Designing Your Life: Navigating Work, Identity and Possibility in an Age of Change
As we navigate longer working lives, rapid technological change and an increasingly uncertain future of work, many professionals find themselves asking: What’s next?
Drawing from Stanford University’s globally recognised Designing Your Life methodology by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, this event features Mark Wee and Ng Choon Jin from Designing Your Life Institute in Singapore. They will share practical tools and mindsets to help navigate career transitions, explore new possibilities, and design a meaningful next chapter.
Through selected Designing Your Life exercises, participants will gain practical frameworks they can immediately apply to future career and life decisions.
This evening is for you if you’re:
between roles
questioning your next career or life chapter
navigating a transition in work, identity, or purpose
curious about the future of work and what it means for you
or simply looking for a more thoughtful way to design what comes next
Join us for an honest, practical, and hopeful evening of conversation, reflection, and connection.
This event is part of the ongoing Rafflesians in Between series of events, a community for Rafflesians navigating career and life transitions with the goal of making the “in between” less lonely and a lot more hopeful. Non-Rafflesian alumni and friends are very welcome, but priority entry will be given to Rafflesians.
Agenda
6:30 PM — Registration
7:00 PM — Dinner and Networking
7:30 PM — Fireside Chat with Mark Wee and Ng Choon Jin
9:00 PM — Networking
9:30 PM — Close
About our speakers
Mark Wee
* Former Executive Director, DesignSingapore Council
* CEO, Designing Your Life Global
Mark Wee is a designer, educator, and portfolio entrepreneur fascinated by how people navigate change, rediscover purpose, and design lives of meaning and possibility.
As CEO of DYL Global and co-founder of the Designing Your Life Institute in Singapore, he works with individuals and organisations to help them navigate transitions and create meaningful futures.
A fellow Rafflesian, Mark brings together design, education, entrepreneurship, and human development in his work helping people imagine and build more intentional next chapters.
Ng Choon Jin
* Designing Your Life and Action Learning Coach
Ng Choon Jin is a former accountant turned human development practitioner with over 15 years of experience in coaching, facilitation, and leadership development.
Also a fellow Raffesian, he supports individuals and teams in growth, reflection, and transformation as a Designing Your Life and Action Learning coach,
Beyond his professional work, Choon Jin mentors and volunteers with nonprofits, and enjoys long walks, books, and coffee when he is not raising three children with his wife.
Giving Back
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 (led by Rafflesian alumna Alicia Altorfer-Ong) 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.
We’re also grateful to Aspire, our venue sponsor for the evening. Aspire is an all-in-one finance platform helping entrepreneurs, startups, and SMEs manage business accounts, payments, and expenses more simply — a fitting partner for a community designing new ways of working and living.