BrioHR's Podcast: #DoitwithBrio

S1E10 Should You Do An MBA? with Janice Tan

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0800

Janice is a former lawyer turned strategic HR professional currently based in Hong Kong. She started her career in one of the largest law firms in Malaysia, and went on to pursue an MBA at the Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT Sloan. Spurred by her aspiration to help companies build capacity to achieve sustainable advantage through people process excellence, Janice pivoted her career from Law to HR after the MBA. In her current role, she supports the Chief HR Officer on Global HR strategic projects with a focus on policy and governance.

She also co-hosts the Actsplore This podcast, a podcast for young working professionals with the mission to share actionable insights on how we can thrive personally and professionally.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR provides comprehensive HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E9 Financial Literacy For Young People with Mathura Kannan

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:00:00 +0800

Mathura Kannan is the 25-year-old Junior Director of Simply Empowering that provides the services of Outsource Accounting, Business Advisory & Secretarial Services. She also now guides teenagers & young adults in their personal finance management via her year-long coaching program as well as her workshops.

Despite pursuing a career in the finance world, Mathura is also co-founded the Malaysian Social Enterprise Ascendance in 2015, served as a CEO from 2017 to 2020 and now currently serves as an Advisor for the organization.
She has received the Diana Award in 2019 for her contributions in humanitarian & social works as a youth as well as awarded as Top 10 Student Key Opinion Leader in Monstar Awards in 2019.

Mathura is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW), hosts the weekly talkshow Money Matter$ and has also published her first book "Money Matter$? - Guide to Finance & Life for Gen Zs"

Wondering who are we? BrioHR provides comprehensive HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E8 Transforming Business Through HR with Mallory Loone

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0800

Mallory Loone is currently the co-founder and Creator of Opportunities of Work Inspires, a people engagement and development company, who has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, both locally and abroad.

Her knowledge and experiences in the people development scene have earned her the recognition of Malaysia’s Most Talented Coach, 2019 and Top 100 Global Training & Development Coach of the Year, 2017 by the World HRD Congress. Last year she was recognized as Top 100 LinkedIn Icons to follow in Malaysia by Marketing in Asia and was a 4 times TEDx Speaker.

She continues to contribute to society by being a frequent mentor for Startup Weekend, Axiata Young Leaders Mentor4Mentor Programme and Sunway Mentoring Group. She is also part of the Tulips Movement Malaysia Council aimed to Inspire and Unleashed Women’s and Youth’s potential to grow.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR provides comprehensive HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E7 Scaling and Optimising Recruitment with May Wah Chan

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 10:00:00 +0800

May lived and worked in the UK for 10 years and started her career in the UK with a Global US Direct Sales Company before returning home to Malaysia at the end of 2010. She joined Michael Page Malaysia in 2011 as an Associate Consultant and was part of the pioneer start-up team. She started recruiting for Sales and Marketing professionals across the Services and FMCG sector before taking over the team as Manager. May grew and expanded the Sales and Marketing function to be one of the leading recruitment experts in Malaysia. Since then May has been promoted from Associate Consultant, Consultant, Senior Consultant, Associate Director and became one of the first home grown local Director with responsibilities across the Sales, Marketing, Digital, Technology, Human Resource and Finance disciplines.
May is an extremely passionate recruiter who has a successful track record in placing CEO’s, Sales and Marketing Directors, General Manger, Country Managers and CHRO into esteemed organisations across multi-markets. Beyond recruitment she invests a lot of her time consulting her clients on recruitment and retention strategies, giving sound career advice to her candidates and developing people in her own team. Her passion is to continue to change lives for people through identifying and matching great job opportunities they can thrive in and reach their full potential.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR provides comprehensive HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E6 Mental Health 101 for Jobseekers with Joel Low

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0800

Dr. Joel Low is a Clinical Psychologist and Director at The Mind Psychological Services & Training, specializing in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and he works with a wide range of clients. He’s also an exco member of the Malaysian Society of Clinical Psychology. When he’s not splitting his time managing a clinical team, supervising clinical interns and working with clients, he loves his football. And pizza.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR provides comprehensive HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E5 Success and Failure with Rizal Azis

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0800

Rizal is a speaker, leadership specialist and seasoned coach who brings with him close to 20 years of experience in business strategy and development, organisational behaviour, talent and performance management. He strongly believe that it’s the people - and not the policies nor processes - that make an organisation successful. He currently runs three #AWESOME companies, loves F1 and enjoys racing his go-karts!

