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• Gerald Abeyawardena
• Elsa Asevatham
• Fred Combe
• Ranjan L G De Silva
• Ajantha Dharmasiri
• Malcolm Follos
• Roger Harrison
• Rubina Jamal
• Lesley Jewell
• Gerry Mc Auley
• Melanie De Jong
• Masooma Kachelo
• Leslie Khan
• Naazir Khan
• Sameera Malik
• Patrick O'Keeffe
• Farzana Siddique
• Tom Young

Gerald "The General" Abeyawardena, Partner & Senior Management Consultant - Sensei International

Gerald 'The General' Abeyawardena is a world-class Leadership success and change Coach. He heads Sensei's Singapore office with a blend of empathy, passion, pragmatism, and keen insight into making real change happen. 'The General' is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (UK), with over 26 years of general management and Change Management experience in the UK, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia Regions. He has a Technology and Management degree from Brunel University (UK), complemented by a Post-Graduate qualification in Management. He developed Total Quality Management (TQM), Customer Care, Product & Project Management within British Telecom. In Sensei, 'The General' has been extensively trained by Omar Khan in Continuous Improvement (CI), Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques and Leadership Development. Whilst specializing overall in Change Management, the General's other key areas of expertise are Organizational Development, Needs Analyses (including Baldridge-based interventions) and Customer Care. 'The General' currently focuses on Leadership Coaching & Counselling for senior and middle management. He has a natural ability to easily translate his wealth of personal experience into a coaching context in various countries, for a wide range of nationalities. This, together with his overwhelming passion to give his clients value and a propensity towards caring & holistic development makes him a much sought after Executive Coach. His strong cultural diversity (born in Sri Lanka, lived in the UK, carried out assignments globally) and his engineering background give him a head start in forming relationships with both technical and non-technical people, of any ethnic background. The General's diverse customer portfolio includes multinational companies such as Unilever, Hewlett Packard, Singer, BAT, Mars, HSBC, Maersk, Reckitt Benckiser etc and leading national organizations like Rahimafrooz Batteries, National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, Phoenix (Brandix), Sampath Bank, Clipsal, Agora Supermarkets, The Board of Investment, Sri Lankan Airlines, Joint Apparel Association Forum amongst others.

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Elsa Asevatham, Customer Care Manager, Sensei International Singapore

Elsa is the customer care manager for Sensei International Singapore. She is the key contact person for clients in Singapore as well as in the Asian region. Elsa is an accomplished facilitator who ensures clients get both the practical support and the full learning value from Sensei interactions. She has considerable sales and marketing, customer service and office management experience. She has worked with top executives from companies like DaimlerChrysler and Ritz-Carlton for several years. With Sensei she has facilitated leadership journeys for senior regional leaders in Malaysia and Japan. Her organizational skills, focus on effectiveness and efficiency, and commitment to customer value, allows her to make the Sensei experience more powerful and meaningful to clients throughout Asia.

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Fred Combe

In addition to his work with Sensei, Fred heads NATUS, a strategic ally of Sensei's, a corporate consulting firm serving international and Asian clients with business development needs in Asia. To both undertakings, Fred brings the rare experience of blending 18 years working for a major multinational in marketing and senior general management roles with a personal style, which is highly people focused, straightforward and culturally sensitive, while also achieving the desired corporate results. "Transforming Business through People" is a core belief of behind both companies and how they serve their clients. People are, by far, the most important factor when it comes to a company's business success. There is no more powerful ingredient than a well-led, passionate and aligned organization. Too often the human factor is underestimated. If the incredible power of human energy, passion and commitment can be unleashed, it can dramatically transform the performance of companies, teams and individuals alike. Fred can support companies, teams and individuals through demanding and difficult business transition. Fred's business-building geographic focus is largely South East Asia, serving Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines and Laos.

