with Grace, a daily show. She is an angel investor in the AI sector, a super angel & venture scout for Alumni Ventures, Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck. 

Her podcasts have featured high-profile guests such as C-level executives and VPs from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Adidas, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, DoorDash, Pinterest, Cisco, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Snowflake and more. Additionally, she has interviewed Managing Partners from top funds, many of whom have appeared on the Forbes Midas List, as well as unicorn founders from companies like Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Glean. Grace regularly posts about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance. She is also a #1 Bestselling author in the VC category on Amazon New Release. Before founding Smart Venture Media, she worked in venture capital and private equity. If you share her interests, feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn @GraceGong.


2025: Spoke at AWS, Seattle Startup Summit, event collab w/ various funds. Hosted Smart AI Leadership Summit and Smart AI 100 Summit SmartVentureMedia.com (10M+ impressions/ yr) Companies/ funds we have worked with including Microsoft, Snowflake, Sequoia, Vercel, Alumni Ventures, Amazon AWS, Auth0 among others.
2024: Venture with Grace daily live podcast (top 10%) features top GPs, LPs, execs, and founders. Angel investing in the AI space. 1.5M+ impressions in 7 days end of 2024.
2023: Spoke at LinkedIn HQ, ads clients: VC funds, startups, big tech.
2022: LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance, LinkedIn's creator accelerator fellow; clients including big tech & unicorn startups, speaking engagements: Dell, Microsoft
2021: CEO of Smart Venture Media (monetized, joined VC fellowship)
2020: Podcast - Smart Venture Podcast (top 1.5% among 3.4M podcasts globally, listeners in 100+ countries)
2019: PE 
2018: VC  
2017: Book 2 - How To Be A VC (No.1 new release on Amazon VC category; ft. 22 investors on the Forbes Midas List - investors who invested in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple, etc) 
2016: Book 1 - The Last Key To Success (ft. 21 founders on Forbes 30 under 30)
2014: Master's + PE
2013: UIUC

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CEO CLUB is officially live! 

20 handpicked founders and VCs in the room: Founder who raised $100M at seed/Series A. VCs who backed the hottest companies in Silicon Valley like Higgsfield and Micro1. Big tech SVP. W26 Y Combinator companies we knew would be the ones to watch.

Mid-dinner, a founder pulls out his laptop—because the work doesn't stop.
That's CEO CLUB.

Michelin-trained chef. Private venue. One minute you're talking about Disneyland, the next you're solving a bug so your customer can process million-dollar transactions.

This isn't another founder dinner where people swap LinkedIn profiles and ghost each other by Tuesday.

It's a curated series connecting the sharpest founders with the VCs writing meaningful checks and the builders who need what you're making. Breakout sessions. Real intros. A community that actually picks up where dinner left off.
You weren't in the room. But next time? That could change.

↓ Apply below ↓

CEO CLUB by Venture with Grace.

None of this happens without our incredible partners Vanta and WilmerHale.
 
Thank you for believing in this vision and making CEO CLUB possible. 🙏

#CEOClub #VentureCapital #FounderDinners #SiliconValley

Just saw Guy Kawasaki in Hawaii.

The guy who made the Macintosh a religion before anyone called it “evangelism marketing.”

40+ years in tech and still going.
That’s the game. Longevity isn’t about one big win. It’s about showing up for decades.

2026 is going to be wild for Smart Venture.
Can’t announce what we’re building yet, but it’s the biggest thing we’ve ever done.

More soon. ☀️

#VentureCapital #Startups #AI #Marketing #Entrepreneurship

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My top takeaways from Denise Persson, CMO at Snowflake:

Sales and Marketing are “one brain in two bodies.” The classic friction between these departments is a growth killer. At Snowflake, they functioned as a single unit. Marketing doesn’t "hand off" to Sales; they co-pilot the entire revenue journey.

Kill the MQL; focus on Pipeline. Stop celebrating 20,000 leads if they don’t convert. Denise’s team measured success by qualified meetings with the specific accounts Sales actually wanted. Align your metrics with business outcomes, not department vanity.

Say “Yes” before you’re ready. Denise accepted a Global Head of Marketing role at 27 while feeling completely unqualified. Don’t wait for the "perfect" moment of readiness. If a leader you respect bets on you, bet on yourself and learn on the fly.

