Rewriting the Entreprenurial Playbook in SE Asia: Will Fan on Scaling People and Cultures Across Borders
Description
🎙️ In this episode, I have a wide-ranging conversation with Will Fan – CEO and Head of School at NewCampus, a modern business school based in Singapore that's reshaping how companies build learning cultures across Southeast Asia. 🇸🇬✨
Will shares his 10+ year journey as an entrepreneur, investor, and education innovator, from launching a scrappy startup called QLC to growing NewCampus into a regional powerhouse that has served over 130,000 learners and 500+ tech companies. We dive deep into:
🌏 Why Southeast Asia is the ideal testbed for reinventing education
📚 Building learning in the flow of work—not outside of it
🤝 Community as the cornerstone of business (not just a feature)
⚙️ Leveraging AI to reduce operational drag and increase human connection
🧠 Creating people-first companies and why Will’s team moved to a 4-day workweek
📈 Measuring impact in L&D—why ROI conversations must start with revenue
His philosophy? Build skinny, think long-term, and center relationships—in your team, in your product, and in your ecosystem.
Be sure to follow Will and his work here:
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellowillfan/
🌐 NewCampus: https://www.newcampus.com
🎧 Podcast produced by Riti Suresh.
United States
