Podcasts by The Adrian Tan Show

125 - Generative AI: Key to Career Advancement, but Anxieties Remain (with Gavin Barfield of Salesforce) from 2023-11-07T05:24:24

Gavin Barfield is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Solutions Salesforce, ASEAN. With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Gavin has a deep background in emerging te...

124 - The Magic Formula to Rapid Reskilling for the Modern Economy (with Ryan Meyer of General Assembly) from 2023-10-30T07:26:51

Learn how General Assembly  is providing proven pathways into high-demand tech careers through project-based, practitioner-led training programs. 

Ryan Meyer shares insights on w...

123: Danny Tan and Shirley Kettler on Grayling Singapore 4.5-day work week pilot from 2023-08-17T07:02:47

Grayling has announced that it will pilot a reduced work week in its Singapore office from August till the end of the year. In doing so,...

122: Videographer Renee Ismail shares her journey and insights on YouTube from 2023-06-20T13:29:24

Renee Ismail is a videographer turned producer who has been in the video industry for over 10 years. She started her YouTube channel to share her knowledge about videos and help business owners ...

121: The Loneliness of the CEO: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Community Building from 2023-06-15T07:04:24

Nick Jonsson is a dynamic business leader, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur. As th...

120: Srinivas Konidena on How AI Can Transform the Payroll Sector from 2023-06-07T08:29:05

Are you curious about how AI and machine learning are impacting the payroll industry? We have the answers for you in this podcast episode featuring Listen

119: Gavin Barfield on the Salesforce AI Digital Skills Survey from 2023-05-31T03:59:24

In this episode of "The Adrian Tan Show," I had the pleasure of speaking with Gavin Barfield about the Listen

LinkedIn's toxic positivity and hustle culture create unrealistic work expectations from 2023-05-24T07:39:10

LinkedIn is often seen as a positive and professional social media platform, but is it really? 

In this episode, I explore how LinkedIn's toxic positivity and hustle culture can creat...

Sick leave or sick pressure? The dilemma faced by unwell employees from 2023-05-15T08:30:55

Going to work when you’re sick is like juggling knives while riding a unicycle. It’s a bad idea for you and everyone around you.

In this experimental short monologue series, I will distill...

118: Daylon Soh on trading his 6-figure salary to help others pursue a UX career from 2023-04-24T09:12:45

With more than 10 years of experience working at the intersection of technology, design and marketing, Daylon Soh has worked with organisations across different industries and scale including a ...

117: Tim MacCartney on digital coaching from 2023-03-29T04:00

Tim MacCartney is a business builder presently charged with introducing CoachHub, the Digital Coa...

116: Janet Ravin on Rimini's global 4-day work week initiative from 2023-03-22T04:00

Janet Ravin is the VP, Global Communications, Culture, and Experience, as well as the Committee Chair of the Listen

115: Chris Tran on going hardcore to get his dream job from 2023-03-15T04:00

Chris Tran has since lived a lucky life filled with adventure and achievements. He survived the Nepal earthquake in 2015 after being "dead" for four days. He has lived abroad in Vietnam, Singapo...

114: KC Kwa on the evolution of payroll processing and Instant Pay from 2023-03-08T04:00

KC Kwa founded JustLogin in 1999 with a vision to provide the best HR software in the cloud to any c...

113: Alan Heyward on Employee Appreciation Day 2023 from 2023-03-01T15:48:30

Alan Heyward is the Managing Director, Asia Pacific at O.C. Tanner. O.C. Tanner helps ...

112: Stephanie Silvester on top source of stress for Singapore employees during the pandemic from 2023-02-24T04:00

Stephanie Silvester is a seasoned international marketing leader who has successfully led marketing and communications functions spa...

111: Andrew Liew on HR Data Science from 2023-02-19T06:52:15

Andrew Liew  has regional work experience in providing analytical and data science work for Fortune 500 companies and government age...

110: Eugene Cheng on going from entrepreneurship to a job and back. from 2023-02-13T08:12:23

Eugene Cheng is Partner at HighSpark, a communications think tank that provides messaging and positionIng...