Positioning must be “Believable” for the stage. Snowflake didn't start by claiming to be a "Data Cloud"—no one would have believed a tiny startup. They started with "Data Warehouse built for the cloud." You earn the right to a massive category by winning a specific, high-pain wedge first.

Verticalize to win the Enterprise. To scale from millions to billions, you must stop "selling technology" and start "selling business outcomes." Speak the specific language of finance, healthcare, and retail. Generalists get ignored; specialists get hired.

AI is about “Hyper-Personalization at Scale.” AI won't replace great marketers, but it will replace the manual drudgery. The goal is a closed-loop process that serves the right message to the right person in real-time, without a human pulling every lever.

Preserve a “Truth-Telling” circle. Success creates an echo chamber. You need a board of advisors (or a partner) who will ground you and tell you the painful truth about your strategy. Feedback is a gift you have to earn through radical trust.

None of it matters—and that’s liberating. We’re on a blue marble drifting through space. Play the sport with everything you’ve got—be intense, be world-class—but never forget it’s just a sport. That perspective is the backstop that makes the intensity sustainable.

Full pod link in first comment. 

#VentureWithGrace #Snowflake #GTM #MarketingStrategy #TechLeadership #SaaS

10pm work call. Walking out of the airport. Rainbow waiting.

January 1st.

Everyone’s posting their crazy goals today. I’m thinking about something different.

You don’t need the perfect plan on day one.
You just need to walk through the rain.

The rainbow shows up when it shows up. Not before. Not because you manifested it or built the perfect strategy deck.

Because you kept walking.

2026 isn’t about the goals you set today. It’s about what you do when it’s 10pm and you’re tired and it’s raining and you still show up.

The rainbow shows up when you keep walking.

#Entrepreneurship #StartupLife #FounderJourney #VentureCapital #2026

Never thought I’d be so important that people are DMing me to “go back to work” 😂

I’m on vacation til Friday. But let’s be real - work doesn’t wait.

I work through every vacation. Last one? 10 days before our conference, grinding til 2 AM every night.

I don’t believe in work-life balance.
If you want to build something that matters, you have to go ALL IN.

But here’s what I DO believe in:
Building something so meaningful that “work” stops feeling like work.

When the mission is clear, vacation becomes optional.

The grind becomes a choice, not a burden.

That’s the difference between building something you tolerate and building something you can’t stop thinking about.

#founder #startup #entrepreneur #business #ceo

Allison Baum Gates is a General Partner at SemperVirens VC, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in healthcare, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. An experienced technology investor, author, and speaker, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from global LPs and backed more than 70 companies—with nine unicorns, 24 exits, and 10 board roles among them. Previously, she co-founded Fresco Capital, invested at Trinity Ventures, and was an early team member at General Assembly, acquired by Adecco for $413 million. A Harvard graduate and former Goldman Sachs trader, Allison has lived and worked across five countries, lectures at Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley-Haas, and is the author of Breaking into Venture (McGraw-Hill, 2023), a guide to understanding and entering the VC industry.

Topics: 

- Pattern recognition at scale: what actually separates durable venture returns from hype cycles

- Building and managing institutional LP relationships across geographies and fund vintages

- Board dynamics, power, and governance in venture-backed companies from seed to exit

#VentureCapital #InstitutionalInvesting #BoardGovernance #StartupScale #SmartVenturePodcast

Allison Baum Gates, SemperVirens GP on Future of Work & HR Tech

How to land a whale 🐳 in B2B sales.

You don’t chase it.
You don’t rush it.
You don’t scare it away.

Whale watching made this painfully obvious.

The biggest deals surface when buyers are ready — not when your quarter needs help.

#B2BSales #EnterpriseSales #Startups #Founders #GoToMarket

I've chatted with 200+ AI founders backed by a16z, Sequoia, Lightspeed and other top VC funds on my podcast and at my dinners. Here's what actually happens in 2026.

I'm joining Matt Wolfe (800k+ YouTube subs), Jeremiah Owyang (GP at Blitzscaling Ventures), and Chappy Asel from The AI Collective for a forecasting session where we're actually putting money down.

