Events

Hybrid Event

Physical Venue: ZICO Law Offices (77 Robinson Road, #06-03 Robinson 77, Singapore 068896) 

What is this all about?

This is the second in a series of SCCA events on the being well in the inhouse legal community. The session Axiom co-hosted with SCCA to be held on 30th September 2022, comprised a round table discussion on Building a Well and Resilient Legal Team with David McVeigh, CEO Axiom, Stanley Park MD and Head of Legal Scotiabank Global Banking and Geeta Thakerar, co-convenor of SCCA Well Being Chapter.  

This session on having compassionate conversations and engaging proactively with mindful practices in the workplace

will continue the conversation and in particular focus on how to get your team to open up and engage on how they feel so that an early intervention can be made by legal leaders.  Patrick Tay (NTUC) and Brian Henderson (Whole Business Wellness) respectively, will set the scene and THE context for this conversation.

Following this there will be a fireside chat with the panel. The latter comprises Patrick Tay (NTUC), Chongjin Ng (Fullerton Health) and managing partner of Zico Law, Hanim Hamzah, providing rich and diverse experiences of managing teams and their wellbeing, as well as self-care strategies being practiced as legal leaders.

The panel will share insights and some personal experiences through their respective journeys. The panel will also share highlights of key challenges within the legal sector in Singapore and region from inhouse as well as private practice. In particular looking at some strategies to adopt in whole or in part with the business moderated by Greg Tanner International SOS.

What participants will take away?

• Develop an understanding about building compassionate conversations
• Equip lawyers with tools/techniques that can be used every day to bring about well-being in the workplace.
• Leveraging compassionate conversations to help to build resilience
• Learn from others what has worked and how to tackle issues through shared learnings from the rich panel debate/ and sharing session.
• Come to terms personally – some may experience ahhaah moments.
• Start to build an action plan well-being and how it can be applied to lawyers.

Post event light refreshments and networking till 2pm

Format:

• Introductions by moderator Greg Tanner (5mins)
• Keynote opening by Patrick Tay (15 minutes).
• Reflections and remarks by Brian Hendersonfocusing onmanaging compassionate conversations and deploying mindful practices in the workplace (15minutes)
• Followed by a “fireside” chat with a panel comprising Patrick Tay (NTUC), Chongjin Ng (Fullerton Health) and managing partner of Zico Law, Hanim Hamzah, providing rich and diverse experiences of managing teams and their wellbeing as well as self-care strategies being practiced as legal leaders, personal experiences and sharing respective journeys, and to include highlighting some key challenges within the legal sector in Singapore and regional legal/compliance officers inhouse. In particular looking at some strategies to adopt in whole or in part with the business moderated by Greg Tanner International SOS. (total panel discussion time around 35 minutes).  
• Group debate to include Q&A as well as a short wrap up of key takeaways (10 minutes).

Moderator

Greg is the Group General Counsel of International SOS and manages a global team of over 45 professionals responsible for among other things, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, compliance, litigation, data protection and assurance, insurance, corporate secretarial, internal security and other legal and risk management related matters.

Greg is a lawyer admitted to practice in New York by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in England and Wales by the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales and in France by the Ordre des Avocats de Paris. Greg has practiced at two of the world’s largest law firms, Clifford Chance in London, Luxemburg and Singapore, and White & Case in New York, Singapore, Jakarta and Paris.

Prior to that, Greg headed the Legal Department in Asia Pacific for Informix Software, and then spent 12 years with DHL Worldwide Express. In his last position with DHL in Asia, Greg was the Director of Legal & Regulatory Affairs and a Member of the DHL Asia Pacific Management Board. Greg was assigned by DHL to Brussels and Bonn as Senior Vice President in charge of Global Organizational Effectiveness, which position he held until 2010 after which he joined International SOS in Singapore as their worldwide Group General Counsel.

Speakers

Mr Patrick Tay is the Assistant Secretary-General of NTUC and Member of Parliament of Pioneer SMC. He chairs the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education and co-chairs the Financial Sector Tripartite Committee. As Director of NTUC’s Legal Services and Strategy Departments, he represents the Labour Movement in tripartite workgroups to review/update employment and industrial relations legislation and has been pivotal in lobbying for the many changes to manpower related laws and policies in Singapore. He also co-chaired the NTUC-SNEF PME Taskforce and is the Executive Secretary for the United Workers of Electronics & Electrical Industries and the Singapore Manual & Mercantile Workers’ Union (SMMWU). He also advises all the NTUC-affiliated unions in Singapore, and has represented numerous unions/members in complex and contentious issues, dispute resolution, conciliation and in the Industrial Arbitration Court (IAC)

Ng Chong Jin is Group General Counsel at Fullerton Health Corporation, one of Asia Pacific’s leading vertically integrated healthcare service provider. Chong Jin joined Fullerton in 2018 and also looks after the risk management function for the Group.      

Prior to joining Fullerton, Chong Jin was Assistant General Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline from 2010 to early 2018. He had formerly held positions as Senior Counsel, Medical Diagnostics and Life Science Division for Asia Pacific at GE Healthcare from 2008 to 2010, and Legal Director (South Asia) for Merck from 2003 to 2007.

Chong Jin holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from National University of Singapore and is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Brian founded Whole Business Wellness in 2020 to provide multi-disciplinary wellness services to organisations using applied mindfulness, resilience building, experiential learning, culture change, design thinking and 30 years of business leadership experience to build wellness capabilities and thriving cultures. Previously, Brian was Chief Operating Officer at Baker McKenzie and at Linklaters in a variety of global leadership roles. He is a board member of The Women’s Foundation and was co-founding Chair of the Male Allies initiative. Brian was recognised for this as the 2017 American Chamber of Commerce Champion for the Advancement of Women.

Brian was born in Belfast and lived and worked in London and Paris before moving to Hong Kong in 2012. He is a qualified lawyer, has an MBA from Cranfield University, is an accredited MBTI practitioner, Mental Health First Aider and Smart Collaboration Accelerator accredited partner. Brian is also currently training as a yoga and mindfulness teacher.

Hanim Hamzah is the Regional Managing Partner of ZICO Law, the first law firm network with presence across ASEAN with 18 offices in all 10 countries. She also heads the Corporate M&A practice group at ZICO Law Indonesia’s Roosdiono & Partners law firm. 

Based in Singapore, her 25+ years of regional practice experience includes being resident in Malaysia, Japan, and Indonesia where she specialises in major infrastructure project financing and M&A deals in aviation, banking, insurance, mining, oil and gas, plantations, and property. Hanim is top ranked, consistently recognized as Distinguished Lawyer or Leading Lawyer across multiple practice areas in major legal directories and publications. She has authored cited articles in thought leadership in the legal profession and is currently Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Law Firm Management Committee, and Senior Fellow at the CIMB Asean Research Institute (CARI). Hanim was selected by the Singapore Academy of Law, as part of an expert think-tank to prepare a white paper on skills needed by legal professionals in the future. In 2019, Hanim co-founded the ASEAN Legal Tech Initiative, bringing together legal and technology experts in South-East Asia. 

As a leader, Hanim champions diversity and inclusion, mental health, well-being, and safety in the legal profession. She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Mindful Business Charter UK Charity and is a Board Member of the Workplace Pride not for profit foundation dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in workplaces worldwide. Hanim was also named Top Ten Pioneers of New Legal Thinking in the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2018. 

Hanim is also a marathoner and sings in a jazz quartet.