Changing Lanes, Changing Lives: How Leaders Made a Meaningful Career Switch from Corporates to Non-profits

Are you a senior corporate executive who wants to make a leap to the non-profit world? What are the risk and rewards? This book spells it out by recounting the journeys of a baker’s dozen of corporate high-fl¬iers who have made this transition and more than thrived. Their stories tell what non-profit leaders actually do, what they had to consider in making the decision about whether to change jobs, what they learnt after shifting from a corporate to a non-profit, and their advice for anyone considering a similar move.

Changing Lanes, Changing Lives is the first-ever collection of stories about corporate leaders who have transitioned to become successful non-profit champions. The book tells the inspiring stories of the following non-profit leaders:
• Alfred Tan (Singapore Children’s Society)
• Colin Goh (The Old Parliament House)
• Corinna Lim (AWARE)
• Tim Oei (AWWA)
• Veronica Gamez (aidha)
• Yap Su-Yin (Tan Chin Tuan Foundation)
• Chan Wah Tiong (All Saints Home)
• Junko Yoda (Community Linked)
• Foo Pek Hong (Kidney Dialysis Foundation)
• Debbie Seah (Make-A-Wish Foundation)
• William Wan (Singapore Kindness Movement)
• Jose Raymond (Singapore Environment Council)
• Martina Wong (School Pocket Money Fund)

CNPL President Laurence Lien, who, himself, left a successful public service career to be the CEO of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre, contributes a foreword.