Chief Coaching Officer and Leadership Caddy

Leadership is the difference maker and the deal breaker. It’s how we grow organizations. It’s how we impact lives. But, as you also know, leadership cannot be an idea we simply talk about. Leadership is the action we must live out. As a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Trainer and Speaker, I can offer you workshops, seminars, keynote speaking, and coaching, aiding your personal and professional growth through study and practical application of John’s proven leadership methods. Working together, I will move you and/or your team or organization in the desired direction to reach your goals.

“What’s better today?”

This is my mantra. Every day I ask myself and everyone I meet. And it sums up my approach to leadership and coaching. My mission is to help clients achieve positive change enabling you to realize personal success in business, career and life. I have a doctorate in leadership development from Henley Business School in the UK and have created a powerful leadership assessment tool, GAPPS3, the GAINMORE(TM) Advantage Potential to Performance System and our unique leadership development program, The GAINMORE(TM) Golf Advantage Challenge.

I have over 20 years of successful cross-cultural and cross-industry experience as a teacher, trainer, mentor and entrepreneur, across diverse regions including the Far East, Middle East and Europe, which has enabled me to establish a management and leadership development consultancy that has positively impacted individuals and world-class organisations and SMEs across the globe.

I am passionate about developing people and making a difference in your life and that’s why I am so thrilled to be a part of John Maxwell’s coaching company. Being a part of the John Maxwell Team has enabled me to reach a new level of coaching and training with wonderful resources and insights and development form the world’s best and most highly regarded leadership experts. I am married to Annie and Singapore is my home.

“What’s better today?”

Contact me now and let’s find out how you can make today your masterpiece and prepare for tomorrow’s improvement on it. GAINMORE™ Head Coach (GAINMORE™, UK)

Edmund Tan

GAINMORE™ Advantage Coach Qualifications: BSc Specializations: Entrepreneurs, C- Level and Senior Management in public service. Edmund brings to the table over 20 years of consulting and management experience. He has held senior roles in organizations such as Towers Perrin, Hay Group and SNEF. He was head of human capital for a regional telco, and ran and managed the “Workskills Training Program” for SPEC as a build-operate-transfer project. He is also the co-founder of an e-learning company that EDB has invested in, and a US-based accredited University. He has mentored and advised leadership in many start-up and change management situations. His professional expertise is in organizational development and change based on a focus on organizational and personal performance measures and management.

Ong Su-Czheng

GAINMORE™ Lead Coach Qualifications: Med, BA, Certified Performance Coach (Performance Unlimited, UK) Practitioner Neuro Linguistic Programming (ABNLP, US) Specializations: C- Level and Senior Management in private or public service. Su-Czheng is an GAINMORE™ executive coach specializing in leadership and team development in cross-cultural business environments. She has over 30 years’ worldwide corporate experience and is one of a small number of coaches in Asia holding the Associate Certified Coach accreditation from the International Coach Federation. In her corporate career, her success in leading and developing regional and global teams in Asia, the UK and the USA was based on a coaching style of management that brought out commitment, loyalty and high performance from her teams, who consistently delivered extraordinary results. Today, she uses this approach to coach executives to elicit similar extraordinary performance and results for themselves, their teams and their companies. In her experience, enhanced self-awareness on the part of executives encourages greater respect for people, processes and products – and thereby improves corporate performance and profitability. Su-chzeng has many years of experience in diverse corporate and cross-cultural environments, having lived and worked for 11 years each in London, Tokyo and Singapore, in addition to her early years in Malaysia. She has held various business leadership roles at senior management level, including director and vice president, variously at JPMorgan Bank, Chase Bank, Jardine Fleming Asia, Robert Fleming London, Collins and Macmillan Publishers, London. She also has knowledge of a broad spectrum of industries gained from managing and publishing financial and educational research.

