Noelle Tan is a Singapore-based executive coach and CEO/COO with over 25 years of experience across MNCs, nonprofits, and the tech industry. She has held leadership roles in product, marketing, strategy, operations, M&A, and C-suite positions across Asia Pacific and the U.S., specializing in integrating profit with purpose and building high-performance teams. 

After a fulfilling corporate career, Noelle transitioned to the nonprofit sector as COO of Generasi Gemilang Foundation in Malaysia, leading initiatives to close the education gap for underserved children. Through this experience, she discovered the nexus where purpose, people, and profit co-exist, shaping her leadership philosophy.

As the co-founder of GoVolcanno and CEO of Accomplish Asia Sdn Bhd, Noelle partners with C-suite leaders, entrepreneurs, and mission-driven organizations to clarify vision, tackle complex challenges, and build resilient, purpose-driven teams. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), she is passionate about empowering leaders to amplify their impact through strategic insights, practical hands-on experience, and values-based leadership.

Nick Foong isn’t your typical social impact champion. He started his career scaling marketing heights in the consumer goods and telecommunications industries. But after 13 years, he made a dynamic shift, dedicating the next 12 years to the non-profit sector where he worked for a leading charity foundation in Malaysia involved in closing the education gap for under-served children and families.

A seasoned trainer, Nick has designed and delivered engaging programs on mindful technology use and has recently embraced the world of microlearning design, curating learning journeys for clients looking to amplify their impact for the greater good. Besides being an adjunct lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), he is also the Co-Founder of GoVolcanno Pte. Ltd, an independent consultancy providing training and coaching for clients looking to grow their social impact. His unique strength is bridging corporate strategy with social impact through a people-centred approach, ensuring that designed learning experiences are practical, engaging, and deeply purpose-driven.

He holds an M.B.A in Marketing from The University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business, a B.Sc. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore, and is a Certified Sustainability Coach (GSDC).

Adriana draws on a unique blend of 19+ years of diverse global experience as a workplace human rights lawyer and facilitator in gender equality, the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and gender-based violence prevention, diversity and inclusion.

She has vast experience working nationally and internationally with the United Nations, universities as well as the non-profit and private sector. Prior to her consulting work, Adriana spent several years as a human rights lawyer specializing in workplace discrimination and sexual harassment and taught Women and the Law at the University of Ottawa.

Adriana previously held the position of Director, Organizational Wellness at Homewood Health, and worked with Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education leading the development of gender equality action planning and international guidelines.

On International’s Women’s Day 2021, Adriana was honoured to be featured by World Pulse in the article: “Her Story Makes History: 21 Women Leaders to Watch in 2021” and in 2022, to be included on the list of Brainz Magazine’s 7 Female Entrepreneurs and How they are Changing the World. She has also received multiple CREA Global Awards and the Digital Changemaker Award as one of the World Pulse 50 Rising Voices.

Adriana is from Montreal, hailing from a long line of progressive Ashkenazi Jewish social entrepreneurs, which she channels in her work.

Through ALG Consulting, Adriana’s team offers services which include access to ongoing advisory services on policy development and implementation. Ask us about our solution suite with ALG’s services.

Duncan has a unique academic and professional background in the third sector and the investment world and is passionate and committed to blending commercial solutions to social and environmental issues. Appointments include International Director for one of the world’s largest Development / Humanitarian Aid organisations – The Salvation Army, with a global portfolio of economic development and aid projects of £50m p.a. Duncan engaged in long term appointments living and working in Africa, Americas and Asia running field programmes focused on enterprise led development. This included responding to man-made and natural disasters that forced the movement of people. Of note the religious /civil war in Uganda operating child focused psycho social projects in a refugee camp in Lira, and the reestablishment of enterprise following the South Asia Tsunami.

After leaving the third sector to pioneer an African Agricultural investment fund in 2009 and then to create a successful exit, Duncan founded a PE backed social enterprise that created cause marketing relationships between Business and Charity securing partnership deals with BDO and IMG who manage the Ethical Goods brand to this day in addition to an executive role with Crowdfunder having taken a shareholding within the organisation. Duncan is also founding Trustee/ambassador of two anti-human trafficking charities.

Dave has a BSc. Honours Environmental & Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town.

Dave is a Director of Atlantis Partners, a Cape Town based real estate development and management company. Atlantis Partners is focused on developing and investing in property assets and implementing urban land restitution projects in partnership with communities. Dave has worked in the real estate development industrysince 2006, managing development of a diverse portfolio of property assets and developments for clients in both the listed and unlisted sector.

David is co-founder and CEO of ThirdWay Capital, an impact-driven Venture Capital firm, operating in Sub-Saharan Africa. He began his career in design-management and project management of large-scale mechanical systems in the construction industry. After completing an entrepreneurship focused MBA at IE Business School (Madrid, Spain) he pivoted towards his current career in the Venture Capital Space. He is also an adjunct lecturer at IE University, where he teaches a course called “Building the New Economy: Distributive Capitalism.

Astrid von Soosten, CFRE, is a partner at Brakeley Fundraising Consultants and is passionate about bringing money to good causes. She is also the Co-Founder of Week53, a company specializing in developing executive leadership skills with a focus on authenticity.

Before switching into her current role as consultant and executive coach, she has held several fundraising leadership positions in the US and, back in Germany, has led the Resource Development Department of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), an intergovernmental organization, with six locations in five countries. She has specialized in major gift fundraising for the longest part of her career and has been certified and re-certified as a Fundraising Executive (CFRE) ever since 2008. She has served on the boards of the European Fundraising Association (EFA) and the German Fundraising Association (DFRV). and is currently a board member at CFRE International and the Resource Alliance.

Her long career as fundraising professional and in the NPO sector has taught her that corporate culture and good leadership are the most influential factors deciding over success or failure in any organization.

As the bearer of a 4^th degree black belt in Aikido, another focal point of her work is therefore to utilize the power of Aikido in executive leadership development – the fundamental idea being that successful leadership is based in attitude. A positive and productive attitude, however, is not learned through a purely cerebral approach, but via a combination of mental and physical experiences. The transformative insight is that body and mind form an inseparable unity enabling authenticity in the first place, and that only those who are authentic, can mobilize the best in co-workers, colleagues and partners.

Astrid von Soosten majored in Chinese Studies at Ludwigs-Maximilians University in Munich and at Fudan University in Shanghai. She holds a master’s degree and speaks Chinese to this day. Before she became a fundraiser, she worked as an editor and book project manager in a Munich publishing company. After her relocation to the United States, she was also actively involved in the establishment of a Silicon Valley start-up company.

JG’s expertise in data management and analytical insights spans key industries, including agriculture, automotive, finance, and healthcare, across regions such as Southern Africa, Europe, and the US. His extensive skills in supply chain optimisation and BI/AI are pivotal in driving meaningful exchanges across Unifi’s diverse client base. 

As Co-founder and CEO of Unifi, Aiden leads the company’s strategic direction and operational execution, with a focus on EMEA markets. His deep expertise in ESG and sustainability imperatives is central to Unifi’s platform-driven advisory services, helping make sustainability both accessible and impactful for clients worldwide. 

Chloe is the Director and Co-Founder of Ziptrix. Chloe’s background is over 20 years working with charities and public bodies on strategy, business processes, risk management, compliance, ops and change management, including at the SLT level of international development charities.