SGLN 3rd Anniversary: Doing Well by Doing Good

SGLN 3rd Anniversary:
Doing Well by Doing Good

Monday, 15th September 2025

About The Event

When we launched in July 2022, SGLN had a handful of Ambassadors and a Community Mentoring programme. Three years on, that spark has grown into a strong movement of over 3,500 community members, with more than 10,000 followers on LinkedIn, and an ambitious team that has grown to support our initiatives.

We’ve seen milestone after milestone. In 2024, we launched the SGLN Fellowship with 60 pioneer Fellows and 8 Strategic Partners. This year, our circle of support widened further. We now count 65 SGLN Fellows and 11 Strategic Partners who share our mission and stand with us in preparing Singaporeans for global leadership roles: ABB, Applied Materials, BW Group, DBS Bank, HSBC, RGE, SATS Ltd., Singtel, SMBC Group, SMRT Corporation Ltd, and UOB.

In 2025, we launched the Overseas Transition Support programme (OTS) and introduced the SGLN Industry Interest Groups (SIIG), beginning with Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing. And soon, we will launch the SGLN Launchpad and take flight with our first SGLN Global Expeditions.

At this event, we announced the launch of the SGLN Fellowship Alumni Network (FAN), comprising alumni keen to contribute to our mission. We were also excited to announce a new partnership with the Stewardship Asia Centre (SAC) for the first SGLN Global Expedition this November. We’ll be heading to Doi Tung, Thailand, a community that has transformed itself through purpose-driven leadership, to learn what “doing well by doing good” looks like in practice.

The evening itself was both a celebration and a call to action. Rajeev Peshawaria, CEO of SAC, delivered a keynote that challenged us to rethink leadership: not as a trade-off between profit and purpose, but as the pursuit of both. He urged us to question what we measure, what we reward, and what we truly value.

We then stepped into something different. Kamil Haque led us through an image theatre activity that reminded us leadership is not abstract. It is felt. It is relational. It happens in the silences, in gestures, and in the courage to be seen.

SGLN has grown, but growth alone is not our measure of success. The true test lies in how we enable Singaporeans to lead on the world stage with courage, clarity, and care.

Speaker

Rajeev Peshawaria

CEO of Stewardship Asia Centre Singapore

Rejecting platitudes and theoretical models, Rajeev Peshawaria combines 22 years of global Fortune 100 experience with research-based insights to provide unique and practical approaches to personal leadership, ethics, governance, sustainable business growth, and stewardship. A sought-after speaker and consultant, he is the CEO of Stewardship Asia Center, Singapore, and President of Leadership Energy Consulting, Seattle, WA, USA. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Science of Environmental Action. He also sits on the advisory board of Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT), which is under Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education.

Author of the Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestseller Open-Source Leadership (McGraw Hill), Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders (Simon & Schuster), Sustainable Sustainability (Penguin Random House), co-author of Be the Change (McGraw Hill) and a regular contributor for Forbes, he constantly challenges conventional wisdom on leadership, management, stewardship, sustainability, and corporate governance. He has pioneered unique practical concepts such as Leadership Energy and Emotional Integrity for personal growth, the Brains-Bones-Nerves model for enterprise leadership, and the Steward Leadership model for driving sustainable business growth in the 21st century.

Rajeev is a high-energy, inspirational speaker who provides coaching, consulting and advisory services to corporate and public sector clients globally. He also serves as guest faculty at leading US, Europe and Asia business schools. He has been widely featured in international media such as CNN, Bloomberg TV & Radio, National Public Radio, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Fast Company, Leader to Leader, American Management Association magazine, Leadership Excellence magazine, The Times of India, The Straits Times, Business Times, and many more.

Before joining SAC and starting LEC, he was the CEO of the Iclif Leadership & Governance Centre. He was formerly the Chief Learning Officer of Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley and has also held senior positions at American Express, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. At Goldman, Rajeev helped found Pine Street − the firm’s acclaimed leadership academy − and headed Pine Street for Europe and Asia. In his early career, he was a banker and currency trader.

In 2014 and 2017, he was named one of the Top 100 Global Thought Leaders for Trustworthy Business by ‘Trust Across America.’ (LinkedIn) (Spotify-Podcasts)