Women in Fund Finance Event

WFF Asia: Finding Purpose - How to get more out of your career

Name: WFF Asia: Finding Purpose - How to get more out of your career
Start: 2022-05-18T16:30:00Z
End: 2022-05-18T17:30:00Z

May 18, 2022

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM HKT

Virtual

Join us to learn more about purpose from Hong Kong's first Chief Purpose Officer, Karen Seymour.

The commonly held belief is that the purpose of a business is to make money and to generate returns for its stakeholders. Whilst this statement holds true for most intents and purposes, it also oversimplifies the driver of a business' success. Behind every great company is a team of great people, who are increasingly prioritizing having a greater sense of purpose as motivation for work. In a recent talent trends report by Page Personnel, having a greater sense of purpose in the workplace ranked third as a factor that influences candidates' decisions on where to work, only behind salary and company culture and values.¹

So what can an organization do to imbue their people, its greatest asset, with purpose? And what does this mean for an individual? How does purpose provide more job satisfaction and fulfilling careers?

Join us to learn more about purpose from Hong Kong's first Chief Purpose Officer, Karen Seymour.

¹The Great X 2022 the Year of Opportunity, Page Personnel, April 2022

Karen Seymour

Human at Work

Karen Seymour

Chief Purpose Officer | Human at Work

Karen Seymour is the Chief Purpose Officer at the strategy lab Human at Work, helping leaders and their teams activate purpose to create high performance organizations, humans who thrive and a better world. She works with the dynamic team at Human at Work to help organizations manage and embrace disruption, build out innovation, learn resilience, story tell for change, design for an impact culture and bring out the power of purpose.

Karen formerly led the Li & Fung Foundation and community engagement at the Fung Group of companies, spearheading the launch of purpose, leading global campaigns and events, and mobilizing stakeholders worldwide to be a force for good.

She has built a career spanning over 25 years as an entrepreneurial leader with diverse experience at large companies and startups, in industries including financial markets, supply chain, media, philanthropy and wellness. Her career began in Toronto, Canada at Manulife Financial and continued in financial services in sales, marketing and account management after settling in Hong Kong in 1993. She has held leadership positions at Primark, Morgan Stanley Capital International, Rimes Technologies, State Street Global Advisors and led startups in children’s wellness and digital newspapers.

Karen is an Advisor and Board Member to for-impact organizations including Shared Value Initiative, focusing on aligning profit and purpose; Women in Sports Empowered, using sports to empower, educate and connect women and girls to realize their aspirations; Captivating International, bringing out the potential of children in need and Verdana.io, a blockchain carbon management platform. She is a regular speaker and subject matter expert on purpose and social impact.

Her own purpose journey has been forged through decades of serving in communities, seeing and experiencing social needs, sparking awareness and action, and witnessing the transformative power of purpose when hearts and minds are tapped for good. Karen thrives by connecting to the natural world, spending time on the water and in the mountains and is obsessed with paddling and hiking.