29 Jul
Way-finding Series

Creating a Life of Purpose

Creating a Life of Purpose

You’ve built a career. Hit the milestones. Now ask what you actually want.

Module Basics

Duration: 1 full day workshop, plus a complimentary 1:1 follow up coaching session

Format: In person workshop

Programme Fee: $500 (time limited launch price, inclusive of a 1 hour coaching session worth $250). Early bird 10% discount till 8 Sep 2026. Bring a friend for a further 10% discount.

This module is for:

You’re a mid career professional who has spent years giving to your team, your family, and your community, often with little time left to ask what you actually want, in a world that keeps shifting under you. You feel tired, constantly running but getting nowhere, and somewhere in the last year or two, a quiet question has been surfacing: is this it? What is the life I want to live? You sense there’s more to life than business as usual, and you’re ready to bring more intention and purpose into it.

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You will achieve the following outcomes:

  • Gain clarity on what truly matters to you, beyond the roles and milestones that have carried you so far.
  • Hear fresh perspectives from others walking a similar path, so you don’t have to work through this alone.
  • Build the courage to make concrete shifts towards a more purposeful life, one small step at a time.
  • Leave with a personal action plan and a complimentary 1:1 coaching session to help you carry your insights forward once you’re back in the routine of everyday life.

What Makes This Module Unique

Most reflection tools stop at the level of thinking. This workshop asks you to listen more widely, tapping into what your body already senses about where you feel most alive and where you’ve been running on autopilot, so the insights that surface are ones you can actually feel, not just describe.

The day is built around three deliberate movements rather than a single long discussion. You will first notice where in your life you’ve been on autopilot, then sense what your inner compass has been trying to tell you, and finally turn that insight into small, intentional shifts you’re genuinely ready to take, rather than a big leap you’re not.

Insight fades quickly once you’re back in your normal routine. That’s why every participant leaves with a complimentary one hour 1:1 coaching session, designed specifically to help the shifts you name on the day actually stick.

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What you will learn

Learning Journey Overview

Across a single, uninterrupted day, you will move through three stages designed to take you from noticing to sensing to acting.

  • Observe: Notice where in your life you’ve been on autopilot, and when you feel most alive and energised.
  • Sense: Tap into whole body intelligence, not just cognitive reflection, so you can listen deeply to what your inner compass is trying to tell you.
  • Move: Turn insight into intentional action, leaving with small shifts you can take rather than a big leap you’re not ready for.

Key Topics & Skills

Participants in this workshop will develop practical capabilities in the following areas:

  • Self awareness: recognising the patterns and routines that have quietly taken over your time and energy.
  • Whole body listening: sensing what’s stirring in you beyond pure cognitive reflection.
  • Values clarification: identifying what genuinely matters to you now, rather than what mattered a decade ago.
  • Honest peer reflection: hearing how others on a similar journey see you and your possibilities.
  • Intentional action planning: translating insight into small, doable shifts you can sustain.

Learning Format

The day unfolds as an experiential process, not a lecture. You’ll move between individual reflection, guided exercises, and honest conversation with fellow participants who are navigating a similar season of life. The methodology is grounded in tested approaches to navigating and leading transformative change, adapted here for personal rather than organisational transformation. Only 16 seats are available, keeping the group small enough for genuine reflection and connection.

About the Facilitators

Tay Hwee Bin

Tay Hwee Bin spent more than 20 years in Singapore’s public and healthcare sectors, helping leaders, teams, and organisations through change and growth. She is an ICF ACC, a Certified Organization & Relationship Systems Coach (ORSCC), and a practitioner of awareness based systems change methodologies. In late 2024, sensing something needed to shift, she began her own inner journey of mindfulness practice, personal transformation programmes, and dialogue with fellow practitioners. In 2026, she founded Purpose Field Works to help people move from stuckness to purposeful impact.

