TRAINING TEAM - Key Persons
Bill Atkinson our Associate, is a management consultant with a wealth of practical experience in fields of leadership and development. Educated through the public school system and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he has many years of leadership experience in different environments and cultures including the Far East. He has also held management positions in the defence manufacturing industry and within an international banking, investment and insurance company.
Bill has worked on major projects to support a number of big and small organisations. These projects include the design and implementation of a performance management process for 11000 people, to enable the organisation to measure performance, develops and reward staff more effectively
Colin Dick, our Associate, started a career in sales, and marketing management with major international companies including Procter and Gamble and Avis after graduating with an Honours degree in Sociology. During this period he worked on several business and personnel planning projects, before setting up his own training and development company nine years ago. Throughout his career he has maintained the personal approach of developing people as a companies' best asset. Through his consultancy work in both the public and private sector he has helped large and medium organizations to examine their business objectives and the managerial requirements to meet them. Programmes have then been implemented at both strategic and tactical skills level to provide skills and knowledge for directors and managers to meet these challenges.
Dr Roger Gill is an independent consultant in leadership and leadership development. He was of Business Administration (OB & HRM) and Director of Executive Development Programmes at the University of Strathclyde Business School, where he later served as Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies and Programme Director for the MBA in Leadership Studies in collaboration with the Leadership Trust, where he founded and for nine years directed the Research Centre for Leadership Studies. He has many years' experience in management consulting and management and leadership development, both full-time and part-time, with major well-known consulting firms (PA Consulting Group, Booz Allen & Hamilton, and SRI International) and independently, in the UK, USA, Middle East and Far East. He has directed or conducted HRM consulting assignments and management training and leadership development programmes for over 350 client organizations in a wide range of industries and the public sector around the world since 1969. He ran his own HRM consulting and management training company in Singapore between 1982 and 1990, operating throughout East and Southeast Asia
Dr. Ian Bushnell, our associate, is one of the UK's top consultants, in the area of management development and business. He is highly sought after for his level of expertise and professionalism and is frequently asked to be interviewed on radio and TV for his views. He has worked in four universities and obtained his PhD from Cambridge University. He is currently a senior lecturer in Glasgow University where he teaches the MBA and Executive Development Programmes He is also supervising doctoral research into training effectiveness in a large skills-based training organisation.
Professor Gordon Anderson, is a leading authority on performance appraisal and performance rolex submariner 40mm stealth de los hombres automatico correa de nailon management issues, having consulted, authored, and trained in all facets of this field, for over 22 years. Companies he has done work for in Europe, South East Asia, Middle East include Compaq, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, National Bank of Australia, Metro (Singapore), Nagase, Citibank N.A., Mitsubishi Corporation, John Brown Engineering, the Scottish Health Service, Honeywell, American Club Singapore, Land Transport Authority, International School of Singapore, Pacific International Lines, Sumitomo Bakelite, Scottish Nuclear Fuels, RoyScot Financial Services, and Polaroid (UK) Ltd.
Kent Lau, our Associate has a wealth of experience in conducting training for individual and organisations in Excel, Excel VBA, Excel PowerQuery, Powerpoint, Words. With a background in Bachelor (Hons) in Computing, UK, he is a Microsoft Office Specialist and PSMB Certified Trainer. He has extensive experience in designing business class website for hotels and maintaining website for Food and Beverage Industries. Kent also conducted workshops on Java and JavaEe, . Net, Visual Basic 2008 for university students. He trained government agencies on Microsoft Application and developed PHP and JSP web application for commercial purpose
Tina Quah McDowell, has been consultant and facilitator for the past 30 years. With a background in Business Management & Marketing., she also obtains Advanced Certification in WSQ Framework by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency and Industry Training & Development from UK including certification as Productivity Consultant for Food and Retail Industry by Singapore Productivity Centre.
She is a certified master facilitator by DDI USA in Interaction Management & Targeted Selection and in Occupational Testing & Profiling by Saville & Holdsworth Ltd Uk. As a WSQ Certified Facilitator, she conducted Customer Loyalty, Sales Strategies and Business Strategy & Marketing workshops for Singapore Manufacturer Federation members .
Yang Yen Thaw, our Associate is an ACTA certified trainer, a registered management consultant (RMC) and a common law qualified lawyer. He has held senior executive positions in management and law in listed as well as private limited companies with businesses spanning Australia, China, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA, and most South East Asian countries. To him, law is a persuasion, consultancy a profession, training a passion. In fuelling his training passion in lifelong learning, he brings creativity and innovation, sparked with humour through his experience of learning diverse subjects, advising clients and C-suite executives across the world, managing his own law firm for 12 years, and engaging participants throughout. He believes learners need to be deeply involved and engaged to enrich themselves and the nation as a whole.