I'm Tiong from Domino Academy under Noble Group Agency from Prudential Malaysia. I joined Domino Academy since the mid-year of 2016. I was looking for experience and extra income for my studies as I was a first year electronic engineering student. Initially, when I joined this industry, I was not aware that it was related to insurance until I learned about Prudential, but somehow it involves part of financial planning which I was interested in. Throughout the year, I learned a lot in terms of knowledge and experience which is the skill of 4 C's: Communication, Collaboration, Critical thinking and Creativity. How does the 4 C's work in my journey? Basically, it's about organising events, the way we communicate with clients or committees of the events, planning in terms of events, financial portfolios and more. Most importantly, it's about having a heart of gratitude and I'm still learning this. I really appreciate this opportunity given by my leader, who is founder of Domino Academy, Ms Angel Voon, and also my introducer Mr Kong. Throughout this journey, my leader guided me and enabled me to reach another level of experience and confidence which allowed me to have lots of opportunities to learn with many different successful people. And through these years, I achieved an incentive trip to China, cash rewards, an Apple gadget and more. I also achieved the first Prudential Wealth Planner in 2020, which was my first step towards success with the guidance of my leader, support from my family as well as with the trust of my clients. To those who are looking for a place to groom themselves but have yet to find it, one of the best opportunities to grow and groom yourselves to another level is right here at Domino Academy, drop your resume now!

I graduated in 2017 from Fajar International College and joined Prudential in 2019. Before I start my testimonial, I would like to share you a little bit about my background. My name is Mariesella Penny, but other's call me Marie. Before I joined, I can say that I was more of an introvert as I didn’t know how to speak to many people and I was also socially awkward when it comes to conversing. It was a journey that had led me to improve my communication skills. After a few months in this industry, I had learned and applied this skill into this business while also applying it in my daily life. I started speaking and talking more often about valuable topics with my family and friends. In this business, there is a lot of space to learn and build ourselves. For me, I have learned about general knowledge that relates more towards the outside world which was never taught in our school before. Throughout my process, I have learned a few things. Communication is one of my top insecurities but having blend with mentors, leaders and team members, I have to say that my confidence in being social has increased tremendously compared to before I joined. The next skill I learned is critical thinking. This skill is very important as it helps in my daily life to be decisive in what I want with the options that is available. I also learned creativity. This skill also further boosted my confidence level. Furthermore, there are many things that I have learned. And by using these skills, it has helped me engage with the people around me as well as with strangers when initiating a conversation. As part of my experience, this also changed my daily schedule completely and made me develop self-discipline. I am very thankful for this opportunity as it kept me going and I am now able to contribute to more people in need.

Domino Academy focuses on teaching their students the basic skills to go the extra mile in entrepreneurship. They conduct trainings and connected me to many mentors and coaches. As an introvert, it was not an easy task. However, I had the opportunity to practice all the skills I've learned and I'm thankful and always excited for the opportunities to learn here.

I had a fruitful journey as a trainee/intern at Domino Academy. Throughout the three months, I learnt and applied the 4 C's in my day to day tasks. I learnt to apply the first C, communication, when I needed to complete a Market Survey and had to communicate with strangers. The second C, collaboration, was applied when I had to collaborate with my team members during an event as an emcee which resulted in the event running smoothly. I've also learnt critical thinking and creativity, which I applied whenever I face problems to solve them easily and efficiently. Creativity was also applied when I had to create a poster to spread awareness on the importance of life insurance. Since joining Domino Academy, I've become more confident in exploring fields that I avoided before and I've become more adaptable.

Joining Domino Academy as an entrepreneur has helped me a lot through my life journey. I was a fresh graduate who had zero working experience with no life direction after graduating. After I joined Domino Academy, I learned different types of skills which are mostly soft skills that are very important in our daily lives due to hard skills being easily replaced by AI technology. These soft skills can be summarized into 4 categories which are the 4 C's. Domino Academy has different types of platforms for us to be hands on and perform which allows us to gain experience on how to organise an event and collaborate with other team members to achieve a common goal through effective communication. We learned that we can think fast and solve problems with critical thinking and creativity. We learned how to handle emergencies and problem solving in many alternative ways. I also found my life direction as a life insurance entrepreneur who can organise my time and plan my schedule. I feel satisfied when my clients accept my advice and are able to protect themselves financially. Now I understand the meaning of insurance and am able to share the concept of financial protection with my family and my friends which can help them a lot during emergencies. Moreover, through this training, I also understand the importance of financial planning and organising family wealth to ensure that our retirement fund is enough for our future.