HR Leaders

Build a network grounded in shared professional goals and personal ventures with fellow senior HR leaders.

A confidential peer group for Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs), HR Directors, and senior HR leaders to exchange insights, strengthen decision-making, and shape people strategy in a rapidly evolving workplace.

This peer group brings together human resources leaders from both multinational corporations (MNCs) and established SMEs across diverse industries. In a safe and confidential environment, members form a trusted peer network to openly discuss people strategy, organisational challenges, and long-term workforce direction.

Today’s HR leaders play a pivotal role beyond traditional HR functions—balancing talent, culture, performance, compliance, and leadership development. The diversity of organisational contexts within the group creates rich, experience-based learning that goes far beyond theory or policy.

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:

HR Priorities for this year and how will HR transform in future years
Diversity and Inclusion Programs: What works, what doesn’t and the future of D&I Programs
Best Practice Talent Acquisition Teams- What are they doing and how are they doing it?
Experience Sharing & Learning- What has been the most difficult experience that you have had in you HR Career and what did you learn?
Beyond the nine box- new and emerging practices to identifying, retaining and managing your high potential talent
The lost art: What people skills have been lost, which skills can and should we bring back and how?
Finding talent internally; tracking, assessing, restructuring and promoting your workforce
AI assistance with Recruitment – is this the best way to find talent?
Attracting the Right Talent for Your Team; Dealing with the Changing Landscape, Keeping Local Talent and Facing Global Competition
How to be a Leader in this New Era; the landscape has changed, have Leaders?
The Talent Management Agenda; Programs that Work
Up the Happiness Factor with Wellness Initiatives; What Works and What Doesn’t?

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 from large or mid-sized Singapore-based companies and include the HR Director of Kaspersky Lab Singapore, People Partner of Google, SVP Human Resources APAC Kuehne + Nagel, Vice President of Kemin Industries, HR Leader Asia at Mercer, Global Head of Human Resources Equis Development, Regional People & Organisation Director at DSM Singapore, and many more.

Peer Group Details

EGN is a peer learning community built on trusted relationships and strict confidentiality. Within the HR Leaders group, members benefit from psychological safety, discretion, and peer insight—enabling honest dialogue and stronger people-focused decisions.

This group is designed for CHROs, HR Directors, and senior HR leaders who value confidential peer learning, strategic depth, and trusted relationships as they lead and transform their organisations through people.

Through structured peer dialogue, members:

Share practical insights across people strategy, talent management, culture, and organisational effectiveness
Learn from peers navigating similar workforce and leadership challenges
Identify proven best practices while shaping next practices for sustainable people leadership

Meet the group’s chair
and co-chair

More about Catherine Chai

Catherine Chai leverages over two decades of expertise in strategic brand development and talent enhancement to drive organizational success. Specializing in workplace learning solutions and executive coaching, Catherine empowers companies to amplify their competitive advantage and achieve tangible results. With a proven track record spanning 15 sectors, Catherine's leadership ensures tailored solutions that propel businesses to new heights.

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

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 Singapore 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 both physically and virtually), including focus groups on digital transformation, innovation, human capital, future of works, developing markets, personal development, and networking evenings.
Knowledge sharing in the group is based on the strictest confidentiality.
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, calendar, 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.
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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.