Dr Roslina Chai
Dr Roslina Chai has a reputation for being able to harmonise complex situations and works at the intersection of strategy, conflict and leadership across multiple industries. She has broad and multi-faceted experience working as a strategy consultant, high-stakes conflict mediator, senior leadership facilitator and executive coach with organisations such as AstraZeneca, the Bank of Singapore, L’Oréal, Clifford Chance, Konica Minolta, Visa, UBS, as well as various ministries. Her areas of coaching specialisation include conflict resolution, strategy deployment, executive presence, workplace harassment, leadership cultural agility and innovation and transformation.
With a professional background as a qualified lawyer, entrepreneur and senior business leader with over 20 years’ multi-industry, multi-sector international P&L experience, Roslina is able to blend commercial, academic and creative disciplines and has been invited to speak internationally on the topics of leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Through leadership coaching, Roslina supports professionals working in high-pressure and high-stakes environments and has been described as ‘inspirational in relation to organisational change’. As a facilitator, she believes in the importance of being able to blend fun with professionalism.
Roslina has a doctorate in Business Administration with her doctoral research focussing on digital corporate social innovation and compassion in the workplace. She has a Bachelor of Laws (human rights), a BA (modern Asian military history), and a graduate diploma in management (specialisation in change management). Roslina’s professional certifications include non-violent communication mediation, Trompenaars 7 Cultures of Dimension, corporate investigation, the Virtues Project and TOP Facilitation. She is accredited with the ICF.
With experience living, studying and working across three continents, Roslina is fluent in English, Mandarin and speaks conversational Malay.