WHEN Leong Soo Yee turns up for the virtual interview over Microsoft Teams, the executive director (Markets) of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) "arrives" with her headphones on, attired for a real-life work meeting.
The mother of one has been separated from her child who is finishing her final year at a university in the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic. If there is any separation anxiety, none comes across as she shares her journey from an anxious young working mother to a confident one who has learnt to take risks and let go. "I am practical by nature. In the early days when my daughter was younger, I was very hands-on. When June, my daughter, became a teenager,...