Facilitators who understand business

Andy Clark is the founder of ClarkMorgan and Shine Training. He has over 20 years of Asia-Pacific training and lecturing experience. In 2008, he was recognized by HKMA as an “Outstanding Trainer of the Year.”

In addition to training, Andy has served as a personal coach and lecturer at Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University and served as an MBA lecturer at Napier University. Andy brings energy, passion, and enthusiasm to all his trainings and prides himself on helping others understand the best ways for trainers to improve and deliver meaningful and valuable trainings.

● Andy is a qualified NLP master coach

● He has over 12,000 hours of training and coaching experience

● He trains on leadership and management, cross culture, presentation, business writing, and executive coaching

● He has trained and coached over 100 Fortune 500 clients

When developing programmes, Andy looks for maximum real-world effectiveness. By continuously asking the questions “What exactly is it that we need our trainees to do and to know for them to excel in their work?” and “How do we deliver this training to make an impact tomorrow?” Andy’s trainings are guaranteed to bring results.

Andy’s passion for both life and training are evident throughout his programmes. Combining humor, real life stories, and a remarkable energy level, trainees get to both learn and be entertained throughout.

Jamie Dixon is an instructional designer, facilitator, and training consultant.

Originally from the UK, Jamie has spent more than 10 years in China. Jamie has worked with over 100 multinational companies throughout China and the APAC region. As a fluent Chinese speaker, Jamie delivers most of his training in Mandarin.

Jamie Dixon is the author of his upcoming book Shaping Paths–How to Design and Deliver Training that Actually Works. This book is the culmination of years of research and experimentation into designing and delivering training. It condenses all of this expertise into a unique and practical model called “Shaping Paths” that Jamie uses to design and deliver all his training solutions.

Synopsis: A Beijing-based trainer, facilitator, and executive coach.

Passion: Experiential learning and helping people enhance their effectiveness, particularly as it relates to communicating across borders, be they intercultural, interpersonal, or stemming from differing work styles or world views.

Relevant Experience: Alex has worked with a variety of companies, government organisations, and NGOs in the China space to deepen their engagement with leadership, communication, and organizational and regional culture. He excels at employing a variety of interactive facilitation and coaching techniques to ensure participants remain fully engaged and entrench retention of training programme contents and outcomes.

In addition to his experience supporting individuals and enterprise clients as a coach, trainer, and facilitator, he has served as a key account manager in B2B software sales for a large multinational company, a training team director charged with architecting custom solutions for enterprise clients, and a business consultant bridging China and the rest of the world. He has also managed teams and owned and operated a successful consulting business.

Derreck has worked as a professor, coach, facilitator, and communications coach over the course of the last 25 years, with the last thirteen being in Asia. He currently works as an executive coach. He specializes in working with corporate employees at all levels to help them hone their messages, build and manage their teams, and work well with colleagues and clients to maximize business outputs.

He has worked with multinational companies from six continents (Asia, North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia) within diverse industries throughout the Fortune 500 index and beyond.

An adjunct professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, he specializes in a wide range of communication competencies. Lately, he has primarily focused on helping multinational, corporate managers adjust to the new style of leadership required due to the new political and regulatory climate and high exposure multimedia world. Derreck started his professional career as an Asian Studies professor and has focused his learning on understanding the complex cultural, language, and communication differences among all peoples, specifically those from North America, Europe, and China. In 2007, he organized and led a team of professionals to revamp the Shanghai education system by effectively integrating Western-application oriented and Eastern-acquisition oriented teaching methodologies. His passion for helping corporate employees change their mindset and behavioral habits and control their messaging has translated into his clients’ success. Quotes like the one below say it all . . .

Originally hailing from Seattle, WA, Jim moved to China in 1986 after graduating from Seattle Pacific University with a degree in cross cultural communication. During his time in Asia, Jim has led seminars in more than fifteen countries, including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Australia.

Jim’s expertise is not limited to the meeting room. He worked for over a decade as a senior manager for a US-based company managing nine direct reports in three countries. He has a total staff of more than 100 people from more than 15 countries under his supervision.

He is a trained Six Sigma Black Belt with a number of successful improvement projects. He has managed through rapid expansion and through serious cost cutting and contraction. This leads to a depth of understanding, experience, and empathy that shows up in every programme.

Jim has five main areas of expertise that he brings to his clients:

1. Expert Facilitation Skills – Jim has facilitated numerous executive-level strategic vision and planning sessions. He has a great depth of experience using a variety of facilitation methodologies, including technology of participation, open space technology, and world café. Also, he has helped

numerous companies develop and implement their vision, mission, and values statements.

