The ASME Expert Workshop Series is a curated series of practical, application-focused sessions designed for SME owners and leaders. Led by subject matter experts and industry practitioners, each workshop is designed to equip participants with relevant frameworks, insights, and actionable takeaways that can be applied immediately in their businesses.

Our Objective

Sustainable growth starts with strong fundamentals. As businesses grow, they also need the right people, processes and capabilities to manage increasing complexity and be ready to scale further. Beyond that, new opportunities can come through partnerships, alliances and M&A.

Our workshops focus on three key areas:

• Business Foundations: Strengthening core business fundamentals to build a well-run and resilient business.
• Scale: Developing the people, processes and capabilities needed to manage a growing business effectively and build a business that is ready to scale.
• Growth Partnerships: Exploring new growth opportunities through strategic partnerships, alliances, joint ventures and, where relevant, M&A.

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Upcoming Expert Workshops in November 2026:

📅 11 November 2026 | 2-5 PM | @Lifelong Learning Institute

**Topic: How SMEs Can Compete for Talent Without Matching MNC Pay

Format: 2-hour workshop + 1-hour Networking**

Losing good candidates to bigger companies offering higher salaries? Worried your best employees might leave for better paying opportunities?

For SMEs, competing on salary alone can feel like a losing battle. But good people do not choose employers based on pay alone. Career growth, responsibility, recognition, flexibility and access to leadership can all shape why someone joins and why they stay.

Learn how to position your SME more attractively, make your salary budget work harder, retain your best people, and turn your size into an advantage rather than a limitation.

Join **Vishal Bansal, Founder & Managing Director of Altus People Advisory**, for a practical session on how SMEs can compete more effectively for talent without overstretching their manpower budgets. Drawing on close to 20 years of experience across Jewel Changi Airport, Changi Airport Group, Mediacorp, Carrots Consulting and Mercer, he will share how larger organisations think about attraction, rewards and retention, and how SMEs can adapt those lessons to their own realities.