Asia Startup Network presents: Healing and Thriving together 2024

Entrepreneurship is extremely stressful.

But with Asia Startup Network, you are not alone.

And as a Founder, you have a responsibility to prioritise mental health in your startup too.

Join us for Healing and Thriving #4!

This event series aims to normalise Mental Health among entrepreneurs and startup operators - allowing us to lean into vulnerability and bond with the larger community.

We want to help startup founders, operators and others within this ecosystem to learn about the burnout signs for yourself, and understand what it takes to build healthy workplaces for your teams too.

Check out past year's events!

Healing and Thriving Together #1

Healing and Thriving Together #2

Healing and Thriving Together #3

This year, ahead of World Mental Health Day, we are looking to further our impact in creating conversations with you and extending support for our community.

will be focusing on A. Demystifying Mental Health for Entrepreneurs and B. Prioritising Mental Health in the Workplace!

Location: Room 801NTUC Centre One Marina Boulevard S018989

Thank you to our Venue Partner - NTUC!

This event will be fundraising donations which goes towards supporting Move For Hope by Limitless.

Move For Hope is the annual fundraising event for Limitless, a non-profit that works with youths struggling with their mental health. Join in to support our work, and every dollar raised will go into providing crucial services and treatment for those who cannot afford it. Your participation will help us reach youths, support their recoveries, and even change and preserve lives!

All funds raised through Move For Hope will be matched by Tote Board, and are eligible for a 250% tax deduction.

In support of our fundraiser, 3 Degrees will be organising a video booth / campaign at this event.

Kelvin Tjia
After working as a consultant at EY Singapore, he started his entrepreneurial journey in 2017 with the launch of the city wide bike share system, Biki, based in Honolulu. A multi-million dollar project on behalf of the city and a local nonprofit, it quickly became the 6th most popular station based bike share system in North America.

In 2020, Kelvin also cofounded Tokoplas - Indonesia's largest b2b online marketplace specializing in petrochemical feedstock connecting large producers with thousands of SME manufacturers in need of essential raw materials to support their businesses and families.

Kelvin's latest venture, 3 Degrees, involves managing a new fundraising social media app that specializes in charities, not-for-profits, and social impact organizations. Helping these organizations to tell remarkable stories through video, he hopes to make giving a core part of people's identity.

Noemie Alintissar-Mooney
Noemie is the founder of ThriiveQuest and an ACE Certified Health Coach. With a strong commitment to helping her clients achieve better mental healh, resilience, and grit, she integrates science-backed methods like positive psychology and motivational interviewing into her coaching. This approach focuses on lifestyle behaviour change, recognising that health and wellbeing form the foundation of success in all areas of life. Through ThriiveQuest, she empowers individuals to build sustainable habits that enhance their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

Additionally, Noemie's profesional experience revolves around Digital Transformation and Innovation with over 20 years of international experience driving transformative change through creative problem-solving methodologies like Design Thinking.

The founder and current Executive Director of Limitless, Asher is a social worker with over fifteen years of experience working with young people. He also has clinical tenures in the family, prisons and youth sectors.

Asher has a special passion to help youths who struggle with mental health conditions, and has spearheaded research, advocacy, and public education efforts to help promote help-seeking behavior, reduce stigma in youths, and improve public knowledge and skills in trauma informed care. Limitless, the organisation he leads focuses on providing accessible mental health care and treatment for youths in Singapore.

Asher has also served on several national mental health workgroups and committees, and works closely with other leaders in government, stat boards, and other social service agencies in the mental health landscape to explore how we can build a better ecosystem of support for people with mental health conditions, make help seeking easier, as well as facilitate prevention of said mental health conditions.

Marilyn Ho

Marilyn has a diverse background encompassing nursing, research, and recruitment consulting, with a specialization in the healthcare industry. She was also a serial entrepreneur who founded two businesses, including an innovative online brain gym.

Drawing from her professional and personal experience, Marilyn is deeply passionate about holistic wellness and compassionate community. She firmly believing that fostering mental literacy in leadership is paramount to creating a mentally healthy workplace environment.

Jeff Lee

Jeff is an experienced leader, having worked across Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, and Singapore for over 2 decades, focuses on building high-performing teams grounded in culture and purpose. An accidental entrepreneur since 2010, Jeff started his first business in 2010 after migrating to Australia. Despite early struggles and multiple business failures, he achieved his first successful managed service business exit and moved to Singapore, where he now dedicates his efforts to youth mental health at Zoala. Driven by personal experiences, Jeff is committed to giving back and leading a purposeful, sustainable life.

Elle Cheng

Elle is a global marketer turned Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leader, and she leads the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy in Avery Dennison (a Fortune 500 company), representing the voices of 14,000 employees across APAC.

With her well-being interests, Elle also founded Cottongrass co - a Coaching and Psychotherapy sessions for solopreneurs and corporate overachievers who wants to heal and live a purposeful life, We Are Hear, a Group up initiative offering more than 400 heart-based listening sessions to the public since COVID-19, and Courageously Fertile, which organises circles to support women in their fertility journey.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

NTUC Centre, 1 Marina Boulevard, Singapore, Singapore