Unconventional Leaders

Social entrepreneur, musician, lawyer. By day, Steven is a corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions in Canada and now in Southeast Asia. By night, he is a social entrepreneur and is passionate about creating communities around the world. In the past five years, he created three non-profit organizations (Healing Using Music, Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers and the Living Room Series). His work in the community has been featured extensively in mainstream media in Canada and he has presented at TEDx and PechaKucha. Steven is also an avid musician and enjoys a bit of ballroom and swing dance on the side. Living Room Series is the current project that I am working on. Started in 2017, Living Room Series has since expanded to five cities (Vancouver, Calgary, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City) with more than 25 events.  It is a modern day take on 118th-century French salons where people would gather to share stories and ideas in intimate spaces like a living room. If anyone is inte