What we're betting on:
→ Who's the best AI lab by Dec 31st: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or xAI?
→ Does anyone claim AGI in 2026?
→ Will AI close a $50k+ deal on its own?
→ Can AI actually ship code without breaking everything?
→ What are we all missing?

Here's what I know: The gap between AI demos and actual revenue is massive. 

Every founder I talk to is building agents. Almost nobody's buying them at scale yet.

That changes in 2026. Or it doesn't.

Hosted by our friends at The AI Collective (150k+ AI builders), Kalshi (regulated prediction markets), and Roam (AI-powered virtual HQ).

See you there.

#AI #AIAgents #AGI #TechPredictions #Startups

David Zeng is Co-Founder and CTO of Beacons AI, the Y Combinator-backed all-in-one platform powering 9M+ creators with AI-native tools for link-in-bio pages, websites, email marketing, ecommerce, and monetization across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more—helping solopreneurs turn brand deals, affiliates, and digital products into sustainable businesses without tech headaches. A Stanford PhD in signal processing and machine learning whose medical imaging research deployed globally in hospitals, David previously led ML at Azumio (launching Calorie Mama AI) and interned on computer vision at Google, bringing hardcore AI engineering to the $250B creator economy where Beacons handles unique creator mixes on every major US social network.

Topics:
  - Using ML signal detection to spot viral patterns before platform algorithms react.
 - AI link-in-bio 3x's conversions – predicts TikTok/IG/YouTube audience overlap
 - Why the creator economy needs AI-native tools, not more dashboards

 #CreatorEconomy #SaaS #Startups #YC #TechInvesting

David Zeng, Beacons CTO on AI Tools for Creator Economy

Joseph Ros is a Partner and General Manager at Entrepreneur First(EF), the pioneering global platform that invests in exceptional individuals before they have an idea or co-founder. Based in San Francisco, Joseph has backed early-stage technology companies across AI, biotech, robotics, hardware, and climate tech in markets including Singapore, India, Europe, and North America. At EF, he leads talent investing and follow-on capital while driving EF’s global pipeline that connects top technical talent from Europe and India to Silicon Valley. Before joining EF, Joseph was a founder and self-taught engineer, building and scaling consumer web products that reached millions of users across industries like gaming, legaltech, and edtech.

Topics: 
- Talent-first investing: Why backing individuals before ideas produces outlier companies
- How EF evaluates founders at day zero (signal, grit, and technical edge)
- Building global founder pipelines: Europe & India as the next AI power centers

#VentureCapital #TalentInvesting #EarlyStageVC #AIStartups #GlobalFounders

Joseph Ros, Partner at EF on Talent-First Investing & Global Scale

Distribution for startups 101.

Stripe didn’t buy growth — they embedded into platforms that already had users.

#startups #founders #distribution #growthstrategy

entering my villain era 😈

#2026 #founder #ceo

🎉 Week 102 Recap — Venture with Grace  

Week 102 explored cutting-edge AI infrastructure, VC investment strategies, GTM mastery for SaaS, causal AI innovations, and usage-based billing revolutions — unpacking commercialization, diligence, scaling, and growth in tech.

Week 102 lineup:

Deepak Prasad, Qualcomm Director: Qualcomm's US tech deals, long-term technical advantage, cloud-to-edge diligence

Priya Ramachandran, Foster Ventures Founder: GTM for international SaaS, proving PMF for cross-border founders, operator investor eval

Ray Wu, Alumni Ventures Managing Partner: Global AI & SaaS investing, corporate venture lessons from HP & Cisco, building startups across markets

Abby Kearns, former CTO of Alembic Technologies on AI and OpenSource: Modernizing Puppet to cloud-native, causal AI for marketing ROI, scaling global eng teams

Scott Woody, Metronome CEO: Usage-based billing as core infra, scientific modeling in SaaS, Dropbox-scale lessons for startups

Week 102 delivered battle-tested insights on turning research into VC-backed reality, diligencing edge tech, and fueling SaaS growth amid 2026 shifts. The big theme: Builders and investors are redefining infrastructure for an AI-driven world.

