Building A Thriving Career, Marriage & Family with Tan Su Shan | RachReflects Episode 09

Today's guest is Tan Su Shan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS.
Su Shan is a trailblazer, and a prominent leader in the financial world. Prior to leading the institutional banking business, she was Group Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management for close to a decade. Before joining DBS, Su Shan was Morgan Stanley’s Head of Private Wealth Management for Southeast Asia. She has also worked at Citibank and prior to that at ING Barings in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
 
I've always admired Su Shan for not just her impressive accomplishments in her career, but also how she has a strong bond with her two grown children, and husband of 25years. I have learnt so much from her as a leader, mother, wife and daughter.
 
In this episode, Su Shan goes into detail about her career and leadership journey, the key habits and routines that have kept her going, how she balances her career with family commitments, what it takes to build a strong marriage, her definition of success and how that has evolved, what she thinks the most important skills and traits are today and for the future.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
01:20 Su Shan's background
5:28 Her leadership philosophy
7:20 Cultivating deep self-awareness
09:35 Su Shan's habits and routines
12:05 Balancing a career with family commitments
16:11 Parental lesson, advice & building a healthy marriage
22:26 The evolution of her definition of Success
26:19 Developing Resilience
28:09 Discussing workforce challenges in the future
31:00 Rachel answers Su Shan's question
36:19 Outro

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[totorotororu]

Awesome interview! My hub used to work with Su Shan and I heard so much positive feedback about her.
Key takeaways: As we walk in the direction of True North, we have to maintain our self awareness, as well as our spirit of curiosity and develop resilience.
Rachel, your sharing has an inter-generational impact as I share your posts with my teenage daughter. Thank you for planting the seed of wisdom in the community. ❤

[joydiannne]

Develop inner resilience --- this is my main takeaway from this podcast episode. I agree, young professionals (like me) nowadays have some sort of mental fragility. Listening to these two inspiring leaders reminded me of the value of learning how to surpass emotional highs and lows: take a step back, breathe, calm down, and regain mental stability. Thank you, Rachel and Su Shan!

[redeon]

Rach, I’ve been loving your series and am learning much from the sharing. However, I do have a question - As a Christian (I believe that’s your faith unless I’ve misunderstood), where does God fit in all of your journey? Would love to hear more of your testimony about Christ, if you’re willing to share. Thanks!! ❤

[susietiong]

So much depth in this episode .Thank you Rach and Su Shan for such generous sharing

[jbrkjferkjbekjb]

Probably the first leader who talks in depth about how she balances her career with family - thanks for that and yes no one is perfect in everything!

[joydiannne]

Loving your episodes! Please keep them coming, Rachel! <3

[prettymonkie]

Good advise esp on the part to rise above all the noise 💡

[kyl]

Lots of learning wisdom in this video; thanks!

[lemontree]

Thank you for such a deep hearted and generous sharing. I really learn a lot from both of you.

[ringotan]

Wow!!! Lovely ladies climbing up mountains! My thoughts is old minded, is a man task! Appreciate the lady can do better job and reach that peak in this decade! I always think lady cannot do it, they got to born baby and bring up precious children to succeed them.
Admire them, wonder there is any sacrifice, trade off, price tag or compromise but they put it very simple and make it to the top.

[TrangNguyen-hbne]

Thanks for the awesome sharing! I’ve picked up so much from this episode. ❤

[stellar]

I thought it was a memorial video thumbnail of someone who passes away. Just saw it in my feeds lol

[Abraham-ukxy]

She will be recruited to join the PAP and will be a Minister soon.

[kayderl]

Scared me for a moment with that B&W thumbnail with gold font characters. For a brief moment, I thought she passed away unexpectedly. Glad it’s nothing.

[Yinyanglasg]

Johnny english would love pronounce her name