Green Dot is a plant-based restaurant chain in Singapore. Below are excerpts of my 2024 interview with its former CEO, Fu Yong Hong. The first interview from 2017 is here. On what's important to him as a leader If you are with my company, it's my responsibility and joy to...
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Power of One Educator: Stellina’s Story
I've had two conversations with a higher education educator based in Paris who's inspired me with her open heart and inspired action.We spoke about Love for students, enabling meaningful peer connection, sharing one’s philosophy as an educator so students know you care about them and their LIFE and not just...
Straits Times Opinion – Workplace Wellbeing
Workplace wellbeing takes more than apps and stress management Organisations need to look at leadership and systemic issues such as heavy workloads Imagine a workplace that has various mental wellbeing programmes. Now imagine being an employee, giving those programmes a try - and realising that your wellbeing has hardly changed. ...
Business with Heart: Green Dot
My company's core values are not money, money, money. They are care, love, hope. - Fu Yong Hong Fu Yong Hong is the co-founder and former CEO of Green Dot, an award-winning healthy plant-based restaurant food chain in Singapore. Their mission is to help people take care of and love...
What You Can Do
If our mission, values and work resonates and you feel drawn to join our efforts so we can collectively make a difference, here are possible ways to engage. We work mainly remotely and can serve English speaking audiences from places whose time-zone overlaps with 8am to 6pm Singapore time (with...
Roots & Webs: Our Wounded World (Part 2)
In Part 2, I expand on two major institutions of society that have such major impact on our lives and the wounds embedded there. As mentioned in Part 1, this is an opinion piece not specifically focused on any one country. I offer this to those of us who feel...
Better Stories, Better Lives
We grow up on stories, perhaps not realising how important they are in shaping our beliefs, values and mindsets. I want to share an example of a story that is much loved by people who are very giving that Tropher Payne has written an alternative, healthier ending to. The Giving...
Lost and Found
I ordered something from the US which is only shipped to US addresses so I used a freight forwarding service to get it sent to me in Singapore. Due to me not realising the freight company had moved, I got the item sent to the old address. Someone unknown to...
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Training Workshop : Transforming Adversity into Higher Purpose
We met more than 20 years ago. She used to love wheelchair dancing then. It was hard not to catch her spirit. Muscular dystrophy is a disease in which one’s muscles progressively weaken. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at 15, she was told she may die by the time she was...
“One day this patient will be you”
Every year I teach a leadership programme at a hospital, and I recently finished our eighth run. I start it with us sharing our stories as patients and caregivers. I share about my elderly dad who was hospitalised and rang the call-bell for long as he needed to go to...