See you live next week for more exciting episodes! 👋

#VentureWithGrace #AI #startups #founders #vc

Vignesh Ravikumar is a Partner at SIERRA Ventures. Vignesh Ravikumar joined Sierra Ventures in 2013 and focuses on investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Digital Health/Healthcare IT. Vignesh has a background in M&A transactions for enterprise software companies, having worked at AGC Partners, a Boston-based investment bank. Vignesh holds a BS in Management Science (cum laude) and a Minor in Math from UC San Diego. 


Topics: 
- Underwriting AI-heavy SaaS when infra, pricing, and competition shift
- Pricing and packaging playbooks for AI-native SaaS at seed/Series A
- Vertical SaaS 2.0: deep workflow, compound products, and moats

#VentureCapital #EnterpriseSaaS #VerticalSaaS #DigitalHealth #HealthcareIT

Vignesh Ravikumar, Dhanush Ram and 5 other attendees

Vignesh Ravikumar, Sierra Ventures Partner on Enterprise & Vertical SaaS

Aaron Cannon — CEO of Outset — on Venture with Grace, sharing how AI is reshaping the pace and depth of research.

Aaron walked through how this approach unlocks faster understanding without sacrificing nuance, helping teams learn more, sooner, and make better decisions with confidence.

Episode is live now — a compelling look at how AI can accelerate research and insight at scale. Link in Bio.

#AIResearch #UXResearch #ProductDiscovery #QualitativeResearch #QuantitativeResearch

Scott Woody is Co-Founder and CEO of Metronome, the leading usage-based billing platform empowering SaaS companies to model flexible pricing strategies, iterate rapidly without engineering bottlenecks, and turn billing into a growth engine amid 2026's shift from seats to consumption models. With prior stints as CTO at Metronome since 2019 and Director of Engineering at Dropbox where he scaled core infrastructure for 12 million+ users, Scott brings hands-on builder credentials from co-founding Foundry Hiring—an ultra-simple ATS that handled full-stack from marketing to code. A Stanford grad whose computational biology research spanned protein folding simulations, DNA mutations, and motor protein assays, he bridges academic modeling rigor with enterprise software at scale, having engineered Dropbox's evolution from startup to public giant before tackling SaaS monetization's biggest pain point.

Topics
- Why usage-based billing is becoming core infrastructure, not a finance feature
- How a scientific modeling background shaped a SaaS infrastructure founder
- Lessons from Dropbox-scale systems applied to early-stage startups

#UsageBasedBilling #SaaSGrowth #PricingInfrastructure #FounderInsights #BuildInPublic

Scott Woody, Metronome CEO on Usage-Based Billing & SaaS Growth

How to build distribution for your startup (without burning cash).

Nike didn’t hire Kim Kardashian. They partnered with her company SKIMS. 

Here’s how. Follow me so your startup doesn’t die.


#startups #founders #distribution #businessstrategy #entrepreneurship

Aaron Jacobson  — Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) — on Venture with Grace, spotlighting the next major frontier in cybersecurity.

As devices, applications, and data become more secure, identity is emerging as the critical layer left to solve. With agents operating across systems, knowing who has access — and proving it in real time — matters more than ever.

Aaron shared why identity sits at the center of modern security and how real-time verification will define the next generation of protection.

Episode is live now — a sharp conversation on cybersecurity, identity, and what comes next. 

#Cybersecurity #Identity #EnterpriseSecurity #VentureCapital

Howard Wright — VP at NVIDIA — on Venture with Grace, sharing a simple but powerful leadership habit.  

Being fully present when someone is speaking sounds obvious, but in a world full of notifications and constant distraction, it’s a rare skill. Howard framed deep listening as a sign of respect — and of quiet confidence.  

He shared how leaders who truly listen build stronger trust, make better decisions, and lead with humility.  

Episode is live now — a thoughtful reminder on presence, leadership, and the power of listening.

#Leadership #ActiveListening #Management #ExecutivePresence

Lior Susan  — founder & CEO of Eclipse — on Venture with Grace, sharing a framework for spotting the next wave of disruption.

To find industries ready for transformation, Lior looks bottom-up: study how work actually gets done, layer in the macro forces at play, and examine the technologies powering the ecosystem today.

He pointed to how e-commerce reshaped logistics as a reminder that when technology meets the right market conditions, entire industries can change — raising the question of what’s next.

