Emcee, Team Building Founder

5.0 (2 reviews)English, Chinese (Mandarin)Next: Mon 12 Oct, 8:00 PM (GMT+8)

About me

Hi there! I’m Joey and I talk (a lot!)! I’m serious! I talk and do cool stuff for a living, and if that’s where you’re heading towards, I think I can help! O...

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Team Building Tips & Tricks: Building a strong team for success.
Understanding Education: Comparing Chinese and private schools.
Emceeing 101: Getting into emceeing and market demand.
Overcoming Mental Health Challenges: Practical advice from personal experience.
Mastering Public Speaking: Tips to stay composed and confident.
Teenager’s Guide to Moving Out: Navigating independence and new beginnings.

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Professional experience

Early Work Life
During my foundation years, I worked part-time in F&B, including midnight shifts, but had to stop due to health impacts.
I then moved to a co-working space company, where one of the owners noticed my communication skills and referred me to their team-building company in 2019.
My first clients included Petronas, Oppo, Google, Twitch, and Microsoft. My role involved proposals, sales, hosting, marketing, event planning, and manpower.
Although underpaid, I learned every aspect of the team-building industry and built an extensive portfolio, running the company for the owner during the MCO lockdown, which allowed for rapid expansion and big clients.
Post-graduation, I was offered the role of general manager at said company and led the company from 270k annual revenue in the previous year to 1.5M during my first-year as GM.
Start-Up
I live by the motto “Do first, think later.”, I founded a team-building business startup focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and gamified activities.
Our impact is on team bonding, providing activities to deliver specific goals and rewarding performance with donations to charities, such as food packs, funds, and school supplies, working with NGOs.
We prioritise creating genuinely engaging and positively impactful activities for clients, rather than traditional, old-school methods.
Overhead costs are low, and we achieve team-building ESG and CSR goals through customised activities designed to identify and nurture specific traits within team members, enhancing working relationships through improved communication patterns.
Emceeing
My public speaking journey started in primary school and evolved through my first team-building job, with opportunities arising from client outsourcing.
To get into this field, I suggest reaching out to NGOs, starting with small events, and networking extensively. It's essential to find your niche and stand out with a unique "x-factor."
I currently work with JomRun, where people sign up for community runs, hosting diverse events—anything but weddings.
Payment varies based on spotlight recognition and experience, often on an hourly or retainer basis with in-house companies which are the structures I'm familiar with.
The opportunity to connect with high-profile individuals is an amazing opportunity, but it requires relentless networking, cold emailing, and joining competitive Facebook communities.

Education journey

I pursued a degree in Psychological Science at Monash University, a path suggested by my dad based on world rankings.
Initially, I wanted to study Gender & Sexuality Studies, but I ended up in Psychology, facing the realities and challenges of low employability in the field due to high supply and low demand which I found out after that.
Moving to KL as a teen involved a lot of self-realisation and social navigation as an independent individual. I had to re-adjust my intentions in achieving my goals.

LalaHero's Afterthoughts

Through our conversations we’ve learned that Joey is a naturally articulate individual who is very well versed in the team building and emceeing industry. Joey is able to provide first hand insights on the nature of the work environment by making the most of the natural characteristic traits within a person. Joey is happy to share the learnings from launching a startup and what would’ve been done differently in hindsight to ease your journey on a similar path. Additionally having personal experience with mental health struggles, Joey is able to reassure and lend a listening ear to those who are facing similar struggles on the days that seem a little too difficult to handle alone.