Open the future —
before it opens you.
Twenty-five years across brand, retail and franchise development in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe — distilled into talks that move a room from anxiety about change to appetite for it.
Eight fields, one throughline.
Every session is rebuilt around your audience, your market and your moment — the titles below are starting points, not scripts. Open one to read the full outline.
Nobody leaves the room the same way they walked in.
Warmth first, then the hard questions. She speaks the language of founders, executives and eighteen-year-olds alike — and sends every one of them home with something to do on Monday.
A practitioner, not a commentator.
Nguyễn Phi Vân has spent more than twenty-five years building brands, retail models and franchise systems across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe. She did that work as a senior executive inside multinationals long before she did it from a stage — which is why what she says on one holds up when a room takes it back to the office on Monday.
Today she chairs Go Global Holdings, which has invested in fourteen Vietnamese small and medium enterprises, and the Vietnam Franchising & Licensing Network. She is a board director of the ASEAN Business Angel Alliance Network and a Senator for Vietnam at the World Business Angels Investment Forum, advises the Vietnamese government on startup ecosystem development, and invests as an angel in thirty-four technology startups across the United States and Southeast Asia.
Outside business, she founded Library of Dreams, which has built 376 creative libraries for children across 29 provinces of Vietnam and is working towards a thousand by 2030, and the Go Global Learning Hub, a free skills platform for young Vietnamese carrying more than a hundred courses.
She has written eleven books, in Vietnamese and English, on franchising, technology, the future of work and the skills the next generation will actually need. One of them, NYM, was written together with an artificial intelligence — years before that stopped being unusual.
Where she has stood.
A selection — conferences, corporate summits, universities and government programmes across Asia and beyond. The full record is in the ledger.
- 2026The 1 MasterclassHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- 2026Go Global Hub Talk #01Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- 2026FLAsia 2026Singapore, Singapore
- 2026LBC · Café Sáng 26/6Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- 2026HAWEE Connect tháng 6/2026Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Tháng 6/2026Organic to QuantumHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Organisations she has spoken for
Companies
16
- Lazada
- Behn Meyer
- Sacombank
Associations and institutions
29
- APFCAsia Pacific Franchise Federation
- CCFAChina Chain-store & Franchise Association
- TFATaiwan Franchise Association
- Business France
- Monsha'atMonsha'at — Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority
- BANSEABusiness Angel Network of Southeast Asia
- TAGMOAAssociation of Franchise & Trademarks Services
- VFLNVietnam Franchising & Licensing Network
- YBAYoung Business Association
- LBCLeading Business Club
- JCIJCI — Junior Chamber International
- UNDPUnited Nations Development Programme
- UNICEF
- AmChamAmCham Vietnam
- CanChamCanCham Vietnam
- TAITRATAITRA — Taiwan External Trade Development Council
- KOTRAKOTRA — Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency
- JETROJETRO — Japan External Trade Organization
- MOISTMinistry of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Conferences and trade shows
19
- SWITCHSWITCH — Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology
- FIMFranchise International Malaysia
- Shark Tank Forum
- Arab Franchise Show
- TGFMThe Global Franchise Market
- Franchise India Expo
- HOFEXHOFEX — Asia's Leading Food & Hospitality Tradeshow
- SITESITE — Startup x Innovation Thailand Expo
- Philippine Startup Week
- APAC Family Enterprise ForumThe Asia-Pacific Family Enterprise & Investment Forum
- Startup Wheel
- Shanghai Franchise Expo
Named by Nguyễn Phi Vân. Logos are shown where the organisation publishes one; the rest are set in type. Marks belong to their owners and appear here only to identify who she has spoken for — no endorsement is implied.
A few brands a year. Chosen on values.
Her audience follows her for judgement, not for advertising. So partnerships are rare, long-form and only ever with brands she would recommend to a friend — and she says so out loud when a campaign is paid.
- Mindset Shift & Reinvention
- Going Global & Global Growth
- Leadership & Organizational Transformation
- Workforce & Workplace Transformation
- Digital Transformation
- Personal Growth & Development
- Future of Work, Jobs & Skills
- AI Trends & Applications
- SME & One-Person Company Development
- Franchise Brand Building & Global Development
- Startup & Innovation
- Long-term ambassadorshipA season or a year, with a single point of view carried across channels
- Campaign collaborationA defined story told over several weeks — video, writing, live
- Branded talk or masterclassYour audience, her content, your name on the programme
- Content seriesWritten or filmed, published to her own channels and yours
- Event hosting and moderationLaunches, panels and awards, in Vietnamese or English
- Subjects that do not align with her personal core values
- Claims she cannot personally verify, or products she has not used
- Get-rich-quick, speculative finance and anything sold on fear
- Products marketed to children that work against their learning
- One-off posts with no relationship behind them
Everything your programme needs.
Copy the bios straight into your run sheet; the headshots are print resolution and cleared for event use.
Open the full speaker kit →Tell her what you're planning.
A stage, a campaign or a conversation — a short note is enough to start. Her team replies within two working days with availability, fees and a shortlist of angles.
Prefer to talk it through? Ask Coco — she will take the details and pass them on.