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When Anna Tan arrived in Singapore in February 2011, she had a four-month consulting contract and no plan to stay. She came from the United Kingdom, where February means damp cold and the sun sets before you\u2019ve finished your afternoon tea.<\/span><\/p>\n Singapore, by contrast, was blue skies, warmth and the feeling of being on holiday. \u201cSo, I said to the universe: If I can find a job, I\u2019ll stay for a year,\u201d she recalled with a chuckle.<\/span><\/p>\n One year became two. Two became three. Three became permanent residency. And then, during COVID-19, Anna became a Singapore citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n Now 57, Tan has spent over two decades coaching leadership teams at companies including Google, through her company Coaching Go Where.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, she started noticing something she couldn\u2019t quite name \u2013 a particular kind of loneliness that tends to settle around accomplished women, a sense of having outgrown the room.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was talking to a lot of my friends my age,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they were saying, oh, I\u2019m getting old, my body is getting frail, what am I going to do? I\u2019ve got to think about retirement. And I thought \u2013 hang on, ladies. There\u2019s more to this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWHAT DOES AM MEAN?<\/span><\/h2>\n