On
the 14th July 2022, AIA Toastmasters Club held its 19th Executive
Committee Installation, drawing 120 attendees, including Chief Executive
Officer Wong Sze Keed and Head, Centre of Business Excellence, Tied
Distribution, Edwin Cheng. An
installation of this scale, with senior AIA leadership physically present
rather than sending a token video message, signals something most clubs never
achieve: genuine corporate recognition that a Toastmasters programme is
contributing to the business, not merely occupying a lunch hour once a month.
The
Appointment Holders
Adeline
Ng, VC5, of the Toastmasters Club of Singapore, served as Guest
Speaker. John Sih, DTM, of
Breakthrough Toastmasters Club, served as Language Evaluator. Mach Dayrit, PI3, of AIA Toastmasters
Club, and Regine Sim Lee Ching, DL2, of Pasir Ris Elias Toastmasters
Club, served jointly as Toastmasters of the Day. Iris Lim served as Table Topics Master. Zhuo Shu Zhen served as
Sergeant-at-Arms. Ariel Wu served as
Timer. Eileen Chan, Linda Lee, MS1,
Rominia Sarte, PI1, Shirley ChiaLi, DL1, and Zhuo Shu Zhen, DTM,
served jointly as Creative Directors of the Day, a five-person creative team
that says something about how seriously this club treats an installation
ceremony's production value. Jeffrey Lim
served as Photographer.
The
Awards
Linda
Lee, MS1, received Club Toastmaster of the Year. Mach Dayrit, PI3, received Recruiter
of the Year. Rominia Sarte, PI1,
received Newcomer Toastmaster of the Year.
Special recognition went to the club’s mentors and advisors: Eric Tan, DTM;
Linda Lee, MS1; Terence Nunis, DTM; and Zhuo Shu Zhen, DTM.
The
Transition
Frances
Goh, PI4, President for 2021 to 2022, was discharged alongside
Vice-President, Education, Kiki Tai, MS3; Vice-President, Membership,
Mach Dayrit, PI3; Vice-President, Public Relations, Shirley Chia, DL2;
Secretary Sandra Phua, PM1; Treasurer Maria Abraham, DL1;
Sergeant-at-Arms Chng Pia Kim, EC2; and Immediate Past President Terence
Nunis, DTM.
The
2022 to 2023 Executive Committee was installed in their place. Sandra Phua, PM1, moved from Secretary
to President. Kevin Lim, MS1,
took Vice-President Education. Eric Tan
took Vice-President Membership. Rominia Sarte,
PI1, moved from Newcomer Toastmaster of the Year to Vice-President,
Public Relations within the same ceremony, a genuinely fast trajectory from new
member to committee officer. Chng Pia
Kim, EC2, moved from Sergeant-at-Arms to Secretary. Amos Yio took Sergeant-at-Arms. Frances Goh, PI4, remained on as
Immediate Past President, ensuring institutional continuity rather than a clean
break, severing the incoming committee from the outgoing one’s accumulated
judgement.
The
CEO’s Remarks
Wong
Sze Keed spoke of her pride in club membership, and set the committee a
specific, unambiguous challenge: increase membership exponentially. A CEO who sets a Toastmasters club a growth
target with the same directness she would apply to a sales division is not
treating the club as a soft perk. She is
treating it as a pipeline for the communication capability the wider
organisation actually needs.
The
Word of the Day, & a Winning Speech Previewed
John
Sih, DTM, set the word of the day as “valiant,” delivered with the kind
of entertaining precision that has cemented his reputation as one of the
strongest language evaluators in the District.
Adeline Ng, VC5, District International Speech Champion for 2021
to 2022, gave the room an early preview of her winning speech, a story of
confronting fear personified as a bear, and conquering what holds a person
back. Toastmasters International’s own
World Championship of Public Speaking draws over 30,000 entrants annually
across more than 100 countries, narrowed through club, area, division, and
district rounds to a mere handful of finalists.
A District Champion standing in this room, rehearsing the exact speech
that will carry her toward that global stage, was not a courtesy
appearance. It was a preview of genuine
competitive credibility, on display before the club that will be able to say,
years from now, that it watched the speech first.
The
Table Topics
Wekie
Tay, DTM, of NUS Toastmasters Club and Telok Blangah Toastmasters Club;
Julie Ong, DTM, of Leng Kee Advanced Toastmasters Club; Hyder Taufik, PM2,
of Tampines Changkat Toastmasters Club; and Zeph Teo, PM2, also of
Tampines Changkat Toastmasters Club, took the floor for Table Topics. Hyder Taufik, PM2, won the segment.
Closing
AIA
Toastmasters Club recorded its gratitude to AIA Singapore and to Toastmasters
District 80 for their continued support.
A 19th installation is not a milestone many clubs reach with
this much institutional weight still standing behind it. Executive committees change every year by
design. What should not change, and
evidently has not, is a club capable of drawing its own CEO into the room to
set the next committee’s target in person.
Terence Nunis | Executive Chairman, Equinox Zenith | Author, The 1%
Playbook: The Billionaire Cheat Code
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