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Breakout Session: The Journey of a Creative Entrepreneur: How an Enthusiastic Entrepreneur Got Creative with His Space
To make your entrepreneurship journey successful, you will have to become, and remain, a leader. Two intellectual abilities that are usually not formally assessed academically are: the sense for the unknowable, and to foresee the unforeseeable. This is partly what gives leaders their “lead,” what puts them out ahead and qualifies them to show others the way.
In short, it's foresight— the central ethic of leadership. Leaders, therefore, must be creative, and creativity is largely discovery; a push into the unchartered and the unknown. This intriguing session is about how leaders think big, inspire others and achieve great success. David Wee will take you down his path to becoming a successful entrepreneur and help you to:
- Become self-aware: ask yourself, “Where am I now?”
- Realize your level of entrepreneurship, and think big!
- Recognize critical moments of success and failure
- Understand why businesses fail
- 36 things David did differently in his entrepreneurial journey, and how they lead to big success
Biography
David Wee is the Founder and CEO of Asia Speakers Bureau (ASB) and DW Associates Pte Ltd, a company empowering creativity and knowledge. David is also Chief Executive for Asia for London Speaker Bureau. With 20 years of business development and marketing experience in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), David has had the opportunity to conduct business in 18 geographic markets and at international consumer fairs in Europe, USA, Australia and the Far East.
David’s previous career experience includes performing front-line, business development functions across a wide spectrum of industries, including consumer health and beauty care, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, lifestyle, fashion, household, toys and much more. Currently he is the president of the Singapore Institute of Management, Marketing Executives Group. He has also served in the committee of Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation, Lifestyle Industry Group and the Singapore Retailers Association working committee for National Skills Recognition Systems together with Ministry of Manpower and Standards Board. David is an active member of the Malaysian Association of Creativity and Innovation (MACRI) and the Lions Club of Singapore.