Angela Sujadi

Angela Sujadi is a Leadership Coach and Senior Consultant at Sequoia Group. Having gone through two major career transitions herself, from social enterprise to corporate, and later from marketing to leadership coaching, she has learnt first hand how challenging transitions can be, and that the answer often lies within rather than outside. Since 2023, she has supported more than 80 people to find clarity of purpose in midlife transitions. She is an ICF and Newfield Certified Coach and an ASEAN Youth Fellow 2022.

 

Details & Enrollment

Next Session Date: Saturday, 3 October 2026

Location: Sustainability Institute, Singapore (venue details provided upon registration)

Session Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

You give up a lot of Saturdays for other people. This one is for you.

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26 Feb
Programme

Leading Living Systems: Foundations of Organisational Development

Leading Living Systems: Foundations of Organisational Development

 

Develop the mindset, frameworks, and leadership practices needed to guide your organisation as a living, adaptive system — one that thrives amid complexity and drives meaningful change.

Module Basics

Duration: 2-day

Format: In-person Workshop 

Programme Fee: $1,900
(20% off for the Inaugural Run, sign up by end April 2026)

This module is for:

Senior leaders, organisational development practitioners, HR directors, and change agents who are responsible for shaping the health, culture, and generative capacity of their organisations.  You will gain the foundational frameworks and mindset shifts to address the three critical challenges traditional OD cannot solve: change fatigue from relentless digital transformation pressures, employee resistance as transformation willingness plummets, and top-down technology adoption disconnected from workforce realities.

You will achieve the following outcomes:

  • Understand and apply living systems principles to assess organisational health—recognising patterns of vitality and degeneration, and identifying where traditional change initiatives fail in your organisation
  • Map the interconnected drivers of organisational flourishing using the 5 Attributes (Awareness, Aspirations, Alignment, Accountability, Authenticity), revealing generative leverage points beyond surface symptoms
  • Facilitate dialogic conversations using Appreciative Inquiry that shift stakeholder energy from problem-focused exhaustion to possibility-focused engagement—even in crisis situations
  • Make the four critical mindset shifts required to practice Living OD: from problem-focused to possibility-focused, expert-driven to co-creative, intervention to invitation, and compliance to commitment
  • Begin building a personal leadership practice grounded in systems awareness and complexity literacy—recognizing how your own presence and leadership approach enables or inhibits organizational regenerativity.

What Makes This Module Unique

Unlike conventional OD programmes that view organisations as machines to be engineered, this module positions every organisation as a living system — complex, self-organising, and inherently purposeful. Participants move beyond linear change models to understand emergence, feedback loops, and system-wide leverage points. This paradigm shift enables leaders to work with the grain of organisational life rather than against it, resulting in interventions that are more effective, more sustainable, and more humane.

Singapore organizations face three converging challenges: (1) change fatigue—change management ranks as the top challenge among senior leaders, with struggles in shifting behaviours; (2) workforce capability gaps—while 83% of SMEs have digital strategies, less than half implement them successfully, and 93% of employers report employees lack necessary digital skills; and (3) implementation disconnects—SMEs purchase enterprise tools but lack expertise to implement them effectively. Living OD dissolves these challenges by working with organizations as living systems: building capability while implementing change, cultivating internal regeneration rather than imposing external fixes.

This isn’t theoretical philosophy. You’ll experience the shift from diagnostic to dialogic approaches through experiential exercises and real-world case applications. The programme bridges academic rigor (living systems theory, Appreciative Inquiry, systems thinking) with immediate usability—every framework comes with practical tools you can deploy the next day.

This module is stackable towards the Practitioner Certification for Organisation Development.

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What you will learn

Learning Journey Overview

Over two intensive and experiential days, participants move through a carefully sequenced journey — from building foundational literacy in living systems and complexity, to applying integrated frameworks for organisational diagnosis and development, to cultivating the personal leadership practices required to sustain systemic change over time. By the close of the programme, participants will be equipped with both a rich conceptual map and a practical toolkit for leading their organisations as living, adaptive systems — and will have begun the deeper inner work that makes such leadership possible.