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Ranjan L G De Silva, Partner, Senior Management Consultant

Working with a team of international resources, Ranjan is an extremely experienced Team Development Specialist . His innovative consulting and training style, which blends authentic deep communication with a spiritual flavour, appropriate situational humour, innovative thinking and world class professionalism has been a refreshing, interesting and effective bottom line driving mechanism for his clients. Ranjan has an ideal mix of practical and theoretical grounding which makes his input value adding to the clients. His practical experience comes from 24 years of corporate experience, from his time as Director of the food business of John Keells Holdings a leading Asian conglomerate, and subsequently for various SENSEI clients over the last seven years. He has provided consultancy and training for people at all levels of organisations in Vietnam, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pakistan, Oman, Maldives, India, Kuwait, Egypt, Canada, Bangladesh and Bahrain. His multinational clients in these various countries include Unilever, British American Tobacco, Maersk, Nestle, HSBC, Holcim, Ranbaxy, Singer, Siemens, Sri Lanka n Airlines and various local companies in these markets. His theoretical grounding is derived from the Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing [CIM] UK , where he received the gold medal for the best results in the world at the final examination. His MBA is from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura . He is an accredited trainer in delivering the personal transformation programme, 'Mastery of Self through Neuro Linguistic Programming' and its derivatives. Ranjan is a Fellow of CIM and a Past Chairman of CIM, Sri Lanka Branch. These roles and his current role at SENSEI have enabled him to network with corporate leaders of top companies. He has also networked with management gurus of the calibre of Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman and Robert Holden , all of whom have spoken at various events organised by Sensei. His mentor, friend and partner, Omar Khan has been a tremendous influence in his development as a world-class Team development specialist. He has shared the stage with Bob Urichuck and co-delivered with him the mega learning experience 'Sales Power'. At this event he launched his highly acclaimed book, 'Mind Programming for Sales Success'. The new, further enriched edition of the book titled ' A Better Way to Sell - Sales Mastery through Self Mastery' will be published by Pearson this year. Click here to see what clients are saying about Ranjan

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Dr. Ajantha Dharmasiri, Associate Management Consultant

As a Management Consultant of Sensei International specializing in 'Change Engineering', Ajantha's clients include companies such as Unilever and Maersk as well as many local companies in Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. His doctorate on Strategic Human Resource Management, involving a South Asian regional study sponsored by Commonwealth AMDISA doctoral scholarship enabled him to broaden his scope of training and consultancy with emphasis on people development. His early engineering qualifications and experience at Unilever provided a solid base for building his subsequent HR experience with Hemas Holdings, Clipsal and Nestle. His exposure to Sensei International's thinking and tools, has enhanced his experience and technical knowledge, to make him a world-class resource, with special emphasis on tool customization and application. His specialty is in creating and delivering solutions with the right blend of tools, to address the transformational need of the clients of Sensei International by selecting, adopting, customizing and utilizing from a variety of change tools such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Continuous Improvement (CI), "10 Habits", Balanced Score Card, 5S, 360 Degree Appraisals, Emotional Quotient (EQ), Spiritual Quotient (SQ), HRD Audit and Competency Mapping. Ajantha is an experienced Total Quality Facilitator, trained by Quest Quality Consulting, Australia. More recently, he was a member of the Sensei team who developed and delivered a 360 Degree feedback programme and a Balanced Scorecard implementation programme customized for Maersk and the Rahimafrooz Group respectively. As a member of the MBA faculty of the Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, he has presented academic papers in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ajantha is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management (UK) and the Association of HR Professionals (Sri Lanka).

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Malcolm Follos, Strategic Alliance Partner

Malcolm is an accomplished management consultant with a successful track record in assisting a wide variety of organisations with managing the process of change. Malcolm's style has been described as pragmatic, humorous and enthusiastic and he has the proven ability to relate to people on the shop floor as well as those who operate in the rarefied atmosphere of the boardroom. Malcolm has experience of working with leading companies throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle and Far East, Central and Latin America, India, Argentina, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the USA. This experience provides him with access to all major airport business lounges and lots of air miles. It also has provided a wealth of knowledge that allows Malcolm to relate to a wide range of companies and help them with issues they face both in the UK and throughout the world, as they compete in an increasingly global marketplace.

