Andrew
BEng (Electrical Eng.), BSc (Economics), MSc (Electrical Eng.), Exec. MBA

Over the past 15 years Andrew has built up extensive global experience in a range of multinational companies such as Bell, Nortel and Juniper Networks. He began his career as a systems engineer but quickly moved into management roles including Product Marketing Manager, Senior Manager Business Strategy for Asia, and Regional Marketing Director for Asia Pacific.

In 2006 he became a full time management trainer, coach and consultant and has built a reputation as a creative and engaging trainer with expert skills in a wide range of subjects. Andrew has designed and delivered training in leadership, strategic planning, business, marketing and selling skills.

He is presently reading for his PhD in Global Leadership. Andrew has lectured at Peking and Tsinghua Universities.

Chrissie
BSc (Sociology), MA (Human Resources Management)

Chrissie is an experienced executive coach, facilitator and consultant with more than 14 years experience working with senior managers. She has more than 10 years corporate HR experience including regional and global managerial responsibilities in the semiconductor business, and global managerial positions in the retail business. She also has more than 8 years experience in training and facilitation.

Chrissie’s current clients include senior executives from the following industries: Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Hi-tech, International Water, Accounting, Hospitality and Media.

Her areas of expertise cover executive coaching, leadership development, change management, teambuilding, performance management, career and personal coaching, and team communication.

Daniel
BSc (Commerce), EMBA

Daniel is a very experienced training professional with a particular focus on change management, performance management and interpersonal skills training.

After a 15 year international career in banking where he gained solid management experience, he transferred into learning and development in a full time training manager role with the Bank of China.

He has solid training and consulting experience with a variety of clients including Li and Fung Trading, Dah Chong Hong, Deloitte, Medtronic, Iveco, Bank of America, IBM, W.L. Gore, Clariant, Kingfisher, Turner, Veolia Water, Yantian International Terminal and Delphi , designing and delivering a wide range of training programmes mainly in change, performance management, team building, coaching, motivation and communications.

Grace
BEng (Civil Eng.) BSc (Management) MBA (Marketing) Diploma (English)

Grace is a seasoned sales, marketing and training professional with over 20 years experience in the technology sector.

She has worked with major MNCs and held positions as Channel Sales Manager, Marketing Director and Regional Sales Manager. After 6 years as an engineer she moved into marketing with Compaq Computers and sales as Channel Sales Manager with Siemens Nixdorf.

In 2005 she joined GE Security and served as Regional Sales Manager for West China for 3 years. During this time she received the GE Security Leadership Award for her achievements in sales and management. Since 2007 Grace has pursued a consulting career in marketing, sales and business development. Her specialist areas include sales, technical team performance management, formulating business plans and coaching of senior managers, mostly for major corporations.

Gulnar
MBA (International Finance and Marketing)

Over the last 15 years Gulnar has built up extensive global experience in a wide array of organizations across a range of disciplines. Early in her career, she worked on the business and financial side of multinationals, non -government organizations, private enterprise, education, and government sectors as a consultant in various leadership roles.

Since 2008 Gulnar has transitioned into full time consulting work to pursue her passion – people development. She is an accomplished advisor, facilitator, trainer and executive coach. Gulnar is engaged both by multinational corporations and by professional groups such as the Young President’s Organization. She has a particular interest in working with diversity and inclusion issues with an emphasis on cross cultural dynamics at the workplace, Other areas of focus include gender initiatives, Emotional Intelligence and Diversity, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Guy
BSc (Biochemistry), Post Graduate Diploma (Education)

Guy has over twenty five years international management experience encompassing sales, technical service and training. His particular skills are business development, change management and delivering training.

