Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang left her high-flying corporate job in Human Resources to pursue her life's purpose and embark upon her entrepreneurial journey.
Join Dr. Ramesh as she explores with Minh Giang her entrepreneurial passion, personal growth experiences and how she's left her thriving corporate career and taken that leap of faith to create her own business.
To learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset with Dr. Ramesh, get your copy of The Big Jump into Entrepreneurship 2.0 on Amazon.com or www.Dr-Ramesh.com.
Host: Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra, Author, Podcast Host and Founder of Talent Leadership Crucible
Guest Speaker: Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang, Co-Founder & Partner of Leaders and Culture, Newing; Executive Board Member of Strategy and Membership Committee, Ho Chi Minh City Association for Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (HAWEE)
#EntrepreneurialMindset #HoChiMinhCity #Vietnam #MinhGiang #Dr.RameshRamachandra #TheBigJumpintoEntrepreneurship2.0 #CrisisReadyMindset #TalentLeadershipCrucible #Thriving #AgeofDisruption #HAWEE #MekongCapital #HumanResources #HR
Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang left her high-flying corporate job in Human Resources to pursue her life's purpose and embark upon her entrepreneurial journey.
Join Dr. Ramesh as she explores with Minh Giang her entrepreneurial passion, personal growth experiences and how she's left her thriving corporate career and taken that leap of faith to create her own business.
To learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset with Dr. Ramesh, get your copy of The Big Jump into Entrepreneurship 2.0 on Amazon.com or www.Dr-Ramesh.com.
Host: Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra, Author, Podcast Host and Founder of Talent Leadership Crucible
Guest Speaker: Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang, Co-Founder & Partner of Leaders and Culture, Newing; Executive Board Member of Strategy and Membership Committee, Ho Chi Minh City Association for Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (HAWEE)
#EntrepreneurialMindset #HoChiMinhCity #Vietnam #MinhGiang #Dr.RameshRamachandra #TheBigJumpintoEntrepreneurship2.0 #CrisisReadyMindset #TalentLeadershipCrucible #Thriving #AgeofDisruption #HAWEE #MekongCapital #HumanResources #HR
Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang left her high-flying corporate job in Human Resources to pursue her life's purpose and embark upon her entrepreneurial journey.
Join Dr. Ramesh as she explores with Minh Giang her entrepreneurial passion, personal growth experiences and how she's left her thriving corporate career and taken that leap of faith to create her own business.
To learn more about the entrepreneurial mindset with Dr. Ramesh, get your copy of The Big Jump into Entrepreneurship 2.0 on Amazon.com or www.Dr-Ramesh.com.
Host: Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra, Author, Podcast Host and Founder of Talent Leadership Crucible
Guest Speaker: Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang, Co-Founder & Partner of Leaders and Culture, Newing; Executive Board Member of Strategy and Membership Committee, Ho Chi Minh City Association for Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (HAWEE)
#EntrepreneurialMindset #HoChiMinhCity #Vietnam #MinhGiang #Dr.RameshRamachandra #TheBigJumpintoEntrepreneurship2.0 #CrisisReadyMindset #TalentLeadershipCrucible #Thriving #AgeofDisruption #HAWEE #MekongCapital #HumanResources #HR
Ho Lai Yun 00:00
Hello, and welcome to Thriving in the Age of Disruption. Today, Dr. Ramesh catches up with corporate highflyer, Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang, who has just left a senior management role in Human Resources at a Vietnam-focused private equity firm to pursue her life purpose of transforming human beings and human experiences. Minh Giang talks about her personal growth experiences and how she has taken that leap of faith into entrepreneurship to create her own social impact business that could make a difference to the lives of Vietnamese people.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 00:32
Welcome to the Thriving in the Age of Disruption podcast series, Minh Giang. I'm so excited to catch up with you, especially after your new change in career.
Minh Giang 00:42
Dr. Ramesh, thank you for inviting me and it's such a great honour. Hello, everyone. My name is Minh Giang. In Vietnamese, it means river, a bright river. That's like my parents' expectation that I would have a bright life and have a level of acceptance with everything happening in my life like a river. I have made, I think, one of the biggest decisions in my life that I left Mekong Capitol and my role in support of Talent and Culture. In the next 10 years, I want to fully participate and devote myself to empowering people to do the best to unleash the potential of human beings. I think that is my personal calling.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 01:26
It is always so exciting when people pursue their life's mission or personal calling. And it's great that you have taken this moment to make that big jump. I have a question for you. What was that moment that had you relook at those priorities and say, "This is the time!"?