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Roger Harrison, Senior Change Catalyst, Sensei International

Roger is unusual. He combines powerful creative thinking and real originality with deep professional expertise in HR and leadership in Asian businesses. Roger graduated from Balliol College Oxford as a historian, trained in Personnel Management at the then Kingston Polytechnic, and has lived in France , Germany , Holland , Australia and Singapore . Roger has worked for local government, the British professional institute of Personnel Management and, for 27 years with Unilever, of which the last half were in global or Asian regional roles. His original expertise was in labor relations at international. National and plant levels. He has been Personnel Director of Unilever Australasia, and of two mini-multinationals within Unilever based in Holland . He has twice been a senior corporate officer with responsibilities for senior management remuneration and for corporate HR strategy. He was for many years a member of Unilever's corporate policy bodies for the environment, for issues management and for threat management. He has been the senior HR line executive for Unilever in three regional roles - covering in turn North Africa Middle East and Central Asia , Central Asia and China , and all-Asia. For many years he also headed environment and safety policy, and threat and issues management in those regions. Roger is motivated by intellectual challenge. He enjoys helping others to break through a seemingly intractable problem, or to build complex disparate activities into a coherently whole strategy and implementation plan.

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Rubina Jamal, Senior Consultant, Sensei Pakistan

Rubina has a Masters degree in Organizational Psychology from the United States and a Masters degree in Psychology from Pakistan. Her expertise lies in working with her clients as a business partner seeking to understand their organizational needs. Effective solutions are then designed and implemented based on the latest research material, benchmarking with best-in-class organizations around the world. Her attention to detail and excellent listening skills make her the first choice when coaching or needs assessment projects are taken on by Sensei. She has worked with a large number of clients in Pakistan and Dubai during the last ten years. Her flair for working with teams, and keen sense of humor, keep her sessions lively while being highly challenging for the participants. Some of the programs she is known best for are as follows: Outstanding Customer Service Coaching and Counselling Skills Creative Problem Solving Peak Performance Presentation Skills Negotiation Skills Interviewing Skills Interpersonal Skills Her key clients include: Standard Chartered Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever Pakistan, National Bank of Pakistan, Khatib & Alami, Emirates Bank, PAVHNA, ABN AmroBank, Habib Bank A.G. Zurich, Wartsila Diesel, Eli Lilly and Philips Electrical Industries, among others.

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Lesley Jewell

Lesley is an energetic, focused and thought-provoking professional, skilled in developing, leading and encouraging multi-disciplinary teams, across all levels, to achieve tough targets. Her MBA qualification is matched by over 20 years' international experience of delivering change projects in the "real world" across a number of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, food and tourism. Lesley has a particular skill in building rapport with people at all levels of the organisation, bridging political and hierarchical gaps. Her approach to "making it happen" has benefited many strategic projects for companies progressing through business growth or divestment. Projects have included: Integration of activities following subsidiary acquisition, and creating new functions; identifying development needs of the people Subsidiary divestment - making the deal a reality; transferring knowledge and building new teams Selection and implementation of company-wide business management systems Programme management of diverse and complex projects; aligning people to task so they enjoy delivering from strength and gain support where needed In-depth project reviews that learn from team member feelings as well as task achievement; motivating follow-through after implementation Logistical design and delivery of Sensei Leadership Journeys in Europe Lesley has worked extensively in Europe and the USA, often utilising her fluency in Spanish. She has been privileged to work with the following companies: Accenture, Cambridge Antibody Technology, Celltech, CGNU, Kimberly Clarke, Merck, National Health Service (UK), Novartis, Smith & Nephew, Unilever, Wyeth, Xansa.

