Locations (Venue): Impact Lab 5

17 Sep 2025, 17:30:00 - 18:00:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

As Impact Lab 5 draws to a close, one truth becomes clear: thriving is not a luxury — it’s a collective responsibility. Across our conversations, we have dismantled the myths of hustle culture, challenged inherited patterns of burnout, and reimagined leadership through compassion, collaboration, and systems thinking. We’ve explored the science of human connection, the strategic power of self-compassion, and the tools to regulate our minds and bodies in a world of relentless change. We’ve confronted climate anxiety, digital overload, and AI’s role in our mental health, and discovered pathways to restore clarity, care, and collective well-being.

Now, the challenge is yours: take what you’ve learned, question the systems you inhabit, and create spaces — in your teams, organisations, and communities — where people and purpose can truly flourish side by side. The reset begins with you.

17 Sep 2025, 16:15:00 - 17:30:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In an age of accelerating change, we face a new era of psychological overwhelm. Climate anxiety, digital dependency, burnout, and AI are colliding in ways our nervous systems—built for nature and connection—were never designed to handle. Stretched across timelines, technologies, and crises, we are challenged at the deepest human level.

This panel examines the emotional and existential cost of modern life: from climate anxiety and eco-grief to algorithmic overload, attention fatigue, and tech dependency. We will explore AI’s mental health impact — friend, foe, or mirror? — along with the spiritual toll of speed and overstimulation.

Bringing together psychologists, technologists, ESG leaders, and well-being researchers, we’ll share strategies for digital hygiene, resilience, and hope-based action. Together, we’ll ask how to design ecosystems — natural, digital, and social — that protect and restore humanity, anchoring us amid chaos and reclaiming connection, meaning, and agency.

17 Sep 2025, 15:15:00 - 16:00:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In high-pressure leadership roles, chronic stress often goes unnoticed until it takes a toll — not just on performance, but on health, relationships, and decision-making. This session explores how early signs of nervous system dysregulation can manifest in the body, mind, and behaviour, and examines the profound impact of stress and burnout on cognitive function, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, we will uncover the critical role the nervous system plays in shaping resilience, clarity, and leadership presence. Participants will learn practical regulation tools to restore balance and emotional well-being, while reflecting on the deeper drivers behind their work ethic — from perfectionism to people-pleasing and productivity-linked self-worth. The session will equip leaders with strategies for sustainable success, protecting personal wellbeing while sustaining high performance and fostering strong, authentic relationships.

17 Sep 2025, 14:15:00 - 15:15:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

We will explore the mental health challenges most likely to affect performance and team dynamics, including anxiety, depression, and burnout. Through a brief, confidential screening, participants will gain insight into their own mental patterns and learn how to recognise and respond to signs of distress in others. The session concludes with simple yet powerful, evidence-based techniques drawn from breathwork and visualisation to help leaders strengthen emotional steadiness, presence, and resilience in the face of pressure.

17 Sep 2025, 12:00:00 - 13:00:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

Burnout doesn’t always begin with us—and healing it isn’t just a personal act. In many communities, particularly those shaped by histories of sacrifice, displacement, or survival, the exhaustion we feel today is often rooted in expectations and patterns passed down through generations. Left unexamined, these patterns risk being repeated. But when brought to light, they offer an opportunity for transformation.

This panel brings together voices from psychology, community leadership, cultural studies, and lived experience to unpack intergenerational burnout, reveal the hidden weight of breaking barriers, and explore how we can transform inherited exhaustion into resilience and meaningful impact.

17 Sep 2025, 11:15:00 - 12:00:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In today’s volatile workplace of burnout, uncertainty, and rapid change, resilience alone is not enough. This session explores self-compassion as a form of Mental Fortitude—a strategic capability grounded in psychological science and real-world organisational practice.

Far from a feel-good concept, mental fortitude drives performance, clarity, and sustainable leadership. Hiroshi Limmell, award-winning wellbeing leader at A*STAR, shares how self-compassion reduces self-sabotage, improves emotional regulation, and fosters healthier work relationships, especially during failure or complexity.

Through high-pressure case stories, cross-sector insights, and workplace-ready tools, participants will gain practical ways to embed mental fortitude into leadership, teams, and talent strategies—building cultures where people feel safe to learn, innovate, and thrive.

17 Sep 2025, 10:00:00 - 10:45:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

In today’s high-stakes leadership landscape, the ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and navigate complex human dynamics is more than a soft skill — it’s a strategic advantage. This session explores how relational intelligence — the intentional cultivation of trust, empathy, and psychological safety — can be a powerful lever for sustainable leadership and organisational success. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, social psychology, and high-performing teams, we will unpack the science behind connection and share actionable strategies to enhance collaboration.

Whether you are leading through complexity, preparing the next generation, or building a culture of belonging and accountability, this session offers the insights and tools to help you lead with both clarity and care.

17 Sep 2025, 09:30:00 - 10:00:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

If speed without direction isn’t progress, why are we still racing? Burnout is not a badge of honour, and disconnection — from ourselves, each other, and the planet — is unsustainable. It’s time to challenge the culture of hustle and ask what truly matters.

This robust conversation brings together bold voices from business and psychology to reimagine organisations, communities, and futures that put people at the centre. Together, we’ll explore why collaboration beats competition in navigating complexity, how systems thinking can redesign work and leadership, and what it takes to replace exhaustion with cultures of care, connection, and regenerative impact.

17 Sep 2025, 09:00:00 - 09:30:00
Impact Lab 5 (Level 3 Suntec Convention Centre)

What if you could dismantle the systems that drain us and design a future where people and purpose flourish side by side? In collaboration with The School of Positive Psychology (TSPP) Impact Lab 5, is a call to pause, reflect, and reimagine what truly matters. Bringing together thought leaders, changemakers, and practitioners from across sectors, we will explore how compassion, collaboration, and systems thinking can transform the way we lead, work, and live. More than resilience, this is about redesigning cultures and economies so wellbeing becomes the foundation — charting a path from exhaustion toward clarity, care, and collective impact.