Our Team

Leona Lo, Principal Consultant

Leona Lo is Principal Consultant of Talk Sense Pte. Ltd., a Communications Consultancy specialising in healthcare, corporate and beauty communications.

She did her A-Levels at the prestigious Hwa Chong Junior College, Singapore, where she was awarded a two-year Humanities Scholarship.  

She graduated from the University of York, United Kingdom with First Class Honours in English and Related Literature.  She was awarded the York Trust Settlement Prize for raising awareness of Transgender issues. 

In 2000, she was awarded the Prospects Globe Award by her alma mater to pursue a Master's degree in Qualitative Research Methods.  

In January 2009, she obtained her DALF C1 certification awarded by the French Ministry of Education, Higher Learning and Research.  This certifies that she is "Proficient" in written and spoken French, and exempts her from taking language tests for entrance into French universities.

In August 2009, Talk Sense Pte. Ltd. staged three sold-out performances of the Ah Kua Show at the Substation.  The play was based on Leona's autobiography From Leonard to Leona, A Singapore Transsexual's Journey to Womanhood. 

Leona maintains a blog at www.leonalo.wordpress.com

Cecilia Yee, Senior Consultant

Cecilia's career spans 16 years in the cosmetics industry.  She spent 10 years in Guerlain involved in local market marketing before moving on to The Body Shop as Regional Category Manager in-charge of Make-Up and Fragrances.  She was the Asia Pacific representative in "Project Diva", when TBS replaced their entire Colourings Make-Up range.

She then moved on to Chanel as Regional Marketing Manager, where she wore two hats.  She was highly involved in products development across all three categories (skinscare, makeup and fragrances), again representing the Asia Pacific region.  She also developed strategic marketing tools and activities tailored for the region.  She spearheaded the launch of CRM before her relocation to London. 

Securing a position in Chanel UK (including Scotland and Ireland) as Brand Manager of Precision (Chanel's skincare range), she successfully brought the ranking of Precision from 16th to 11th within 14 months.