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Gerry Mc Auley, Senior Consultant

Gerry Mc Auley is an excellent, highly professional management consultant and trainer with a wealth of experience of working with blue chip clients on major assignments, both in the UK and internationally. Before becoming a management consultant in 1997, Gerry spent twenty years in a variety of key roles within a large UK public sector organisation including operations management, internal consulting and management training. In that time, Gerry led a number of successful business process re-engineering and other change projects, and also supported large systems development and implementation projects. In 1997 Gerry joined our associates in the UK, the Bowman Group, as a senior change management consultant. Much of his work with the Bowman Group involved mobilising and supporting project teams through their project lifecycle. In 2001, while remaining a senior associate of both Sensei and the Bowman Group, Gerry became a freelance consultant and continues in this role today. Gerry brings real know how, innovative thinking and a high degree of infectious enthusiasm to all of his work. He is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organisations to be the best they can be and believes in achieving this in pragmatic, enduring ways. Gerry's clients over the years are the best testimony to the excellence of his work and include Unilever, Norwich Union Insurance, Reckitt Benckiser, BSkyB, Serco, Arla Foods, Elizabeth Arden, Geopost, RAC, Wyeth and the UK Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

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Melanie De Jong, Facilitator - Sensei International, Director/Change Consultant –Sensei Lanka

A decade ago Melanie participated in a Sensei workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka and 'knew' she wanted to be a part of the Sensei team..,9 years later as a Senior Sensei International facilitator and change consultant, Mel has successfully trained and facilitated in over 18 countries spanning Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and South Asian Regions. With her authentic relaxed style of facilitation, exposure to many cultures and organizations around the world coupled with her background in Management & Psychology, Mel makes delegates feel comfortable, and ensures that her sessions are relevant and practical for corporate professionals, Young Adults and kids. As a part of Sensei's diverse and passionate team she has worked with clients such as Unilever, 3M, HP, The Ritz Carlton, BAT, Maersk, ABN-AMRO, HSBC, Holcim, Nestle, Hayleys Group, First Gulf Bank, Suntel, Singer, Sri Lankan Airlines, Sri Lanka Telecom, Triumph, Glaxo Smith Kline and various youth groups in Sri Lanka. Over the years, Mel has also been a key member in making 'Sensei mega learning events' come alive in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Dubai which featured world renowned Management Thinkers and Gurus such as Tom Peters, Dr Edward de Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman, Robert Holden, Robin Speculand, Bob Urichuk and Omar Khan etc…

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Masooma Kachelo, Senior Training Consultant

Masooma Kachelo is a trained psychologist, hypnotherapist, trainer, & coach. She has six years of clinical, workshop development & facilitation experience. Masooma has an Llb (hons.) from the UK, Masters Degree in Family & Systems Therapy from Indiana State University, and is trained in Hypnotherapy by the Wellness Institute in Seattle. As a trainer Masooma has conducted workshops for: Unilever Asia, Novartis, National Bank, Indiana's Court System, and local and U.S. based NGOs. Her forte is in the field of human performance, motivation, and enrichment. Masooma's strength as a change agent is in her ability to adapt her workshops to match the learning style of the participants. She is driven to help deepen and expand relationships and improve team results. Masooma provides pre-assessments to measure a baseline, experiential exercises to make learning more meaningful and long lasting, and follow- ups in the form of coaching. Coaching, one of her specialties provides an opportunity for participants to work through challenges they may encounter on the front line. Masooma's signature programs, through her study and practice in psychology, help people dramatically accelerate their understanding of self and others. This then quickly reflects in increased productivity and innovation within the organization. Workshops conducted by Masooma include: Negotiation: Reframing Conflict Stress: Making it Work for You! Customer Service: Zabardast! The Art & Science of Training (ToT) Creating High Performance Teams Coaching Champions People Intelligence Decide to WIN!(Decision Making) Motivation: Inside-OUT! NLP: "Psychology of Success" "When Every Second Counts…"(Time Management) Specialized Event Training (Sales Conferences, Company Dinners, & Staff Orientations)

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Leslie Khan, Partner / Customer Care - Sensei International

Leslie is a leading global facilitator and customer care manager for Sensei International. She is one of the co-founders of Sensei. After a degree in Business Adminstration, Leslie launched a career as a successful entrepreneur in the US, heading a highly profitable sales team in the air and water filtration market. She was one of the pioneers of the specialised facilitation support that has made Sensei learning experiences so distinctive to clients around the world. She heads the global facilitation team who support the lead consultants and deliverers. She also liaises with key clients across a wide variety of cultural contexts. She has helped to co-facilitate key sessions throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. She is a key internal coach for Sensei International.