Episode is live now — a thoughtful conversation on innovation, venture investing, and identifying inflection points.

#VentureCapital #Innovation #Disruption #EmergingTech

GFTN

🌱 Managing Partnerships & Ambassadors
🌱 Collaborate & co-ordinate within the marketing team and cross functional teams in developing marketing materials
🌱 Support the planning and execution of initiatives, events and campaigns
🌱 Onboarding of Elevandi Ambassadors
🌱 Assist in the development of content
🌱 Support in the managing of social media platforms + content creation
🌱 Assist in monitoring and analysing campaign performance metrics and KPIs
🌱 Assist in conducting market research and analysis to identify trends and insights
🌱 Stay updated on industry trends

🔸️Our global platforms serve as collaborative forums where senior policymakers and industry leaders convene to address and navigate challenges and opportunities across these themes.

📌 Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF)
📌 GFTN Forum Japan (GFJ)
**previously Japan FinTech Festival (JFF)
📌 Inclusive FinTech Forum (IFF)
📌 Point Zero Forum (PZF)
📌 Insights Forum (IF)
📌 The Founders Peak
📌 Green Shoots
📌 GFTN Education
📌 The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue (CMPD)

For 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ 👇🏻

✅️ March – Japan FinTech Festival ™️ 🇯🇵
⛩️🇯🇵🌸🗻
✅️ May – 3i Africa Summit [Ghana 🇬🇭]
✅️ July – Point Zero Forum ™️ 🇨🇭
⏸️ August – Inclusive FinTech Forum ™️ [Rwanda 🇷🇼] [Postponed to 2025]
✅️ September – Global SME Finance Forum 🇧🇷
✅️ November – Elevandi Insights Forum ™️ 🇸🇬
✅️ November – Singapore FinTech Festival ™️ 🇸🇬

For 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ 👇🏻

🥂 February – Inclusive FinTech Forum ™️ [Rwanda 🇷🇼]
🥂 March – GFTN Forum Japan 🇯🇵
**previously Japan FinTech Festival ™️
⛩️🇯🇵🌸🗻
#letsrisetogether #GFTNForumJapan
🥂 March – The Black Swan Summit ™️ 🇦🇺
🥂 May – Point Zero Forum ™️ 🇨🇭
🥂 May – 3i Africa Summit 🇬🇭
🥂 September – Global SME Finance Forum 🇿🇦
🥂 September – Nordic Fintech Week 🇩🇰
🥂 November – Insights Forum ™️ 🇸🇬
🥂 November – Singapore FinTech Festival ™️ 🇸🇬

Marketing Associate (Partnerships)

💼 Elevandi is an independent legal entity set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

🚀 Singapore FinTech Festival's unprecedented growth, both in size & the quality of its content, made it imperative to consider enriching it with institutional strength. 

♟️In August 2021, the MAS announced the creation of an independent legal entity, named Elevandi, to foster an active and open dialogue between the public and private sectors, to advance FinTech further in the global digital economy.

🤝🏻 We connect people, business, ideas & insights in the FinTech sector, both regionally & globally through our event platforms, program, insights reports and education courses.

🌱 Assisting the team with daily communications to media and association partners
🌱 Supporting the team on communication materials with partners
🌱 Research and identify new media and association partnership opportunities that will help elevate our events
🌱 Additional deliverables in aiding and enhancing Elevandi's vision, mission & virtues

🔸️Our 2023 Themes - Applications of AI, Fair Transition, Digital Assets, Financial Inclusion, and Risk & Resilience - underscore Elevandi's commitment to driving FinTech adoption and progress.

FinTech Partnerships

The Astronauts Collective (TAC)

🚀 Transitioned from a Youth Guidance Associate [YGA] to a working professional TAC Volunteer 👨🏻‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀

🍀 Looking forward to connect with other youths & share a conversation 🥂

#buildingworlds #lifelonglearning

Volunteer

💼 A Non-Profit Organisation that helps youths explore the world of work and find meaningful careers, just like how astronauts explore and discover new worlds! 

📌 Helped facilitate career exploration workshops and programmes for youths, towards the mission of supporting youths to explore & discover meaningful careers.

