The Team · AI Subject-Matter Specialists

Practitioners of the applied AI craft.

Ladder of Life is led by practitioners with deep experience across law, business, design and service — and a working command of AI as a practical tool, not a buzzword. The people you meet in the first call are the people in the room when it matters.

Ryan Wong

Founder · Consultant & Facilitator

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Ryan came through a strong academic background and legal track — Raffles Institution, NUS Law, then honed his craft as a practicing lawyer across Corporate M&A, Litigation, Corporate Advisory Work, and Conveyancing. Legal practice has trained Ryan to stay calm and collected under pressure and complexity, to ask the hard questions when necessary, and it has armed him with the ability to turn ambiguity into a clear path forward.

He's since pointed that same thinking at AI — taught himself to build with it, and on the side, has two apps to show for it: Sagehand and Somnial, both built and put on the App Store without a conventional engineering background. The apps are almost beside the point; the instinct behind them is what he brings to every client.

Ryan is also a Performance Coach at ryanwong.sg.

"The same instinct that makes a good lawyer — ask the harder question, don't accept the first answer — is the instinct I bring to every AI project and every client conversation."

Amanda Swee

Consultant & Lead Facilitator

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An experience designer, UX strategist and seasoned facilitator. A Distinction graduate in Industrial Design (Honours) from NUS and an Art Elective Programme Scholar. Most recently Lead UX Designer at an enterprise AML compliance platform.

A LUMA-certified practitioner, published co-author on design innovation methodology, and recipient of the SG Good Design Award (2022). Amanda anchors the facilitation craft behind every workshop we deliver.

"Good design is mostly the hidden work — the emotional, social and structural decisions nobody sees. The same is true of any room worth winning."

Patrick Wong

Advisor

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A senior voice drawn on for more than three decades of hospitality, service and operational leadership across some of Singapore's most demanding F&B and service environments — heading hotel F&B departments, running multi-outlet club operations, and authoring the SOPs for a marquee elevated dining experience.

Today, Patrick is Founder and Owner of S'Chorus Music, a Play & Sing music school in Singapore.

"Service, at its highest level, is the same discipline everywhere. Standards are kept by people who care about the smallest details."

Amy Yuen

Advisor

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Across more than three decades, Amy's career has moved fluently between operations, marketing communications, fundraising and the arts. Most recently Data Protection Officer and former Fundraiser for a Singapore foundation; senior marcomms roles span a luxury hotel, a private members' club, and a national symphonic organisation.

Master of Marketing Communication (University of Canberra).

"Operations is where intention meets reality. The organisations that earn trust are the ones whose systems quietly deliver — every day, for every person who walks through the door."

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