The Fractional Mindset Is This for You?

​"Fractional is not a job title. It is a different way of thinking about your career."

​Fractional work is growing rapidly across Singapore and Asia.

​But most people get it wrong from the start.

​They treat it as a job title — when in reality, it’s a business decision. And a fundamentally different way of building a career.

​This panel brings together senior fractional professionals with Elena Chow & Moritz Kaffsack who have built communities and deep expertise across the region and within the ecosystem. They’ll share what the transition really looks like, what most people overlook, and how to think clearly about whether the fractional path is right for you.

​Topics will include:

• ​What the fractional landscape looks like in Singapore and Asia today

• ​Key trends shaping demand for senior fractional talent

• ​What people consistently underestimate when making the shift

• ​What it really takes to build a portfolio and practice from zero

• ​The nonlinear career path — what it looks and feels like in reality

​This evening is for you if you’re:

• ​between roles

• ​questioning the traditional linear career path

• ​or curious about building a sustainable, portfolio-based practice

​Join us for an honest, practical conversation — and an evening of dinner, insights, and connection.

​Agenda

​6:45 PM — Registration & networking
7:00 PM — Introduction
7:15 PM — Panel discussion & Dinner

​7:45 PM — Audience Q&A
8:15 PM — Open networking
9:00 PM — Close

​About our speakers:

​Moritz Kaffsack

​Founder, Flexer & Portfolio Careers in Asia

​Founder of Flexer - transformation and capability building. We work with companies in Asia to install new systems for growth and build the leadership capability to run them - delivered by experienced operators with a track record. 

​Founder of Portfolio Careers in Asia - the region's leading community of senior independent professionals, and the PCA Catalyst Accelerator, developing experienced operators who deliver top growth and transformation programs across Asia.

​20 years leading organizations through commercial growth and organisational change - from both sides, as an executive and as a practitioner working with leadership teams. Direct experience of what makes transformation stick and what makes it fail. Managed teams and customers through acquisitions and pivots, taken companies to markets across three continents, and worked directly with leadership teams on post-M&A integration, market entry, leadership transitions and other moments of fundamental change.

​Elena Chow

​Founder, ConnectOne

​Elena is the Founder of ConnectOne who since 2013 have partnered the early stage technology startup ecosystem to build and optimize teams for growth. In doing so, she and her team have met, coached and build a robust community of entrepreneurial minded individuals. She is well known for her generosity in mentoring startup founders, teaching at accelerators/incubators and doing corporate-to-startup career transition coaching.

​She is also passionate about talent communities and cofounded talent@web3, a web3 community that aims to make web3 jobs more accessible. Currently, she spends more of her time organizing programs at Portfolio Careers of Asia, one of Asia’s largest communities of fractional leaders.

​Prior to ConnectOne, she had spent 15 years in Procter & Gamble. She is a proud mum of 4 kids aged 18 to 28. Outside of work, she teaches the youths in church, sits on a board of a kindergarten and is a keen Pilates advocate.

​Giving Back

​This is part of the ongoing Rafflesians in Between series of events — but as always, non-Rafflesian alumni and friends are very welcome.

​Rafflesians In Between is a community of alumni navigating career and life transitions. We gather for conversations, workshops, and events that make the “in between” less lonely and a lot more hopeful.

​​A portion of ticket proceeds from this session will go toward the Next Chapter Hope Circle, a fund established with Singapore-registered charity Ray of Hope to support low-income individuals and families affected by retrenchment.

​Thanks To Our Sponsors

​​This event is supported by Singapore Global Network (SGN), a division under Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Join SGN to become a member of our global network of professionals and friends with Singapore at its heart. Learn more at www.singaporeglobalnetwork.gov.sg.