2. Creativity and Innovation – Jim’s career has been built on finding innovative solutions to complex issues in the service and education industries.

3. Games and Simulation Design and Facilitation - Jim has designed a broad variety of learning games and simulations and has had his games featured in publications in North America.

4. Accelerated Learning – Jim is a certified accelerated learning practitioner and has led more than 100 accelerated learning-based events.

5. Keynote Addresses – Jim is an accomplished public speaker and has presented at or hosted numerous events, including hosting the HR Director’s conference in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Originally from the American South, Curt has lived and worked in China for six years. In 2009, he has grown from being an amateur improvisation comedy team to becoming Shanghai’s brand for comedy.

His passion for entertaining and connecting with people led him to graduate from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in radio, television, and film production. Curt has worked as a TV host for the Fox TV network as well as a radio journalist, a theatrical actor, and a professional singer. In China, this passion has led to teaching and training others. His experiences include administering a respected international school, professional theatrical coaching, and leadership training using unique and unconventional methods of training and development.

Curt maintains a professional performing team of ten actors who perform regular shows in Shanghai to thousands of delighted audience members; the mainstage players travel to cities such as Beijing and Hong Kong to perform in comedy festivals. They also host visiting comedy teams in Shanghai as well.

Corporate customers find Curt’s unconventional training techniques to be refreshing, and due to the highly-interactive sessions, it is easy to transfer the learning concepts to their work.

Jason has been coaching and developing leaders for the majority of his 25-year career. His focus has been on delivering innovative interventions that enable leaders to reflect on and improve their leadership ability. Having led teams in multinational corporations over the last ten years, Jason has a wealth of experiences from which to draw. He is passionate about helping people grow and improving their business performance, having led teams himself.

Specializing in the design and delivery of bespoke leadership development programmes and coaching senior leaders, Jason builds rapport quickly with leaders at all levels, enabling a trusted environment where unresourceful mindsets can be challenged.

He has been described as “consultative,” “challenging,” “engaging,” “relevant,” and “practical.”

He has extensive experience in facilitating leadership, management, and professional skills programmes across the Asia-Pacific region, including China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia. In other regions, he has facilitated programmes in North America and EMEA. Jason is Australian. His home is in Hong Kong where he lives with his wife and their two sons.

Glenn is a change-agent communicating in both English and Chinese and across cultures for corporations to bring about positive management and leadership change in their professional workforce.

Glenn works directly and closely with clients to understand the aims and objectives of the various internal stakeholders prior to an assignment. He draws upon his extensive experience in human resources and business to design and deliver practical and effective programmes for his clients. His interactive style and focus on getting results is very much appreciated by company leaders and programme participants.

Glenn has extensive experience in leadership development and cross-cultural management as well as helping global teams work effectively in the ever-increasing global environment. In the past ten years, he has delivered over 1,200 days of workshops in Greater China, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Korea, India, and Malaysia.

Glenn has passion and enthusiasm for collaborative learning and people development. He has worked on assessment and development centers for Kemira, Hilton, Novartis, and Swire Beverage to help identify future and potential leaders. He has designed and delivered talent-development programmes that incorporate action learning for clients such as Continental Automotive, Umicore, BASF, Chanel, and Evonik. Some of Glenn’s other current clients include Ericsson, Richemont, Hewlett Packard, Fonterra, Roche, Honeywell, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Glenn is Australian and has lived and worked in Asia for more than 30 years. He has a unique understanding of the challenges organisations have when doing business in Asia.

Glenn’s background is in modern Asian studies, education, and human resources.

Fang has worked on the ground in 22 countries and has led several international teams to outstanding results. Fifteen years of international training and management experience help Fang design courses and facilitate workshops around what participants really need.

Fang's training is different from traditional, lecture-led courses. It is built on the idea that participants raise the problems and solve them. Working from their real situations and using a range of facilitation methods, participants find their own solutions and put them into practice at work. Fang has trained clients from more than 60 countries in over 20 countries. In 2010 Fang helped the Shanghai World Expo Bureau design and deliver cross-cultural and leadership training for 600,000 volunteers, and was named a specially appointed trainer by the Bureau.

Fang also designs and develops courses to an international standard and has tailored many workshops to clients' needs, earning strong feedback. Fang is highly inventive and has created many original tools and templates that help participants solve the problems they meet at work.