Wondering who are we? BrioHR provides comprehensive HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E4 Its all about interns with Zhi Ee, Founder & CEO for Monsta Asia

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0800

Zhi Ee Chan, the Founder & CEO of Monsta Asia, a Young Talent Network that provides a new way to build & discover talents. With her mission to transform the way we educate. She has climbed the ladder of success by working with over 100 industry partners to provide opportunities that have impacted 150,000 young talents jn both their personal & professional growth.

Her in-depth knowledge and 10 years of experience in youth & talent development industry, worked closely with over 100 campuses and communities partners make her a strong advocate for growth, and making her company as in-demand for talent engagement, talent development and talent management to unleash the best potential of an individual and connect best-fit opportunities for the talents. She was profiled from a young “passionate” girl to become a woman entrepreneur in various talks and her interviews by BFM, Bernama,Vulcan Post, Cradle and MaGIC.

She strongly stands for the quote by Tony Robbins - "When You Are Not Growing, You Are Dying".

Wondering who are we? BrioHR is a truly all-in-one HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E3 Work and Identity with Suzanne Ling, Co-founder for PichaEats

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0800

Suzanne is the co-founder for PichaEats, an impact-driven business that aims to serve delicious meals & enable change among communities through food. Founded in 2016, PichaEats partners with chefs from displaced communities, sharing their delicious cuisines from their home countries, including Palestine, Syria, Pakistan & Afghanistan to conferences, events, homes & more.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR is a truly all-in-one HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E2 Health, fitness and career with Datuk Jake Abdullah

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0800

Datuk Jake Abdullah is a veteran in the Malaysian media and entertainment scene with a career spanning over three decades! He is one of the pioneers of Astro where he started his career as a Music director/ Announcer at hitz fm in 1996. He rose from rank and in 2013 was promoted to Chief Executive Officer.

He was seconded between 2012 – 2013 to incept IM4U as CEO; where he successfully launched and executed several initiatives for IM4U.

He has enjoyed regional success with the launch of several award winning stations in Indonesia (Gen FM, JAK FM), India (Aamar FM, Power FM, Red FM) and also was a Board member for Adrep (Astro’s China Radio operations).

Apart from his role at Astro Radio, he also headed Rocketfuel Entertainment (Malaysia’s foremost talent and entertainment management company) which focuses on social influencing, branded content, music and so forth.

In August 2019, he left Astro Radio to join Fave Malaysia (formerly Groupon) as Managing Director. This move was to primarily reinvent himself by immersing in the fast growing fintech/digital/epayment industry. During the start of the Covid19 pandemic, he decided to join Pyjama media as CEO but the unprecedented impact of Covid has a tremendous impact on startups and also the traditional media industry and thus he decided to leave in JAN 2020 and pursue his passions which include fitness as well as initiated a political podcast (OJ CHITCHATS).

In June 2021, he was approached by the Media Prima to spearhead a rebranding and transformation of Ripple Media (Media Prima Audio).

His versatility allows him to reach out to the younger generation and he is a much sought after speaker for leadership (focusing on transformational leadership, customer experience and also human resource).

An avid fitness freak and die-hard Liverpool fan, he is also a popular social influencer for fitness and health enthusiasts in the country.

Datuk Jake holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool and has attended the Harvard Senior Managers Program.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR is a truly all-in-one HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com

S1E1 Diversity and inclusion - does it really work? with Edwin Seah

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0800

Edwin is currently a Diversity and Inclusion consultant with Include consulting, who has 6+ years experience in talent management and recruitment across APAC and Middle East. In his current role, Edwin works with organizations to advance Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. In addition, Edwin is on the leadership team of Lean In Singapore, a volunteer-led organisation with over 3,900 members that encourage women to build peer-to-peer support networks.

Wondering who are we? BrioHR is a truly all-in-one HR software that built for hardworking human resource personnels and business owners to ease their daily routine endless task so they can focus on people. Streamline recruitment, leave, payroll, performance management, and more with BrioHR today. Find out more: www.briohr.com