Jonathan HoelStrategic Conversations Facilitator & Innovation Program Architect
areas of expertise
- Strategic Facilitation
- Design Thinking
- Corporate Innovation
- Startup Investing
education
- Graduate Diploma in Public Relations, Advertising and Applied Communication, RMIT University
- BA, University of Melbourne
Jon is an expert in facilitating C-level strategic conversations, applying business model design, design thinking, scenario planning, rapid consensus, and agile scoping. He has created a digital transformation roadmap for an Indonesian insurer and has facilitated digital product development for Prudential.
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Jon has lived in Asia for 12 years and has been based in Singapore since 2010. Among other clients, he delivers engagements for Microsoft across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
He has run engagements for many organisations in Singapore, including Microsoft, AMD, Home Team, Intel, the Institute of Policy Studies, Parkway Health, SAP, Singapore Power Services, and many more. In Thailand, he has done three engagements with the entire management team of Insee Ecocycle.
He has a digital agency background and prior to Innovator SG, he worked on the consulting team at the world’s largest digital agency, POSSIBLE; as Strategy Director at TheFARM Digital, and on the SAP digital marketing team in Singapore.
He is also is investor & growth advisor to an InsurTech startup that has halved medical data processing time for Australia’s largest life insurer’s underwriting process. The startup was incorporated in Singapore in 2018 after securing additional Angel funding.
Charlie’s strong message on “disruptive future is not an extension of the yesterday we know” deserves our serious attention with immediate mindset shift and behaviourial change. Especially in our approach to educating ourselves and our next generations!
Charlie is an astute thinker, engaging writer and inspirational speaker on how rapidly advancing technologies will impact the economy, business and people today and in the future. I benefited both professionally and personally from his deep insights. Thank you, Charlie!
