New month, new course. 

Actually, the course started last month. This is my first experience meeting classmates virtually from such diverse backgrounds, with a notable number hailing from the Middle East. I found that the perspectives shared are quite different from those I have encountered growing up in a small but developed country, Singapore.

It was also an eye-opening experience to enhance my leadership skills. I have been leading the innovation4good program for close to a year now. It is a program whereby people of different backgrounds come together to brainstorm ideas to aim for patents. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get patents so far but I definitely increase my outreach and more people are joining on a regular basis. I must say I have been feeling imposter syndrome but I managed to get past it after some time. It’s just like how I have this imposter syndrome when I first started work in PayPal. It’s been nearly 5 years now and I have received my promotion. It was my second job promotion ever since I have started work. 🙂

Looking back at my own career journey so far, it’s been quite a journey. All these have shaped me for who I am and how my leadership style will be.

I’m not sure where my next steps of my career will lead me to but I am open for more opportunities. Yes to potentially relocation. No to running away from relocating to US after so long. I even changed job back in 2017/2018 to avoid potentially relocating to San Francisco… Well, 8 years later, I’m finally ready for the decision. Can’t help to say that part of the ready-ness came from the peace I have living alone and also settled my first house.