Reflections on Leadership, Experience & Long-Term Impact

This blog is a space for reflection not instruction.

At Best Events Productions, we work with founders and senior leaders who are navigating complexity: growing organisations, evolving responsibilities, and the quiet pressure to lead well in uncertain times.

Here, we share observations drawn from lived experience about leadership culture, decision-making, experience design, and the space between organisations and the communities they serve.

You won’t find step-by-step guides or generic leadership advice.

Instead, these pieces explore patterns, trade-offs, and questions that leaders often sense before they can articulate.

From time to time, we reflect on long-term CSR and ESG considerations not as compliance exercises, but as human and strategic choices that shape credibility, resilience, and societal impact over time.

This blog is written for leaders who:

  • are thinking beyond short-term initiatives

  • value depth over noise

  • and believe meaningful impact grows through continuity, care, and thoughtful design

If you’re looking for a quieter way to think about leadership, responsibility, and experience, you’re in the right place.

The Most Radical Thing a Malaysian Corporation Can Do Right Now Is Change Who It Buys Lunch From

Last week, I attended an interesting event organized by the Asia School of Business (ASB) and Picha Eats and ate lunch prepared by social enterprises. The food was warm, generous, full of flavour but what stayed with me wasn't the food. It was the story behind it....

Leading Through Uncertainty Without Losing Yourself

There is a feeling I have been sitting with the past few weeks that I think a lot of leaders are carrying right now but are not naming. It is not dread exactly. It is more like a low hum. A readiness to run that never quite resolves into running. The Iran war, rising...

What Tan Chong Motor Can Teach Malaysian Companies About Community Investment Done Right

Tan Chong Motor Holdings has been quietly changing lives for decades. Not through year-end donations or glossy CSR pages but through something more deliberate: a community investment philosophy that builds capability, creates pathways, and compounds across...

Why the Best Team Experiences Feel Like Play But Work Like Science

There is a moment in almost every well-designed team experience when something shifts. The room loosens. People stop performing and start participating. Laughter appears. The kind that happens when something genuinely surprises you. Energy builds without anyone...

What Yeo’s Can Teach Malaysian Companies About Heritage, Relevance, and the Tension Between Them

There is a particular kind of brand equity that cannot be bought. It is built slowly, across decades, through repetition and familiarity, through the smell of something cooking, a carton on a childhood breakfast table, a flavour that tastes, inexplicably, like home....

The Best Team Experiences Don’t Create Insight. They Change Behaviour

There is a moment that happens in almost every team building session. Someone has a realisation. Maybe it's about how they've been communicating, or how they've been avoiding a particular conversation, or how they've been leading without listening. The room gets quiet...

What Uncle Alfred’s Vanilla Farm Shows Malaysian Corporations Are Missing

Alfred Phua never planned to become a farmer. For 35 years he was a social worker, the kind of person who shows up in the difficult places that most professionals prefer to read about rather than enter. Over time, his NGO work led him toward agriculture: natural...

Here’s Why Using AI Every Day Might Be Making Your Team Worse at Working Together.

There is a quiet problem building inside your team right now. It isn't a performance issue. It isn't a communication breakdown and it isn't anything that will show up in a quarterly review. It is the AI tool they open every morning, agree with every afternoon, and...

What Ben & Jerry’s Can Teach Malaysian Business Leaders About the Real Cost of Having Values

Most companies want the brand equity of having values without the cost of actually holding them. Ben & Jerry's has spent over four decades demonstrating what happens when you go the other way and the story is more complicated, more instructive, and more honest...

Why Giving Your Team a Puzzle to Solve Tells You More Than a Personality Test Ever Could

The test result looked nothing like the person in the room. A senior manager at a mid-sized Malaysian company had recently gone through her organisation's annual psychometric assessment cycle. On paper, she was rated as highly collaborative, comfortable with...
The Rise of Service Robots in the Hospitality Industry

The Rise of Service Robots in the Hospitality Industry

Most hotel guests are used to receiving services from human staff, but increasingly, robots are becoming a common feature in the service industry. From robots hotels to delivery robots and receiving service from a robot waitress, robots that serve hotel guests are now...

Empowering Cancer Patients Using A.I.

Empowering Cancer Patients Using A.I.

In 2020, cancer diagnoses will thrust nearly 2 million Americans into the often-bewildering world of treatments and clinical trials. TrialJectory aims to help.   TrialJectory is a patient-first digital health company with a mission to democratize access to advanced...

Solar windows that don’t even need the sun to work

Solar windows that don’t even need the sun to work

AuREUS is a renewable energy system used for windows and walls of buildings. The new material comes from rotting fruits and vegetables. It absorbs UV light from the sun and converts it into electricity. What makes them special is that unlike regular solar panels, the...

No Speakers, No Headphones. Only Beams

No Speakers, No Headphones. Only Beams

Israel’s Noveto developed a revolutionary new, AI-based audio technology called Smart Beaming. It beams pockets of sound just outside of the listener’s ears - like two little invisible speakers - that follow the listener's head when they move. This creates a very...

5 ways 5G will change farming and agriculture

5 ways 5G will change farming and agriculture

Agriculture is a multibillion dollar industry and one of the largest in the world, accounting for almost 1% of GDP in the UK, 6% in the US and 12% in Australia. It’s also set to be a growing industry, with the demand for food set to increase as the world approaches a...

Retail Technology Helps Human Connections Boom

Retail Technology Helps Human Connections Boom

According to McKinsey, in a matter of around eight weeks, Covid-19 made records jump five years forward in consumer and business digital adoption, and 75% of people using digital channels for the first time in 2020 indicate they will continue to use them when things...