Your reason for getting up isn't supposed to be a mission statement.
The Way of The Purposeful Leader.
Ninety minutes on ikigai, and on what happens to a team when the person leading it loses touch with theirs.
- Thursday 22 October 2026
- 4:30 – 6:00 pm
- Online
- With Kelli Ng
- Live, interactive, and built for leaders who run teams.
You know the Venn diagram. This is the simpler version.
Researcher Ken Mogi describes ikigai as your reason for getting up in the morning. It doesn't have to make money.
It doesn't have to sound impressive.
It just has to be real.
When a leader loses touch with their own reason, it spreads through the whole team, whether they realise it or not.
People stop bringing energy to work that has no reason behind it beyond the paycheck. Nobody announces it. They quietly check out.
This session is about getting your reason back, and helping your people find theirs.
Three ideas worth leaving with
Real beats impressive
Ikigai doesn't need to make money. It just needs to be real.Check-out has a cause
Disengagement grows when work has no reason behind it beyond the paycheck.
One job, not two
Caring for people and growing a business were never two separate things.
"Find your reason to get up, and getting up stops feeling like the hardest part of the day."
Come ready to think, not to take notes.
A question to answer on arrival
How would you describe your relationship with work right now, energised or running on empty?
A story Kelli doesn't tell on a slide
One sentence from early in a career that pointed everything that followed.
Two short exercises
One about someone on your team. One about you. You'll want a pen.
A community to stay in
After the session, join our leadership and culture community on WhatsApp.
Your trainer
Kelli Ng
General Manager · Certified LEAN Coach
Kelli helps leaders and teams put efficiency into motion. With expertise in LEAN, digital transformation and project management, she helps organisations simplify processes, boost productivity and make space for innovation.
She believes better systems and caring leadership go hand in hand. Practical. People-first. Always with the human element at the core.
At Lynch Pin, Kelli champions one idea: Better Leaders, Better Culture, Better Business.
Credentials
- LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt GLSS, Sept 2025
- 2 Second Lean Japan Experience, Team 35 Certified by Paul Akers, 2022
- JLPT N1 Japanese Language Proficiency Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2015
- Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming The Worldwide Institutes of NLP, 2017
- Design Thinking Practitioner Genovasi Malaysia, 2016
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Practitioner, Franklin Covey, 2016
If anyone has earned the right to tell you what actually works instead of what should work in theory, it's Kelli.
If getting up has started to feel like the hardest part of the day, start here.
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