Women’s Executive Leadership

EGN Malaysia/women’s Executive Leadership

Cultivate a network that is built on mutual professional aspirations with other women in executive leadership.

This women’s only confidential peer group brings together female business executives, to discuss challenges and opportunities for personal and professional career growth.

The group shares their experience in areas ranging from strategy development to effective execution with a view to identifying “best practice” and creating “next practice”.

The current key topics that are being explored during our meetings, and we regularly seek our members’ input to flex and change these as situations change:

ESG – incorporating environmental, social and governance aspects into your business strategy
Mental wellbeing within the organization
Big Data – trends, technology, and opportunities
Neurodiversity
Change management
Purposeful career planning
Leadership changed over the past year – what concepts should we embrace?
Toxic personalities at the workplace
Personal branding
Male-driven teams versus women-driven teams
Female leaders – the male view
Aligning all teams in a large organisation to collaborate and execute a joint mission

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.

Members of this group are women from large or mid-sized Malaysian-based companies and include South East Asia Business Unit Director at Haleon, General Manager Energy Transition and Business Development at Vopak Asia, VP General Manager APAC & Eurasia at Infobip, Director, People & Culture (APAC) at Appspace, Managing Director at TechCom Ventures and many more.

Peer Group Details

Confidential peer group with 30-35 members
6 Meetings per year
Multidisciplinary events and networking seminars
Access to a virtual global network with more than 15,000 members in 15 countries

Meet the group’s chair
and co-chair

Tessie Lim is known for her work in coaching and training personal power and professional communication. She is a self-actualization coach. Her company World Center of Personal Excellence, puts the subject of personal power front and centre of all the professional development work she does.

At the core, is building a sense of ownership, responsibility, and inner authority. Her clients are mainly GLCs and multinational corporations.

Tessie Lim began her career as an advertising copywriter and then served in a private university for more than 15 years. Her last position there was as VP, Strategic Corporate Development. After that, Tessie Lim began writing again, and training leadership communication. This includes presentation skills and media strategy. Her weekly column Get A Life ran for 10 years in the NST

Her radio show Be the Best with Tessie Lim aired on LiteFM. Now apart from corporate coaching and training, Tessie Lim leads The Women Rising Movement, a project she founded to build courage, confidence, and the sense of liberation for women. The Movement organises events, training programs, and provides a platform for women to come together to learn together and share their experiences.To find their voice and to support others finding their voices too

To give you a feel of EGN, listen to how our members have benefited from their membership:

Louise Hawley

Managing Director for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand & Japan at NielsenIQ

Aline Anliker

Head of Marketing & Corporate Communications APAC at Evident Scientific

Denise Kwok

Social Entrepreneur at LetXGig

Sophie Z Soh

Marketing Director at Paula’s Choice Singapore

Our networks operate within the following frameworks:

Join a group of six (6) peer group meetings each year for a half-day at a central Malaysia location (in-person and virtual options available) with dates set a year in advance.
You get access to weekly Cross-Functional events (interactive knowledge sharing sessions that are held virtually), including focus groups on digital transformation, innovation, human capital, future of works, developing markets, personal development, and networking evenings.
EGN provides an experienced and certified facilitator to run all aspects of the group and meetings.
The group has its own website with contact data, calendars, documents, presentations, and mail.

Frequently Asked Questions

An EGN membership varies in price, depending on your locality, seniority and the specific benefits applied to the EGN Group.
Our Network Advisors can help you find the right group based on your managerial level and professional needs.
Enter your contact info here and one of our Network Advisors will get back to you.
With the support of a professional network, you get the opportunity to exchange experience on a high professional level, strengthen and develop your own skills within management and specialised areas.
As a member of EGN, you get direct access to Top Executives, Business Leaders and Specialists in most parts of the world via our online Members’ Universe where you can ask questions, join debates and network with more than 15,000 other members.
Your personal EGN group represents a confidential forum where all ideas and challenges can be discussed with peers at your own, professional level. To ensure confidentiality, no competitors or significant customer relationships are allowed in the same group.
All our peer groups are managed by a professional and experienced EGN Chair, who facilitates and mentors the peer groups, ensures output both at and between meetings and focuses on your professional and managerial development.
We also offer events and seminars, networking tours, an Between Jobs Scheme, mentoring programmes, CEO coaching and much more.
Contact us for more information
You can apply for membership by filling out this form
When we have received your application, you will be contacted by a Network Advisor for a more in-depth interview to find the right peer group for your managerial level and/or professional need.
All candidates must be approved by both the Chair and specific peer group members before joining a group. This is done both to match relevant peers and also to avoid private friends, customer relationships and competitors being placed together in the same network group and to help facilitate honest and fruitful discussions.