Our Mission
Nurturing wiser, more caring leadership for collective flourishing.
We are a leadership evolution organisation.
We believe the challenges of our time call for a broader understanding of wealth — one that values not only financial success, but also wisdom, purpose, care and meaningful relationships. This understanding shapes every leadership pathway we design, helping organisations unlock human potential and cultivate more life-giving workplaces where people and performance flourish.
The workplace is one of society’s most underutilised environments for human development. People spend much of their waking lives at work — which gives every organisation a profound opportunity to develop not only capable employees, but more self-aware, resilient and caring human beings. That ripples outward, to families, communities and the wider world.
Based in Singapore, we work with organisations across Asia and internationally, through in-person and virtual engagements.
Our People
Meet the Team
“The workplace is undertapped as a place for societal transformation. I believe we can create workplaces as wellbeing hubs for employees and their families.”
“Genuine transformation doesn’t arise solely from knowledge. It’s about ‘show-how’ over mere ‘know-how.'”
“An organisation is only as effective as its people are well, and people are only as well as their leaders are well.”
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Founder's Story
Dear Friends,
My heart first became more sensitive to others’ suffering in 1990 while ordering food at a hawker stall. Out of nowhere, I felt compassion for the duck hanging on the meat hook. I stopped eating meat that day, began volunteering two years later, studied social work and entered the nonprofit and social movement world. It was my first experience that we can change in an instant, and continue changing over decades.
In 2009, an accident killed four migrant workers being transported in a cargo vehicle. This led me to spending time with injured migrant workers and those not paid wages, and learning about their challenges. Because of a conversation I had with one of them, I had a transformation in my heart to release judgement of those who cause such suffering — for they suffer too, from their own struggles, wounding or not knowing. In place of judgement rose love, and that was a breakthrough in my state of being.
From this spacious inner state, I felt called to support the hearts of people more upstream, so that their own growth in compassion and wellbeing would have a ripple effect on those more vulnerable.”
That brought me into the world of facilitating, consulting and coaching. Fast forward about 11 years, an employee in Australia apparently committed suicide due to her work culture.
This broke my heart open, and made me wonder about what would lead leaders to continue creating workplace cultures — and make decisions — through which countless lives suffered, when they already had so much money.
One response that emerged from this reflection was that some may feel that whatever money, status or power they have is not enough. It reminded me of Professor Tim Kasser’s research finding that beneath materialism lies insecurity. None of us, including me, are immune to inner struggles, though they take different forms for each of us.
But what perhaps can help is to feel full enough and lit up from within, so we don’t grasp for things in a way that harms life. And what could this fullness be about? “Inner wealth” was the phrase that emerged from this contemplation — a synthesis of golden threads running through decades of my life. Amidst challenges, I have managed to live a deep, rich, meaningful life by prioritising love, service and growth, which are core to inner wealth. I live these imperfectly, yet with conviction.
The leaders I was wondering about are not above or below me. We are all beautiful and imperfect in our own ways, and I have deep compassion for all of us — we face many obstacles, inner and outer, to live out such values.
So why did I found Inner Wealth?
- To add a dimension to wealth that I believe is urgent and important for us to consider, so we take care of each other and not just look out for ourselves and cause suffering to others.
- To enable us to live deeper, richer, more meaningful lives in this world, with all its beauty and brokenness.
- Values such as love, service and growth are not new — they have been supported by wisdom traditions and those who have learned through life and science for many years. I believe we each have a precious journey to discover such timeless truths as personal truths, and share them with each other in ways that speak to our lives.
We all will fall again and again in embodying such values, as we have for eons — but we are here to keep supporting each other to rise together.
Warmly,
Vadivu
P.S.
This is a Saori weaving I made. In this form of weaving, our wholeness is embraced, including flaws and mistakes. All threads have a story, and can be of service. How do the threads in your life support your service in your corner of the world?
What Is Inner Wealth?
A broader understanding of wealth.
Wisdom, purpose, care and meaningful relationships — the forms of wealth that shape how we lead and live.