Roslina Chai

With 20+ years of experience as a governance lawyer, a 6-times entrepreneur, and a senior business leader, Dr. Roslina Chai is today a leadership facilitator and coach, conflict mediator, strategy facilitator, and social sciences lecturer working at the intersection of strategy, conflict, leadership, innovation, and AI. Academically, Roslina is a published doctoral researcher in the domains of digital corporate social innovation. Creatively, Roslina is most widely recognised as a poet, improv actress, and culinarian. 

As a high-stakes leadership coach, Roslina is reputed for her “extraordinary ability to engage others to express their best qualities” and thus “transforming the leaders her clients become, and the world they create around them.” Her specialty is executive presence and influence, senior leadership promotions (global/regional), and workplace harassment.

As a leadership facilitator, participants experience Roslina as “the perfect balance between skilful, playful, and professional” with “a vast and profound understanding of people,” and “ever ready to meet challenges to concepts with integrity and grace.” Her specialty is multi-day leadership retreats that weaves commercial, academic, and creative modalities.

As a conflict mediator, Roslina has garnered a reputation for “raising the bar for unfiltered and constructive debates” and “carrying with grace, compassion, and deep presence the skilful use of empathic communication.” Her specialty is multi-generational family business mediation.

As a consultant, Roslina is appreciated as an “ideal partner for C-level and upper middle leadership” who “raises the bar whether for strategy, designing for impact, or multi-stakeholder engagement.” Her specialty is facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder, strategy sessions.

As a leader, Roslina “leads with generosity and kindness, whilst leaving you with no choice but to perform remarkably,” and is known for her “sharpness that slices through to the core of matters and beings alike, while possessing a benevolence that disarms those in her space.”

The golden thread weaving through Roslina’s work is her lifelong dedication to mastering the art and science of essence. When not with clients or students, Roslina delights in soulful conversations, jewellery window-shopping, and mountain hiking.