Key Topics & Skills

  • History & Evolution of OD
  • Diagnostic versus Dialogic OD
  • The Regenerative OD Cycle for Process Consulting
  • Ontological Skills for Living OD - Thinking, Doing, Being, Relating
  • Assessing for OD Effectiveness - OCTAVE tool
  • Ontology of the OD Practitioner (Self as Instrument)

Learning Format

The programme combines facilitated conceptual sessions, reflective practice, small-group dialogue, case-based application, and experiential exercises drawn from systems thinking, somatic awareness, and appreciative inquiry. Participants engage not only as learners but as a living system themselves — experiencing firsthand the dynamics they are studying. Pre-work (readings and a brief organisational reflection) and post-programme peer accountability structures ensure that learning is integrated and applied in participants’ own contexts.

About the Facilitators

Our facilitators are senior practitioners and researchers in organisational development, systems leadership, and sustainability — each bringing over 15 years of experience working with complex organisations across Asia and beyond. They combine academic rigour with deep practitioner wisdom, holding space for both intellectual inquiry and personal transformation. 

 

Jacqueline Wong

Zafirah Mohamed

Details & Enrollment

Next Session Date: TBC
Location: Sustainability Institute, Singapore (venue details provided upon registration)
Session Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM

The session will run with a minimum of 12 participants. 

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19 Feb
Way-finding Series

What If? How to Reinvent the Future

What If? - How to Reinvent the Future

 

Stop reacting to change. Start shaping what comes next.

Module Basics

Duration: 4 weekly half-day sessions

Format: In-person Workshop 

Programme Fee: $1,200

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

This module is for:

Leaders and emerging change-makers who are working on themselves to influence complex systems and long-term outcomes. Through hands-on tools such as systems mapping, trend analysis, and scenario building, you will learn how to think and act more clearly in uncertainty and complexity. By the end of the programme, you will be able to spot emerging changes earlier, test your strategies against different possible futures, and take practical steps toward shaping more flourishing human systems.

You will achieve the following outcomes:

  • Apply futures thinking tools to your life in all its fullness.
  • Identify and prioritise key trends and critical uncertainties that could shape your futures.
  • Develop and use scenarios to stress-test strategies, identifying actions that remain robust across multiple possible futures.
  • Design small-scale experiments or initiatives that translate futures insights into practical action for your life and within your community.

What Makes This Module Unique

The programme invites participants to explore the future not only as a strategic and organisational question but also as a personal one. Many leadership programmes focus primarily on organisational tools and frameworks. Yet meaningful change often begins with how individuals see the world, understand their agency, and connect their work to a broader sense of purpose.

The programme invites participants to actively build, test, and explore ideas together rather than passively receiving information. Many executive programmes rely heavily on lectures or case discussions but futures thinking stays in the head and not down to the heart and the hands. Playful and participatory learning approaches help participants engage more deeply, think more creatively, and generate insights that traditional classroom formats may not unlock.

The programme invites participants to translate foresight insights into small, practical experiments. In complex and uncertain environments, long-term plans are usually static and quickly become outdated. Many foresight programmes stop at scenario development or strategic discussion. Prototyping enables leaders to move forward through experimentation, learning rapidly while reducing risk.

What you will learn

Learning Journey Overview

Over four sessions, you will explore the forces shaping the future and how they affect
the systems you care about.

Key Topics & Skills

Participants in this programme will develop practical capabilities in the following areas:

  • Systems thinking – understanding how social, economic, technological, and environmental forces interact to shape long-term outcomes
  • Trend and signal identification – spotting emerging changes and distinguishing meaningful trends from short-term noise
  • Assumption testing – uncovering and challenging the hidden assumptions that shape strategies and decisions
  • Scenario thinking – exploring multiple plausible futures and understanding how different developments might unfold
  • Strategic decision-making under uncertainty – identifying actions that remain robust across different possible futures
  • Experimentation and adaptive learning – translating foresight insights into practical initiatives and learning through small-scale experiments

Learning Format

The programme uses a highly interactive, workshop-based methodology designed to move participants from insight to application. Rather than relying primarily on lectures, each session combines short conceptual inputs with hands-on exercises, facilitated discussions and group reflections, and collaborative problem-solving. Participants will work in small groups to apply futures thinking tools—such as systems mapping, futures wheels, and scenario building—to real challenges they are facing in their organisations or sectors.