109: Daan Van Rossum on why companies are getting their employees to return-to-office from 2023-02-06T05:12:24

Daan van Rossum is the CEO at FlexOS, the platform that helps companies in South-East Asia Listen

108: Steven Bennetts on Employee Experience Trends 2023 from 2023-01-25T04:00

Steve Bennetts is the Head of Growth & Strategy - Employee Experience Solutions for Qualtrics Listen

107: Aradhana (Arad) Srivastava on Executive Coaching from 2023-01-19T12:43:12

Aradhana (Arad) Srivastava is the Head of Sales for Asia at EZRA, a leading global virtual coach...

106: Toh Swee Chien and Peggy Lim on SkillsFuture Singapore, misconceptions and their personal approach to skilling from 2022-12-29T06:30:36

My guests for this episode are from SkillsFuture Singapore.

Peggy Lim leads the Enter...

105: Damien Andreasen on HiBob, one of Time's Magazine Best Invention 2022 from 2022-12-21T05:49:57

Damien Andreasen is the regional Head of APAC at HR software platform company, HiBob. Prior to joi...

104: Keith Tan on ELLA, Singapore's Robotic Barista from 2022-12-16T14:41:44

Keith Tan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Crown Digital, a Robotic...

103: Saurav Chopra on making learning digestible, engaging and fun for employees and teams from 2022-10-24T04:00

Saurav Chopra is a serial entrepreneur who loves solving complex real world problems with the power of Technology.

Saurav co-founded...

102: Alena Salakhova on Managing A New Generation of Talents - Gen Z vs Millennials from 2022-10-17T04:00

SThree Regional Director, Alena Salakhova has over a decade of experience within recruitment...

101: Chew Siew Mee on the Societal Pressures to be the"Traditional Wife&Mother"and achieving her career goals to become the Managing Director of JobStreet Singapore from 2022-10-10T04:00

Chew Siew Mee is the Managing Director of JobStreet Singapore. In her role, Siew Me...

99: Lindsay Brown on why companies need to unify their communications from 2022-09-18T16:00

Lindsay Brown is the Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific for GoTo. He leads the strate...

98: Raphael Ng, from professional dancing to a professional FX Fund Management from 2022-09-13T15:33:30

Raphael Ng is an ex-ballerino who had spent decades dancing before making the life-changing decision to venture into the world of hedge funds. ...

97: Edward Senju on the future of paper invoices from 2022-08-25T08:32:02

Edward Senju is the Regional Chief Executive Officer at Sansan Inc.

Sansan provides an ever-ex...

96: Intellect Theodoric Chew on the state of mental health from 2022-08-18T04:46:35

Theodoric Chew is the Co-founder & CEO of Intellect, Asia Pacific’s largest employee mental healt...

95: Prudential Jaslyn Ng on rejecting a $250k package as Global HR Director and her leap into the insurance sector from 2022-06-19T09:55

Jaslyn Ng is a former Compensation & Benefits leader at companies such as DHL, Sodexo, Coca-Cola, Du Pont and Archroma.

In 2017, she...

94: EngageRocket Leong CheeTung on the struggles with Return-to-Office from 2022-06-12T07:20:29

Leong CheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, the fastest-growing Asian people analytics tech company ...

93: Livspace Joyita Poddar on Plugging the Employee Welfare Gap from 2022-05-12T08:07:51

Joyita Poddar is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Livspace. She brings to the company over t...

92: Skilio Felix Tan on Skills-Based Hiring from 2022-04-27T02:58:01

Felix Tan is the co-founder & CEO of Skilio, an edtech startup that helps youth build up futur...

91: Career Coach Samantha Ng on modern day career management from 2022-03-30T04:00

Samantha Ng is an international certified behavioural and career consultant and a certified career services provider. She has spent the ...

89: Career Coach Samantha Ng on modern day career management from 2022-03-30T04:00

Samantha Ng is an international certified behavioural and career consultant and a certified ca...