🚀 Star Compass 🌟🧭
🔸️App-based tool
🔸️To guide youths to unpack & build a language of their career motivations
🔸️Helping youths navigate and identify career pathways that are more likely to meet those needs (Career Motivations)
🔸️Helps youths understand Key Career Motivations

Related to...

💡 Work Itself
🔸️Developmental Work
🔸️Cool & Fun Work
🔸️Challenging Work

💡 Work Environment
🔸️Good Colleagues & Bosses
🔸️Work-Life Balance
🔸️Organisation Values & Mission
🔸️Job Stability & Security

💡 Work Rewards
🔸️Helping Others
🔸️Career Progression
🔸️Good Pay
🔸️Sense of Achievement

🚀 Day X
🔸️A Day of Exploration
🔸️Flagship Career Exploration Programme for Pre-Tertiary Youths

🍀 Engaged more than 60 youths across 2 Secondary Schools
🍀 Facilitated & Assisted during Job Tasters segment
[Together with Career Professionals contributing towards their respective Worlds]
🍀 Guided exploration of various possible tertiary education pathways to progress towards the youths' career of choice.

Day X Structure:
🔸️Launchpad
🔸️Job Tasters
🔸️Pathfinders – World Map

🚀 Mission X
🔸️A Mission of Exploration
🔸️Career Mentoring Programme for Pre-Tertiary Youths

Goals / Takeaways:

🌱 Knowledge & Insights
🔸️Motivations
🔸️Options
🔸️Directions

🌱 Career Competencies
🔸️Open-Mindedness
🔸️Relationship Building
🔸️Reflectiveness

🚀 World X
🔸️A national career exploration event for youths, showcasing diverse jobs & careers that contribute to our world!
🔸️Built based on TAC's concept of Worlds

🌱 More than 15,000 youths have benefitted from our career exploration programmes! 

🧭 Explore
🤝🏻 Connect
💡 Prepare

Youth Guidance Associate (YGA)

MentorsHub

🥂 Mentor - Glenn Seah
🔸️Mentorship on various roles within the Finance Industry + Personal Experiences and Sharing of Learning Takeaways

🥂 Life Design Coach - Peck Chee Chow
🔸️Coaching on Gallup Strengths, Life Goals + Vision, and Life Journey and Experiences

🥂 Strength Coach - Wu Zhimin
🔸️Coaching on my Gallup Strengthsfinder - Top 5 Talents, Balcony - Basement Talents, and how I can progress forward in developing my talents and refine it to be my strengths

Mentee (Batch 10)

🥂 Mentor - Fred Ng
🔸️Mentorship on my Career Industries (shortlist), Fred's experience + his first few months during his internships/careers

🥂 Life Design Coach - Ivan John Liew
🔸️Coaching on Gallup Strengths, Life Goals + Vision, and Life Journey and Experiences

🥂 Strength Coach - Wu Zhimin
🔸️Coaching on my Gallup Strengthsfinder - Top 5 Talents, Balcony - Basement Talents, and how I can progress forward in developing my talents and refine it to be my strengths

💼 MentorsHub is differentiated by their social mission, close knitted mentoring community, tailored programs and quality of their mentors. MentorsHub is supported purely by the business community who contribute their time and talents.

MentorsHub give People the impetus to ASPIRE & EXCEL.

Vision 👓 
📌 To facilitate young people towards a purposeful, impactful and fulfilling life.

Mission 🕶
📌 To Bring Young Adults From Good To Great
- Uncover & nurture potentials through a discovery & developmental process to maximize strengths for excellence.
📌 To Increase Social Mobility
- Guidance in how to build capabilities that increase opportunities for social mobility
📌 To Inculcate A Purposeful Life
- Instill the virtues for success, impact & fulfillment

MentorsHub Mentorship:
📌 Steers young adults towards a more purposeful, impactful & fulfilling life.

MentorsHub's Social Goal:
📌 To increase the Capabilities & Opportunities of young adults

Mentee (Batch 9)

Halogen

💼 Halogen Trainer & Facilitator

🙌🏻 Halogen+ Community
🙌🏻 Youth Development Community

📌 Discussion Topics such as:
🔸️Effective Communication 
🔸️Entrepreneurship
🔸️Design Thinking
🔸️Personal & Team Leadership
🔸️Creative Thinking & Problem-Solving
🔸️Public Speaking 
🔸️Empathy

🌱 Facilitators' Training (FT)
[15th to 17th September 2023]

🚀 FT is a space to sharpen our skills as a trainer as we get deployed into more trainings in the future, especially those who want to venture into the leadership programme space. 