James owns and operates Koru Consulting Limited, an organizational development consultancy focusing on learning experience design.

A native of New Zealand and long-term resident of Hong Kong, James is a dynamic facilitator, presenter, coach, and games and simulations designer. He brings with him over 25 years of experience and insights in managing and leading projects in a variety of fields. James has excelled in managerial positions in sectors from hospitality and event management, training and telecommunications, publishing and executive search to education, defense (military), and film production.

James is also one of the founders of Brains-on-the-Beach (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Brains-on-Beach-4423938/about) and Public Benefit Company (PBC), bringing together the best coaches, trainers, facilitators, and business experts to develop workplace solutions for corporates, charities, and social enterprises around the world.

Over the last ten years (2008-2018), James has designed and delivered over 700 days of programmes in 20 countries to more than 20,000 people from over 150 companies.

A certified executive coach and gamification professional, James is also qualified to use MBTI, DISC, Harrison Assessments, and StrengthsFinder as well as the increasingly-popular ESP Working Style system and the transformative Thinking In & Out of the Box™ programme.

James has come a long way from his early years working as a park ranger in the rainforests of New Zealand's Fiordland National Park to consulting in the urban jungles of Asia via the UK and Australia. Corner him with a good espresso, and he'll share a few tales.

• Designed leadership development programmes for 300 key talents and senior executives and 1,200 people managers at HSBC. For AXA China, designed the General Manager Bootcamp, the New Manager 365 Plan and the Organisational Culture Change and Leadership Transformation programmes, which won a global benchmark award within the group and reached more than 2,000 participants.

• Delivered a five-day middle-management leadership programme for Royal DSM of the Netherlands two years running, with high ratings.

• Designed and delivered three rounds, 15 sessions in total, of an advanced leadership programme for Socomec of France over two years, and was voted “most popular consultant”.

• Trained department managers at Eli Lilly to coach for employee engagement, with positive feedback from the client.

• Clients describe his coaching as “the language of employee motivation that is easiest to understand and learn”.

Patrick moved to China in 1998 and joined the ClarkMorgan team in 2004. This makes him one of ClarkMorgan’s most experienced and qualified China-centric trainers.

His trainings are illustrated with stories and anecdotes from his past experiences, which brings the interaction alive for his trainees while also tailoring the training to their specific needs as well as their companies’ needs.

Patrick holds an MBA specializing in international business. He also has a project management professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. He studied cultural anthropology and East Asian studies from Loyola University in Chicago.

Kevin has over eight years of experience as a designer, including starting Diatom, an information design agency in Shanghai. Kevin is passionate about using design to develop innovative solutions, improve communications, and aid our decisions when it comes to complex information.

Kevin is interested in the potential China has for innovative design. After many projects for both Chinese and international clients, he has experience in understanding both perspectives. After years of experience communicating with clients in Mandarin, he can easily give trainings in Mandarin. Curious about the innovation China has to offer, he is continuing his studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing in the visual communication department, specializing in data visualization. Innovation can come in many forms, and Kevin enjoys exploring these non-traditional trainings, including collaborative presentation workshops, design-thinking activities, and innovation trainings.

Dan is a veteran facilitator, trainer, and coach. Dan has worked in human resources for over 20 years with extensive experience in learning and development.

Dan applies a great depth of business experience to make facilitation meaningful and relevant. He also utilizes active learning principles to effectively engage his participants. The emphasis in his delivery is always on sharing experiences and using experiential learning techniques. He firmly believes learning by doing is the most effective way of developing new skills and behaviors.

Dan is exceptionally passionate about improving business skills for people working in China and now specializes in topics around innovation and cultural intelligence. Of course, due to his vast experience, he is also proficient in providing communication skills and team-building training. Dan has been certified in providing 360° feedback and has given such feedback to dozens of managers across China. He is also working to complete his ICF ACC certification.

Ben M. has trained thousands of professionals from over 60 countries to lead, work, and communicate more effectively in multicultural teams and workplaces.

After more than 14 years of experience in training and coaching professional skills in Asia, he has a deep insight into the expectations of executives with global responsibilities.

Ben helps leaders accelerate their growth, cultivate a growth mindset, and increase their leadership presence. He coaches leaders to build on their strengths by giving concrete examples of what has been done right as well as specific actions that can create greater impact. As an intercultural coach, Ben helps executives strengthen cultural awareness, build intercultural tools, and develop greater cultural competence.

