Corporate Training

Reinforcing our mission to:

• provide the next generation with a head-start in their careers, equipped with practical skills and an empowered mind-set to progress and succeed in life, and


• ignite the spirit of continuous learning in our adult participants to realise their full potential;

our Corporate arm focuses on bridging the gap of organizations’ workforce training / talent development needs and adults’ competencies enhancement to cope with the demands at work.

Our directors, Sherrell and Karen had decades of corporate consulting experiences in training advisory and talent development from SME environments to big International firms. Read more about them here.

Sherrell has over 20 years of experience in training consultancy, learning and development (L&D) advisory, competency based learning, curriculum design, talent programmes management and facilitation; as well as, implementing human capital development interventions. She had managed educational seminars and conferences across Asia Pacific, partnering speakers from the stock exchanges, financial industry and monetary authorities.

With exposure in local SME and large multi-sites international organisations including Siebel University, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Reuters Asia Pacific, ABN AMRO Bank, UBS and Credit Suisse; Sherrell has worked across diverse cultures in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, USA and UK.

Throughout her talent development journey, Sherrell has trained new hires, executives, trainers and people managers in on boarding programmes, systems application training, soft skills training, leadership development, senior management strategy Lessons and team building workshops. Having delivered adult training and managed learning solutions in the Leadership Institute of the Banking industry for New Hires to Managing Directors, Sherrell moved into the education sector to head the Learning and Organisation Development team in NTUC First Campus (an anchor operator for kindergartens), to map the development paths and design talent development programmes for early childhood educators and principals.

Sherrell is passionate in engaging with children and has been teaching in her church’s children service since Year 2000. More recently, Sherrell volunteers in helping community children improve their English through reading programmes and character development programmes. She has also facilitated in the UBS-CampVision Lead Self Programme for youths at risk.

A keen volunteer in humanitarian works involving children, Sherrell has taught English and Art in village schools in Northern Thailand, ran learning activities for village children and youths in Timor Leste, engaged in play based learning for Down Syndrome children in Tianjin; helped build a school kitchen in South Africa, a children’s playground and homes in Mongolia, as well as, painted a children rehabilitation home in China.

Karen has over 30 years of Banking and Finance experience ranging from foreign exchange trading, fixed income, bonds structure, derivatives products to coaching and training leaders and bankers in Credit Industriel et Commercial Bank, ABNAMRO Private Bank, UBS Futures, ABN AMRO Futures NY, Reuters Asia Pacific and ABNAMRO Academy Asia Pacific.

Karen’s in depth knowledge of Banking & Finance coupled with people development skills had made her a highly in demand coach, trainer and speaker in the region. Being fluent in English and Mandarin, Karen has trained more than 10,000 executives across the globe (New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Pakistan, India, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam).

She is a certified coach from Coach U Inc., both in Personal Coaching and Corporate Coaching and is a member of the International Coach Federation. She has also developed and delivered many coaching and training programs for senior managers from the MNCs, regional banks and financial institutions.

Karen actively volunteers as a council board member for Club Rainbow Singapore since 1999. Club Rainbow is a non-profit charity organization for children suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses. She is also an EXCO member of Rotary Club, Raffles City and supports New Generation Services at the club.

Karen won the Women of Our Times Award 2006 (Finance & Commerce category), organised by The Women’s Weekly magazine to recognise women’s achievements to the community. She also received “The Most Voted by Readers” award of $5,000 to give to a charity of her choice.

With a First-Class Honours in Psychology and graduate research on cultural impact on learning in Simon Fraser University (Canada), Wendy has over 20 years of experience as an educator for personal transformation, applying research from Psychology to help leaders and teams build resilience and achieve extraordinary goals.

Her past roles include being the Psychologist of Raffles Institution and Staff Psychologist at McKinsey & Company. She was also appointed as Board Member to the National Library Board. Wendy’s work in raising emotional and interpersonal resilience has reached Canada, USA, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, China and Taiwan. Furthermore, her expert views have been shared via her column “Life Lessons” in the Straits Times’ MIND YOUR BODY supplement, as well as the radio show “Aunt Agony in the Living Room” on 938LIVE.

