Overview: Leadership strategist and humanitarian advocate passionate about building resilient leaders, compassionate organisations, and purpose-driven communities in an increasingly complex and fast-changing world.
Industry: Leadership Development, Organisational Strategy & Social Impact
Professional Experience: Dr. Marie has extensive experience across leadership development, psychosocial studies, organisational strategy, humanitarian work, and community impact initiatives. She holds a PhD and Doctor of Divinity in Philosophy and Psychosocial studies and has been actively involved in leadership mentoring, organisational transformation, and advocacy work.
About her: Dr. Marie is a Singapore-based leadership strategist and humanitarian advocate who believes leadership should be grounded in humanity, compassion, and conscious decision-making. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with communities, caregivers, and organisations while advocating for leadership that values dignity, empathy, and sustainable impact.
Known for her thoughtful reflections on leadership and social responsibility, Dr. Marie frequently shares insights on organisational culture, conscious leadership, resilience, and emotional intelligence. Her work reflects a strong belief that leadership is not simply about authority, but about the lives and communities affected by every decision leaders make.
Turning point: A major turning point came through her experiences working within the social impact and humanitarian space, where she witnessed firsthand how leadership decisions directly affect people’s livelihoods, dignity, and well-being. These experiences strengthened her conviction that meaningful impact requires not only good intentions, but also accountability, clarity, empathy, and strong organisational leadership.
More recently, her transition into the aviation and aerospace sector marked another important phase in her journey, allowing her to apply leadership principles within industries undergoing rapid technological and operational transformation.
What she does now: Today, Dr. Marie continues contributing as a leadership strategist, speaker, and advocate focused on organisational effectiveness, leadership culture, resilience, and human-centred decision-making. She has recently moved into the aviation and aerospace sector, where she focuses on leadership, systems thinking, execution, and measurable impact in rapidly evolving environments shaped by technology and AI.
She also actively shares leadership reflections and thought leadership content related to compassion, conscious leadership, and organisational transformation.
SGVisionaries interview: Meet Dr. Marie Ang: Leading with Purpose, Humanity, and Hope in a Changing World
LinkedIn profile: Dr. Marie Ang LinkedIn Profile
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