What we’re about
Human-Centric Leadership for a Rapidly Changing World
We are entering a new era of leadership. One where rapid technological advancement, AI, and global disruption demand more than traditional business models and command-and-control thinking.
This community is for forward-thinking leaders, entrepreneurs, founders, and professionals who recognise that sustainable success in the future requires human-centric leadership — grounded in ethics, adaptability, emotional intelligence, and systems thinking.
United by a shared mission, we educate, empower, and equip leaders who are ready to challenge the status quo and transform the systems that shape our lives.
We explore how to lead effectively at the intersection of technology, business, and humanity. How to build organisations, ventures, and initiatives that create value not only financially, but socially and environmentally.
Through peer learning, skill development, strategic collaboration, and real-world application, we support leaders who want to future-proof their work while contributing to positive systemic change. This is a working ecosystem for leaders who value substance over hype, collaboration over competition, and long-term impact over short-term wins.
This is a space for courageous conversations, collaborative problem-solving, and turning insight into action — through initiatives, movements, ventures, and partnerships that challenge the status quo and create tangible impact.
Who We Are:
✔ A community of action-takers, change catalysts, and solution-solvers
✔ A space for heart-centred, transformational leadership in times of global change
✔ A learning and practice ground for human-centric leadership in the age of AI and automation
✔ A collaborative ecosystem for sharing ideas, skills, resources, and lived experience
✔ A place to turn insight into action — through initiatives, ventures, projects, and partnerships
✔ A supportive environment for bold thinking, honest dialogue, and conscious action
✔ A community grounded in integrity, authenticity, empathy, and long-term impact
✔ A space where connection comes before promotion, and purpose before ego
We are NOT:
✖ A traditional business or professional networking group
✖ A space for hard selling, pitching, or transactional relationship-building
✖ A passive audience or content-only community
✖ A place for ego-driven leadership, competition, or status-seeking
✖ A one-size-fits-all approach to leadership or success
✖ A quick-fix or “overnight transformation” environment
What We Ask of Members
- Come with curiosity, openness, and respect
- Be willing to participate, not just observe
- Share generously and listen deeply
- Lead with integrity — in words, actions, and intentions
- Support others as you would like to be supported
If this resonates, you’re in the right place. If not, we honour that — and wish you well on your path.
We are not waiting for the future. We are building it, collectively and collaboratively!
Upcoming events
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Balancing Ambition and Contentment: Achieve Success Without Losing Your Center
·OnlineOnlineYou’ve built momentum, ambition, and achievement in your life or career - but something still feels out of alignment.
This gathering is for high-performing professionals, entrepreneurs, leaders, and coaches who no longer want to choose between outer success and inner fulfilment. Instead, we explore how to integrate both.
You don’t have to walk your mental, emotional, and spiritual journey alone.
Join us for a thoughtful, grounded, and honest exploration of what it truly means to succeed - without burning out, losing meaning, or disconnecting from yourself.
This Week’s Meetup: What We’ll Explore
1. The Gap Model Discover the internal “gap” between your external achievements (status, success, image) and your inner world (values, purpose, contentment) and how this gap quietly shapes your happiness and decisions.
2. Three Practical Strategies to Bridge the Gap Learn actionable tools to align ambition with fulfilment, helping you experience more clarity, peace, and meaning while staying committed to your career or business goals.
3. Awareness for Conscious Change Gain fresh insight into what - if anything - you want to shift in your life or career to feel more whole, grounded, and authentic.
How the Session Flows:
- A short connection-to-self exercise to arrive fully present
- A clear and practical introduction to the topic
- Guided group sharing, where participants reflect on personal experiences and gain insights and perspectives from peers
- Identifying key areas for growth or alignment you can take forward
This is not a lecture. It’s a conversation among peers.
The Atmosphere
Warm. Respectful. Grounded. No pressure to perform or impress - just real people, real conversations, and shared exploration.
Come with no expectations. Leave with greater clarity, perspective, and direction.
Questions on the day? Use the event chat - we’re happy to help.
Who Is The Suited Monk For?
The Suited Monk is a practical philosophy for people who live fully in the real and business world, but are searching for deeper meaning, fulfilment, and alignment.
It’s for professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, and coaches who:
- Have achieved external success yet feel internally disconnected
- Want clarity around purpose, values, and life direction
- Seek answers to life’s bigger questions without religion or dogma
- Value contribution, authenticity, and human connection
The Suited Monk is a community rooted in human values - not religious practices - built on sharing, reflection, growth, and friendship.
