What It Really Costs Your Business to Lose Good People
Singapore's employee engagement was 14% in 2025, behind Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, and well below the global average of 20%.
Losing good people is expensive. Most companies never calculate exactly how expensive, because the cost isn't clear at first glance. It's spread across recruitment fees, lost productivity, managers' time and work that just stops getting done.
Join us for 3 speakers talking about 3 stages of this problem:
What your structure is costing you
How to find and keep the people you actually need for your business
How to ensure that you're calculating your offer to employees the same way they are
There will be complimentary dinner, drinks and a door gift for all participants.
Our Speakers
Mark Mullinix
Mark is the founder and principal at Growth Vectors, which runs organisational diagnostics for companies of roughly 30 to 150 staff. He helps founders and leaders work out what's actually going wrong inside their organisations, and whether they are facing a people problem or a structural one wearing a people problem's clothes. He's also made most of the mistakes he'll be talking about, several of them more than once.
Mark has spent 2 decades building and scaling ventures across Asia-Pacific, from early stage startups to Fortune 500 multinationals. He founded a strategy consultancy, helped launch the technology behind leading credit-card rewards programmes at Ascenda Loyalty, where he built a globally-distributed team, and was on the founding team that built yuu Rewards, Singapore's largest loyalty coalition backed by Temasek and DFI Retail group. Earlier, he spent seven years at American Express, where he established their co-brand Centre of Excellence.
Jennifer Loh
Jennifer Loh Drysdale Banks is an award-winning business and HR leader with more than 2 decades of global experience across fast-growth, complex and multi-market environments. Her expertise spans across business strategy, leadership development and workplace culture transformation, driving organisational performance.
At Gulf Marine, she strengthened leadership capability, remodelled culture and embedded performance-driven practices across multiple markets which has enabled the business to grow 3X as well as rose from No 7 to No 2 amongst competitors in the market, all within 2 years. At Sunseap Group, she built scalable leadership, talent and performance capabilities all which supported its rapid regional expansion across Asia. Her work has been recognised with the HR Excellence Gold Award for Business Transformation in 2023.
Today, Jennifer advises founders and senior leaders on people strategy, organisational structure, leadership capability and execution discipline. She is also an Executive Coach with over 10 years of coaching experience, combining behavioural analytics, neuroscience-based coaching and commercial insight.
Her approach is pragmatic, direct and strongly grounded in business outcomes. She views leadership, talent and culture not as HR initiatives, but as critical business infrastructure that determines whether strategy succeeds.
Jennifer holds a Master's in Global Human Resource Management and credentials including SHRM-SCP, IHRP-SP, ACC, Brain-Based Coach and Harrison Assessments practitioner.
Kenneth Ang
Kenneth is an employee benefits specialist with AIA Financial Advisers, where he helps SME leaders rethink employee benefits as a talent strategy rather than a cost line. In his former career, he spent close to 10 years in the banking and commodity trading sectors in both Singapore and London, giving him a global lens on how organisations structure compensation and benefits to compete for talent.
His 2 core specialisations in his current role are designing corporate group insurance and employee benefits programmes for companies, as well as providing platform-based investment portfolio management for clients building long-term wealth.
Agenda
18:00 Registration/Dinner/Networking
19:00 Keynote Speech: The Bill Nobody Adds Up: Why The Way You're Building Is Costing You People- Mark Mullinix
19:20 Keynote Speech: You Can Hire Great Talents; Can Your Culture Keep Them?- Jennifer Loh
19:40 Keynote Speech: A Closer Look Into What Your People Experience When The Offer Arrives- Kenneth Ang
20:00 Q&A