A cognitive coach certified with the Center for Teaching Thinking in Boston, Wendy now serves as consultant and coach to several organizations including Abacus Capital, BSI Bank, Credit-Suisse, Pertamina, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Education. Wendy’s approach to coaching high achievers to maximum performance has been presented at the 7th International Conference on Thinking (1997) and the International Congress of Applied Psychology (2002). Her WAND approach emphasizes the use of relevant questions; effective actions; acknowledgement; being neutral and non-judging; recognising individual differences; and making a difference. Her programmes are based on this approach.

Wand Inspiration was founded in 2003, and have celebrated 10 years of “breathing life” (meaning of “Inspiration”) into thousands of people - students, parents, officers and executives in 2013.

Since 2012, Wendy has been leading the Wand Inspiration team in designing and providing leadership programmes to organizations such as the Singapore Armed Forces, SingHealth, regional oil and gas companies and financial institutions.

Martin Cropper (BSc FCMA) is an experienced and inspirational leader, CFO, management consultant and coach.

Martin facilitates and coaches leadership teams and individuals to create exceptional performance and engagement, build essential skills and drive innovation and change. Martin is an experienced Leader and CEO who works with Executives and their teams across wide-ranging multi-national organisations, shaping best in class leadership, talent, vision and strategy.

Martin's passion and energy is in transforming learning to transform lives. He inspires and challenges people to discover new thinking and innovative approaches. His generous ability to inspire learning, motivates leaders and teams to create the mindset and behavioural changes required to achieve results. With over 25 years corporate experience, Martin leads NoLimits which was founded with his wife in 2006 and has created an extensive team of training and coaching consultants in Asia. With his background as a former CFO in American Express, a Management Consultant for Prime Strategy and a Finance Director for Diageo PLC, he combines Leadership and Organisational Development strategies to create top performing teams and organisations.

He has designed and delivered Leadership Development Programmes across Asia, leading or partnering internally to achieve best practice people development for well over 3,000 leaders. He is known for implementing change management capability with senior leadership teams and coaching leadership team development to transform business models and drive innovation. He also facilitates teams in constructive challenging feedback processes to create high trust, high performance and deliver exceptional business results. Martin is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (FCMA), a NoLimits Executive Coach, a Master Practitioner in NLP, licence holder and certified trainer in Extended DISC in Asia and holds a degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Sussex, England

Specialties: Organisational learning, Change Management, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning, Financial Management, Six Sigma and Business Process Re-engineering

With over 30 years of finance and business experience having lived and worked in New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom and South East Asia. He has delivered over 1,000 programs in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Poland and Nepal.

Singapore Facilitators Conference 2013 on Culture, Conflict & Collaboration. Albert was a presenter and his personal interests include trekking, swimming, mountain biking, recipient of the Rotary Club of Singapore “2009 The Good Samaritan” Award, 2010 Formula 1 ‘Singapore GP Pte Ltd’ Marina Zone Manager, 2013 AmCham volunteer Mentor for JA® Company Program.

Albert is the author of the upcoming book RAISE the Bar: Global Leadership Tool Box, a compelling handbook for creating extraordinary results by ordinary people wanting more from life in being the best they can be and contributing to people.

Albert’s milestones include establishment of the Lions Club of Singapore CyberCare and he spearheaded the CyberCare Leadership Service Learning Expedition sponsoring underprivileged youth from Singapore, Malaysia and Nepal to trek the foothills of Everest. April 2009 he raised funds for Make-A-Wish Foundation Singapore by trekking to Everest Base Camp meeting up to support the NATAS Singapore Women’s Everest Team.

Albert is passionate in developing youths and coaching them to overcome their challenges, he had been facilitating in the UBS-CampVision Lead Growth Programme in the last 2 years for youths at risk.

As a father of 3 children, he brings valuable parenting experiences and tips to the parenting workshops he facilitates. He is an MSF approved trainer for Wand Inspiration’s parenting workshops.

Albert has obtained MOE’s approval as “Instructor/ Trainer offering co-curricular and enrichment activities to school” till 2018.


