Panel of Experts - Dr Manju Appathurai | Transformation Catalyst | Licensed Psychologist | AI Innovation CEO

Team

Our expert panel brings together a diverse group of leaders and innovators from various fields.

Founder

Dr. Manju Appathurai

Leadership Strategist | Psychologist | CEO (AI)

She anchors the Institute’s science-backed approach to decision architecture, culture design, and executive mental performance.

Dr. Manju Appathurai operates at the intersection of clinical psychology, enterprise strategy, and AI.

For two decades she has supported governments, regulated industries, multinationals, and high-growth firms in building crisis-ready leadership, succession pipelines, and cultures that scale.

Her methodology blends validated psychometrics, trauma-informed practice, and AI-assisted diagnostics with audit-ready governance - so capability compounds across teams, not just individuals.

She and our senior associate network coach and advise leaders through high-stakes transitions and complex stakeholder environments, with documented lifts in decision confidence, cross-cultural execution, and executive retention.

As founder, Dr. Appathurai sets research standards and leads principal engagements while the Institute delivers regionally at scale.

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From Crisis to Global Impact

Dr. Manju's journey began in the depths of personal crisis - suicidal at 13, she transformed her pain into purpose, creating the blueprint that not only saved her life but now guides leaders across five continents.

Her story from government executive to entrepreneur to thought leader exemplifies the very transformation principles she teaches.

Multi-Dimensional Expertise

Strategic Leadership:

Transnational transformations, succession, decision hygiene.

AI & Innovation:

AI-augmented assessment and culture change with human oversight.

Psychology & Human Development:

Licensed counselling, executive mental architecture.

Policy & Strategy:

Translating policy intent into leadership practice and governance.

Author & Speaker

Dr. Manju is the bestselling author of "The Happy Life Blueprint," "ASEAN Unbound," and "The Identity Collapse." As an international keynote speaker, she has delivered 100+ international keynotes on AI, mental health, ESG, and conscious leadership.

Mission-Driven Impact

Dr Manju Appathurai stewards non-profit initiatives including:

Fur Kids Farm:

Pioneering animal welfare reforms in Malaysia

Malaysia Mind Foundation:

Destigmatizing mental health in corporate environments

MY Human Inc:

Empowering women through the “Women 4.0: Stand Tall” initiative

The Methodology

Dr. Manju's Life Actualization framework emerges from her personal journey combined with rigorous research into the psychology of sustained transformation. She doesn't just teach change - she embodies it, understanding the complexity of transformation at the deepest level through both lived experience and professional expertise.

Our Team

Russell Ganesh

Social impact Director | Organizational Systems & Program Governance

Transforms mission into measurable outcomes—linking organizational design, behavioral science, and AI-ready operations across public, private, and NGO ecosystems.

With close to a decade in organisational management and social programme delivery, the Social Impact Director has supported businesses, NGOs, government agencies, and research groups across multiple sectors.

He is known for moving initiatives from intent to impact: aligning stakeholders, setting clear roles, and creating simple routines that teams can follow under pressure.

His portfolio includes mental-health programmes for at-risk populations, inclusive education efforts, community livelihoods projects, and cross-agency pilots that required careful safeguarding and consent

Focus Areas

Program and portfolio management

Community engagement and co-design with beneficiaries

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

Policy-to-practice translation

Partnerships and grants

Workforce and volunteer enablement

Organisational routines

Mental-health initiatives for at-risk groups

Equity and inclusion outreach

Signature Outcomes

Faster launch: reduced time from funding to field delivery

Higher adoption: program participation and completion rates up

Stronger retention: partners, volunteers, and beneficiaries stay engaged longer

Clear impact: wellbeing/engagement indicators improve; lessons learned captured and reused

Sarah Raziuddin

Market Research Director | Relationship Growth & Reliable Delivery

Turns complex briefs into clean delivery and loyal clients—making the brand promise show up in operations.

She is a client strategy and operations lead known for durable relationships and friction-free execution.

With a dual lens on brand and back-office, she translates business needs from both the client side and internal teams into clear scopes, sane timelines, and measurable outcomes.

Her strengths span account leadership, branding strategy, strategic analysis, and process improvement - so what’s promised in the deck is what lands in the field.

