About the Winning With People Series
Winning With People is SHRI’s quarterly flagship thought-leadership and networking platform, bringing together business leaders, HR professionals, and industry practitioners to explore the theme of building human-centric, high-performance organisations through panels, dialogues, and case studies.
The series fosters community learning, showcases progressive HR practices, and strengthens engagement across SHRI’s ecosystem of members, partners, and industry leaders.
Winning with People: Trust as a Competitive Advantage explores how trust shapes leadership effectiveness, strengthens collaboration, and drives sustainable performance. More than a cultural ideal, trust is a practical capability that influences how people lead, work together, and stay engaged. This session examines how organisations can intentionally embed trust into everyday people practices to improve engagement, retention, and long-term success.
Gain practical insights on how to:
Secure your spot and learn how to build trust as a sustainable competitive advantage.
Managing Director & VP, Asia Pacific at Booking.com
Laura is the Managing Director & Vice President for Asia Pacific at Booking.com, one of the world’s leading digital travel companies. With full responsibility for the leadership and development of the Asia Pacific business, she plays a critical role in driving business growth, strategy and operations across one of the most dynamic and diverse regions for the company.
With over 15 years of experience leading multicultural teams in Asia Pacific, Laura is a passionate people person that demonstrates strong leadership forging into new and emerging markets; and will spearhead efforts to shape the future of travel in APAC as the industry navigates its next phase of recovery – ultimately by delivering the best value to partners and customers.
Director, Corporate Development at Ministry of Finance | SHRI Council Member
Yang Wen currently leads the Corporate Development team at the Ministry of Finance (MOF). She believes strongly in inspiring leaders, building diverse career lattice, uplifting the workforce, and fostering an enabling organisational culture. She has previously served in various sectors in the Singapore Public Service – some of the more memorable experiences include the setting-up the Centre for Liveable Cities (MND), Singapore Water Academy (PUB), designing specialist pathways to grow Engineers, Educators (MOE), uplifting VITAL into a recognised leader in Shared Services.
Managing Partner at Eva Leadership
Ramya Eva is a team dynamics and culture specialist with over 15 years’ experience helping boards and executive teams turn trust into a measurable performance advantage. A former senior HR and business development leader, she brings a rare blend of commercial insight and behavioural expertise to leadership and culture work. Through Eva Leadership, Ramya partners with C-suite teams to accelerate team performance, leadership effectiveness, succession and culture transformation, using data driven diagnostics and behavioural analytics to surface and shift what truly drives results. She works globally across Financial Services, FinTech, Technology and Government.
Ramya is also President Elect of International Coaching Federation Singapore where she forges strategic partnerships with forward thinking organisations to position coaching as a force for good for Singapore and beyond. She has also held senior roles including Director of Strategic Partnerships at BlackRock and APAC Head of L&D and Talent at Booking.com.
Registration will begin from 3:30pm