• Global Mindfulness
• Business, Family, Youth Leadership
• Sustainability
• Leadership skills & mind-sets
• Coaching to achieve greater results
• Team development
• Action learning facilitation
• Work-life integration
• Inter-personal relations


• Founder, The Coaching King
• Co-Founder, MAD Learning
• Group Financial Controller, AsiaWorks Training
• Auditor, KPMG
• Chartered Accountant, Institute of CAs New Zealand


• B.C.A. Accountancy Degree, Victoria University
• Certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator® Facilitator
• Certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Certified The Pacific Institute® PX2™ Facilitator
• Certified Leave-No-Trace Trainer


• Company Secretary, Unlisted Public Company, Clean Food Marketing Australia


• Coached bank’s Senior Vice-President to become effective and competent with her peers and Directors, to build stronger relations achieving her goal of promotion to Director.
• Facilitated annual groups of 50 international young professionals, for 6 years with yearly increase in demand for limited intake for a Fortune 500 firm.
• Lead the process and achievement of the goal to buy back 100% shares from external shareholders for foundering directors of Consultus NZ Ltd.
• Initiated and created with the New Zealand Chinese Association Inc “Leadership & Development Conference 2011” Committee the sustainability program of the NZCA Youth Leadership Camp.

“Energy, Passion, Fun, Daring, Curiosity and Focus on being relevant, practical and empowering”; Julia believes that’s what great facilitation is all about.

Julia Russell has been based in Singapore since 1994 and has spent the last 6 years building up a refreshingly different training and facilitation company, TurQuoise Communications.

We don’t use PowerPoint, we don’t use tables, we don’t have workbooks with all the answers in. What we do use is a lot of questions to understand the impact of your personality on how you work, how you communicate, how you present ideas and get things done. We then share different perspectives to build trust and respect, which are fundamental to success.

What are the qualifications needed to deliver great results? Lots of human observations through countless workshops delivered for Multi-National organizations, for Senior Leaders through to Graduate Hires, facilitated across Asia.

Julia has over 25 years of leadership, sales and customer service experience at Global Organisations such as Pearson, Thomson Reuters, Kaplan & Xerox; complementing her BA (Hons) in Business Studies from the University of Nottingham. She is an accredited facilitator for Meyers Briggs Personality Type Indicator MBTI ™, Huthwaite SPIN ™ Selling, Productive Thinking ™ and the Neethling Brain Instrument ™. Julia is also a Results™ trained business coach.

Catherine Chan is a qualified personal branding coach and is the founder of Iconiq Image line of personal branding companies. She has been certified by the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) - the leading and largest professional association of image consultants worldwide. Catherine has diverse experience in consultancy and training. Since starting her own practice in 2007, she has coached high-level executives from the region on professional image, reputation management, communication, soft skills training and etiquette. She has the background and expertise to serve corporate as well as individuals, who want to make a positive change to present their most effective image and influence to the world, helping them flourish. Upon graduation from the National University of Singapore, Catherine honed her skills in corporate image, communications, branding and public relations. She has had sixteen years of corporate experience and held management positions for close to ten years.

During her corporate stint, Catherine has advised corporations and high-level executives with proven results. She was personally involved in building both external and internal relations with stakeholders, government agencies, the media, large membership bodies and employees. Having successfully handled negotiations, gotten buy-ins and sought co-operation from all levels, she has intimate knowledge on how to position one’s personal brand to impact and influence positively. Catherine has also served on the board of AICI Singapore as Vice-President of Communications.



Organisations whom have benefitted from Iconiq Image's trainings include the following:






Catherine has also done styling for TV commercial and photoshoot. She is often sought by the media for advice on personal image.

Bernard Lim CFP®, CFEd®, FSWW, CPBA, Accredited Financial Counsellor™; is the founder of Wealth College, a division of Wealth Hub Pte Ltd established in 2007. He is the author, developer and principal trainer of the highly-rated estate planning courseware & planning starter-kit; and the critically-acclaimed financial education program – Living in Financial Excellence (L.i.F.E.™) courseware.

A much sought-after speaker and trainer, Bernard regularly conducts seminars, workshops and courses for the civil service sector (para-counsellors of the Singapore Police Force, staff of National Institute of Education and National Healthcare Group); private organisations (leading banks and insurers); non-profit organisations (Credit Counselling Singapore) and professional counsellors from the social services sector. He is also an adjunct trainer with the Singapore Management University’s financial training institute.

Bernard has been the driving force behind the financial services industry’s community service initiative – FinCARE™. He is a financial services professional in practice and volunteers regularly as a financial counsellor.

Wealth College is the training division of Wealth Hub Pte Ltd; an organization dedicated to educating, equipping & empowering professionals as well as the public in the area of financial wellness & wealth planning. Since early 2007, it has launched a number of highly practical seminars, courseware and accreditation which has drawn rave reviews from the market. These courses are developed in collaboration with or use tools developed by major bodies of:
■ Personal Finance Education for Employees Foundation (USA); headed by Emeritus Professor Thomas E Garman of Virginia Tech University.
■ Financial Wellness Associates (USA); founded by Dr Ronald W Wall of University of Hawaii.
■ Financial Psychology Corporation (USA); headed & founded by Dr Kathleen Gurney.

