Masterclass Leader and trainer

Anne Leong has worked in the field of Human Resource management and Training & Organisational Development for the last 20 years in the USA and Canada, Europe and in Singapore. She has more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant in Singapore, Oceania and the greater Asia region.

From 1996 to 2000, she was Managing Director and Principal HRD Consultant of a major Training & Development company, Since 2000, Anne has continued to work with clients in the areas of OD, Talent Management, Leader & Professional Development and Change Management, consulting with them and developing programmes that are tailor-made to meet each client’s current & strategic performance goals, its future leadership capability and company growth projections.

Her North American and European MNC clients include Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, SunGard, Nokia, Gillette, BASF, Siemens, Infineon, Agilent Technologies, Kvaerner, Norsk Hydro, Rehau, Exxon-Mobil, Bank Julius Baer & Co, Towers Perrin, Prebon Yamane, Brady Corporation, Honeywell, Monsanto, Stork Wescon and Schlumberger-Omnes.

Her areas of specialization:

• Organisational Development           
• Leadership & Management Training & Programme Design
• Talent Management                               
• Professional Development Training & Programme Design
• Mentoring & Executive Coaching       
• Strategic Planning & Management
• Change Management Programmes    
• Global/Regional HR Management
• Psychometric Profile Design            
• Succession Planning Development Programmes

Masterclass Case study facilitator

Elizabeth enjoys her work tremendously and is an advocate that if work is so much fun, it must be a ‘calling.’ She has been labeled as ‘inspirational’, a ‘thought leader’ and a ‘role model’ and has been amply recognized and rewarded by the HR profession. Whilst in the employ of Philips she won in

• 2005:  The Robert Walters Award for Best HR Director 
• 2006:  The Best HR Team Award (the HR shared services of Philips Singapore established by her)
• 2007:  The Convergys Award for Outstanding Contributions to HR.

More than 30 years with Philips, her experience spanned the globe. She had assumed many responsibilities in different parts of the world.

• Head of Philips Singapore HR function for more than two decades,
• Head of HR for the Philips global audio business with centers in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore in the mid 1990s
• Founder and Chairman for the Asia Talent Pool for a decade, 1997-2006
• Diversity and Inclusion Champion for Asia Pacific from the mid 1990s and for this function had to work with many counterparts in the US
• Her last assignment was as Senior Vice President of Philips China responsible for the HR function and also HR Head for Asia from 2006-2008.  Philips China, in 2008 had a headcount of 18,000.