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Naazir Khan, Managing Consultant

After graduating in Law from Punjab University Law College Lahore Naazir went on for further studies to Free University Berlin, Germany for Management courses as well as becoming a qualified interpreter (being fluent in German). He spent 8 years in Germany and traveled extensively in Europe. He ran his own business as a director of computer institute in Pakistan but his genuine interest in people development and the keen study of human psyche has resulted in his involvement in self-development programs. He is certified in many self-development programs like, Autogenous training (Germany), Yoga, TM, Silva Mind Control, Reiki, Avatar and finally found NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) as a source of inspiration and permanent change. Naazir joined Omar Khan, a pioneer in bringing NLP to Pakistan, in 1994 and has facilitated many of his workshops thereby liberating himself from the old indoctrinated paradigms and shifting to the paradigm of enlightenment, learning the technology and developing himself into an NLP trainer. He is a member of the team with Omar Khan who founded Training 2000, the forerunner of Sensei International. Besides administrative responsibilities Naazir adds to the Sensei portfolio by conducting NLP programs in Urdu and simple English for people who are not comfortable in attending training sessions conducted solely in English. He is a living example of change and knows how to handle change in the times of chaos and uncertainty. He is a popular sought after Counselor in NLP. His signature programs include: Power Of Purpose (derivative for Mastery of Self) Living Beyond Limits (derivative for Mastery of Self) Stress and Time Management Interviews of Employees and preparing Analysis Report NLP Counseling

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Sameera Khan Malik, Senior Consultant

With over 15 years of work experience, Sameera joined Sensei in 2003. She has a diverse range of work experience with private, multinational and government organization. Her broad work experience makes her a consultant with a practical perspective on what makes people successful. After a short stint with Unilever Pakistan, Sameera worked in sales at Laura's, a leading fashion retailer in Canada, as Deputy Director for The British Council Karachi, as a training Consultant with LEAD Pakistan and PIM ,and then as a consultant with Sensei Karachi. At Sensei, Sameera has done several consultancy projects with a multinational shipping giant. Her consultancy projects included implementing a 360-degree appraisal project, external customer reviews and conducting one to one coaching. She has run several in house training programs in communications and interpersonal skills for BP, Engro, PPTA, Siemens, CIDA and OMV. Sameera has also facilitated leadership journeys led by Omar Khan for Unilever Vietnam, BAT Singapore and Maersk. Her particular skill is delivery of high energy sessions helping people to interact better in the today's global workplace. Additionally, she has expertise in developing and implementing 360 degree appraisals. Workshops conducted by Sameera include: Designing and Implementing 360 degrees Appraisals Managing Performance Coaching and Counselling The Confident Voice Effective Business Writing Communicate to Win Developing an Effective Public Relations Strategy Effective Report Writing Teamwork Effective Supervisory Skills

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Patrick O'Keeffe, Managing Partner, SENSEI Australia