Learning is structured as a shared inquiry among peers, where participants bring their own experiences, questions, and perspectives into the room. Through reflection, dialogue, and experimentation, they will develop new ways of seeing the systems they operate in and explore practical strategies for influencing change. The aim is to create an engaging and regenerative learning environment that strengthens both individual capability and a sense of community among participants.

About the Facilitators

Cheryl Chung is the Founder and CEO of Tent Futures, a strategic foresight research, advisory and training practice focused on building long-term public good. A seasoned public sector futurist, Cheryl has two decades of experience working with senior decision makers in Singapore and the region to identify trends, understand policy implications, create alternative scenarios and develop strategies to prepare for the future. She is an experienced and sought-after practitioner, educator, coach and speaker across the public, private, people and academic sectors.

Cheryl Chung

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19 Feb
Programme

Writing the Future

Writing the Future

 

“Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk.” - Antonio Machado

Programme Basics

Format: In-person workshop

Duration: 3 weekly full-day sessions 

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

AI and other developments are disrupting the familiar career paths our forebears took for granted—even before we enter the workforce. What then are we to make of our future?

This module is for:

Anyone keen to proactively make a new path for ourselves, but especially graduating students and young professionals. Like all artists and writers facing a blank page, scarce resources and incomplete knowledge, you will learn to imagine, experiment, play, innovate, invent and thrive in the face of the new.

Offering practical wisdom from creative practitioners on authoring the world you want to see, you will explore how to:

  • Clarify and articulate your vision of the future you want to create
  • Contribute as well as collaborate with others towards realising your dream, whether you are an entrepreneur or finding your way in an organisation.
  • Apply practical principles for self and community care—personal, financial, psychological, affective, and effective—to sustain your work and flourish together.
  • Begin building a personal leadership practice grounded in systems awareness and complexity literacy—recognizing how your own presence and leadership approach enables or inhibits organizational regenerativity.

The workshop will be led by an award-winning expert with more than 30+ years of award-winning international experience in creative practice, professional experience and deep research, blended with Sequoia’s proven strategies in nurturing flourishing individuals and organisations worthy of commitment.

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18 Feb
Programme

Appreciative Inquiry Foundations

Appreciative Inquiry Foundations

 

Human systems grow in the direction of questions we most frequently ask ourselves

Module Basics

Format: On-demand online workshop + Hybrid coaching community 

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

Most change processes start by asking what's broken. Appreciative Inquiry (Ai) starts with what's already working, and what becomes possible when you build from there.

This module is for:

  • Organisation Development Practitioners facilitating transformation efforts
  • Leaders keen to learn about strengths-based change
  • Internal Facilitators and Coaches keen to frame and design inquiry that transforms

Used by organisations across the world to drive strategy, culture change, community engagement, and leadership development, Ai is one of the most powerful and deeply human approaches to transformation available today. 

What you will learn

This foundations programme will give you a rigorous grounding in Ai theory and practice, and the key practice that underpins serious organisational change work. Guided by the Principles of Appreciative Inquiry, the process typically involves the 4-D stages with an affirmative topic as the focal point.

Comprising both coursework and fieldwork, this programme provides in-depth and hands-on training to apply AI methodologies at the interpersonal, organisational and ecosystem levels. 

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18 Feb
Programme

Leading the Human Side of Digital Transformation

Leading the Human Side of Digital Transformation

 

Here's what most technology transformations have in common when they struggle: the technology worked but the people's side didn't.

Module Basics

Format: 1 day

Duration: In-person workshop

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

New systems, AI adoption and new ways of working are fundamentally organisational challenges dressed up as technical ones. And yet most CTOs are handed change management as an afterthought, rather than as a core leadership competency.