88: New Campus’ Will Fan on building the first Asia focussed management school from 2022-03-23T04:00

Will Fan is the co-founder and CEO at Listen

90: New Campus'Will Fan on building the first Asia focussed leadership school from 2022-03-23T04:00

As the cheerleader of changing the way people learn, he works with the government, corporates, universities, and startups to build a modern learning experience for the changing workforce. Find h...

88: New Campus’ Will Fan on building the first Asia focussed leadership school from 2022-03-23T04:00

Will Fan is the co-founder and CEO at Listen

89: Safe Space's Antoinette Patterson on mental healthcare, when to consider it and the ROI on good mental health from 2022-03-16T04:00

Antoinette Patterson is the co-founder of trusted B2B2C digital mental healthcare provider Safe Space™ Listen

87: Safe Space's Antoinette Patterson on mental healthcare, when to consider it and the ROI on good mental health from 2022-03-16T04:00

Antoinette Patterson is the co-founder of trusted B2B2C digital mental healthcare provider Listen

88: Steven Lock on career switching from IT to training and into Executive Coaching from 2022-03-09T04:00

As a Global Executive and Leadership Coach, Steven Lock runs Executive Leadership Coaching International<...

86: Steven Lock on career switching from IT to training and into Executive Coaching from 2022-03-09T04:00

As a Global Executive and Leadership Coach, Steven Lock runs Listen

85: Shaswat Kumar on Darwinbox unicorn journey, the future HR tech landscape and enterprise HRMS reluctance to localise from 2022-03-02T04:00

Shaswat Kumar is the Senior VP, Global Customer Success and Delivery for Listen

87: Shaswat Kumar on Darwinbox unicorn journey, the future HR tech landscape and enterprise HRMS reluctance to localise from 2022-03-02T04:00

Shaswat Kumar is the Senior VP, Global Customer Success and Delivery for Darwinbox, where he helps ac...

84: Sanjeev Magotra on the state of mental wellbeing, and making mental fitness into a habit - your '10,000 steps' of mental wellbeing from 2022-02-23T04:00

Sanjeev Magotra is a Digital, AI and Cloud technologist, with over 27 years of leaders...

86: Sanjeev Magotra on the state of mental wellbeing, and making mental fitness into a habit - your'10,000 steps'of mental wellbeing from 2022-02-23T04:00

Sanjeev Magotra is a Digital, AI and Cloud technologist, with over 27 years of leadership experience with companies like Accentu...

83: Daniel Goldstein on disrupting the world of talent acquisitions, why it shouldn't be a sales game and why they don't hire the highest biller from 2022-02-16T04:00

Daniel Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Listen

85: Daniel Goldstein on disrupting the world of talent acquisitions, why it shouldn't be a sales game and why they don't hire the highest biller from 2022-02-16T04:00

Daniel Goldstein is the founder and CEO of Elements Talent Consultancy. He founded the busi...

Season 2 Epilogue from 2022-01-19T04:00

This episode marks the end of my season 2 and summarizes the things I learned after putting out 70+ episodes over 1,000 minutes. Will there be a season 3? Listen to the full episode to find out....

83: Bjorn Lee on mental wellness and baby steps for individuals and companies from 2022-01-12T04:00

Bjorn Lee is the Founder and CEO of Listen

82: Rick Hammell on picking the right Employer of Records partner, accelerating business expansions and supporting employees to work anywhere from 2022-01-05T04:00

Rick Hammell is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Listen

81: Alex Martin on the evolution of virtual career fairs, using data to maximise career fair ROI and how candidate can stand out from 2021-12-29T04:00

Alex Martin is the VP of Sales for SeeMeCV – a SaaS base...

81: Dr. Wolfram Jost on L&D Analytics, learning trends & putting learner at the centre from 2021-12-22T04:00

Dr. Wolfram Jost has been a member of the Listen

80: Craig Brown on creating a great working environment, employee wellbeing & being culturally sensitive from 2021-12-15T04:00

Craig Brown is the CEO of Everest Engineering, one of Australia’s most respected software develop...

