Future-Ready Skills for Graduates
Empowering the future graduates with future-ready skills to boost employability, leadership capabilities, and career confidence.
Bridging the Gap Between Graduation and Career Success
Over the span of his career, Vivek Iyyani has collaborated with top Institutes of Higher Learning—including NUS, NTU, SIM, SP Jain, and PSB Academy—to prepare young graduates with the future-ready skills essential for today’s evolving workforce.
Through years of mentoring, interviewing, and researching thousands of university students internationally, Vivek has become a recognized authority in empowering the younger generation with the skills, mindset, and strategies they need to succeed in a multigenerational workplace.
How Do You Prepare Graduates for a Workplace That’s Nothing Like the One You Entered?
Graduates are stepping into a workplace that moves fast, spans multiple generations and expects more than just academic results. Employers are looking for people who can adapt quickly, work well with others and lead when it counts.
Vivek Iyyani’s programs give students the practical skills they need to be ready from day one. They learn how to communicate across age groups, take ownership, show initiative and handle real-world challenges with confidence. These sessions go beyond theory to prepare students for the teams, clients and expectations they will face the moment they start working.
Programs That Equip Students With Skills Employers Actually Expect
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Adulting 101: Finding Your North Star
Many students feel stuck doing what they were told to do. Good grades. Good internship. Follow the safe path. But deep down, something feels off. They’ve ticked all the boxes, yet they’re not sure why they’re doing it.
This session helps students pause, reflect and ask the questions no one else is asking them. What do I care about? What kind of life do I want? What am I really working towards?
Vivek Iyyani gives students simple tools to figure out what matters to them and how to make choices they won’t regret five years from now.
Learning Outcomes
From this session, audience members will be able to:
- Get an introduction to the Ikigai concept and how it applies to your life
- Learn a step-by-step process to identify your Ikigai and find your calling
- Discover your inner compass as a guide to making big life decisions
- Learn how to function in the 'real' world and manage a lifestyle that consists of balancing adult responsibilities and achieving our desired dream lifestyle
- Learn the effective management of time, money and well-being
- Learn different techniques to relieve stress and anxiety to work more effectively
Managing Up: Unspoken rules to managing the relationship that matters the most in your career
Any relationship takes intention and effort! And yet, there is very little formal or informal training available about developing a relationship with your manager.
Develop your career by managing the relationships with those above you in the organisation.
Be seen as the person that can get things done.
Have your voice and opinions heard and even asked for!
Learn how to add value so you get recognised not ignored.
Get your superiors to make time for you and what you've got to say.
Studies have shown that employees with huge potential get bypassed and ignored because they don't know how to make themselves heard and stand out. As the saying goes...
"People won’t know how good they are, until they know you exist"
If you don't manage up, you may never have the opportunity to manage down.
Are you ready to take charge, do good work, and get noticed for it?
Learning Outcomes
From this session, audience members will be able to:
- Reduce unnecessary friction and develop harmony with your manager
- Understand why you don't get listened to
- Understand common styles managers follow and learn to avoid unnecessary friction
- Develop mutually rewarding relationship with your boss and managers
- Show ownership and come across as highly dependable associate for your boss
- Communicate with your boss in a way that makes you reliable and dependable
- Adopt your manager as your mentor and secure his/her partnership into your career
- Undertake next big responsibility of your role and department jointly with your boss
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap in Emerging Leaders
One of the biggest challenges with young talent today is the missing basics. They struggle with ownership, communication and working well with others. These are the behaviours that drive performance but are rarely taught.
Managers feel stuck. They don’t know how to teach what they were expected to pick up on their own. Quiet frustration builds. Culture weakens. Small issues turn into performance problems.
This session gives practical ways to build these skills into your leadership pipeline. Clear methods. Real language. No guesswork. Your future leaders will learn how to coach these behaviours and create teams people want to be part of.
Target Audience: Emerging Leaders / Future Leaders in your organisation
Learning Outcomes
From this session, audience members will be able to:
- Understand the digital native skills gap and how they learn best today
- Learn 5 steps to teach relationship-building and problem-solving
- Apply the Platinum Rule to engage and empower employees
- Use an inside-out approach to develop the whole person
- Teach the art of self-feedback and instil personal accountability
