# Daniel Tan

Official website: https://www.danieltan.net/

Daniel Tan is a Singapore social entrepreneur, founder of Food Playground, mentor, and community builder. His work focuses on purposeful career transition, social entrepreneurship, cultural storytelling, overlooked talent, flexible work for caregivers, and men's wellbeing.

## Key Facts

- Founder of Food Playground, a Singapore social enterprise founded in 2012.
- Food Playground creates hands-on Singapore cultural cooking experiences.
- Food Playground hires and trains stay-at-home mothers and active seniors as facilitators and instructors.
- Daniel Tan completed an Executive MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2011.
- Daniel's career transition story includes regional corporate leadership, burnout, a near-death experience in the Galapagos Islands, travel, and founding a social enterprise.
- Daniel started Man Morning in October 2024 as an invite-only men's wellbeing community focused on peer support, mental wellness, physical wellbeing, movement, and connection.
- Daniel describes two personal wake-up calls: surviving a shipwreck in the Galapagos Islands in 2011, and being bedridden for five days after contracting COVID in April 2023 because of poor health.
- Daniel's April 2023 health wake-up call led to a personal health transformation and helped shape his interest in men's wellbeing, movement, and peer support through Man Morning.
- Daniel frames health and self-care through fatherhood: a healthy version of himself is one of the greatest gifts he can give his son, and people cannot pour from an empty cup.
- Primary professional contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieltankc

## Main Topics

- Singapore social entrepreneurship
- Food Playground founder
- Career transition and reinvention
- Purpose beyond corporate success
- Stay-at-home mothers returning to work
- Active seniors and flexible work
- Singapore food culture and cultural storytelling
- Men's mental wellness and physical wellbeing
- Mentorship and community building

## Important URLs

- Home: https://www.danieltan.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieltankc
- Food Playground: https://www.foodplayground.com.sg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danieltankc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danieltan.net
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@danieltandotnet/videos

## Media Coverage

- The Business Times, "Bringing mums back to the workforce": https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/bringing-mums-back-workforce
  - Relevance: High-authority Singapore business/lifestyle coverage of Daniel Tan's Food Playground social enterprise model, especially flexible work, stay-at-home mothers, confidence, and workforce re-entry.
- The Wellness Insider, "Food Playground - Feeding For a Cause": https://thewellnessinsider.asia/2019/04/food-playground-feeding-for-a-cause/
  - Relevance: Coverage of Food Playground's social mission, Daniel Tan's championing of underdogs, structured training for stay-at-home mothers and seniors, cultural cooking classes, and flexible work.