In a span of about 9 years, it has trained more than 2500 financial services professionals, counselling & para-counselling professionals from major institutions and organisations. In addition, members of the public from all walks of life from students to high net-worth individuals have attended the course known as the highly–acclaimed L.I.F.E. – Living in Financial Excellence® Programme. This course has been extremely well received. It has even attracted the attention of the premier non profit research organisation (Personal Finance Employee Education Fund - PFEEF) that Wealth College (division of Wealth Hub Pte Ltd) is the only Singaporean training company listed as a Quality Provider for financial education for employees (please refer to www.pfeef.org under ‘Non-U.S. Quality Providers’).

Milestones:
Over the years, Wealth College has conducted courses, seminars and financial education workshops for the following clients:

• ■ AIA Singapore
  
• ■ AVIVA
  
• ■ AXA Life Insurance
  
• ■ CIMB Bank
  
• ■ Citibank
  
• ■ DBS Bank
  
• ■ Financial Alliance
  
• ■ Finexis
  
• ■ Great Eastern Financial Advisors
  
• ■ HSBC Insurance
  
• ■ Income
  
• ■ IPPFA
  
• ■ Manulife Singapore
  
• ■ Maybank Singapore
  
• ■ Prudential Assurance
  
• ■ Standard Chartered Bank
  
• ■ United Overseas Bank
  
• ■ Credit Counselling Singapore
  
• ■ National Healthcare Group-Polyclinics
  
• ■ National Institute of Education-ACIS Unit
  
• ■ Singapore Police Force
  
• ■ Singapore Civil Defence Force
  
• ■ Singapore Press Holdings
  
• ■ Insurance & Financial Practitioners Association of Singapore (IFPAS)
  
• ■ Social services professionals from voluntary welfare organisations, family services centres, nongovernmental organisations.
  

Wealth College is also the pioneer, organiser and the driving force behind the training of volunteer financial counsellors from the financial services industry. The College was responsible for developing and launching the FinCARE® (Financial Counselling, Aid & Resilience Education) a community services initiative for the largest alliance of financial services associations and groups in Singapore representing 15,000 financial services professionals.

Since the launch of launch of SEED Money Program for students in partnership with Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund In 2013 , many have benefitted from its highly successful runs with request from more 15 Family Service Centres (FSCs) for the program.

Clarice graduated from the department of Visual and Performing Arts, National Institute of Education with a diploma in music and had worked under the tutelage of multiple world renowned music educators from Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and The United States of America. An established music instructor herself, she has more than 20 years of experience in music education. Over the years, she worked with students from all walks of life, ranging from young children to adult learners, providing each learner with a holistic music education with the hopes of enriching each learner’s passion for music.

In 2004, Clarice founded Blessing Music & Education Pte Ltd with likeminded partners, with the purpose of providing top-quality musical instruments, as well as a holistic music education to clients. Over the years, their passion and earnest attitude in sharing their love and knowledge for music have propelled them to establish ourselves as a brand that is trusted by the local music scene.

In 2008, the Ministry of Education in Singapore appointed Blessing Music & Education Pte Ltd as one of its official supplier, providing musical instruments and education services to the local schools & institutions. Her accomplishments include the design, development and introduction of various music programs to primary schools under the Programme for Active Learning (PAL) and the collaboration with professionals from all over the world to conduct lessons and enrichment for our students in Singapore. She had also co-developed the entire set of percussion instrumental syllabus with the National University of Singapore (NUS) Arts Centre.

She believes that music education should be an enjoyable experience for all, and can be used as a tool for both personal and character development, regardless of age.

The SCHOOL OF DAIKO was first established in 2007 as a Taiko drumming school providing quality enrichment programmes and training services. To further enhance the mission of value-based learning, Mangrove Learning Pte. Ltd. was then established to house the School of Daiko and at the same time, to provide a diverse range of arts related programmes such as flora arts, traditional dances, visual arts etc. Holding on to a strong belief on the positive impacts brought about by artsbased learning, Mangrove Learning pledged a social mission to engage youths-at-risk in the art of Taiko drumming and provide employment opportunities for these youths. Since then, Mangrove Learning has registered itself as a full member of Social Enterprise Association of Singapore and Association of Small and Medium Size Enterprise.