After graduating, Guy spent 4 years as a management trainee in production and later installing capital projects in the food industry. From there he moved into export sales of capital equipment with APV Baker Plc, which took him regularly to West Africa where he managed to revitalise a business struggling under the weight of a collapsing oil price. He then went on to build businesses in Hong Kong, China and other parts of Asia Pacific. On entering senior management he spent the next fifteen years managing sales teams handling the UK and continental Europe, starting by creating a new multimillion pound engineered solutions business in the middle of the early ‘90’s recession for Applied Power Inc. After reaching board level in the engineering industry Guy then went into IT where he managed, rebuilt and cross-trained a team of 40 multilingual engineers for Silicon Graphics. Guy has also spent five years running his own company and delivering training. He is now Associate Director with MDS responsible for the Miller Heiman business in Greater China.

Guy is a member of the Chartered Institutes of Management and Marketing. He is a qualified Miller Heiman sales trainer for Strategic Selling, Conceptual Selling, Sales Funnel Management and Sales Access Manager. He is also a regular writer on sales and management issues and a speaker on sales issues for the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.

Howard
MMHRM

Howard is an experienced trainer with extensive experience in identifying development needs, learning and development strategy planning, programme development and delivery.

Howard has worked in the HR and Learning and Development field for more than 15 years with corporations including Citybus, Nielsen and Merck Sharp & Dohme. Howard now designs and delivers programmes including coaching, delegation and other leadership skills, performance management, interviewing skills, problem solving and decision making, team building, time management and HR related topics.

Howard joined MDS as an Associate Trainer in 2007. His clients span over different industries those include financial services/banks, retail, pharmaceuticals, IT, FMCG, education, media and more.

Jonathan
BSc (Rehabilitation) MSc (Training)

Jonathan is a creative and energetic trainer with extensive experience in the Asia and Middle East region. He has designed and delivered over 100 programmes in key management skills including leadership, problem solving, communication, teambuilding and many others.

Jonathan has over 20 years' experience of both managing operations and developing people. He has worked with global corporations in pharmaceuticals and FMCG establishing training and development functions from scratch, both in Hong Kong and China. At present, he travels extensively across Asia and the Middle East to deliver training or projects to corporate clients. His recent clients include Li & Fung Trading, Adidas, John Deere, NonoNordisk, Vopak, Amazon and W.L. Gore. He is also one of th only three practitioners in the world authorized to deliver MBTI ® Certification training in Chinese.

Jonathan is a member of MENSA.

Kent
MBA , MSc (Training andHRM)

Kent is an expert facilitator and trainer with a deep understanding of organisational leadership and HR challenges. He has designed and delivered global leadership programmes in strategic thinking, change management, personal leadership, team development, performance management and succession planning.

Following his career in banking, communications and insurance he moved into a training and leadership development role. Throughout his career he has continually achieved business results and profit growth through strong and creative management techniques.

Kent has been designing and delivering executive education in Asia for more than a decade. As the Managing Director (AP) for the University of Michigan Business School, one of the world’s leading business schools, he specialised in assessing the human resource development needs of regional and global operations and developing customised management and executive training solutions. He has recently worked together with Shui On Land; Schaeffler; Asian Development Bank, BASF; Securities and Futures Commission Hong Kong, Bayer Material Science; Cigna Insurance; China Light and Power, Powerseraya.

He prides himself on his knowledge of global management development practices and building both organizational and personal capability.

Lily
BSc (Business)

Lily is an HRD professional with over 10 years experience as a full time trainer and coach. She is a lively and interactive trainer and is skilled at facilitating experiential learning.

Lily started work in international book trading but then moved to a career in people development. She worked as a trainer and a coach at BMW, Porsche Mercedes-Benz, and Delloite. Her various roles have included consulting, coaching and training in general management, sales, after-sales, marketing, and HR. She has been instrumental in improving leadership capabilities of managers and their top teams using training, role play learning and individual coaching. Her other assignments have included design and delivery of a sales training course for the world’s largest used car company American Manheim.

