About the Leadership Series

The MIoD Leadership Series is designed to provide insights, knowledge and thought leadership to enable board directors and senior management to stay abreast of evolving challenges and trends and pursue continual learning to remain effective leaders.

We are delighted to announce that the seventeenth instalment of this series will be delivered by the well-known and well-respected Prof. Dr. Aung Tun Thet on the topic of “Human Leadership in the Digital World”.

 

About the Webinar

With the rise of digital technology and AI, today’s leaders need to balance technological expertise with strong interpersonal skills, to motivate and empower people. Human connection, well-being and purpose must be prioritized.

Leaders need to understand technology, and to change and possess high degree of EQ. They need to develop culture of experimentation, data driven decisions and inclusive collaboration.

 

Speaker’s Profile

Prof. Dr. Aung Tun Thet Professor Dr. Aung Tun Thet is a Founding Patron of the Myanmar Institute of Directors (MIoD). He has held a distinguished career spanning academia, public service, international organisations, business, and economic policy. He currently serves as an Independent Director of Ayeyarwady Bank and as an Advisor to the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI). He also holds various academic and advisory positions, including Distinguished Professor at Shan State Buddhist University, Honorary Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Honorary Professor at Dhurakij Pundit University, Thailand. He is also a Research Professor at Kyung Hee University, Korea, an Honorary Professor at Yangon University of Economics and Kunming University, China, a Senior Research Advisor at the Myanmar Studies Center, and a Senior Advisor at an economic research and development institute in Thailand. Professor Dr. Aung Tun Thet has held several prominent positions in Myanmar and international organisations. From 2010 to 2025, he served as an Economic Advisor to the President of Myanmar. He was also a Member of the Myanmar Investment Commission (2010–2020) and a Member of the Peace Commission (2015–2020). Previously, he served as a Senior Advisor at the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in Yangon (2008–2010) and as a Principal Officer at the United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy (2000–2008). From 1992 to 2000, he was a Senior Advisor at UNICEF in New York. Earlier in his career, he served as Director General of the Department of Planning and Statistics, Ministry of Health (1979–1992) and held an academic position in the Department of Commerce at the University of Economics from 1966 to 1979. Professor Dr. Aung Tun Thet holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) from Yangon University of Economics, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from Brighton, UK, an M.Sc. from the University of Warwick, UK, and a Ph.D. from UMIST, UK. He also completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Germany. In addition, he holds an Honorary Doctorate from Yangon University of Economics and a Diploma/qualification in Management Development from the UK.

 

Registration

Free registration

Online Registration Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/X5pCeBZNKf

 

About the Webinar

Good financial management is crucial for an SME to overcome challenges, grow sustainably and access financing opportunities.

The webinar will discuss the current realities of Myanmar SMEs along with cash flow management in practice, profitability and pricing, readiness for funding, debt versus equity financing and financial planning for business expansion.

Participants will receive hands-on knowledge to enhance their financial practices and choices for sustainable growth.

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SME လုပ်ငန်းများအတွက် စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာ စိန်ခေါ်မှုများကို ကျော်လွှားနိုင်ရန်၊ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သော တိုးတက်မှုကို ဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်ရန်နှင့် ငွေကြေးရင်းမြစ်များ ရရှိနိုင်ရန်အတွက် ကောင်းမွန်သော ဘဏ္ဍာရေးစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှုသည် အရေးပါသော အခြေခံအချက်တစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်သည်။

ဤ Webinar တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရှိ SME လုပ်ငန်းများ၏ လက်ရှိအခြေအနေများ၊ ငွေသားစီးဆင်းမှု (Cash Flow) စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု၊ အမြတ်အစွန်းနှင့် ဈေးနှုန်းသတ်မှတ်ခြင်း၊ ငွေကြေးရင်းမြစ်ရရှိရန် အဆင်သင့်ဖြစ်စေရေး (Funding Readiness)၊ ချေးငွေ (Debt) နှင့် ရှယ်ယာရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှု (Equity) အကြား ရွေးချယ်မှုများအပြင် လုပ်ငန်းတိုးချဲ့ရန်အတွက် လိုအပ်သော ဘဏ္ဍာရေးစီမံကိန်းများကို ဆွေးနွေးသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်။

တက်ရောက်သူများအနေဖြင့် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု အလေ့အကျင့်များကို ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်စေရန်နှင့် ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သော လုပ်ငန်းဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှုအတွက် မှန်ကန်သော ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်များ ချမှတ်နိုင်ရန် လက်တွေ့အသုံးချနိုင်သော အသိပညာနှင့် အတွေ့အကြုံများကို ရရှိမည်ဖြစ်သည်။