Mangrove Learning seeks to cultivate life values and appreciation for the arts and also, provide innovative learning experiences to our clients through specific arts related enrichment programmes.

Milestones:

• ■ Taiko Drumming Experience:
  
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  • ○ Member, Tampines East CC - Poverello Teen Centre Japanese Drum Group (May 2004 to Dec 2006)
    
  • ○ Founding president, ITE College East Daiko Club (Apr 2007 – Dec 2008)
    
  • ○ Participated Inadani Taiko Course 2014 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan by Wadaiko TOKARA (Jun 2014)
    
  • ○ Guest performer, Saiwai Fringe Festival 2014 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan by Wadaiko TOKARA (Jun 2014)
    
  
  
• ■ Teaching Experience:
  
  • ○ Apprentice Trainer, Poverello Teen Centre Japanese Drum Group (Jan 2007 to Dec 2008)
    
  • ○ Trainer, School of Daiko Adult Taiko training class (Jan 2011 – present)
    
  • ○ Workshop Trainer, Taiko drumming workshop in national public libraries (Jun 2013 – present)
    
  • ○ Trainer, ITE College East Daiko Club (Mar 2014 – present)
    
  
  
• ■ Achievements & Awards
  
  • ○ National Youth Achievement Award, Bronze, Sliver & Gold Award
    
  • ○ ITE - Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medallist (2009)
    
  • ○ ITE- Lee Kuan Yew Model Student Award (2009)
    
  • ○ MOE - Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship to Encourage Upgrading (2009)
    
  • ○ National Youth Council - Liaison Officer of 17th ASEAN Youth Day Meeting in Singapore(2011)
    
  • ○ National Youth Council – Singapore Delegation Member at 7th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth & 3rd ASEAN Youth Caucus held in Hanoi, Vietnam (2011)
    
  • ○ National Youth Council – Liaison Officer for All-China Youth Federation (ACYF)’s Senior Official Visit to Singapore (2012)
    
  • ○ National Youth Council – Singapore Delegation Member at 1st ASEAN Young Leaders Summit 2015, KL, Malaysia
    
  
  

For media coverage, please refer to http://www.mangrovelearning.com/media/

Jennifer lives by the ethos; everyone has the potential to live a spectacular life and make their dreams come true. A Newfield Ontological Certified Coach, as well as a Certified Points of YouTM trainer, Jennifer leverages her Diploma in Early Childhood Education knowledge to bring out the essence of fun and play in learning.

She is committed to elevating the standards of coaching practices in Singapore, be it in training groups or coaching one on one.

Jennifer sees herself as a PlayCoach, partnering her clients to perform at their peak potential while having fun. Passionate, authentic and driven, Jennifer coaches from the heart and derives great satisfaction in helping her clients break through self-limiting belief and constraints to soar freely.

The Delights Heaven takes pride in providing the platform for participants to create cakes that you can call your very own. We take time to understand your needs and dreams, blend them with our passion for baking to enable every participant to craft an art piece that will create memories to last a lifetime. We believe that a cake is an ambassador of taste for the host of a party, and it has to be
attractive and palatable! Our Passionate Artisan, Chef Joey takes time to perfect her creations and detail them with love to express what she believes in: every cake is a delight to create laughter and fond memories.

Chef Joey graduated as top of her cohort, with a DIPLÔME DE PÂTISSERIE from Le Cordon Bleu, Australia and receiving a Dux Award for her outstanding hard work and talent. She had worked part-time at the pre-eminent 360 Bar and Dining restaurant atop the iconic Sydney Tower, as a pastry chef for close to 2 years. Prior to her studies, Chef Joey spent 3 years as an apprentice with Singapore’s renowned local cake boutique – The Patissier, developing her skills as a baker and cake artist.

Chef Joey is driven towards perfection in her creations by the joy of witnessing that smile of pure enjoyment when people sink their teeth into a sweet treat.

She gets her inspiration from years of cartoon-watching. As a child, she was drawn to the vibrant colours and comical expressions that would give her endless hours of joy and laughter. This child-like delight is translated into her cake designs. Ideas spring may from anywhere, and her curious mind is always on the lookout for something she can mould into a cake, pushing the boundaries and bringing to life what one can envisage.