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TGP INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP PODIUM 1/2
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LEADERSHIP RESILIENCE: CONQUERING
LEADERSHIP RESILIENCE: CONQUERING
UNCERTAINTY & SETBACK S
UNCERTAINTY & SETBACKS
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Dr. Ili binti Abdullah Sharin and Dr. Lee Kun Yun

Following the success of the virtual Talent Grooming acknowledged him as one of the top 50 most
Programme (TGP) Inspirational Leadership Podium influential policy makers in the world for 2014.
Series in March and June 2022, TGP Secretariat
from the Institute for Health Management (IHM), During the podium, Dato’ Sri Idris Jala was very
in collaboration with the National Institutes of forthcoming in sharing his leadership experiences.
Health (NIH) Information Technology Sector and He even shared titbits about his personal life,
TGP Cohort 10 Talents executed another successful his upbringing, and his family background, as
TGP Inspirational Leadership Podium on the 16 well as his career journey in helping businesses
March 2023. It was live-streamed via two virtual and governments across the globe through
platforms (Webex and YouTube Live) from the NIH transformational leadership strategies that are
studio. The podium attracted more than 2000 innovative, rigorous, and relevant in today’s evolving
participants from the Ministry of Health (MOH) on era. He emphasized that to get the Big Fast Results
both platforms. (BFR), only one simple equation is needed, which
is changing the way we lead the organization
The podium theme for this year was “Leadership via transformational leadership and embracing a
Resilience: Conquering Uncertainty & Setbacks”, new way of thinking and working. He also shared
aptly chosen in the aftermath period of the his six secrets of transformational leadership that
COVID-19 pandemic. The main aim of the podium have served him well up till now. These secrets
was to explore characteristics of the responsible were derived from his comprehensive experiences
leaders and the best ways to develop resilience in in addition to the lessons learned throughout his
facing adversity, so that they can survive and thrive professional journey.
after difficult times. The speaker for the podium was
none other than the renowned Dato’ Sri Idris Jala,
the President and CEO of PEMANDU Associates, Six Secrets of Transformational Leadership:
a prominent leader with global reputation for
having the capability to embrace changes and 1. Game of Impossible
transform ailing ventures into worldwide successes. A transformational leader must set impossible
His area of expertise include the provision of targets that cannot be achieved via the current way
advisory consulting services on socioeconomic of working. This, in turn, will force the organization
transformation and business turnaround for to be innovative and apply changes for the better.
governments and organizations in both public How can one set impossible aims? This can be
and private sectors. With a notable track record in done by setting the Olympic Targets that have
moving markets and shaping policies, Bloomberg very few precedence and are difficult to justify. By

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