Minh Giang 01:45
When I was promoted to partner at Mekong Capital. I shared with Chris, my mentor. I said, "Oh, Chris, I would leave Mekong by 2025. At that time, the vision would have already been realised, and I want to pursue my personal purpose." He was aligned on this, until COVID pandemic, it helped me to bring back my priorities in life. I really considered whether I want to wait until 2024 or I can do earlier and make it happen now. I also shared my personal stories at the moment when I thought that I would die when I got COVID-19 with very heavy symptoms. And I thought "Oh, wow, there's a lot of thing in my life that I just put in the pocket list, like I never do it now and this is a priority. Thanks to COVID-19 pandemic, it has helped me to reshape my priorities and reframe that there is something that maybe we should do now rather than to wait.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 02:44
Yeah, that's so great that you're sharing with us. Because I think COVID, and pandemic have allowed us to relook at our priorities in life. And like you have just shared urgency to live our lives fully right now in the moment is really critical.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 03:05
Introduce us as to what you're doing right now in your new company.
Minh Giang 03:09
Yes, our mission is to do the best to unleash the potential of human being.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 03:14
Wow.
Minh Giang 03:15
Yeah. And the name of the company is 'Newing', it means like 'New Being'. Yeah, New Being. We do believe that every day, we have opportunity to be new, to create us as a new being for ourselves every day.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 03:15
I really love that name, the 'Newing' and opportunity to be a new being.
Minh Giang 03:33
We focus on developing the leadership for individual, team, and organisation as the individual is how can we enable the people, for them to discover the power of being themselves. We really want people and the team to discover the power of trust in our listening, the power of connectedness, the relationship in the way that people can relate to each other. At an organisational level, it is more about the employee's experience, it is about organisational behavioural change. So, we don't have any expectation or to be the unicorn. No. I am so lucky, because I already have four partners, founders, who are in the same stage of wanting to start more in the wider communities.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 04:21
I want to now circle back to this whole conversation about entrepreneurship because I think having an entrepreneurial mindset is a very important part of being able to cope in this world where we face disruption all the time. But also, some of us with an entrepreneurial mindset will go and launch a company like what you have done. When you shared that you have four partners on board, often that's actually one of the better ways in which to start a business. Because if you can align with four people who share the same purpose, then you have four people who can drive the business, right? And that you're not just that one person who's burdened to do everything from A to Z.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 05:00
Let me quickly go back into the entrepreneurial journey that you took. What was it that had you make that leap? Because you thought about it, you wanted to do it, you wanted to contribute, and so contribution drove that. When you also look at your corporate experience, your mentors and your personal development, in terms of what you've had for the last 12 years in Mekong Capital, how did that prepare you?
Minh Giang 05:24
I feel so thankful and feel so great that I took the journey that I had with Mekong Capital. When I joined Mekong Capital, I didn't have any ideas about personal purpose, about the possibility of "Who I can be? What can I do in this life?" And all those things was shaped during the time that I was at Mekong Capitol. The people around us, we really were the living examples of enabling the potential of human being of the team, and also supporting the people to pursue their personal purpose to be bigger than themselves. And that is something that contributes a lot to the entrepreneurial mindset. Because to be the entrepreneur, it starts from the commitment that you have, bigger than yourself, bigger than your money, your promotion, or something that's for yourself. It is really bigger. It's even bigger than your fear or your ego. And that's exactly what Mekong Capital has contributed. It all started from the vision, vision-driven investing.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 06:27
So that sort of shaped your journey into entrepreneurship because you had the day-to-day almost Living Lab of seeing your colleagues at Mekong Capital, as well as working with investees of Mekong Capital to see how someone can take an entrepreneurial journey when they are able to look beyond themselves and be the biggest possible self.