 

Speakers

• Daw Su Sandar Zaw, Board of Director, MIoD; Partner & Co-Founder of VDB Loi Consulting

• U Kyaw Thet Naing, Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioner & Managing Director, Yoke Pyo Company Limited

 

	Daw Su Sandar Zaw Daw Su Sandar Zaw is one of the most experienced in business advisory services and specialized in corporate finance, management consulting, and deal with more than 17 years in Myanmar and Singapore. Su has a strong knowledge of financial management, portfolio management, investment advisory, business valuation and financial modeling in the Finance & Banking Industry and Private Equity Firm with CCA background. Su has extensive experience with project related to the market entries of companies in telecommunication, and banking & financial service industries in Myanmar and Singapore. Su was formally a Finance Director of private equity firm, Anthem Asia Myanmar, and take charged of the portfolio monitoring, overseeing the growth of investment portfolio companies operationally & strategically, and the funds management and closely work with IFC. Su was a Finance Manager about 5 years’ experience in banking sector and one of the pioneers for the transition period of ANZ Bank (Myanmar Branch) from the representative office to the branch. Thus, she has a strong knowledge of financial & operational system set up, and a strong collaboration with the regulators. Su also has about 8 years working experience in F&B sector, and education sector in Singapore. Su is graduated with Bachelor of Commerce, and she is holding a Master of Banking & Finance. She is Myanmar First Winner and world ranking 11th of Advanced Performance Management, ACCA UK. She is a member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants from United Kingdom and Chartered Practising Accountant Australia. Su is also a committee member of Gender Lens of Myanmar Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and she is one of the volunteer mentors of the mentoring session for the SME development in Myanmar.
	U Kyaw Thet Naing U Kyaw Thet Naing is a Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioner and Managing Director of Yoke Pyo Company Limited. With dual degrees in Traditional Medicine (B.M.T.M) and Law (L.L.B), along with advanced diplomas in Business and Human Resource Management from ABE-UK, he combines medical expertise with strong leadership and organizational skills. His diverse educational background and dedication to Myanmar’s traditional healing practices position him as both a healthcare professional and an accomplished business leader.

 

Registration

• Free for MIoD and MMBC members
• MMK 30,000 for non-members

 

Online Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/2bPgkcM4wS

Our sixteenth Leadership Series session, “Leadership Resilience to Thrive in Challenging Times,” was successfully held on 17 June 2026 (Wednesday) via Zoom.
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We extend our sincere appreciation to our Patron, Sayar Gyi Prof. Dr. Aung Tun Thet and to more than 400 participants who contributed to an engaging and thought-provoking discussion.
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𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔
The session explored how resilient leaders navigate setbacks, adapt to change, inspire their teams, and transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
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🔹 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
• Physical resilience
• Mental resilience
• Emotional resilience
• Social resilience
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🔹 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
• Physical activity
• Quality sleep
• Mindfulness
• Positive reappraisal
• Emotional savoring
• Gratitude
• Social connections
• Engaging the senses to reduce stress
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🔹 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
1️⃣ Focus
2️⃣ Fast
3️⃣ Flexible
4️⃣ Fearless
5️⃣ Fun
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One of the most powerful messages from the session was that resilient leadership is not simply about recovering from adversity—it is about growing stronger through challenges and empowering others to do the same.

 

The Batch 4 of Audit Committee for Directors Program was successfully completed as a 4 half-day online program on 23 – 24 and 30 – 31 May 2026.
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A heartfelt thank you to our distinguished faculty members, Daw Kim Chawsu, Daw Wah Wah Min, Daw Thin Thin Myat, and Special Guest Daw Tin Tin Nyo and all participants for making the program engaging, insightful, and impactful.
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We hope the discussions, case studies, and peer exchanges have strengthened your understanding of the Audit Committee’s critical role in corporate governance and equipped you with practical tools to enhance board effectiveness and organizational resilience.
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🎉 Congratulations to all participants who successfully completed the program!
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#MIoD #AuditCommittee #CorporateGovernance #BoardLeadership #ProfessionalDevelopment #BoardDirectors

We recently hosted our online panel discussion, “𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 & 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲,” bringing together governance, policy, and legal professionals to discuss how organizations can strengthen readiness and resilience in evolving environments on Wednesday, 27 May 2026.

Across three focused sessions, panelists shared practical insights on stakeholder engagement, regulatory risk assessment, corporate readiness tools, ESG, and future-focused business practices.

A big thank you to our distinguished panelists and moderator – Daw Khine Wai Thwe, U Thet Zaw Htwe and Daw Khin Soe Htaik and everyone who joined us for an engaging and insightful discussion.