Lily focuses on Leadership, Team Building, Presentation Skills and Effective Communication Skills. Her clients include Lenovo, NKT, the World Bank, Nokia, FeDex, Swiss Reinsurance, Ericsson, and GlaxoSmithKline. As a retained trainer of Motorola, she delivered a large sales management training project for, MOTONEXT-WHY MOTO for Motorola’s North Asia region. . She has also worked as a supplier to major academic institutes including Tsing Hua University (MBA programme) and the China Europe International Business School (EMBA programme).

Linda
BSc (Economics) MSc (Marketing & Communications)

A native Beijinger, Linda is a trainer, coach and seasoned marketing and communication professional with more than 19 years training and leadership experience in China. Linda has successfully helped several Fortune 500 companies in China develop their leadership in the areas of communication, crisis management and spokesman training.

Linda started her career in the hotel industry as a PR specialist. She then transitioned to the Marketing and Communication industry where she took senior positions at Edelman Public Relations Worldwide (Senior Account Director), Fleishman Hillard Communication Worldwide (Vice President) ), and advertising agency BBDO. Within these roles she was in charge of leading strategic and creative planning in branding, marketing and PR for multi-national companies in China.

Linda works with leaders to develop their communication and advanced leadership skills. In her work she delivers and designs training and coaching programmes, including conflict resolution, leadership foundations and influencing skilling. Her recent clients include Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, Pfizer and BMW.

Marco
BSc (Industrial Eng.) MBA, PhD (HR Management)

Marco is a very experienced senior consultant in personnel development and organisational behaviour and is expert in the use of psychometric instruments. He has strong facilitation skills in management development programmes, particularly using MBTI® applications.

He has delivered consulting, coaching and training services to a wide range of global companies and is currently Managing Director of the Korean Psychological Testing Institute (KPTI) in Seoul, the Korean distributor and accreditation centre for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) and several other instruments.

He has an Industrial Engineering degree and MBA from Yonsei University and a PhD in Human Resource Management from Kwangwoon University. He is a well known researcher and writes frequently for academic journals.

Paul E.
BSc (Economics & Philosophy) MSc (Business Administration)

Paul came to Hong Kong in 1988 to join the then Royal Hong Kong Police. He stayed with the Police Force after 1997 and between 2002 and 2005 he was in charge of the management command courses run for officers of the inspectorate rank. There he delivered courses on motivation, leadership, team building, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, communication skills and media / presentation skills.

From 2005 to early 2007 he was in charge of the Occupational Safety & Health training within the Police Force training over 2000 officers to become OSH Risk Assessors. He brings a wealth of training and communication skills to this new venture.

His recent clients include Hong Kong Police Force, Tradeport, AFS Intercultural Exchange, HK University, Whitney Group, RMIT University, WL Gore and Yew Chung International School.

Paul T.
BSc (Applied Chemistry) PgD (Personal Management)

Paul, one of our international associates, is a learning and development specialist with more than 30 years experience of professional, managerial and consultant roles in HR and Learning & Development in a major global organisation.

During a distinguished career with BP, Paul had postings across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia. He is a gifted cross-cultural specialist.

For the last 5 years he has worked with clients in a range of industries including LogicaCMG, Oracle and a global US bank. His programmes cover a wide range of development areas including major change initiatives, leadership and executive coaching.

Priscilla
B.Soc.Sc. (Economics, Management and Psychology) PCert. (Education) Cert. (Paraprofessional Counselling) Dip. (Training and Management)

Priscilla is a seasoned HR professional with more than 25 years experience in training, consulting and coaching. During the last 10 years she was Principal Consultant with 2 leading consulting firms DDI and Korn/Ferry.

Following a short period in education Priscilla then made progress in the HR profession as a training specialist eventually serving in Shun Hing Electronic Trading as the Group Training and Development Manager. In DDI she gained extensive experience consulting with international clients for solutions which integrated people solutions with business strategy. She also trained and certified DDI consultants as master trainer.

She has extensive experience with companies across the AP Region, covering a wide range of industries from banking and insurance to logistics and manufacturing. She specialises in talent management projects and leadership development for senior managers and executives.