Minh Giang 06:49
Like what you just shared, it is a Living Lab. Yes, that is a Living Lab.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 06:53
Yeah, that's right. Living Labs are a passion of mine recently because I think the best way in which we learn as human beings is when we are in a live situation, and we can learn from that. And sometimes, yes, we make mistakes, but we have to be willing to grow from learning from those mistakes.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 07:16
You're someone who actually demonstrates an entrepreneurial mindset, can you share a little bit more about your own journey? How have you had to be resourceful? How have you had to take risks and to create value?
Minh Giang 07:27
At the beginning when I joined Mekong Capital 12 years (ago), I didn't know what was the entrepreneurship mindset? What it looked like? And why I need to have that? I discovered that it started from commitment. So at the beginning, when I just first joined Mekong Capital as a junior person, to be honest, my commitment at that time was just simple- to get salary or to get promotion. I think that has happened with everyone, right? And when I grow more, and I discovered that it generated the insight or generated the initiative. It starts from your commitment, where you put your commitment and where you focus. Do you focus on yourself to get salary, to get promotion? Or you focus on the company? And for me, that's an entrepreneurial mindset where you put yourself in organising your action in focusing on the intention.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 08:23
For sure, every entrepreneur has to focus their attention and organise themselves around a series of activities so that they can produce the outcome. What you're sharing here for the listeners is that even as a corporate person, if you look at your job and you go beyond the initial "I want to have a career or I want to have a bonus" to "how do I become this person who has freedom and flexibility" to start to input at a greater value, you want to demonstrate that trustworthiness in delivering the work and then you get higher responsibilities. Because you are someone who has carved out a very successful career in talent management, what would you advise people to do, especially women, in terms of how to go up the career ladder?
Minh Giang 09:09
You need to know what are you committed to in this life? What do you want when you are 80 years old, how do you want to live this life? That's long-term, right? But in the short-term, okay, in the next three year or four years or five years, what do you want to celebrate? The clearer the milestone or what you want, the direction, the more velocity you can achieve and be on track. Yeah, and that is the first thing. The second thing is just to be yourself, be true to yourself. I discovered at the higher level; we cannot produce a result by ourselves. But we need to inspire or influence the other people. And most of the people think that we can influence or inspire the other people by our knowledge, our background, but I discovered that the most powerful tool is that you can inspire people by who you are. You are so real, you are so committed, you are willing to show your vulnerability. I think that is very important, being yourself and being who you are, and being quick in changing and adaptive, we need the people with AQ, adaptability.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 10:17
Ah, yes, that's right. You've highlighted some very important points here. The first thing is to know your purpose, that big picture about what your North Star is. From there, you can then create these shorter-term milestones that you can accomplish. The second piece is about knowing and being true to yourself. Because when you are true to yourself and people can see that, they're inspired, they're motivated to follow you. Everything happens in teams, and it doesn't happen in individual, especially if you want to go far. The last bit that you talked about was being flexible in looking at different options, and also being a quick study that when things happen, and I love that new word AQ. So tell me a little bit more about AQ. What does AQ or Adaptability Quotient mean?
Minh Giang 11:04
Adaptability Quotient, I think that we all experienced in COVID-19 - same situation, right? But when we live in the situation after COVID-19, only the businessmen or only the entrepreneurs, who can quickly adapt and change their mindset, their approach, or even their action, I have one company and I can share the story. So that company name's ATA. They thought a pathway to realise their vision is just retail. However, in COVID-19, everything's closed and immediately, they changed their business model rather than just being stuck on one pathway, one action, or one approach. They discovered the new approach. They can even go quicker and develop more. And to share this short story about the importance of AQ, it is not how much you're good at. But how quick you can change.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 12:04
Yes, adaptability and pivoting. They are two very important points for today's world of disruption.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 12:16
Crisis is usually a setback or a failure that we experience. And you know, I'm in the process of finalising my book on crisis resilience, where I say that it's a mindset that you can develop whereby you develop the capacity to be able to overcome that setback.
