Head of Learning and Development, SGX Group

John Augustine Ong is an accomplished and award-winning Learning and Development Leader with more than 16 years’ experience in driving employee engagement, transforming work cultures and delivering high impact capability strategies for companies in lean and agile environments across Asia.

With a strong reputation for exceptional work in talent development, building relevance and implementing impactful learning initiatives within companies such as Standard Chartered, Aberdeen, ANZ and SGX, he is a consummate learning professional whose guiding belief is developing people to their fullest potential.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with the family, tinkering with educational technology tools such as Virtual Reality, and being a volunteer mentor to young graduates and working professionals who are seeking career guidance through the Voices of Asia’s iAspire mentoring programme.