Focus Areas

Client servicing & account leadership

Brand-to-ops alignment

Strategic analysis & process improvement

Cross-functional coordination

KPI dashboards & reviews

Proposal/SOW clarity

Signature Outcomes

Keeps clients anchored and informed - no gaps, no guesswork.

Ensures operations reflect the brand: consistent, on-brief, on-time.

Builds repeatable delivery playbooks that scale across sectors.

We deliver clinical-grade executive counselling, leadership assessment, and AI-augmented culture transformation - validated, privacy-disciplined, and designed to hold under pressure.

Empowering leaders and organizations through consulting, EAPs, leadership development, corporate wellness, and executive coaching.

Wan Intan Wan Suffian

RFP, SRFP | Director, IWFCI | Committee Member, MFPC

Wan Intan is a seasoned capital market professional with over 30 years of extensive experience spanning equity and derivatives broking, financial planning and non-governmental organizations.

She is a former licensed equity and derivatives dealer and previously held a Capital Market Services Representative License (CMSRL) issued by the Securities Commission.

She currently holds dual accreditations as a Registered Financial Planner (RFP) and Shariah Registered Financial Planner (SRFP), an accreditation that is issued by by the Malaysian Financial Planning Council (MFPC).

Her career highlights include serving as Head of Dealing at CIMB Futures Sdn Bhd and as Head of Marketing (Derivatives) at Bursa Malaysia.

In these roles, she managed a diverse product portfolio covering equities, indices, commodities, interest rates, bonds, and OTC instruments. Beyond marketing and trading, she has contributed to capital raising, alternative investments, risk management, sales, business development, compliance, audit, strategy, branding, financial planning, product development (conventional and Islamic), and derivatives education. Notably, she was part of government-led trade missions to mainly to international global cities, where she showcased CPO Futures as a hedging tool for global edible oils industry players.

Currently, Puan Wan Intan serves as an EXCO Member of the International Women’s Federation of Commerce & Industry (IWFCI) Malaysia and as a Committee Member of the Malaysian Financial Planning Council (MFPC), while also providing advisory support to multiple organizations. Her advocacy extends into financial literacy and community initiatives, exemplified by her role as Co-Producer of Penjana Ringgit, a 13-episode financial literacy television program aired on RTM.

With a strong commitment to sustainable and ethical finance, she actively supports digital education, capital-raising projects, financial literacy campaigns, community-building programs and the development of responsible financial products and services.

Gene M. Tan

Barrister at Law | DEI Innovation Leader | Human Rights Strategist

Barrister at Law (England & Wales) (2007) and Malaysian practicing lawyer (2009).

Managing partner of GM Tan & Company.

Founder of The HeartBased Group, a DEI resource provider.

ESG Malaysia’s Industry Advisory Panel Member for DEI

Author of Malaysia’s DEI corporate handbook entitled “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Malaysian Workplace”.

Provided DEI feedback for the Working Group of Business and Human Rights in the Malaysian Bar Council Human Rights Committee in their submission of Zero Draft of the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (“NAPBHR”) for 2025 – 2030.

Co-presented human rights report to High Commissioner Volker Türk of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights in 2024.

Gene Tan delivers legal expertise and diversity, equity, and inclusion innovation to organizational transformation. As Managing Partner of GM Tan & Company and Founder of The HeartBased Group, he provides strategic counsel on DEI integration, governance frameworks, and human rights compliance.

Gene brings systematic rigor to inclusion initiatives, combining legal precision with organizational psychology. His work with the Malaysian Bar Council Human Rights Committee and international human rights bodies demonstrates capacity for complex stakeholder navigation and policy influence.

His approach to DEI transcends compliance, addressing behavioral psychology, cultural transformation, and sustainable organizational change. Gene understands that authentic inclusion requires both structural intervention and values-based leadership—the same principles that drive his personal commitment to community welfare and compassionate action.

Dr. Manju Appathurai

Transformation Catalyst | Licensed Psychologist | AI Innovation CEO | International Strategic Advisor

Dr. Manju Appathurai is a globally recognized leader who transforms lives, organizations, and entire sectors through her unique blend of psychological expertise, strategic acumen, and technological innovation.

As a licensed psychologist, CEO of multiple AI firms, and trusted advisor to governments and Fortune 500 companies, she bridges the gap between human potential and systematic transformation.

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