Minh Giang 12:33
It starts from how you perceive it as something bad, there is something wrong. Or you can perceive it as an opportunity for breakthrough. Crisis is normal, especially when you commit to something big. We can have a choice to perceive it as the opportunity for breakthrough to be creative, creating new action, or we can be a victim of this crisis. It is easy to say and it's really hard to practice. I discovered that, at the beginning, we always consider it (crisis) as the problem, as the victim, we may feel very upset. But the quicker that we can shift our perception, the more we can have to change.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 13:15
Yeah, you were always a bright star. And you took the coaching, and you made that part of you, part of your success. So well done, Minh Giang. I love what you actually created for our listeners, which is that when we look at a crisis, our perception is very important. Do we look at that situation and say that we are stuck, we have no choice? Or do we look at it and say that, actually, here's an opportunity to do something? And then number two was the fact that we are always going to experience setbacks and failures, especially when we're up to big things in life. If we're playing a small game, which doesn't stretch us, we're not going to get into any difficulty or setback. So actually, it's good that we're doing that because it tells me that we're growing, we're developing. The third piece, of course, how we create resilience, how we grow is over time to get up quickly from these setbacks, whether it is by developing ourselves internally through other kinds of practices, whether it's meditation or whatever, whether it is because we are able to quickly do a self-talk and see that "Hey, this is what I want to do." These are all important points that you have raised. Is there one particular crisis where you dealt with this in a systematic way, and it helped you?
Minh Giang 14:32
Yes. So, I faced crisis almost every month.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 14:35
That's a good one.
Minh Giang 14:36
I can share in the COVID-19 pandemic last year that a significant number of the investment team members chose to leave Mekong Capital. At that time, I made it mean about myself about this situation that "Oh, maybe I'm not good enough. How come I have worked in this company for 11 years and I still cannot retain the people? Maybe there is something wrong about me. I really lived in the world of worry, upset, and doubt about myself. And I also tried to look good because, "Oh, I am the partner of Talent and Culture, how come I let the people leave the company?" I lived in the world, that's there's no accountability, and I really upset about myself. With my mentor, Chris Freund, I shared with him how I perceived the situation. I remember in our conversation; he just asked some question. "Okay, what happened? Why do you make it mean that?" And I realised, "Oh, wow, I made it mean a lot." Yeah, and after a few days, and I self-reflected, I discovered that I cannot force anyone to stay with Mekong Capital. Mekong Capital is a ship. It keeps moving, even though some people chose to leave or some people chose to stay. It doesn't matter and it didn't impact this ship, because it has its own mission and it's meant to move to fulfill its mission. I discovered when I lived in that world, I could not generate any new action to change the situation or to generate any new approach or new assets. Because I devoted all my time and my energies to prove that I'm right.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 16:20
That's a very powerful, short example that you've given us, I have a four-step process for going through crisis. Step one is awareness. And that's exactly what you did. When you describe that whole world of survival and how for that few days when you were dealing with it. Step two, I talk about how you come to accept the situation. And in your case, after that whole world or survival showed up and you're suffering, do you step forward to have that conversation with your mentor, Chris, and he was just asking you those two simple things, "Which was what happened and what you made it mean?" and just accepting whatever answer and gave you that space to start that acceptance process. But it didn't happen straight away, because you had to go back reflect, then you had to think more. Eventually, what you talked about here was you also started to see that before you had acceptance, you had no access to any action. And so, my step three is taking action. And action can only come after you have accepted it. And the last piece is actually actualisation. Actualisation means that you have now created a new future from that crisis. So the crisis was the opportunity to go in a new pathway. The crisis allows us to move in a new direction, and we see that new direction become a reality. What did you discover out of this crisis that you had about the employees leaving Mekong Capital? And what was the new discovery and action that y'all took?
Minh Giang 17:49
I discovered that during this pandemic, our team members, because we work from home, that's why we didn't have many opportunities to have a conversation to really build up the connectedness.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 18:01
A lot of companies are also discovering that after a two-year stay at home, blended kind of operation that many of their staff members have become disconnected from the organisation. And now they're trying to do activities to bring them back together.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 18:26
Minh Giang, I wanted to discuss a little bit about spirituality. And where are you in your spiritual journey? Could you share something about what you think about life and spirituality?
Minh Giang 18:36
I do believe in spiritual life or religion. I am a Buddhist. I really love what Buddha's teaching. I really admire him and he is enlightened about being whole, being committed, but not attached. I think that's amazing. I hope that very soon I can 'be' because 'knowing is being'. And now I am just in the journey of 'doing' and 'practicing'.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 19:03
And what is it that you would want to 'be' that you are struggling to do?
