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Stervey Lim · 5 August 2025

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Key topicsWhy Rock Bottom Creates the Leaders We NeedSustainability reports and AI forecasts can’t prepare leaders for the real test: what happens when the ground falls out from under them. Stervey Lim knows this firsthand. A decade ago, he faced incarceration and the collapse of everything he’d built. Re-entering the workforce demanded a different kind of leadership-one rooted in resilience, emotional fluency, and the humility to rebuild from scratch. Today, as an ESG and AI advisor across ASEAN, he argues that true leadership isn’t forged in boardrooms but in the crucible of personal upheaval. His story reframes why the leaders guiding organisations through climate risk, AI disruption, and workforce disconnection need more than data-they need depth. Why ESG Fails Without Emotional IntelligenceMost companies reduce ESG to reporting checklists and compliance dashboards, but that’s why so many initiatives stall. Real sustainability isn’t just about carbon credits or disclosures-it’s about people changing how they work, decide, and connect. Stervey Lim shows why empathy, cultural sensitivity, and emotional fluency are the missing levers for making ESG real inside organisations. With three decades in business transformation and deep experience guiding leaders across ASEAN, he explains how reframing ESG as a human practice-not just a regulatory one-unlocks genuine behavioural change and lasting impact. From Carbon Credits to Conscious Leadership: Building a Sustainable ASEAN WorkforceWith Singapore and Malaysia becoming regional ESG hubs, Stervey shares what companies, institutions, and policymakers need to do now to prepare their people-not just their policies-for the green and AI revolutions ahead. View all topics →

About Stervey Lim

Stervey Lim, podcast guest

ESG-EQ leadership advisor, CEO of AMM-AI Advisory and author of Shadows to Sustainability

30+ years Executive and advisory experience across ASEANAffiliate Faculty Singapore Management University4 specialist credentials ESG, EQ, carbon verification and GenAI strategyCEO AMM-AI Advisory

Stervey Lim helps organisations navigate the pressures of ESG compliance, workforce disconnection, and AI disruption—not by throwing more frameworks at the problem, but by reconnecting leadership to emotional fluency. Based in Singapore and working across the ASEAN region, he brings three decades of experience in business transformation, now focused on helping both executives and employees shift from rigid mindsets to adaptive, human-centred ways of working.

As CEO of AMM-AI Advisory and former Director of EQ Business at Six Seconds Asia Pacific, Stervey delivers ESG advisory, carbon credit education, GenAI readiness, and EQ leadership training across corporate and government sectors. Whether he’s facilitating board-level sustainability conversations or guiding overwhelmed professionals to reclaim their agency at work, his message stays the same: the future of business requires a different kind of intelligence, one rooted in empathy, not just efficiency.

Stervey’s perspective is shaped by profoundly human experiences. Ten years ago, he was incarcerated. Re-entry into the workforce wasn’t guaranteed, and rebuilding his career meant relearning everything—about systems, about leadership, and about himself. The experience left him with a sharper sense of what people need when their roles, values, or industries are in flux, and why systems designed around control often fail the humans inside them.

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