CST · 2020 — 2026

Our Historical Moments

我们走过的路

Before the AI Initiative, there were rooms. Ten summits, sixteen camps, and years of people learning to think and communicate better — in person, together. This is the ground the AI Initiative is built on.

10

CST Summits held

16

RISE Camps run

600+

Camp alumni

5

Core competencies taught

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What we ran

Three formats. One idea.

Every one of these was built on the same belief — that people change faster in a room with other people than they do alone with a book.

学习峰会 · 10 editions

CST Summit

Two days, seven or more topics, capped at around 300 people. A stage, a floor, and enough space between sessions for the conversations that actually change things. Ten of them, ending with UP//COMM 2026.

实战营 · 16 editions

RISE Camp

Three days, 9am to 9pm, 36 hours of curriculum. Awareness, adjustment, optimisation — then awareness again. Over 600 people have been through it.

沟通力大会

UP//COMM

The 10th CST Summit, built entirely around communication — with teams, with clients, with family. Experience, reflect, conceptualise, apply. The format we kept coming back to.

The road here

Founded in the worst of it.

CST started during Malaysia's hardest pandemic stretch, when nobody could be in a room together. That constraint shaped everything that came after.

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正式起航

CST launches

Founded at the height of the pandemic by Coach Sophia, then already 17 years into training work, with her own coaching crew. Malaysia's first training institution built around personal growth as the core idea rather than a side product.

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疫情持续

The rooms close

MCO stopped everyone from gathering. Rather than pause, CST moved the whole thing online — and reached more people that way than it had in person.

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市场开放

Back in the room, and into companies

After two years apart, live training returned — and CST pushed past individual growth into organisational work: team building, in-house programmes, and the summit format that would run ten times.

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360 成长方案 · HRD Corp

A system, not a series of events

The 360 Growth Plan pulled workshops, online courses, camps, growth circles and corporate training into one path. HRD Corp certification followed, which made CST a claimable choice for company HR teams.

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What every programme was built around

Five abilities, taught in a room.

沟通力

Communication

竞争力

Competitiveness

领导力

Leadership

影响力

Influence

创造力

Creativity

Where it goes next

Same room. New question.

The summits and camps are paused, not gone. What we learned running them — that capability is built in a room, with other people, over time — is exactly what the AI Initiative is built on. Only now the question is how we think alongside machines instead of only alongside each other.