Dr. Carlos Raimundo

Associate Coach Qualifications: PhD Psychiatry, MD, Masters in Business, ANZPA , ASGPP Trainer Education & Practitioner Specializations: C- Level and Senior Management in or public service. Communications improvement. Counseling. Australian psychiatrist, MBA, Executive Coach and Trainer, Dr Carlos A. Raimundo is the creator of the Play of Life®; a method and technology that revolutionised individual and team behavioural transformation more than 20 years ago, and underpins our GAINMORE™ Coaching approach. He is as much at home coaching the General Secretary of the OEA in strategic management as he is with counselling indigenous people on the South Pacific Island of Kiribati. The captivating simplicity of his methodology facilitates change in people’s lives in an alive, sharp and useful manner by bypassing the neo-cortex and directly connecting with the limbic system; that part of the brain that deals with emotions, memory and sustainable behavioural change. Dr. Raimundo’s extensive experience in the fields of business, philosophy, medicine, psychiatry and group training enables him to integrate the best of each. He guides individuals, executives and organisations through easy, practical steps towards new goals and directions. Dr. Raimundo has a unique ability to identify the objectives of an organisation; be it corporate, welfare or religious, to clarify the personal values of those working toward these objectives, and then, expanding upon them, establish organisational communication that achieves both work goals and a life balance. Dr. Raimundo is often brought in during growth change, where his skills of improving clarification and communication are in high demand.

Pip Jamieson

GAINMORE™ Advantage Coach – Head of our operations in New Zealand Qualifications: MBA (Henley) Specializations: Senior Management in private or public service. Women leaders In 1991, after work and travel in Australia, America and Mexico, Pip returned to Nelson in New Zealand and immersed herself into a wide range of Human Resource, business and education projects. Pip’s business experiences include having been Vice President at Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce, Manager at the Nelson Tasman Business Trust and Projects Manager at the Nelson Regional Economic Development Agency (EDA). Pip has been self employed since 2002 and has run her own company since 2006. Pip is an Accredited Business Mentor and has been a business mentor for a number of years. Pip has an MBA (Henley) and works with businesses to assist with strategic and business planning, leadership coaching and management. Pip is currently working with a small group of Henley alumni to establish an active New Zealand group. Some of Pip’s other involvements include being a member of the Institute of Directors, Uniquely Nelson (CBD) board, Founders Community and Heritage Park Sub Committee, Trustee Nelson Bays Community Foundation and the National Academy of Distance Running.

Melissa Bartram

GAINMORE™ Advantage Business Coach Qualifications: Certificate Level IV in Fitness (VICFIT), Certificate Level IV in Nutritional Medicine (ACNM) Specializations: Senior Management and management in private or public service. Healthy lifestyle. Melissa organizes many of our more active training events as well as her coaching. Particularly focused on coaching executives in the IT and fitness industries, Melissa is a fitness enthusiast with a passion for encouraging others to get fit and lead a healthy lifestyle. Melissa has been involved in the fitness industry in varying degrees for several years and now brings her experience to Singapore to promote health and well being and to motivate you to get more active whilst developing your leadership and business.

Rajesh Krishnan

GAINMORE™ Advantage Business Coach – Head of our operations in Sydney Australia. Qualifications: BSBME (Biomedical Engineering) – UCal Specializations: C- Level and Senior Management in private or public service. Biotech. Rajesh is a specialist in Learning and Development Architecture and Strategy. His coaching and training maintains an holistic approach to the overall needs of individuals and the business. Rajesh currently heads up our Sydney, Australia operation since mid 2009. Prior to joining with us in Singapore after leaving Nanyang Polytechnic, Rajesh was a trainer with Dale Carnegie group and previously with the Reliance group in India.

Mark Bates

GAINMORE™Golf Business Advantage Coach HGTPC – Specialist Instructor Mark was born and raised in the town of Innisfail, Canada which is home to approximately 7,000 residents and fortunately a top quality golf course. He took up the game at the age of 9 and progressed quickly. By the age of 14, Mark was playing to a 2 handicap and representing his province at provincial and national tournaments. After graduating from High School, Mark set aside his competitive hockey career to focus on a management degree and furthering his golf career by joining the Canadian PGA. He has since spent 7 years working at premier clubs in Canada. During this time he has continually gained experience and knowledge in the field of coaching and instruction by attending continuing education seminars through the Canadian PGA. Mark has an interest in the business of golf and has given presentations focused on how golf and business are interrelated. He has also given presentations at the college level giving insight into career paths for people in the field of golf. Mark has always been a competitive golfer and most recently, enjoyed his first professional win on the Alberta PGA circuit and also attained a 9-hole scoring record, carding a 29 on the front 9 of an APGA competition.