🚀 This is also a space for us to learn from & meet other Halogen Associates + Building a wealth of training knowledge together through peer learning 🤝🏻

📌 Across the 3 days/sessions, we focused on:

 1️⃣ 🙇🏻🙇🏻‍♀️ Audience Engagement 
👉🏻 How do different target groups differ?
👉🏻 What to do during difficult situations

 2️⃣ 👨🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍🏫 Classroom Management
👉🏻 How are you grabbing the attention of your students?

 3️⃣ 🙌🏻💯 Training Task Force
👉🏻 Involving hands-on Mock Training & got first-hand feedback! 

🔸️We worked together to find out what type of behaviours students display + how can we, as facilitators and trainers work through it. 

🔸️We had our concerns addressed, with tips and tricks into handling such students + We managed to collectively built our training bank 🤗! 

🔸️We were provided avenues to mock train & try the different facilitation/training techniques!

Associate Facilitator

💼 As a LinkedIn Ambassador:

💯 Direct coaching from LinkedIn Coaches on how best to utilise the platform
🤝🏻 Facilitation skills training on how to interact with peers
😃 Priority for LinkedIn Career Conversations & Roundtables

📌 4 Touchpoints 👇🏻

🔸️16th May - LinkedIn APAC HQ
[Partnership with LinkedIn's Social Impact Team]
🔸️31st August - Halogen's Office
[Session facilitated by Halogen Staff]
🔸️2nd, 9th, 23rd, 30th November - Zoom
[LinkedIn Editorial Program]

Halogen x LinkedIn Ambassador

🍀 TikTok x Halogen Mentoring Programme

🥂 Mentor – Jeremy Ong
🔸️Mentorship on working at a Tech Company [Policy & Safety] + sharing of personal experiences + conversations about research and academics

Mentee

🍀 Elements Mentoring [ELE2307]

🥂 Mentor - Shawn Lee
🔸️Mentorship on personal journey, reflection, core values, strengths / talents, higher education - Work Study Degree / Adult Learner, P.A.T.H

💼 Elements is a mentorship programme developed and run by Halogen Foundation. Young people are matched with mentors from established institutions, companies and Halogen+ community, to embark on a learning journey through the power of mentoring conversations.

📌 Named to cover four key elements of youth's growth –
💡Personal Discovery
💡Career Navigation
💡Skill Set Development
💡Early Career Mastery
– and contextualised to equip young people with a better understanding of themselves and their capabilities

💼 What you can look forward to in LinkedIn Career Conversations:

🤝🏻 Get connected with coaches across sectors in a 1:3 setting
💯 Hear from coaches as they share their experience being in the industry
🌱 Gain valuable insights into your personal future career identity and a fulfilling career pathway

🥂 Virtual LinkedIn Career Conversation (APAC)
📌 24th March 2023
🔸️Hosted by: Daniel Tay
🥳 Coaches I had a conversation with 👇🏻
🔸️Lanny
🔸️Preeti
🔸️Clarisse
🔸️Sher Lyn

LinkedIn Career Conversations [Attendee]

LinkedIn

🍀 Peer-support leaders
[Help peers in navigating & maximising opportunities through LinkedIn]
🍀 Spread awareness of LinkedIn as a platform
🍀 Guide peers on profile creation & management
🍀 Assist peers in searching for opportunities
🍀 Share tips on content curation & creation

LinkedIn Ambassadors

TikTok

Actxa Wellness

📌 Wellbeing Champion [Volunteer Community]

📌 Values of:
🍀Happiness
🍀Betterment
🍀Sustainability
🍀Empowerment
🍀Community

🔸️Journey With Wellness (JWW)
🔸️Step Into Wellness (SIW)
🔸️9PQ Wellbeing Assessment Tool

Wellbeing Champion

Voices Of Asia 

🥂 Mentor - Joseph Raphael
🔸️Mentorship on finance, sustainability & consulting industry + gaining clarity through intentional planning & preparation + further education

