by Sophia Toh | Jul 3, 2025 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
Great teachers know it, great parents know it, and great team leaders know it. It is the key element for a robust learning environment, a critical factor in raising inquisitive and confident kids, and essential for leading high-performing teams: Psychological Safety....
by Sophia Toh | Jul 3, 2025 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
If you’ve ever assembled IKEA furniture, you know the satisfaction of snapping the final piece into place – the perfect symmetry, the precision, the control. Everything fits exactly as planned. But have you ever tried controlling a garden? You can water, prune,...
by Sophia Toh | Jul 3, 2025 | Leadership, Personal Growth
I remember the day I was assigned a big enterprise-level transformational project – strategic, high-stakes, and C-suite visible. I was thrilled, prepared, and yes, a bit nervous. But when I shared the news with a colleague expressing both my excitement and my...
by Sophia Toh | Jul 3, 2025 | Leadership, Personal Growth
A Lesson from a Little Library When I was between eight and twelve, I spent most afternoons tucked away in a small Chinese library in my hometown in Malaysia, waiting for my mom to finish work nearby. For a budding bookworm, it was paradise. One day, with the earnest...
by Sophia Toh | Jul 3, 2025 | Leadership, Personal Growth
Ten years ago, a few months before the release of The Force Awakens, I made my biggest Amazon Prime Video purchase: a box set of six Star Wars movies. My ten-year-old son and I spent several weekends watching them all, preparing for the seventh film’s debut in...