Ben creates a fun and engaging environment by leveraging his wide training experience with being an experiential learning trainer, certified in facilitation, learning transfer, and debriefing skills by Dr. Roger Greenaway, the world's leading expert in active reviewing.

He gets his participants to step out of their comfort zone, challenge their limiting beliefs, and unlock their potential to get better results when working with their teams and clients.

Ben has trained leaders from a diverse range of companies, including The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Walmart, TDK, Aggreko, Nike, P&G, PepsiCo., New Balance, Colgate-Palmolive, Alibaba, Boeing, Whirlpool, HSBC, and BP.

Sean K. is known for his innovative experiential and process-based coaching and facilitation approaches, which bring clarity, awareness, and developmental steps to achieve effective results as well as an outstanding and sustainable success. His extensive drama/theatre-in-education background has given him a unique edge.

Sean is passionate about his corporate learning and development partnership with teams and individuals in local and multinational corporations across Asia. He has been engaged with corporate learning and development work since 1999.

Sean is an entrepreneur. His experience goes from frontline TV presenting and radio broadcasting to programming control, company management, and business development roles in media and the communications industry for 20 years. In combining his know-how in psychometric assessments, neuro-linguistic programming, and coaching techniques, he takes pride in championing individuals and teams over personal and leadership advancement.

Bill is a graduate of the American Graduate School of International Management at Thunderbird University, Arizona, and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in international management, specializing in the North Asia region. After graduating, Bill worked for Pitney Bowes in their copier division before he started his own company in real estate mortgages. In 1994, Bill came back to Hong Kong and started working for Dale Carnegie in sales prior to becoming a trainer. He continued training ever since in China, Asia, and currently in the USA.

Bill has been involved in corporate training in sales, key account management, coaching, presentations, cultural intelligence, negotiation, and attitude change for over 25 years. Ever since co-finding Transtech Consulting Group, Bill has conducted training in Greater China, India, Asia, Germany, USA, and Australia for MNC.

Some key clients Bill has worked with on sales training include IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystem, Compaq Computer, HP, Fairchild Semi-Conductors, Littelfuse, ITT, Stora Enzo, Lite-On for two years, Parker Hannifin for four years, Osram for over eight years, Jensen with Porsche dealers for three years, L’Oreal for over twelve years, Microsoft for over ten years, Decathlon for over three years, and many more.

Bill is a certified trainer for Story Seekers, Solution Selling, Power Based Selling, Implement (Value Mapping Canvas), CQ, and Winning Presentations. In addition, he is also a certified internal trainer with Microsoft, L’Oreal, and Pepsi on sales, and sales management, and coaching training. Bill currently conducts training in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. He currently lives with his family in New York, Long Island.

After more than ten years in marketing and management at multinational companies, James was invited in 1996 to join Mercuri International, the Swedish training consultancy. That marked the move from professional manager to professional trainer, as one of China's first generation of practitioner trainers, delivering training and consulting in leadership, sales force management and sales and marketing skills. In 1998 James joined AchieveGlobal of the United States, the world's largest general skills training company, leading training and consulting in leadership skills, management skills, team building and sales force leadership, and was the company's only all-round Master Trainer in mainland China. Over eighteen years and more than 2,000 training days across many fields and industries, James has built broad and deep knowledge of leadership, management and sales. James brings current sales and leadership thinking to clients across China, helping participants change their own behaviour, improve performance and build capabilities in line with international management practice.

This mix of professional skill, proven models and practical methods has earned James a strong reputation among clients. Drawing on the realities of Chinese companies and long training experience, James has developed several highly practical courses, including Leading Problem Solving, Sales Coaching Leadership for Multiplying Performance, Seven Steps to Rapid Courseware Development, Leading Change and Innovation, Win-Win Business Negotiation, Lateral Leadership for Cross-Department Collaboration, and Consultative Selling for Key Accounts.

James has provided coaching since 2005 and is an ICF-certified professional coach, coaching clients' key talent and senior executives in their development. In 2008 James launched a trainer development programme in China, training in-house trainers and helping clients develop their own internal courses.

Sharon is a facilitator and consultant with international flair and a passion for getting results. She is a specialist in leadership and talent development and has been active in HR consulting since 2004.

Sharon started her training career as an on-stage Mandarin interpreter working with over 30 English-speaking trainers. It was this experience in immersing herself in different trainers’ styles and performances that led her to demonstrate the art of training. She also made a conscious effort to work in different types of training to develop the breadth in course material required by her demanding clients. She is skilled in experiential learning, soft-skilled development, skill-based teaching, custom in-house workshops, and assessments in several systems.