79: Arun Sundar on enterprise of tomorrow, performance management & impact from Covid19 from 2021-12-08T04:00

Arun Sundar is the Chief Marketing Officer at entomo. Listen

78: Jonathan Passmore on coaching psychology trends, values and benefits from 2021-12-01T03:00

Professor Jonathan Passmore is the Senior Vice President of Coaching with Listen

77: Gaurav Chaubey on performance management rethink, convincing senior management and the great resignation from 2021-11-24T04:00

Gaurav Chaubey is the co-founder of Mesh, a modern performance management platform backed by Sequoia ...

76: Yannis Niebelschütz on digital coaching platform, coach selection and misconceptions from 2021-11-17T14:02:32

Yannis Niebelschütz is co-founder of Listen

75: Michael Yinger on resume parsing, AI screening and biases from 2021-11-10T04:00

Michael Yinger has been in the talent acquisition space for almost 20 years, most recently as...

74: Ori Gold on diversity, equity and inclusivity, challenges and best practices from 2021-11-02T04:00

Ori Gold is the Chief Executive Officer of Listen

73: Steve Bennetts on Employee Experience, decision-making transformation and when is too much feedbacks from 2021-10-26T04:00

Steve Bennetts is the Head of Growth & Strategy - Employee Experience Solutions for Listen

72: Jasmine Haria on hiring remote vs non-remote, screening fraud detection and the importance of EQ from 2021-10-19T04:00

Jasmine Haria is the Co-Founder of Listen

71: Amit Patel on microservices, migration from on-prem to cloud and enterprise HRMS shopping tips from 2021-10-12T04:00

Amit Patel has almost two decades of experience across four continents. In the past 12 years, he has resided in Singapore covering the Asia Pacific Region, and in the last 8 years, he has focused o...

70: Sudhanshu Ahuja on AI-powered chatbots, recruiting virtually and structured interviews from 2021-10-05T05:00

Sudhanshu Ahuja is the CEO and Co-Founder of impress.ai, an ‘accurate ...

69: Sonali Sharma on data paralysis, getting started on people analytics and connecting analytics to bottom line from 2021-09-28T04:00

Sonali Sharma is a business professional with 12+ years of experience with McKinsey & Compa...

68: Kartik Krishnamurthy on never-ending rounds of interviews, conversational assistant and his personal job interview journey from 2021-09-21T03:00

Kartik Krishnamurthy leads the overall growth & business strategy for Listen

67: Oussama Labib on common missing L&D ingredient, team learning and the impact of culture from 2021-09-14T02:00

Former Head of L&D at IKEA Singapore and APAC Director of Instructional Design & Facilitation in a leading training company, Listen

66: Paul Keijzer on recruitment gamification, the key target users and the time a recruiter scans through a new resume from 2021-09-07T02:00

Paul Keijzer is the CEO of Listen

65: Gary Gan on skills inventory, how to embark on skills journey and the indecisions to train employees from 2021-08-31T02:00

Gary Gan is an experienced entrepreneur and marketer, involved in the startup of several successful c...

64: Charles Ferguson on Employer of Record, employee experience and work passes from 2021-08-24T02:00

Charles Hamilton Ferguson is the General Manager and head of Listen

63: Derick Teo on HRIS implementations, common pitfalls and reasonable implementation cycle from 2021-08-17T03:00

Derick Teo is the Director of Enterprise Go-Digital Solutions at Listen

62: Manu Khetan on security in HR software, AI use cases and when SMEs should move into enterprise software from 2021-08-10T02:00

Manu Khetan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Listen

61: Leong CheeTung on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement from 2021-08-03T02:00

Leong CheeTung is the CEO of Listen

60: Rolf van der Pol on people efficiency, digitalisation struggles and uncovering the true problem statement from 2021-07-27T05:00

Rolf van der Pol started his career in information technology and moved to the financial servic...

59: Mitchell Goh on debt traps, earned wage access and employee benefits from 2021-07-20T05:00

Mitchell Goh is the founder and CEO of Listen

58: Vidya Santhanam on connecting team and business performance, common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons from 2021-07-13T05:00

Vidya Santhanam, is the co-founder and CEO of Fitbots OKRs.  Vidya leads Growth and Custo...

