Ep. #53 Guiding Your Team Through Change with Uen-Li Chia 

How do we navigate change in a way that's good for people? Tune in to the latest episode of Making Sense of Work as Uen-Li, Downstream Chief of Staff at Shell, reveals creative approaches for coping with uncertainty within large organisations. 

Jean and Uen-Li discuss: 

1. Strategies for leading through change
2. The intersection of creativity and working in an engineering company
3. Gaining global recognition while prioritising motherhood

Meet Uen-Li

Uen-Li, currently Head, Downstream Ultimate Potential and Business Advisor to Downstream Director, is a Downstream veteran, having worked across functions such as Operations, Pricing, Sales, Strategy, M&A, Procurement and Supply Chain within the Fuels and Lubricants businesses in Shell since 2002. She thrives in making sense of a messy world and is now hard at work driving Shell’s Downstream Business to achieve its Ultimate Potential. It is an exciting transformation journey that requires us to know our North Star whilst steadily closing our knowing-doing gap, using digital, data and leadership discipline.

Externally, she is a faculty associated with LinHart Group for the Leadership Influence curriculum at NUS Business School and Nanyang Technological University, and the Leadership Influence for Early Executives program. Most recently she is Senior Advisor to NUS Business School’s Enterprise Leadership for Transformation program, coaching and mentoring a group of Small and Medium Enterprises on their growth and reinvention plans.

Book recommendation: Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling: https://www.amazon.com/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling/dp/1608685489

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•  Instagram: @uenlinotes

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