About Me

“I’ve always been uncomfortable with the status quo. Whether in business or in learning, I’m drawn to transformation — finding new ways to solve problems, connect people, and drive meaningful change.”

🚌 My Career Journey

Hi, I’m Victor Chia — a lifelong learner and adult educator passionate about innovation, purposeful learning, and social impact.

My professional journey began in the private sector, where I spent over 12 years managing operations and transforming my family business in the automotive industry. There, I led initiatives in digital transformation, process redesign, customer experience, and compliance, increasing productivity by over 35%.

I also founded two ventures:

• Orange Squirrel Solutions LLP — providing web and IT solutions, enhancing user engagement through design and SEO.

• Cleanology Pte Ltd — offering licensed cleaning services, managing compliance, client contracts, and service delivery.

Today, at SUSS Entrepreneurship, I support programmes that empower student innovators and social entrepreneurs. Whether coordinating regional startup competitions or preparing founders for investor pitches, I believe learning should be practical, empowering, and forward-looking.

🔥 Beliefs & Values as an Adult Educator

• Learning must be inclusive, relevant, and contextual, rooted in learner experience.

• Teaching should be co-created, reflective, and dialogical.

• Education is a transformative process, enabling personal and professional agency.

• I maintain a growth mindset, actively seeking reflection and feedback.

✅ Desired Attributes I Embody (from the TAE Skills Framework)

• Adaptability — Moving from business ownership to education, flexibly responding to diverse learner needs.

• Business-oriented — Applying operational and client-facing experience to ensure learning relevance and stakeholder value.

• Passion for lifelong learning — Pursuing professional development (ACLP, PMP, DDDLP) across disciplines.

• Professionalism — Bringing structure, integrity, and learner-centred practices to every engagement.

• Future-ready orientation — Leveraging tech and innovative pedagogies to prepare learners for complexity.

🌱 Growth Mindset

My Growth Mindset test score (73% growth vs. 27% fixed mindset) shows I believe intelligence and creativity can be developed, though I remain aware of areas where fixed beliefs may limit me. To live out my growth mindset, I aim to:

• Engage in reflective practice to challenge assumptions

• Support learners in taking ownership of their learning

• Embrace change, technology, and diversity in teaching practices

📕 Supporting Future-Oriented Learners

In a time of rapid technological disruption (AI, automation, and digital platforms), I believe adult educators must prepare learners for uncertainty, adaptability, and lifelong learning. I do this by:

• Designing scenario-based learning and authentic assessments

• Fostering interdisciplinary thinking and learning agility

• Using collaborative tools, simulations, and adaptive platforms to build innovation, experimentation, and resilience

• Creating inclusive, psychologically safe spaces that encourage peer learning and co-construction of knowledge

My aim is to empower learners to be not only job-ready but future-ready, equipped to navigate complexity, collaborate across disciplines, and continually reinvent themselves.

🎯 Looking Ahead

As I deepen my role in adult education and social innovation, I aspire to co-create learning journeys that are human-centred, digitally enabled, and impact-driven. I aim to bridge industry and learning by supporting professionals, changemakers, and startups to thrive in a complex, fast-changing world.

In the next 5–10 years, my goal is to grow into a course developer, advance to curriculum lead, and eventually establish my own learning centre. This vision is grounded in my strengths in industry-relevant practice, digital transformation, and learner-centred facilitation, as well as my commitment to helping adults become future-ready professionals.

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