Minh Giang 19:10
I think as a human being, I have emotion. Sometimes I am being impacted or influenced, like I still fall in the trap being driven by my emotion and my experience. And to be aware of that, whether I am driven by my emotion, my experience, especially my looking good. However, I found out my purpose in life connecting people with their best self.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 19:37
I totally get that. And that's your spiritual journey. Awesome. And do you think that it's possible for us to live a simple life?
Minh Giang 19:45
Yes, yes. My husband said that "If something happened in my life, I will take one second to say 'Oh'. And for the rest, I will ask 'Okay, what's next?'" I think that it is your choice. And in this life, you totally have a choice to live and to have a simple life. Choice, simple thinking about everything happening around us.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 20:06
So tell us, what would it take for us to thrive in today's world?
Minh Giang 20:10
I think it start from your commitment, what you want to realise in this life, and whether you would be resilient to achieve it. And I think 'Thriving' will happen in the journey when you 'be', and you 'do' whatever it takes to realise your commitment, grow, develop, and thrive.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 20:34
You were recently at the Harvard Business School to do your management development program, tell us a little bit about that.
Minh Giang 20:41
I had attended one coaching program, and the coach told me that "It's never too late to have a great childhood." And I remember when I was a child, I always put in my list that someday that I will study abroad. And because I didn't have opportunity to do this because when I was a child, my parents could not afford. And when I grow up, I just keep working, working, working, working. And then the wake-up call was the COVID-19. It is never too late to have a great childhood. And I was inspired to pursue my personal leave for three months to learn whatever that I want to learn and to do whatever I wanted to do, to have a great childhood. So that is the reason why I chose to spend time in Harvard Business School. And I chose the program in Leading Change and Organisational Renewal. I discovered one thing that wow, Organisational Renewal happens every day and happens in every country, in every business. It starts from the leader, it starts from transforming the leadership, it starts from transforming the corporate culture. So to be honest, I've really enjoyed the content and the knowledge that the coach in Harvard coached me. But more than that, I think it's been such a long time that I experience student life. And with the homework and assignments and all the things, I've really enjoyed this. Sometime in life, it is necessary for us to slow down to step back to do something differently, to have a great childhood.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 22:24
I love that. So it's never too late to have a great childhood. I should go back and see what I wanted to do in my childhood and do something. Thank you for sharing that.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 22:38
What do you love about your new experience of being an entrepreneur?
Minh Giang 22:43
I love to build up something from scratch, to be honest, when I am an entrepreneur, so I learned everything. It is also the Living Lab. It's not about focusing on my accountabilities, but also how I can manage in the bigger context, like how I can influence those people to want to do what they need to do. I also learned to build up everything from scratch from setting up the mission, the vision, the core value, or the behaviour. I think that when I was at Mekong Capital, I played a role as a partner with investee company and I played the role as a coach, as a facilitator; but now I am in their shoes. Yeah, to set up the mission, the vision, the behaviours, and also learn how to keep in a system, everything that I learnt, like really on the field for me.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 23:32
Correct, you're spot on. One of the reasons why I love being involved in entrepreneurship and working with entrepreneurs is that I find that it's extremely creative, because no journey is similar to always looking at new things. You have to go with the flow. Today, it's about closing the sales. Tomorrow, it's about the cash flow. And the day after, it's about recruitment and so many things you have to juggle in the air. I'm glad that you're enjoying it and looking forward to every single day of your entrepreneurial career.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 24:02
Has there been a thing that has surprised you or taken you aback as a new entrepreneur?
Minh Giang 24:08
One thing that I was a little bit surprised, like when I worked in the big corporate at Mekong Capitals. I thought that "Oh, I work a lot." Right? But again, there is the silent contribution from those people that I took advantage of. For example, in the company, we may promote a lot of the salespeople, the business development; but for those people who contribute silently, they contributed a lot either the admin, the driver, or the tea lady. When I'm an entrepreneur, I have the opportunity to see that. Okay, it's individual. They have their own contribution to the success of the company. It doesn't matter big or small, but they really contribute. It is something that I learned as an entrepreneur how to appreciate those silent contribution.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 25:00
You're already pointing to something really important here because many people underestimate the support structure that is there when we work in an organisation and make a transition to becoming an entrepreneur, there is a system. And in the system, there are subsystems. And whether it's IT or HR, there are many people who contribute a lot to making that company works. As an entrepreneur who has just started off, you will have to play those multiple roles in the beginning.