Dave Hennessy

GAINMORE™Golf Advantage Coach HGTPC – Specialist Instructor David was introduced to the game of golf at the age of 13 by his father. Under the guidance of Geoff Smith, David soon achieved his goal of becoming the first and only scratch marker at twin town’s golf resort. After several years working in the pro-shop and associating himself with professional and motivated people, he gained the knowledge he needed to pursue a career as a golf professional. After completing his apprenticeship with distinctions in academics and also receiving state and national invitations from the Australian PGA, David was on his way to realizing that golf would be his lifelong career. David has played on numerous golf courses throughout the world, shooting his best score 62, three times. This has given David the ability to broaden his whole golf experience and to transfer what he has learnt on the playing course to his students. David specialises in latest golf-specific health and fitness, from golf swing biomechanics, to physical screening techniques, to exercise prescriptions, to the most recent research and development in the field of golf swing. David is very passionate about golf teaching and obtains great satisfaction helping everyone experience the feeling of hitting great golf shots. With the right knowledge, direction, motivation and focus it’s possible for everyone to enjoy our great game at the highest level.

Corporate Edge UK

John Tennent
ohn provides a wide range of our portfolio of business courses though specialises in strategic financial planning, business modelling and investment appraisal.

His background is in finance, starting his career as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche in 1983. He went onto to become the financial controller of a US bank before joining a training consultancy as Client Director. He co-founded Corporate Edge in 1996.

He is the author of the Economist Guide to Business Modelling, the Economist Guide to Financial Management and has just completed the Economist Guide to Cash Management.

Contact Details:

Office: +44 (0) 1483 422 142
Mobile: +44 (0) 7767 497864
Email: john-tennent@corporateedge.co.uk
Andrew Needham
Andrew excels at improving the business knowledge and skills working with people at all levels – from graduates through to main board directors – across commercial management disciplines.

Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982, Andrew has spent his career in management development, including managing Ernst & Young’s business finance training group. He now works with many “blue chip” businesses developing and delivering a range of management development and learning initiatives.

Andrew’s particular strength is working with executives to build capability in the areas of strategic thinking, financial management and business development. His practical style of engaging people is highly successful in creating business knowledge and skills as well as instilling the confidence to apply these back in their workplace.

Andrew’s current clients include 3M, BT, Mattel, McCann Worldgroup, Rolls Royce, O2 and Sony Music. He is also a visiting faculty member on executive programmes with several leading business schools.

Contact details

Office: +44 (0) 1252 547 302
Mobile: +44 (0) 7930 346301
Email: andrew-needham@corporateedge.co.uk
Georgina Perrott
Bryn Jones
Bryn started his career in training as a Management Tutor at a Regional Training College with British Gas. After two years he moved to Head of Training at the Alliance & Leicester where he managed a team of internal trainers for ten years. He was invited to join a Midlands-based training consultancy, operating primarily in the Financial Services Sector. He went on to become a freelance consultant designing and conducting courses in a variety of business sectors and project managing the training and internal marketing of a major IT project for a UK based American Finance House.

In 1991, Bryn joined a training company as a Management Trainer, specialising in all aspects of people management for a wide range of blue chip clients, including Unilever, ICI, Pearson, Deloitte & Touche, British Airways and BP. He became Director of People Management with a strategic and operational role which included the management of all the consultants, management of a client portfolio and designing and delivering a range of people management programmes. Bryn joined Corporate Edge as an Associate Consultant in 2003 working on assignments with GE and Unilever.

Contact Details:

Office: +44 (0) 1342 823612
Mobile: +44 (0) 7956 083112
Email: bryn-jones@corporateedge.co.uk
Mandy Aston
Angela Tennent
Ian Northmore
Lynne-Marie Eccleston
Patrick Schmidt
Paul Stockton