Philip Merry - Founder and CEO, PMCG Pte Ltd& Global Leadership Academy Pte Ltd

BA, CQSW, MITD, Post Grad Dip Soc Sci, Post Grad Dip Mgt (sml), MSIM,Master Hypnotist & Hypnotherapist 

Philip Merry – Owner and CEO ofGlobal Leadership Academy – has been consulting and training teams and leadersin organisations for 28 years in 50 countries. Philip helps globalorganisations understand and deal with the impact to the bottom line of crosscultural and global issues. Focusing on how culture and personality clashes caneat away at the effectiveness of organisations he is recognized as a specialistin this area and is sought after by many of the world’s leading organisations –see list below. Committed to Corporate Social responsibility – Philip seeks tocontribute to world issues of poverty, environment and women’s empowerment bybalancing equally his commercial work with work in the development sector. Heis regularly asked by the United Nations to work with their senior countrymanagement teams in different parts of the world. In 2008 Philip also organisedthe 1^st Asian Happiness and Well-Being Conference and led the searchfor Singapore’s happiest person - he is passionate about helping his clientsfocus on happiness and well-being.

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Singapore based Philip MerryConsulting Group - which owns Global Leadership Academy - has run consulting,training and counseling projects in leadership, team development and crosscultural dynamics in 50 countries. Philip Merry is founder andowner of both companies and has a global reputation for delivering outstandingresults and his company is in constant demand to deliver programmes on allcontinents. To respond to this demand Philip recently established the Global Leadership Academy – a leadingprovider of solutions for the global leadership arena. He haslived and worked in Asia for 22 years.

Philip’s company represents Meredith Belbin’s Team Roles system and isthe only consulting firm in the world to combine Belbin’s work with the work ofculture experts Charles Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars as well as HermanBrain Dominance technology. Philip is a certified in culture, team and braindominance profiling and has worked in a variety of settings in the last 36years. He has been Organisational Development Manager with Reuters Asia,Management Development Manager with Reuters Asia, Assistant Director ofManagement Studies at Roffey Park Management Centre UK, Leadership TrainingManager with the Sri Lankan Govt, Field Director with the British VolunteerProgramme in the Maldives, Training Manager with local government in London,and Family and Marriage Counselor. He was also at one time a London taxi driver!Philip has extensive experience in professional counseling and group dynamics -his original training was as a family therapist in London where he practicedfor 8 years He holds a degree from Manchester University and 3 postgraduatequalifications in Counseling, Social Science and Self-Managed Learning.  Philip is English and was born in 1949and has lived in Singapore for 18 years.

Clients - Public Sector - UNDP, WFP, WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, UN Staff College, Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research, Centre for International Forestry Research – Indonesia, Centre for Maize research – Mexico, Centre for Potato research – Peru, Centre for Tropical Agriculture – Colombia, World Agroforestry Centre – Kenya, Global Food and Water Challenge Programme - International Water Management Institute – Sri Lanka, World Fish Centre - Malaysia, Sri Lanka Education Ministry, Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore Ministry of Manpower, Government Investment. Philip has worked with a range of educational establishments - he is Visiting Fellow at Bristol University - UK, and has taught culture, team and leadership modules at the East West Centre - University of Hawaii, Leicester University MBA, Nanyang Technological University – Singapore, National University of Singapore, Melbourne Institute of Technology MBA.