57: Jin Choeh on common startups HR issues, GDP on digital transformation and new people management lessons from 2021-07-06T02:00

Jin Choeh founded Swingvy with his co-founders in 2016 with a mission to create a workplace where w...

56: Jayant Paleti on investment by SalesForce, why companies fail to digitalise and coming ahead in a cluttered HRMS market from 2021-06-29T02:00

Jayant Paleti is the Co-Founder of Listen

55: Benjamin Croc | Automate all your HR processes, focus on People from 2021-06-22T05:00

Former McKinsey consultant, and head of Lazada’s strategy department, Benjamin Croc de...

54: Kuljit Chadha | AI-powered right skilling suite that helps enterprises unlock business potential from 2021-06-15T05:00

Kuljit Chadha is the Co-founder and COO of Listen

53: CHAN Chiou Hao | Putting a bank into HRMS from 2021-06-08T13:00

Chan Chiou Hao is currently the COO of Listen

52: Kannan Chettiar | Managing your employee lifecycle from background screening to onboarding to learning from 2021-06-01T02:00

Kannan Chettiar is the co-founder and Managing Director of Listen

51: CY Chua | Improving your offer acceptance rate with AI from 2021-05-25T02:00

Your bucket can never be filled with water if there is a leak at the bottom.

In recruitment context, that leak to the ability to close the deal with the job applicant that you may have sp...

50: Chandra Sivasubramaniam | Productivity monitoring and employees insights from 2021-05-18T02:00

Many managers remain sceptical about the distributed workforce. I think it stems from traditional management belief that if you are not looking over your employees' shoulders, they would skive. Unf...

49: Andrew Stetsenko | Connecting companies with software engineers who are looking to relocate from 2021-05-11T02:00

Andrew Stetsenko is an HR Tech entrepreneur with a coding background and a passion for machine...

48: Zac Chua | Made-in-Singapore Delicious Gourmet Popcorn from 2021-05-04T06:00

Zac Chua is the Founder and CEO of Listen

47: Brett Putter | Own Your Culture from 2021-04-27T06:00

Bretton (Brett) Putter (@BrettonPutter) is an expert in company culture development who is consulted by ...

46: Vipula Samarakoon | Leveling Up Your Employee Onboarding and Engagement from 2021-04-20T06:00

Vipula (Vip) Samarakoon is the Founder and CEO of Listen

45: Paul Endacott | Curating Digital and Technology Talent from 2021-04-13T03:00

Paul Endacott has been operating in the fields of recruitment and executive search since 2002. Listen

44: Joe‌ ‌Escobedo | How To Create Engaging LinkedIn Content from 2021-04-06T03:00

Joe Escobedo is the author of “Asian Growth Stories“. He has advised and trained over 12,000 exe...

43: Professor James Trevelyan | Cooling the World Affordably and Sustainably from 2021-03-30T03:00

Professor James Trevelyan is the founder and CEO of Listen

42: Rachele Focardi | Addressing Workplace Generational Divide from 2021-03-23T03:00

Rachele Focardi is a global thought-leader and well renowned public speaker on Multigenerational Wor...

41: Roshan Ravishankar | Helping Companies To Hire Talents, Not Resumes from 2021-03-16T09:48:34

Roshan Ravishankar is the co-founder of Vita, the first platform that allows companies to screen applications using referee assessed values, over plain resumes. 

It started...

40: Amritpal Singh | Business Expansion Without The Compliance Hassle from 2021-03-09T03:00

Amritpal Singh is a Co-Founder at Listen

39: Jason Ho | Why Knowing Your Strengths Matter from 2021-03-02T03:00

Jason Ho is Southeast Asia's 1st Gallup-Certified StrengthsFinder® Coach & Platinum Coach.

He is also th...

38: Gurunath Hari | Emineo Pursuits from 2021-02-22T11:00

Gurunath Hari is the Head of practice and Data Scientist at Listen

37: Japhet Lim | Reubiks Academy from 2021-02-15T05:08:40

Japhet Lim is a serial entrepreneur who has taken up multiple training r...

