EGN invites you to a Cross Functional Virtual Event!
Date/ Time: Wednesday, 25 November 2025, from 4 PM – 5 PM SGT.
How to Improve (or just Maintain!) Performance in today's Challenging Business Environment
As a business leader in today’s environment, you’re under more pressure than ever — tasked with driving performance, navigating uncertainty, and meeting evolving employee expectations.
But at what cost?
According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025 report:
“Since the pandemic, managers have been asked to square the circle of new executive demands and employee expectations. We are starting to see the toll… Manager engagement affects team engagement, which affects productivity. Business performance — and ultimately GDP growth — is at risk if executive leaders do not address manager breakdown.”
In short: when you and your leaders suffer, so does your business.
Many organisations have responded by investing in executive coaching and wellness programs. Yet even with this support, we're still seeing rising levels of stress, burnout, and disengagement at the leadership level — with clear downstream impacts on team morale, productivity, and retention.
In Singapore, the challenge is especially pronounced:
Only 14% of employees are engaged at work — compared to a global norm of 33%
43% report feeling stressed "a lot of the day yesterday" — far higher than the regional average of 25%
And according to Michael Page’s Talent Trends 2025, work-life balance has now overtaken salary as the #1 workplace priority
These numbers suggest a deeper issue: our leadership support models are outdated and ineffective…..and it’s putting long-term business performance at risk.
Join Mike Hughes, a partner in Developing Global Leaders (“DGL”) Asia, to discuss and share how organizations are addressing these issues. He will also share how DGL Asia is supporting individuals and teams through holistic coaching, a combination of executive, wellbeing and fitness coaching
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Mike Hughes
Mike Hughes is a partner in Developing Global Leaders (“DGL”) Asia and Associate Faculty at Singapore Management University.
He started his career in Finance in Europe with one of the large accountancy firms and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989. He worked for almost 20 years with Coca-Cola and Nestle in Finance, Sales & Marketing and as the Zone President for Europe, Middle East and Africa for BPW (a joint venture between those two companies). He started DGL Asia with his wife, Dr. Zsuzsanna Tungli, in Singapore in 2010 focusing on leadership development and inclusion and he is a Certified Business Coach™ with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches™.
Mike is originally from the UK and is a keen golfer and (until recently) footballer with the British Club in Singapore.
Agenda:
04.00 PM: EGN introduction
04.05 PM: Presentation by the speaker
04.45 PM: Q & A session
05.00 PM: Meeting end
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