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Robin
BSc (Chinese Studies) MSc (HR Managements) PgD (HRM)

Robin founded MDS Ltd. in 1995, followed by OI Partners Hong Kong (part of the world's largest career consulting partnership) in 1998. He is a specialist trainer for senior management groups focusing particularly on leadership and teambuilding for top teams using the MBTI®, Leadership 360™ and EQ-i® instruments. He is also a skilled facilitator of experiential learning exercises.

Robin has over 25 years' experience of both managing operations and developing people. Following a first career in the Royal Navy, he specialised in Human Resource Development and worked in a range of industries from oil services to travel.

Robin runs the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) centre of excellence in Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan.

Rosemarie
BBA (Training) PgD (Management Consulting and Change)

Rosemarie is a seasoned international communications professional with more than 20 years experience with leading companies in the AP Region. Her positions have covered public affairs, corporate and marketing communication, and brand management in a range of industries including FMCG, publishing and telecommunications.

Rosemarie now works with senior executives in the areas of leadership branding and communication soft skills including Professional Image Building, Powerful Presentations, Business and Social Etiquette and Cross-cultural Communication.

A sought-after consultant, Rosemarie brings expertise in change communication, strategic communications planning and executing, corporate sponsorships, CSR and brand image revitalization. Her signature programmes are Corporate and Personal Branding, Powerful Presentations and Professional Image Management. Recent clients include Manulife, Hang Seng Bank, Beijing Kerry Centre and Brooks Brothers.

Susan K.
LLB (Honours) - England, PgD (Singapore Law), Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, MIPP (Honours) - US & Italy

Susan has a very varied international experience coming from a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary background having studied or worked in Singapore, England, Italy, the US, Hong Kong and China. She has experience working in or leading international teams in the public, corporate/private, education and non-profit sectors. She is able to integrate her diverse academic, practical work and cultural experience into her leadership training or coaching, together with the use of psychometric tools.

Since 1999, Susan has engaged in leadership, management, training, mentoring and coaching. In the past 3-4 years, she has trained directors and middle managers from the civil service, SOEs and joint ventures in the area of building high performance teams and leadership styles. These included senior managers or heads of departments from the administrative service and Fortune 500 companies in the auto-industry such as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Buick and Honda. In addition, she facilitates, consults and trains for SMEs, NGOs and social enterprises, and provides mentoring or coaching to professionals and managers in Asia.

Susan X.
BSc, MBA

Susan is an very experienced trainer and executive coach with a strong focus on MBTI ® application, leadership as well as management development.

Her professional experience ranges over consulting firm, government agency, IT and Dot.Com companies. Susan has gained significant international experience through her work with multinationals and study in the United States

Over the past 10 years she has provided training, consulting and one-on-one coaching services to GSK, Kraft Food, Bosch Group, Georg Fischer, Degussa, BASF, Volkswagen, HP, NKT, Novartis, Metlife, Ericsson,  Rhodia, CSC, Sartorius, Fujitsu, Samsung, Cash, Pfizer, Merck, Xian-Janssen, Chevron, Villiant, DTZ, SG, TUV, China Construction Bank, Genertec and many others.

Tommy
MSc (HRM)

Over the past 13 years Tommy has been working in the field of leadership and management training as a trainer and consultant. Following his studies in personality and psychology in recent years, Tommy has successfully integrated into his leadership training both understanding of personality and real workplace experiences.

His previous experience  include 15 years in the Hong Kong Police Force as a Detective Senior Inspector (15 years) plus extensive training experience in banking. Tommy was assigned as Master Trainer for “Presentation Skills”, “Negotiation Skills”, “Performance Coaching” and various levels of leadership programme.

As well as delivering, Tommy also designs training courses ranging from “Effective Time Management” to “Entrepreneurial Leadership”.

Tommy is a seasoned toastmaster with many awards to his credit.