36: Tulika Tripathi | Snaphunt from 2021-02-09T11:00

Tulika Tripathi is the Founder of Listen

35: Nina Alag Suri | X0PA AI from 2021-02-03T07:15:42

Nina Alag Suri is the Founder and CEO of Listen

34: Kyle Hegarty | The Accidental Business Nomad from 2021-01-22T04:08:49

Kyle Hegarty helps organizations grow globally. His sales and marketing training programs help clients increase business across regions and...

#33 - Eugene Goh, TalentKraft from 2020-12-29T06:00

Eugene Goh is the co-founder of TalentKraft, a strategy consultancy that focuses on helping clients build better teams through a combination of consulting and training. TalentKraft is a strategy...

#32 - Gary Ma, maaiiconnect from 2020-12-22T03:48:41

Gary Ma is the product lead at maaiiconnect. They provide a platform to help companies deliver seamless omnichannel experiences with end-to-end engagement.

With maaiiconnect you can build...

#31 - George Avgenakis, Loopcv from 2020-12-14T09:00

George Avgenakis is the founder and CEO at Loopcv, a job search tool that automates the job search for individual job seekers. Using Loopcv, job applicants can automatically apply to hundreds of...

#30 - Josie Stoker, Capture from 2020-12-05T06:45:07

Josie Stoker is the CoFounder and CEO at Capture - a B2B SaaS helping companies engage a planet-friendly workforce.

They also have the app for individuals which is akin to a 'Fitbit for y...

#29 - Deborah Tan-Pink, Revolut from 2020-11-24T06:56:58

Deborah Tan-Pink is the Senior Communications Manager at Revolut Singapore, having joined them in October 2020. Previously, she was the CEO of an edtech startup.

Revolut gives customers t...

#28 – Daniel Callaghan, Veremark & Workplace Accelerator from 2020-11-19T05:35:06

Daniel Callaghan is the CEO of Veremark and the Managing Partner at the Workplace Accelerator.

Veremark is a category leader in the space of Career Credential Verification and Management....

#27 – Syed Ali Abbas, Epitome from 2020-11-12T03:00

Syed Ali Abbas is the Chief Strategy Officer of Epitome Global, a next-generation employability technology, services and analytics compa...

#26 – Stephanie Nash, Thrive HR Exchange from 2020-11-10T03:00

Stephanie Nash is the Chief People Officer and Head of Global Ventures at Listen

#25 – Mat Ward, Workmate from 2020-11-05T03:00

Mathew Ward is the founding CEO of Workmate, an end-to-end workforce management platform with a fully integrated worker network, custom-built to enable the blue-collar workforce.

Workmate...

#24 – Sergei Makhmodov, Daxtra from 2020-11-03T03:00

Sergei Makhmodov is the co-founding director of DaXtra Technologies, a world-leading specialist ...

#23 – Jaime Ng, MatchCasts from 2020-10-29T05:26

Jaime Ng is the founder and CEO of Listen

#22 – Alan Heyward, O.C. Tanner from 2020-10-27T02:00

Alan Heyward is the Asia Pacific Managing Director of O.C. Tanner.

He has been in...

#21 – Alvin Goh, Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI) from 2020-10-22T02:00

Alvin Goh is the Executive Director at Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI)...

#20 – James Chia, ArcLab from 2020-10-20T03:00

James Chia is Co-founder & CEO of ArcLab, a Mobile Learning SaaS platform empowering...

#19 – Christian Vetter, HRForecast from 2020-10-15T04:00

Christian Vetter is CEO and Co-Founder of HRForecast, dedicated to data-driven deci...

#18 – Mayank Parekh, IHRP from 2020-10-13T04:00

Mayank Parekh is the CEO of the Listen

#17 – Sudhanshu Tewari, Rewardz from 2020-10-08T05:56:41

Sudhanshu Tewari is the Co-founder and CEO of Listen

#16 – Yasmine Khater, Sales Story Method from 2020-10-06T10:15:14

Yasmine Khater helps leaders use stories to stand out, attract more customers. All while inspiring their team and growing their business (and careers).

For the pa...