Reese Wong is a 22-year-old award-winning social entrepreneur, community-builder and speaker. At age 16, he founded ISSIA, Hong Kong’s largest youth-led nonprofit. The organization empowers changemakers through project-based learning. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved 500+ volunteers from 80+ schools, launched 30+ projects around the Sustainable Development Goals and has been... Read more
Reese Wong is a 22-year-old award-winning social entrepreneur, community-builder and speaker.
At age 16, he founded ISSIA, Hong Kong’s largest youth-led nonprofit. The organization empowers changemakers through project-based learning. Since 2019, ISSIA has involved 500+ volunteers from 80+ schools, launched 30+ projects around the Sustainable Development Goals and has been featured on Nasdaq and major city-wide publications throughout Hong Kong.
As an international speaker, Reese has delivered 100+ talks to 5000+ attendees on social entrepreneurship, education and career development. As a social impact champion, he has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and one of WEF’s youngest Curators, 2024 Diana Award Recipient, Aspen UK Rising Leader, Future Minds 25 Under 25 and PMI UK Scholar.
He also served as a Young Fellows Advisory Board Member at the Royal Society of Arts and a Board Trustee at LSE’s Student Union.
Reese Wong previously worked as a Communications Consultant for Ashoka, the world’s leading community of social entrepreneurs. He was also the Community Manager at the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. His other experiences include stints at the UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, U.S. Department of State, Linklaters, McKinsey and more.
More recently, Reese is the Founder of the Potentia Fellowship, Chairman of the LSE Entrepreneurs Society, the Managing Director of London Strategic Consulting (LSC) and studied BSc International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE).
This workshop will cover how taking social action at age 16 has fundamentally changed the trajectory of my life and expanded the horizons of my imagination. It will also introduce social entrepreneurship, design thinking and effective strategies for young people to launch their own social impact projects.
This workshop showcases case studies of young entrepreneurs around the world and how they have made significant social impact. We now live in an ‘everyone a changemaker world’ where early changemaking education is essential; how can you take a proactive role to empower the young around you to participate in...
How should you approach career design and strategy in the age of agentic AI? Learn about how to optimise your personal brand to increase your ‘surface area of luck’ and best communicate the impact of your work. The workshop also covers entrepreneurial career design frameworks, the power of community-building and...