He brings the rare experience of blending 27 years working for a major multinational, British American Tobacco, in Marketing and Senior General Management roles with a personal style which is highly people focused and which blends analytical rigour coupled with humour and sensitivity. Patrick graduated from the University of Westminster with a B.A.Honours in Business Studies, and has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing since 1983. He has lived in Brazil, Venezuela, Turkey, Chile and Singapore, where for the last 10 years he has focused principally on ASEAN countries. He has also had experience in the Middle East and Africa. Patrick's prime areas of expertise are: Strategic Leadership Aligning Vision, Values, Objectives, Strategies and Balanced Scorecard into realistic programmes for execution be they 10 year Full Potential Analyses or 1 year Company Plans, and ensuring the Senior Team has the skills to deliver the desired goals in each area. The development of breakthrough thinking in how to grow businesses either organically or through strategic partnerships, Patrick has significant experience of developing Joint Ventures in Turkey, Cambodia, Vietnam and elsewhere. Patrick also has hands on experience of managing through a major merger and how to execute the core processes to ensure that business performance is maintained whilst cultural change is achieved. People Leadership & Management Development Patrick has significant expertise in all aspects of management development, particularly at senior level, encompassing recruitment strategies and processes, identification and development of core management competencies, and reward and retention strategies. Additionally he has worked extensively on various individual and corporate culture measurement and improvement programmes. Corporate Governance & Social Responsibility Patrick has worked extensively in the areas of practical application of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility, in terms of educating and developing individual and team competencies to balance external requirements with the achievement of internal goals in ways that ensure full effectiveness of both areas.

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Farzana Siddique, Country Operations Manager, Customer Care Trainer

Farzana Siddique is the Country Operations Manager for Sensei International, managing the Bangladesh Business as well as neighbouring South Asian Countries. She is accomplished in identifying client needs and recommending value adding solutions. She also specializes in Customer Care and has supported Senior Consultants at Sensei International in delivering high quality change initiatives by adding the much required Customer Care inputs, tailored to customer needs for the various Sensei International Clients in the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Bangladesh. The clients, she has helped serve includes Siemens, Maersk Shipping, DHL, British American Tobacco, Rahimafrooz Group, Eastern Bank, Dhaka Bank, Banglalink, CityCell, Paxar, Kenpark, Delta Brac Housing Ltd, International School of Dhaka, Comtextiles, Regency Garments, Building Technologies and Ideas Ltd [BTIL], Commercial Bank of Ceylon and Apollo Hospital in Bangladesh. In addition she has been involved in training for Mashreq Bank, Svitzer Wijsmuller Group, John Keells Computer Service and Mouchel in Dubai and Unilever in Malaysia. The sessions she has been involved in includes Leadership Journey, Leadership Breakthrough, Strategic Thinking, Strategy into Action, Mastery of Self, Continuous Improvement, Customer Care Excellence, Sales Excellence, Negotiation Techniques, Team Building, Living the Mission, Vision & Values and Continuous Improvement etc. She also specializes in managing 360 degree evaluation processes for various Sensei Clients. Before joining Sensei, she excelled in customer care at Banglalink and was the recipient of the 'Certificate of Performance Excellence', awarded to those who displayed an all-round ability, attitude, confidence, knowledge and skill in all aspects of customer care. She is a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Minor in MIS) from the North South University, Dhaka and has qualifies in Project Management at the Work Education Association (WEA) in Adelaide, Australia.

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Tom Young

Tom Young is a people-oriented coach, trainer and presenter who is equally effective when delivering rousing motivational sessions for large audiences or catalyzing personal growth in the intimacy of the executive coaching environment. He has a wealth of experience working throughout the Gulf region, Singapore, Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Morocco Training portfolio: Effective Communication Skills Conflict Resolution Cross-Cultural Communication The Assertive Manager Emotional Intelligence and Business Success Time & Life Management for the Terminally Busy StressLess for Success! Stress Management in a Crazy World Superior Coaching Skills for Managers Powerful Performance Appraisal Interviews Team Breakthrough Workshops Design and Delivery of Corporate Induction Playshops During his time with Sensei, Tom has worked with Hewlett Packard, 3M, BAT, Unilever, Emirates airline, Ritz Carlton, Deloitte and Touche, Mashreqbank, First Gulf Bank and Microsoft amongst many others. Tom holds a Master's in Applied Linguistics and prior to coming to the UAE in 1995, he spent lengthy stints living and working in Australia and Japan.

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