Portrait of Emmanuel Joseph

Emmanuel Joseph

Learning programmes and AI adoption

I design learning programmes and help people adopt AI at work.

Singapore

I have spent more than a decade designing and running learning programmes for children, students, parents, military commanders and corporate teams. Today I lecture at ITE College East, where I coordinate a module across three colleges and received an Individual Commendation Award for bringing generative AI into teaching and assessment.

Before ITE I founded ExSEL, a training consultancy, and led a team of facilitators, counsellors and psychologists. I also facilitate leadership and cohesion workshops for Singapore Armed Forces commanders. And I build what I teach: the app that runs my student club, and a public-sector hackathon project on SAS Viya.

12+years in learning and facilitation
200+talks and workshops delivered
8 to 90members in a club I rebuilt

Experience

2023 to present

Lecturer, School of Business and Services · ITE College East

Shared coordinator for a personal and professional development module across ITE's three colleges. Commended for bringing generative AI and prompt engineering into teaching and assessment. Ran ITE's first virtual internship with Young Founders School: 23 students placed with 9 international firms.

  • Curriculum design
  • GenAI adoption
  • Programme leadership
2017 to present

NS Cohesion Programme Facilitator · Singapore Armed Forces

Facilitate leadership and cohesion workshops that help NS commanders set their unit's mission, vision and values. Led the Manpower & Welfare Branch from 2023 to 2025, covering facilitator recruitment and induction.

  • Facilitation
  • Organisational development
2019 to 2023

Founder · ExSEL Counselling & Consultancy

Designed and delivered customised workshops on social-emotional and life skills for organisations, educators, parents and young people. Managed a team of facilitators, counsellors and psychologists, and measured each programme with knowledge assessments and focus groups.

  • Programme design
  • Team leadership
  • Evaluation
2020 to 2023

Business Development Executive · Premium workwear

Doubled profit margins with a premium workwear strategy and doubled word-of-mouth referrals. Clients included DA Clinic Group and Museum of Ice Cream. Started fabric-recycling projects with Republic Polytechnic.

  • Client partnerships
  • Commercial strategy
2017 to 2019

Counsellor · Singapore Children's Society

Delivered more than 200 talks and workshops for parents, educators and young people. Planned and ran a recurring ten-week programme for incarcerated fathers and their families at Changi Prison.

2014 to 2017

Centre Manager and Senior Facilitator · Morning Star Community Services

Helped set up a Learning Intervention Centre at St. Joseph's Institution Junior, then headed it. Mentored facilitators working with children with special needs in mainstream primary schools.

Full career history on LinkedIn

Projects

BTOredi resident screen answering whether a new housing block will have childcare and buses ready by move-in
SAS Hackathon 2026 · Public Sector

BTOredi

An early warning, before families move into a new public housing estate, of where childcare, buses and other amenities may fall behind. It joins open data from HDB, ECDA, LTA and SingStat on SAS Viya, forecasts riders at each bus stop, and turns the result into a plain answer for residents, agencies and businesses.

The rebuilt forecast cut average error per bus stop by 26% against a simple baseline.

  • SAS Viya
  • Forecasting
  • Open data
  • Decision rules
Four screens of the ETP Club app: home, events, QR check-in and badge journey
ITE College East · Entrepreneurship Club

ETP Club app

A Telegram bot and mini app that runs a student club I grew from 8 members to about 90. Members sign up for events, request approved leave, submit consent forms and check in with a QR code that refreshes every 15 seconds. Attendance turns into verified hours, XP and badges.

The club now has its own leadership teams, a fund, and student initiatives that have made over S$4,500 in profit.

  • Telegram mini app
  • Workflow automation
  • Programme building

Virtual internship

ITE's first virtual internship with Young Founders School, matching 23 students to 9 firms in Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK and Myanmar.

Cross-marking scheduler

A fair allocation of independent graders across about 20 classes, with no self-marking and matched workloads.

Net Zero Works

A carbon co-pilot for F&B small businesses, built in n8n with Google Gemini for the Digitalisation & Sustainability Challenge 2026.

Leave planner

A calendar that overlays school vacations and public holidays, then suggests the longest breaks from limited leave.

Recognition and education

  • Individual Commendation AwardInstitute of Technical Education
  • Formation NSmen of the Year, CommendationMINDEF / Singapore Armed Forces, 2023
  • NS Excellence AwardMINDEF / Singapore Armed Forces, 2018, 2019 and 2022
  • Merit Prize, Student Enterprise Challenge 2026Team VSMART, as mentor
  • BA PsychologyMurdoch University, 2012 to 2014
  • Minor in Industrial & Organisational PsychologyMurdoch University

Want to talk about a programme or an AI rollout?

I am based in Singapore. LinkedIn is the quickest way to reach me.

© 2026 Emmanuel Joseph