SIM Society Governing Council

Mr Stephen Yee is an experienced Learning & Development HR Business Leader and practitioner. He has 20 years of knowledge and skills working in the not-for-profit organisation, management industry and with development and social partners. He has 30 years of working experience and skills in Strategic Planning, Go-to-market Strategy, Organisational Development, Sales Management, and Business Strategy, working with employers and enterprises of various sizes and in different industry sectors in both multi-nationals like Hewlett Packard, i2 Technologies, government subsidiary under National Library Board.

He works closely with the government to evaluate training programmes that apply to employers and the mass market. He is on various tripartite working committees, such as for older workers in training, human capital development, and the enterprise training scheme. On top of that, he does audits as part of the evaluation committee for skills and future awards for employers and individuals.

In 2007, he brought in International Computer Driving License (ICDL), a non-profit organisation responsible for computer certification based in Ireland, with international offices globally. He has also instrumented mutual recognition of skills among the IT and HR certifications (Singapore) with CIPD and SHRM. He has merged using their IT modules syllabus and accreditation to the competency standard and also convinced the then WDA to put it as part of the WSQ employability skills modules for training the workforce in IT knowledge. For the last 3 years, he has also advocated to Ministry of Education (MOE) for schools to adopt IT certification using the test modules in ICDL from secondary to college students to prepare them for IT skills in their school curriculum so that they are always market-ready.

He is an active member of the future of work under the International Employers Organisation and International Labour Organisation. He extensively provided feedback and information on the ASEAN future of work published in 2015.

Prior to joining SNEF, Mr Yee spearheaded the launch of IT Literacy programme under National Library Board (NLB) for the digital library, training more than 300,000 individuals within a period of 3 years under the brand Open Learning Place operated under NLB in 8 public libraries with emphasis on quality in terms of delivery, monitoring the progress of learners in terms of performance indicators set together with the government agency. During this period, he worked very closely with MOE schools curating quality resources in the library as part of Internet and Information Literacy skills for children from K1 to post secondary. He was a valuable resource to librarians from his competencies developed in Infocomm, Learning & Development and Human Resource as well.

His holds in Bsc in Management Studies (Honours) with the University of London in 1996. He was also awarded a Distinction in Master of Project Management with the University of Adelaide in 2006. He is also a certified trainer and assessor in WSQ ACTA in 2010. He is a true believer of lifelong learning and is a speaker at most conferences in Singapore and in the region in qualification and learning systems with enterprises and social partners.

Stephen spent more than 15 years in technology and training during the first initial stage of his career. For the last 20 years, he has been extensively involved in soft skills training, human skills, and future skills. He is involved in the skills framework for HR, Precision Engineering, Infocomm & Technology, Retail, and recently accountancy.

He firmly believes in digital transformation for organisations to transform so that more quality and high-level jobs can be created in the industry. With his vision, SNEF is extensively involved in the industry transformation map (ITMs) with Skills Framework (30 sectors) and now into the Job transformation map for three sectors and a few industry digitalisation maps.

Mr Yee is certified by the Society for Human Resource Management 9SHRM) as an SHRM Senior Competent Professional and by the Institute for Human Professionals (IHRP) as an IHRP Senior Professional under the Singapore accreditation for HR Business Leaders. The University of Geneva accorded him a Doctor of Business Administration in August 2024.