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Our development
The "idea" of PsyAsia International
was conceived by our principal director during his time working
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In his three and a half years
there, he was teaching MBA Human Resource Management for the UK's
University of Leicester and also set up and managed a psychometric
assessment consultancy. His work spanned the UAE, Oman, Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait. At the end of this
3.5 year period, the consultancy was handed over to an interest
party and still run by them today. PsyAsia then came into being
with an initally limited presence in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Over the years, this presence has grown remarkably and PsyAsia
has spurned into 2 separate business entities in these two territories.
PsyAsia International is the official name of the Hong Kong business
and in Singapore we are PsyAsia International Pte. Ltd.
Our focus
PsyAsia International works primarily in
Asia and Australia. We are a team of professional associates (psychologists,
human resource consultants, test administrators, trainers and
counselors) dedicated to organizational and human resource development,
training and consultancy based on underlying psychological principles.
It is our focus on scientific, evidence-based psychology
at the core of our Human Resource and Training activities
that separates us from those providing similar services in the
HR field.
Our pride
PsyAsia International is a vibrant
and innovative business. We pride ourselves on the science
underneath all of our solutions and excellence in client
service both in terms of delivering solutions and query response/resolution
times. A vast amount of the work we do is repeat business. Another
large chunk of our work comes from major corporate clients who
have left our competitors following poor service delivery and
other issues.
Our geographical reach
PsyAsia International has clients throughout
the world, but mostly in Asia and Australia. Clients from anywhere
in the world are welcome on our public courses. Additionally,
most of our in-house courses can be delivered anywhere in the
world, although our major focus and area of greatest experience
and expertise is Asia (especially Hong Kong, Singapore,
Thailand and Malaysia), the Middle East, Australia and the UK.
Even so, our ethical approach, professionalism and passion for
excellence have seen us running courses and carrying out consultancy
for clients outside of these areas in, for example, Africa or
the USA.
Click here for a sample client list
Other
activities
PsyAsia International continues to collect
local validation information and research data for the tests that
we and our clients use. We also rigourously keep up-to-date with
the research literature in our domain to ensure that we are always
providing our clients with first-class and world-class solutions.
You may wish to view some of our research activities at www.personality.cn.
PsyAsia's
directors
PsyAsia's directors, based in Hong Kong and
Singapore, have incredible levels of professional education, alongside
zeal and passion for the Asia Pacific workforce.
One of our directors is a published, UK and Australia trained
Organizational Psychologist, member of the Australian and British
Psychological Societies and recipient of a British Psychological
Society award for Scientific Contribution to Occupational Psychology.
He has people management experience in addition to experience
of teaching cross-culturally on MBA programs to multi-national
CEOs for a top UK University and developing and managing an organizational
consultancy and training organization in the Middle East before
relocating to both Australia and Asia. A fully Registered Psychologist
in Australia, he spent his PhD years (University of Queensland,
Australia) studying links between personality and performance,
primarily in Asia. He also holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology
(Nottingham, UK), a BSc (Hons)(London, UK) in Psychology and a
Diploma in Stress Management Training. He is an Associate Fellow
of the Hong Kong Psychological Society (AFHKPsS) and a member
of the British Psychological Society's Register of Competence
in Occupational Testing for both Levels A (Ability Tests) and
B (Personality Assessments), additionally, he is a member of the
Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management (M.I.H.R.M [HK])
and an international affiliate of the Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology. He previously worked as an MSc in HRM
Lecturer for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is currently
a visiting lecturer at a number of Asian universities. He has
worked in both teaching and HRM consulting roles for local, government
and multinational organisations worldwide, including Nigeria,
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, PRC, Macau SAR, Hong Kong SAR,
Australia, UK, Saudi Arabia and Oman. At the current time, he
is a resident of both Singapore and Hong Kong and commutes between
these two cities and travels around Asia and the world to deliver
his sought-after training and consulting solutions. As a practitioner,
he applies his skills on a daily basis in many of Asia's most
well known companies and for government bodies. He balances this
practical slant with academic teaching and publications in international
peer-reviewed journals. He is also a reviewer for the Society
for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference (USA)
and the Journal of Personality & Individual Differences. With
a passion for charitable works and giving back to society, he
was nominated for the Wesley Hospital "Ideals in Action"
award in 2005 and has been recognised for voluntary services with
an honorary life membership from the British Red Cross Society.
Our second director is a qualified
counselor with a Masters degree from Hong Kong University and
experience in counselling within the Hong Kong government sector.
Speaking English, Cantonese and Mandarin means that she is accessible
to a wide range of people in our focus region. With experience
of research, teaching and supervising counselling and social work
subjects and students respectively, a wide knowledge of the current
counselling literature and extensive experience in career and
personal counselling with Hong Kong locals, she is well placed
to assist in PsyAsia's workplace counselling programs as well
as with our online individual career analysis and counselling
clients at testingyou.com.
Her published research has received international attention at
counselling conferences.
PsyAsia also has a non-executive
director in Singapore. Whilst empowered to act on behalf of the
company, he spends the majority of his time running a corporate
services company.
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