FedEx and TalentCorp share talent strategy secrets

Talent Management Asia, the region’s premier human capital strategy conference, is delighted to announce that top leaders from Federal Express and TalentCorp will be joining the most awaited dialogue on talent strategy as keynote speakers. They will examine the talent market in Asia and HR as a key component to an organisation’s financial success.

Organised by Human Resources, Talent Management Asia is a two-day conference happening in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong in March 2017. The annual event is attended by senior HR professionals and corporate leaders from the biggest companies in Asia.

“Cultivating a superior workforce entails effective work systems that can simultaneously drive talent engagement and business growth,” said Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor of Human Resources magazine. “The speakers at Talent Management Asia will reveal the strategies behind their remarkable accomplishments in human capital management.”

Talent Management Asia 2017 will explore the most pressing issues organisations and HR practitioners are currently facing today, such as global talent management outlook, compensation and benefits strategy, employee retention, and organisational effectiveness. The following are the keynote speakers who will open the conference:

As managing director at FedEx Express, Ramesh Kumar Singam is in charge of the daily company operations and implementing FedEx corporate strategies. He started as a training specialist at FedEx in 1993 and was promoted to managing director for operations in 2000. Singam relocated to Singapore in 2003 to serve as the managing director for operations at FedEx Singapore and Indonesia. He returned to Malaysia to resume the role of managing director for operations for FedEx Malaysia in 2009.

Shareen Shariza Dato’ Abdul Ghani, chief executive officer at TalentCorp, holds a Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership from Cambridge University and Master in Public Policy from University Malaya. Before joining TalentCorp, she worked as director of corporate responsibility at Khazanah Nasional Bhd, where she executed corporate responsibility strategy and implemented initiatives such as PINTAR, Yayasan Sejahtera and GEMS Malaysia. Ghani also served as a board member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership and is a recipient of the Pingat Darjah Paduka Mahkota Perak for her contributions towards humanitarian efforts.

Previous Talent Management Asia participants were Fortune 500 companies and major employers across the region, such as CapitaLand, Coca-Cola, Facebook, Fox International, MasterCard, Mitsubishi, Singapore Airlines, Standard & Poor’s, The Nielsen Company, and Unilever. All presenters and  panellists, such as Angeline Oh, VP for group talent management and development at SingTel, were director or vice president level HR professionals with regional responsibility.

Held in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in March 2017, Talent Management Asia is Asia’s biggest conference on talent management and human capital strategy. The two-day annual event is focused on global best practice HR strategy, features an agenda dominated by case studies and global thought leadership, and attracts a large audience of senior HR generalists and specialists as well as and CEOs, CFOs and COOs closely involved in their companies’ HR strategy.

To review the topics and agenda, check out the stellar speaker list and reserve your seat, visit www.talentmanagement.asia before it’s sold out. For more information please contact:

- For Singapore: Renamel Torres, renamelt@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329- For Kuala Lumpur: Adrian Ray, adrianr@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329- For Hong Kong:Kenneth To, kennetht@humanresourcesonline.net,+852 2861 1882