💼 3 month structured Mentorship program

🌱 Key building blocks to help young adults & fresh graduates find their purpose in their career and inclination
🌱 Help young adults transit smoothly from student or NS life into career life
🌱 Nurture young professionals into becoming future leaders at work

🔸️Kick-Off & Networking - imPAct@Hong Lim Green [31st August 2023]
🔸️Negotiation & Influencing Others at the Workplace [17th October 2023]

iASPIRE Mentee (Batch 9)

Prudential Assurance Company Singapore

🍀 TEE-Up Mentorship Programme [2nd Batch]

🥂 Mentor - Apriani Kartika
🔸️Mentorship on her transition into the Sustainability Industry + personal branding + her experience in championing for social causes + setting up for success + communicating clearly on what is needed for succeeding in the role, translating to a successful outcome for the company

💼 Prudential's network of mentors and Gen Zs get to connect with one another & exchange insights on careers, finances, life and more!

📌 Connect & engage with mentors and professionals, in 1:1 settings
📌 Develop greater clarity in your professional and personal journey
📌 Expose yourself to new and different perspectives
📌 Explore 1 career option with a mentor and gain valuable advise from them!

Mentor Circle | AtPace Academy

🥂 Mentor - Vo Phuong (QP)
🔸️Mentorship on Vietnam, QP's experience + feedback on resumes, interviews & DISC profiling

💼 5th ASEAN & Asia Mentorship Program (5AAMP)

📌 APEX DISC Behavioural Profile by Brydan
📌 APEX Profile ™️ is a behavioural profiling tool where it provides us an glimpse of how the individual behaves in a given context.
📌 All profiling tools are highly contextual and the DISC Report assessment I did is in the context of - Social
📌 FJ's DISC Style is: Appraiser (IC Blend)

Mentee (Batch 5)

🌱 Aspiring Career-preneurship Changemaker | 🥂 FinTech Partnerships | Elevandi 💼 | Marketing Associate 🍾 | 🚀 Volunteer @ The Astronauts Collective 🧑🏻‍🚀 | ♟️ Halogen x LinkedIn Ambassador

🚀 Launched as Partnerships & Content Marketing

🔜🇷🇼 #rwanda #kigali
#inclusivefintechforum #IFF25

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🌱 Surrounded by an A-team on a mission – Connecting the World for Impactful FinTech Innovation, extending the frontiers of knowledge ~ The Journey at GFTN

🕊 What motivates me:

👣 Creating a positive impact that leaves a ripple effect without having any regrets ~ FJ's motto

A little more about my growing journey & how I go about life 👇🏻

🍀 My Gallup Clifton Top 5 Strengths:

🔸️Relator
🔸️Maximiser
🔸️Futuristic
🔸️Learner
🔸️Discipline

🍀 My Enneagram Type:
🔸️Type 4️⃣ Wing 3️⃣ (Aristocrat)

🍀 My 16Personalities MBTI:
🔸️ENFJ-T (Protagonist)

👣 A core memory of mine... 

✈️ Class of 2019 – International Gap Year

Prior to my diploma education, I was actively involved in an International Volunteer / Community Service Program, a memorable opportunity which widened my perspectives and deepened my learning & appreciation of various cultures.

That journey of self-exploration also gave me the chance to build friendships and connections with the people across different communities.

🌏 The countries where I volunteered, fundraised, and engaged in 👇🏻

🇹🇭 Thailand
🇵🇭 The Philippines
🇺🇲 The United States of America
🇰🇷 South Korea
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇰🇭 Cambodia

Some of my hobbies & interests:

🎶🎧🎸 Music + Playing the Guitar
🤝🏻 Volunteering – Social Causes
📖 Reading on topics such as 👇🏻
🔸️Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
🔸️Thought Leaders 💡
🔸️FinTech 💵📱
🔸️Cybersecurity 🕶🔒
🔸️Sustainability/ESG 🌱
🔸️Sports Commentaries ⚽️🏀
🔸️Books by Local Authors 📚 🇸🇬
🔸️Content-Creators' Newsletters 🗞

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🥂 Open to having a conversation or exploring life's simple pleasures

🌱 Life is a journey worth creating more memories while enjoying each other's company
~ FJ

Rooting for you 🙌🏻

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