Corporate Culture: Workplace Pulse in Small Business with Jan Wong

Name: Corporate Culture: Workplace Pulse in Small Business with Jan Wong
Start: 2021-05-13T11:00:00+08:00
End: 2021-05-13T12:30:00+08:00

Sarawak
Thu, May 13, 2021, 11:00 AM (GMT+8)

About this event

The amalgamation of values, mission, vision and daily communication within a business entity is key in forming a healthy corporate culture that would allow the business to grow and sustain. The pandemic may have hit many small businesses and enterprises but to what extent does it affect their corporate culture? In this fireside chat, Jan Wong of OpenMinds, will be sharing the essence of corporate culture and how has it changed due to the pandemic and the shift in global economic trends. He will also be covering the key strategies in ensuring that corporate culture is given the much-needed attention as it would reflect the identity and professionalism of small businesses.

Speaker

Jan Wong

OpenMinds

Founder & CEO

Jan Wong is an entrepreneur, youth advocate, and founder of OpenMinds; an 8-years bootstrapped, data-driven martech company based in KL, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Starting at the age of 17, he has ventured into eight businesses, a part-time lecturer at the Asia Pacific University (APIIT / APU), a certified e-commerce consultant, published an academic journal during his Masters degree, sits on the…

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Jan Wong

OpenMinds

Jan Wong is an entrepreneur, youth advocate, and founder of OpenMinds; an 8-years bootstrapped, data-driven martech company based in KL, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Starting at the age of 17, he has ventured into eight businesses, a part-time lecturer at the Asia Pacific University (APIIT / APU), a certified e-commerce consultant, published an academic journal during his Masters degree, sits on the Academic Advisory Board of KDU, Sunway College and Sunway University. In 2020, he was also offered a scholarship to pursue a PhD with Monash University. Through his passion, Jan founded OpenMinds in 2012 that serves as a MarTech firm to provide strategic solutions, data analysis, technology development, consultancy & training programmes, and a venture division to also assist startups. The venture division has also seen the birth of startups such as CLOVR (a virtual reality tech startup), RoundUp (a data analytics startup), and OpenAcademy(an education and training platform) in 2019. Having bootstrapped from zero and being a new player in the industry, OpenMinds managed to acquire world-class brands and renowned agencies as clients and in 2017, set up a subsidiary in Hong Kong, after placing the Kazakhstan office in hiatus in 2015 due to the declining oil & gas outlook. In just 4years, OpenMinds has grown to a valuation of USD5 million and is featured as a company with one of the best workplace culture in Malaysia. His entrepreneurial experience also enabled him to work with different startups, and the opportunity to speak at various entrepreneurship and marketing technology events in universities, corporations, workshops and conferences in the region of over 5,000 pax in attendance and has spoken on more than 150 stages globally. He is also a mentor for multiple startup communities including Techstars Global and the NEXT50 Singapore initiative; and a corporate innovation mentor for Nestle and Vinda Group in Malaysia. Jan has also been featured on various media such as The Star, Focus Malaysia, Personal Money, Malaysia SME, The Edge, Astro, Asian Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, and more on his entrepreneurship journey, digital media expertise, and the SME industry.Jan is also a regular contributor on BFM, a 2-time TEDx speaker, recognized as one of the top 10 new generation businessmen to watch in 2020, listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2017 list and recently published his first book campaign on Building Your Digital Net Worth.

Moderator

Malcolm Wu

Startup Grind Sarawak

Chapter Director

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When

Thursday, May 13
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (+08)

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