This programme is for:

Technology leaders who want to close the technical-people gap. Over one day, you'll work through the practical realities of leading transformation in organisations where people are uncertain, resistant, or simply exhausted from too much change.

What you will learn

You'll come away with concrete tools for mapping stakeholder dynamics, building genuine buy-in, sustaining adoption long after launch, and creating the kind of psychological safety that makes learning cultures possible. All of it is framed in the context of technology-led change, because the generic version rarely lands.

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18 Feb
Programme

HR Practitioner’s Guide to Organisational Transformation

HR Practitioner's Guide to Organisational Transformation

 

HR professionals are being asked to do something fundamentally different now - stepping into a much more strategic role.

Module Basics

Format: 2 days

Duration: In-person workshop

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

It's no longer enough for HR professionals to manage processes and run programmes. The organisations that are thriving are those where HR has stepped into a much more strategic role where they are diagnosing what's happening in the human system and building the conditions for real, lasting change.

This programme is for:

HR professionals who want to make that shift with confidence. You'll get a working understanding of Organisation Development as a discipline, practical tools you can use immediately, and a way of thinking about your organisation that goes well beyond the conventional HR toolkit.

What you will learn

We'll cover how to read organisational health, how to approach transformation in a way that brings people along, and how to build internal capability that outlasts any single initiative. You'll be introduced to Sequoia's OCTAVE diagnostics and the four OD domains of Plan, Change, Lead and Learn.

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18 Feb
Programme

Beyond Strategy: Leading Organisations That Actually Flourish

Beyond Strategy: Leading Organisations That Actually Flourish

 

When something isn't working, the diagnosis is rarely wrong strategy. More often, it's the human system that has been overlooked.

Module Basics

Format: 3-hour breakfast talk

Details on dates and registration will be shared shortly.

This programme is for:

CEOs, MDs, and senior executives notice engagement is low, change initiatives aren't landing, the usual levers aren't producing the results they once did - and who are ready to look at their organisations differently.

We will collectively explore what it takes to build an organisation that people are truly committed to, not just employed by. You'll leave with a new way of seeing your organisation as a living, adaptive system rather than a machine to be fixed, and a sharper sense of where your greatest leverage points actually are.

What you will learn

Expect candid conversation, peer exchange, and thinking that challenges what most of us were taught about leading organisations. Grounded in Sequoia's work across Singapore and the region, and in the research behind Worthy of Commitment.

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20 Jan
Programme

Education for Sustainability

Education for Sustainability Programme

 

Schools and educators play a vital role in inspiring and creating a healthy, secure and sustainable future for all

Now more than ever, we need to reconnect students with the larger purpose of education in the larger living world and to honour them with transformative learning experiences that prepare them to participate in and to lead with us the shift toward a sustainable future.

In partnership with the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, we offer Education for Sustainability (EfS) capacity-building programmes encompassing:

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Structure of programme

The EfS programme is offered at 2 levels:

1 full day or 2 half days

This session is meant to develop participants’ awareness, knowledge and enduring understanding of core concepts, content and habits of mind that characterise Education for Sustainability. There will be systems thinking games and experiential simulations, small group discussions, stories and case studies to support participants’ learning and help envision what is possible when we educate for sustainability.

5 full days

This is a practical, hands-on session where educators and curriculum designers get to innovate, prototype, build and map curriculum and assessments designed to meet EfS standards and performance indicators — all without additional class time or add-ons. There will be guided working sessions, learning circles, peer review and personalised coaching.

 

19 Jan
Programme

Team Development That Transforms

Team Development that Transforms

We help teams experience sustainable cultural transformation through strengths-based development and authentic engagement, drawing from our deep OD experience across sectors.

  • Leverage natural talents to build team coherence and individual excellence
  • Tailored interventions that meet your team exactly where they are
  • Create lasting transformation through deliberate practice and ongoing dialogue
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