Dedicated Mentors

ERNEST CHEN, DTM

Ernest Chen is an extraordinary toastmaster and torchbearer for TMCS, where he served as club president for five times. He also bears the distinction of founding 20 Toastmasters clubs, including the first Community Centre Toastmasters club in Singapore, and the world’s first Mandarin Toastmasters club. Ernest is currently the District Director for District 80, the highest Toastmaster office in Singapore. Outside of Toastmasters, he organised the first Speech Marathon – for 50 hours of speaking non-stop by 800 speakers – to celebrate SG50, and introduced World Speech Day to Singapore in 2016. Ernest is also an international speaker, trainer and author of books such as Earnestly Speaking and Rhetorically Speaking and Writing.

LAWRENCE LEE, CTM

Lawrence has been with TMCS since 1988 and served as club president in 1995. During his corporate career, he worked as regional manager at MNCs like Johnson & Johnson, SmithKline, Gillette, and America Optical, covering territories like Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan & Korea. Lawrence is an amputee but he does not let his disability define him or slow him down. He believes that life is about breaking limits and challenging yourself to do things that you think are impossible.

ALOYSIUS LIM, CTM

Aloysius believes in lifelong learning journey as a Toastmaster. A member since 1985 and President for 1988/89 term, he continues to attend meetings and mentor members. He also enjoyed the experience of representing the club in the inaugural Speech Evaluation Contest in the 1990s. Joining Toastmaster is not about the end goal of completing your speech projects but a journey to experience what Toastmaster has to offer, namely to become a better communicator and leader. This is achieved through the pathway projects as a speaker and evaluator, volunteering as an appointment holder during club meetings and being elected as a club official. It’s never too late to join as Toastmaster. Just commence the journey anytime and have FUN.

JACKY LIM, DTM

Jacky is a full-time professional speaker, sales coach and NLP trainer who has transformed the lives of over thousands of people all across Asia over the past 11 years. He has also conducted several workshops on public speaking and worked with clients such as Samsung, Siemens, HDB, UPS, ING Bank, AIA, and many others. He has been a member of TMCS since 2005 and served as club president in 2008. He has competed in several speech competitions, emerging as champion at the International Speech, the Table Topics, and the Evaluation contests. He is also the author of bestselling book Increase Sales with NLP – Secrets of Psychology Selling.

NG CHER KHIM, DTM

Cher Khim has been a member of TMCS for over 20 years. In the term 2003/2004, he served as the Club President and led the club to President’s Distinguished Club scoring 10 out of the 10 Distinguished Club Program goals. He also served in different District Officer roles and was the District Director of District 80 (Singapore) in the term 2020/2021. Cher Khim took part in many speech contests and has won contests at Club, Area, Division and District levels. Over the years, Cher Khim has won many speaking honours at the club and district levels.

SOH SWEE KIAT, CTM

Soh Swee Kiat, or SK, has been a Toastmaster since 1989. He represented the district in the finals of the International Speech Contest in 1993 and 2001 and was Division D champion in the Humorous Speech Contest in 1998. In 2008, District 80 organised a writing competition and selected Swee Kiat’s article as one of the top five to receive the “MAD” Creative Writing Award. Having worked in the Government and Private sectors for more than 33 years, he is now retired. As a Mentor, he helps to hone the new members’ skill in public speaking.