Minh Giang 25:28
Correct, yeah.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 25:29
What has been your biggest personal win from this new career move?
Minh Giang 25:34
Oh, wow, that's really interesting question. Everyone, when they look at me, they said, "Oh, you are already partner at Mekong Capital for more than 12 years. You have a reputation. You have everything there." But the biggest winning here is that I could step out of my comfort zone, constantly growing and generating the new being or new ways of action. Second thing is that now, as an entrepreneur, I need to be more creative to handle everything. And in a way, be ready to deal with any unpredictable things.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 26:06
Correct.
Minh Giang 26:06
Yeah, it is really train me up to the next level.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 26:09
That's true. I tell people that entrepreneurship as a way of life is the most exciting thing that you can do. You really can't predict your next day. You plan for something and then you have to just deal with whatever just shows up that day because that's what has to be handled at that point.
Minh Giang 26:31
Looking back my journey at Mekong Capital, especially my first years at Mekong. So you guys contributed a lot in terms of my leadership. Yes, I want to take this opportunity just to give you an acknowledgement to you and Poorani and the TLC team.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 26:48
Thank you very much.
Minh Giang 26:49
Yeah, you guys really helped me to open the door of transforming the human being, to give me the access, what is the possibility of unleashing the potential of the human being. That is also our share mission at our new company now- Do the best to unleash the potential of human beings.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 27:06
Wow, I think we definitely have to talk and see how we can work together.
Minh Giang 27:11
Yes.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 27:11
So that we can benefit Vietnam together.
Minh Giang 27:14
Definitely.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 27:15
Thank you Minh Giang. Your appreciation and acknowledgement is wonderful. It touches me. And I appreciate you saying it. We met almost 12 years ago. So it's been a long journey of knowing each other.
Minh Giang 27:28
Yeah, that was a long journey. Poorani was my first coach in the transformation journey. Dr. Ramesh, thank you for inviting me and it's such a great honour.
Dr. Ramesh Ramachandra 27:39
It was amazing being reconnected to you and to have you share openly and authentically about yourself. So Minh Giang, thank you for sharing.
Ho Lai Yun 27:47
Thank you, Dr. Ramesh and Minh Giang for your inspiring conversation. What calls out to me especially is the part of Minh Giang's coach telling her that it's never too late to have a great childhood. So what have you always dreamed of doing as a child? Perhaps now is the time to revisit those dreams and make them come true.
Ho Lai Yun 28:05
Next up, we have Mr. Anil Dagia, another master in the area of coaching and personal transformation. Join Dr. Ramesh as she explores with Anil how he has created his lucrative IT career to become a successful entrepreneur who finds fulfilment in touching the lives of tens of thousands of people globally.
Bio
Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh Giang
Co-Founder & Partner of Leaders and Culture, Newing Company
Executive Board Member of Strategy and Membership Committee, Ho Chi Minh City Association for Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (HAWEE)
Minh Giang grew up in the land of sun and wind in Central Vietnam: Quang Ngai, where she nurtured her personality attributes of being of hardworking, tolerant, and always optimistic in the face of life's challenges.
Moving to Ho Chi Minh City, Minh Giang soon encountered the turning point of her life when she joined Navigos Group and spent the next three years as an Executive, Search and Selection. She gradually flourished, with her enthusiasm and passion for connecting teams; she actively participated in "Building Corporate Culture" activities and events as part of the Culture Committee at Navigos.
During the next 12 years, step-by-step, Minh Giang relentlessly transformed and 'expanded' herself, her experience, and her leadership by continuously generating new initiatives to add value to the Mekong Capital team and the companies in their portfolio. Under her leadership, the Talent and Culture (T&C) team is at the core of cultivating the best Employee Experience from recruiting, training and developing, to team building activities and building corporate culture. Besides that, she actively partners with their investee companies as a Coach and Consultant, to facilitate the Senior Leadership Team in developing personal leadership and building trust within teams by transforming their communications, to unlock their potential for Corporate Culture Transformation.
Minh Giang is former Mekong Capital's Partner of Talent and Culture and a member of the Management Committee.