Michael Walsh is a dynamic Catholic motivational speaker and evangelist from the United States who has motivated and encouraged Catholics of all ages to live out their faith in their every day lives. He is featured monthly on EWTN’s Global Radio Network’s Sunrise Morning Show and is endorsed by his Archdiocese, the Salesians of Don Bosco and the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (CFCA), the world’s largest Catholic sponsorship program that supports more than 310,000 impoverished children and aging persons in 24 countries. Michael’s experiences as an entrepreneur, missionary, father, husband, actor, video producer and youth minister help him as he goes out to preach the Gospel and minister to Catholics, practicing and non-practicing, around the world and bring his listeners on a journey of faith and life and point them to Jesus Christ and His Holy, Apostolic Catholic Church. Listen to him speak about how God prevails in and supports your whole life – spiritually, socially and professionally. Watch his video at http://vimeo.com/2712970

CEO, The Idea Factory
Nicholas is currently CEO of The Idea Factory, an innovation services consulting and capability-building company founded in San Francisco in 1996.  In his almost 7 years at The Idea Factory, Nicholas has lead innovation-related projects for Abacus International, ABN AMRO, American Express, Design Council Singapore, LEGO, Levi Strauss, Microsoft Asia-Pacific, Philips and Roche (Australia).  He has also helped embed innovation capability by designing and conducting training for organisations such as the Ministry of Education (Singapore), the Centre for Strategic Infocomms Technology (Singapore), China Productivity Centre (Taiwan), the National Innovation Agency of Thailand and Public Bank Berhad (Kuala Lumpur).  A programme that Nicholas designed in collaboration with Alexandra Hospital to help generate new ideas for independent elderly living was also shortlisted as a finalist in the 2007 INDEX: Awards, a global non-profit organisation based in Copenhagen aimed at recognising ideas that help improve lives.  Prior to joining The Idea Factory, Nicholas spent 10 years at the Singapore Tourism Board in various marketing and events management roles spanning ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand.    

Nicholas graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Commerce & Finance (Honours) Degree but also found time to pursue a major in Psychology.  When he is not in the office, Nicholas can be found trying to lower his handicap on the golf course, playing competitive soccer on a field somewhere in Singapore, singing and playing the guitar at a friend’s wedding, or capturing images of his children because he thinks they are just growing up too quickly.      


 

Author : Living From The Heart – How To Create Change In Your Life By Changing The Language You Speak

Liz Gay has specialised in matters relating to communication for very nearly 20 years.
During this time, she has worked as a copywriter and as a written language instructor, as a certified trainer with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, as an NLP Master Practitioner and as a certified People Developer Consultant. She has provided training to CEOs, scholars, parents, teachers, performance coaches, prison inmates and staff, business managers and members of various religious organizations, amongst others. She is also the author of Living from the Heart: How to Create Change in your Life by Changing the Language you Speak and of numerous contributions to print media in Singapore.
Liz currently works in Singapore by invitation only, offering introductory talks, training, coaching and consultancy services to organizations as diverse as Singapore Prisons, Assisi Hospices, Singapore Management University, UNIFEM and the National Community Leaders Institute.  She also offers training through strategic partnerships to business personnel in Singapore, Malaysia Mauritius and China.

Deputy Secretary (Industry), Ministry Of Trade & Industry

Mean Luck started work as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Court of Appeal and the Chief Justice. He previously served as a Senior Assistant Registrar and District Judge in the Supreme Court and is currently serving as Deputy Secretary (Industry) (effective 1 Oct 2009) at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. He is a Board Member of the National Heritage Board and Sentosa Development Corporation. He started following Christ 21 years ago, and learnt about God’s provision when he followed a call to serve in mission work to places such as China, Burma, Indonesia, Mongolia and India. He is currently serving as a member of the Board of the Caritas Singapore Community Council (CSCC) and the Chairman of the Grants and Capacity Building Committee of the CSCC. He is happily married and has two boys.

 

President, Family Life Society
Bernard is now President of Family Life Society, a Catholic charity that supports families and promotes life.  Prior to his current appointment, Bernard was the global head of equites in a major UK bank in Singapore and had been the executive-in-charge of choosing and implementing a multi-million dollar equity derivative system for the bank.  His past experience includes being a partner of a global-macro hedge fund and the head of Asian equities trading of a US investment bank.  Bernard holds an MBA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.  In addition, he is a happy father of 4 girls and a Catechist of the Church of St. Ignatius.

Former Country Managing Director, Accenture. Chairman, Caritas Singapore Community Council
Willie Cheng is a former partner of Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing firm. Prior to his retirement in 2003, he was the country managing director for Singapore and the managing partner of its Communications and High Tech practice in Asia.
Since his retirement, he has stayed involved with the business and the infocomm community. He sits on the board of Singapore Press Holdings and NTUC Fairprice. He spends the larger part of his time working with nonprofit organizations at the board and volunteer level. Among these, he is chairman of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation and Caritas Singapore Community Council.

Faculty & Trainer, The LogicMills School of Thinking

Basil had always been interested in the pursuit of wisdom. Being
Catholic, he was looking everywhere for this rare treasure, except
within his own Church. After a deep spiritual encounter with God one
evening in a retreat, he realised that wisdom was to be found in Truth
and that Truth was to be found in the Catholic Church. Since that
realisation a few years ago, he has 'hastened slowly' deeper into his religion, and life has not been the same.

Basil is a member of the faculty at the LogicMills School of Thinking
where he teaches philosophical logic to school students and corporate
organisations. He has contributed to the publication of a logic puzzle
book 'The Shady Puzzle' and is currently working on a project to
develop logic-based iPhone apps for the public.

Interested in philosophy, theology and sacred scripture, he has
recently led his 20-member youth Bible ministry, λόγος ('logos'), in
the organising of a nationwide Bible seminar. With lack of time,
funding, and manpower, they had little choice but to embark on a
system of varied but readily-available Internet tools to promote and
co-ordinate the event, and ended up with a full capacity seminar hall
along with a back-up hall being fully utilised to accommodate the overflow.

Currently discerning the next step in his life, he is growing in the
knowledge of God everyday, enjoying his job, and learning to pray well.

Praise@Work

Lester is an active member of Praise@Work and of the Christ@Work organising commitee. In organising a conference of this magnitude with limited volunteers and resources, Lester and the team employed various technological tools to do "more with less" e.g. employing a content management driven website, allowing for online registrations and even online payments through credit cards. Lester is also involved in actively promoting the conference through various social networking mechanisms like Facebook. He will share some of his insights and experiences at the panel session.