She is certified in the following assessment tools:

• Certified professional behavior analyst (CPBA), certified professional values analyst (CPVA), and certified professional TriMetrix analyst (CPTA) by TTI Success Insights

• Certified HBDI practitioner for thinking preferences

• Certified administer for Leadership Circle Profile, which assesses leaders’ key competencies as well as underlining beliefs and assumptions

• Hogan-certified user for implementing and incorporating into their leadership development and/or talent management initiatives

Her clients are from diverse industries and include technology, pharmaceuticals, medical device companies, hospitals, banking, FMCG, automotive, all the way to manufacturing industries. Sharon also works with clients on HR-hiring projects by using assessment tools.

Malcolm holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore, majoring in marketing and finance.

Ever since 2002, Malcolm has designed and delivered unique and transformational programmes for both multinational and local companies in the areas of team building and development, leadership and management, self and shared awareness, gender and generational diversity, health and wellness, and language and communication. Highly creative and resourceful, he uses a careful and consultative approach to training and development and uses his enthusiasm, creativity, and passion for lifelong learning to inspire growth and positive change in his trainees.

To date, Malcolm has trained and coached middle and senior management from Alibaba, Cisco, Ericsson, Hony Capital, Kraft, Lenovo, McKinsey, P&G, Spirent, and Volkswagen, and he has consistently obtained satisfaction ratings of over 90%. He has also facilitated high-level team strategy sessions for senior managers from several multinational companies and delivered team building programmes for audiences of up to several hundred people. He is a regular guest lecturer at the BBA, MBA, and Masters of Finance Programs at Peking, Tsinghua, and Renmin Universities in China.

Lillian is Executive Coach and Facilitator, used to work as Global HRBP for WW Sales & Customer Management, Global Leadership Development Director, Asia HR Director in ASML, HR in Unilever and LindeBOC. With rich experience in leading team and develop people. Lillian believes mindset and behavior change is the training and coaching purpose. Lillian has passion to help people to change and evolve.

Credentials

• ICF certified coach (over 200 coaching hours)

• McKinsey TTT facilitator on leadership capability development programs

• HK Asia Executive Resource contracted coach

• SIMA® certified coach

• CEB(SHL) certified talent assessment coach

• Facet5®(Personality) and Team scape® (team map) certified coach Facet5®& Team scape®

• Lead coach for Suzhou Siruituo PAB (Private Advisory Board)

• Coach for Fudan IMBA students Coach for SUFE MBA/IMBA students

Linda has more than 20 years of experience in HRM/OD/Leadership Development. With 15 years in MNC and 10 years as consultant/coach/facilitator. At Philips Electronics China Group, she worked extensively in different functional areas such as organizational development, learning & development, recruitment & selection. Later Linda worked in several industry , such as Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors. Then she joined Coca Cola China Industries Ltd. as Organization Development Director, responsible for Organizational Transformation including Talent Management, Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Performance Management，Organization & Job Design, Recruitment & Selection, Employer Branding, Corporate Culture and Values, Employee Communication & Engagement, etc.

Linda is ICF PCC, National Certified Psycho Counselor, Erickson International College Certified Coach, Skinner Behavior Science Certified Coach/Facilitator, MBTI Accredited Administrator, DISC Certified Facilitator & Consultative Analyst, WBI & TAS Accredited Administrator, Assessment Center Accredited Assessor, certified facilitator/accredited administrator of many programs. Co-designer of Team Leadership Assessment, co-translator of

Linda is energetic and presentable with good interpersonal skills. She provides very practical solutions based on clients’ needs, her facilitation, consultancy/coaching are praised by clients. Linda is engaged, specialized & professional with proactive attitude and a clear commitment to excellence.

Wilson is a facilitator, speaker and human resource management consultant, who has more than 20 years of corporate experience working in China in various multinational companies.

His last corporate role was Vice President in Talent Development and Diversity & Inclusiveness at Morgan Stanley Asia, where he spent a decade advising the investment bank’s executives in the area of talent management.

Wilson started his facilitator career 20 years ago as a part time internal trainer in Novartis China, where he acted as a marketing and sales specialist and discovered his passion in facilitating training programs.

He has been described as data driven, practical and engaging trainer.

Wilson is based in Shanghai and lives with his partner and their daughter.