Systems Thinking Habits for Senior Leaders

Dr. Jenson is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, focuses on the design and implementation of systems thinking and system dynamics curriculum for students and leaders while fulfilling his duties as a faculty member in the Engineering Cluster in applied learning and research. He is also a member of the university's sustainability group, responsible for curating and driving sustainability education among students and leaders in the industry.

He is the Chief Executive Officer of a boutique company called Coddiwompling that focuses on supporting organisations and leaders to drive transformative changes, especially from a system perspective. His company offers consultancy, customised leadership development programmes, coaching or mentoring, and strategic facilitation services and consulting to over 60 satisfied organisations in Singapore and overseas. Dr. Jenson has years of consulting work across the globe in diverse industries. He is still well sought after by companies around the world for his knowledge and capabilities in leading transformational work.

Dr. Jenson previously held Chief Information, Learning and Sustainability Officer positions in Monde Nissin Group, a publicly listed USD1 billion multi-national company HQ in the Philippines, and had driven many successful leadership learning programmes (especially in coaching or mentoring and systems thinking) and digital transformation and sustainability's strategies and projects across Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore.

Before that, he was Director of Studies at Residential College 4. His responsibility involved the realisation of a transformative programme to develop students into capable system thinkers. He was an international award-winning teaching case writer and multiple-year NUS teaching award winner. His research strives to uncover ways to help organisations/society deal with wicked problems. He had published articles in top-tier journals and conferences, books, press, and practitioner’s publications.

Dr Jenson also had over 16 years in strategising IT use as a Chief Enterprise Architect. He had extensive experience driving IT initiatives to support the university’s teaching, research, and administration. In 2003, he was selected by the Infocomm Authority of Singapore and Sun Microsystems for the prestigious 8-month Java Black Belt programme to be groomed as a leader in Singapore’s IT industry. For his innovative use of IT and service to the University, he has won over 20 international and national awards, which include the NUS Service Champion and NUS IT Director's awards.

Dr. Jenson had served as the Head of Manpower and Logistics (NS) in the Singapore Police Force, responsible for the operational readiness of 1,600 NSmen, for more than 10 years. For his dedication, he received multiple awards from the Commissioner of Police and Division Commander, including the most prestigious Home Team NS man of the year award in 2018. Dr. Jenson is an avid societal contributor. He is a board member of Casa Raudha (www.casaraudha.org), an Executive Committee member of the Tech Talent Assembly (www.ttab.org.sg), the Chairman of Singapore Our Home SG75 National Youth Competition (www.sg75.sg), and the President of the Asia Pacific Coordinating Policy Council and Policy Council member of the System Dynamics Society (www.systemdynamics.org).