06 · Speak

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Featured speaker, SXSW 2022 Keynotes · Workshops · Lectures
01Signature topics

Authentic connection. Big ideas. Candid conversations.

Loretta brings together three decades across entrepreneurship, education, technology, culture and the arts. Her talks combine lived experience with global case studies designed to provoke better questions, challenge comfortable assumptions and leave audiences with ideas they can actually use.

From 25-minute keynotes to executive workshops, on stage or online.

01 · Leadership & Culture

Trust before transaction

Why culture and trust trumps strategy.

02 · AI & Human Possibility

What comes next

Beyond the hype: building technology around humanity.

03 · Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Build what’s next

What founders and organizations can learn from experimentation, reinvention and intelligent iterations.

04 · Grit & Grace

Leadership across cultures

Lessons from women, communities and leaders whose stories rarely make the conventional leadership canon.

02 · Watch & listen

On stage & on air

Keynotes · Interviews · Podcasts
Keynote · Singapore FinTech FestivalThe Founders Peak: from crisis to opportunityA metaverse for good
Interview · NYSE TVThe power of storytelling + the future of ‘phygital’ worldsWatch on NYSE TV ↗
Interview · On Call with InsigniaGoing GlobalNOVA SG60 Edition · The boons and banes of storytelling technology
Podcast · The Chit Chatter on Spotify & YouTubeThe Singaporean entrepreneur putting us on the global mapKopiBros
03 · On the record

Selected engagements

Stages · Classrooms · Boardrooms
01 Global keynote
AI, Humanity & What Comes Next How leaders build with emerging technology without losing sight of humanity.
02 Executive leadership
Culture as Invisible Operating System How values, behaviour and trust shape organizations long before strategy does.
03 Entrepreneurship
Building What’s Next Lessons from founding, scaling and reinventing businesses across markets and technologies.
04 Education
The 21st-Century Educator Preparing learners for jobs, technologies and possibilities that do not yet exist.
05 Leadership workshop
The Art of Creative Conflict Turning disagreement into better ideas, stronger teams and organizational intelligence.
06 Culture
Trust Before Transaction Why relationships, credibility and social capital are infrastructure.
07 Technology
From Hype to Humanoids What a decade at the frontier teaches us about hype, adoption and lasting innovation.
08 Women & leadership
Grit & Grace What women across cultures teach us about ambition, leadership, resilience and influence.
04 · Flyposting

From the wall

Ideas · Stages · Conversations
AI Event poster
AI & Human PossibilityBuild with AIEmerging technology · Education · Entrepreneurship
Innovation Event poster
Global InnovationFrom ideas to impactLeadership · Transformation · Future of Work
Founders Event poster: CLIMB Live Online Leadership Talk with Dr. Loretta Chen
EntrepreneurshipBuilding what’s nextFounder lessons from Hawai‘i to Asia
Culture Event poster
Culture & LeadershipTrust before transactionWhy trust is infrastructure

Your stage, her voice.

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