The Core Idea We Work With:
Modern careers often focus heavily on the Suit: Money. Status. Results. Image. Achievement.
Too often, this comes at the expense of the Monk: Inner peace. Values. Purpose. Fulfilment.
The Suited Monk philosophy is about blending both worlds into one - so success no longer costs you your happiness or integrity.
Meeting Structure:
The session is facilitated by Raf Adams, author and creator of The Suited Monk philosophy.
- Brief introduction to the theme
- Guided group discussion and shared reflection
- Practical insights you can apply immediately
- Closing remarks to anchor the learning
We look forward to welcoming you to our next gathering - a space for ambition with meaning, and success with soul.
Join us as we put the theme to the test in a lively online group discussion. Online Meeting link will be visible to those who have RSVP'ed here.
About
Raf Adams is an executive coach, speaker, and mentor focusing on helping people find their true path in life, combining personal growth, spirituality and business. He is originally from Belgium and has lived in China and Hong Kong for twelve years and Spain for five years. Since 2009, he has held Suited Monk and Suited Monk Leadership workshops for individuals and international companies, he regularly speaks at universities, and his books have been featured in various publications such as The Economist Intelligence Unit, Forbes Korea and Korea Times. The Suited Monk has been translated into Chinese and English and was published through editorial Amat in Spanish in 2019.
Raf´s books can be found on Amazon:
The Suited Monk here
Suited Monk Leadership here3 attendees
A New Chapter Begins: Reboot, Rediscover, Reinvent Yourself
Boronia Grove Community Centre, 40 Victoria Street, Epping, AUAre you ready to reboot your mindset, rediscover your purpose, and reinvent the next chapter of your life?
We are living through a period of profound global transformation - technological, financial, societal, and spiritual. Many people feel it as a quiet inner knowing: something is shifting.
If you’re re-evaluating your direction, identity, or contribution in a rapidly changing world, then this in-person workshop is for you - to lean into it with greater clarity, purpose, and grounded intuition - not escape from it.
This is not about fixing yourself or having all the answers. It’s about pausing, listening, and creating space for clarity to emerge.
💡Why attend this workshop?
2026 is a Universal Year 1. This is a year for new beginnings, heightened self-awareness, bold conscious choices, personal growth and transformation.
It’s a powerful moment to reconnect with:
- Who you are now
- What truly matters to you
- What you want the next chapter of your life to stand for
Rather than stepping away from life, this is an invitation to lean in:
- Lean into learning
- Lean into contribution
- Lean into service
🌟 About the Experience:
This is a deeply human, in-person, interactive workshop designed to help you:
- Slow down and reconnect with yourself
- Release outdated identities and expectations
- Clarify your values, motivations, and inner compass
- Experience real, face-to-face connection in a world dominated by screens.
It’s a guided, reflective, and relational experience.
🌱 Who This Is For:
This workshop is ideal for you if you are:
- At a personal or professional crossroads
- Re-evaluating your career, direction, or identity
- Experiencing a midlife transition or reinvention
- Seeking more meaning, balance, and authenticity
- Curious about how to stay relevant and human in a changing world
- Simply feeling that one chapter is ending, and another is quietly waiting
You do not need to know what comes next. You only need a willingness to pause and listen.
🧠 What You’ll Leave With:
- A clearer sense of who you are now
- Greater self-trust and inner alignment
- Renewed connection to your values and motivations
- Meaningful conversations and human connection
- A grounded foundation for the next chapter of your life
💎 You Are Never Too Old To:
- Reboot your life
- Rediscover your values
- Reconnect with your inner wisdom
- Begin again, consciously
🔗 Join us if you’re ready to:
- Align your purpose with your potential
- Redefine success on your own terms
- Thrive at the intersection of tech, transformation, and timeless values
A new chapter of magic, alignment, and awakening awaits you.
🎟️ 🎟️ 🎟️
Reserve your seat and open the door to new beginnings.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-new-chapter-begins-reboot-rediscover-reinvent-yourself-tickets-1980840420019
Ticket includes hot/cold drinks, savoury finger foods, cakes & snacks (to be served during the workshop break).
Workshop Facilitators:
Fleur Leong - Leadership, Learning & Lifestyle Strategist
Jonathan Lee - Founder of Utopia Rising, Themed Events & Experiences Artist
Two Senior Executives, and Professional Coaches3 attendees
Past events
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