KL STRATEGIC CHANGE CONSULTING  

From left to right: Janet, Ann, Cheong Hin, Dato Dr Abdul Samad, Dr. Victor S.L.Tan, Dato Saharudin, Dylan, Jane  

 

INTRODUCTION

KL Strategic Change Consulting Group (KLSCC) is a leading  professional consulting organisation specialising in developing competitive excellence for companies in the Asia Pacific region. Our aim is to help Asian organisations to develop competency, commitment and the competitive drive to enable them become leaders in the global market. 

KLSCC's vision is to be THE PREMIER management consulting and training organisation in the Asia Pacific region. Our philosophy is embodied in the company's mission to help clients compete through providing world class quality consulting and organisation development services that meet the specific and unique needs of Asian companies. We practise P.R.E.M.I.E.R, representing values of Performance, Reliability, Excellence, Multivalue, Integrity, Enthusiasm and Responsiveness with our dynamic and professional team to help clients in achieving their visions and goals. 

OUR FOUNDER'S PROFILE 
 

Dr. Victor S.L. Tan is the principal consultant and Chief Executive Officer of  KLSCC group. He holds a B.Sc (Elmira College, New York), MBA (Ohio State Univ) and Ph.D (Akamai Univ) from U.S.A. He has more than 25 years of experience in consulting, banking, strategic planning and training. He has held the position of Senior Corporate Planner for one of the leading commercial banks in Malaysia. As a manager with Andersen Consulting, he played  a key role in building up the Change Management practice in Kuala Lumpur. He is a powerful and dynamic speaker and has consulted for over 400 organisations in the Asia Pacific region. 


He has won several public speaking championships from the Institute of Bankers Malaysia and has also won the Phi Beta Kappa Award, the highest academic honors given for overall achievement for universities in U.S.A. As a management practitioner and international consultant, Victor has published over 300 management articles which appeared in various journals such as The Malaysian Business, The Banker's Journal, Certified Management Digest, The New Straits Times, Corporate World, The Executive Today and the Malaysian Tatler. He is the author of six best selling management books on change.

 

CHAIRMAN

Dato Saharudin was the Director (R) of the Logistics Department in the Royal Malaysia Police. He has been in the police force for the past 31 years loyally serving his country. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons) from the University of Malaya.

As a young graduate from Perak, Dato Saharudin joined the Royal Malaysia Police Force in 1975. He started out as an Investigative Officer and then rose to be an Officer in Charge of Police District.

After being on the field for 19 years, he was promoted to Contingent Executive Officer in 1996 and put in charge of human resource management. In this area, he excelled and made a significant impact in the organisation. He was soon promoted to the Principal Assistant Director of Management and was also in charge of human resource management. Four years later he climbed the ranks to be the Deputy Director of Management in the Service and Personnel department. Another year later, he made it to the top to be the Director of Logistics Department where he was involved in the process of planning, designing and monitoring the Royal Malaysian Police Development projects. He held the position for more than one year before he retired from the Royal Malaysian Police in September 2006.

In his many years of experience in the field of Human Resources Management, he had expanded his knowledge and practice into several interesting branches which includes criminal investigations, general operations force function, public order, leadership, confrontation management, financial management, police science (diploma), project planning and management, senior police administrations and public focused police performance.

With all his expereince, skill and passion in Human Resource Development, he certainly fits well into the role as the chairman of K.L. Strategic Change Consulting.

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

Ms Jane Bee is the Marketing Directorof KLSCC. She has more than 20 years of experience in sales and marketing and management. She has won several top sales award having pioneered in the concept of innovative marketing. She has marketed training and consulting programs to over 300 Asian organizations. She heads the ASEAN region in the marketing effort. Her clients include American Express, Dell Asia, DHL Express, Fujimori PlaChemical Co Ltd, Japan, Ministry Of Industry and Primary Resources, Brunei, Samsung Digital, Summarecon Agung, Indonesia and Telekom Malaysia Bhd.

During the past ten years, she contributed to the significant growth of KL Strategic Change Consulting Group through her innovative marketing efforts which she has undertaken in Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

She is certified in the area of marketing and professional selling , having completed her training in this field as well as having pioneered in the area of innovative marketing. She has written many marketing articles in newspapers and journals. Her articles have appeared in the New Straits Times, Business Today, The Sun and WIM Journal. She has written on topics including Innovative Marketing, Marketing A Sellout and Marketing Seminars.

She is currently a committee member of Woman Institute Of Management. A lady with a strong mind but a soft heart, she has personally undertaken many charity works and contributed to the well being of the community.

Ms Jane believes in continuous learning and she has constantly kept up her knowledge in her field by attending various courses and seminars.

She has personally attended the following courses and seminars:

  • Professional Selling Skills
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Effective Presentation
  • Effective Leadership Skill
  • Creative Thinking
  • Marketing Seminars
  • Changing Mindsets
  • Managing Change
  • Strategic Thinking For Top Leaders

 

Senior ConsultanT

Dato' Dr. Abdul Samad Mohamed is a part of our management team as well as a member of our panel of speakers. He has over 40 years industry experience having held various positions in several port and transport-related organizations. He is currently the Group Managing Director/CEO of a listed company with subsidiaries engaged in port management and provision of logistics services. He previously served in two Goverment port authorities for nearly 20 years. His last position in the public sector was General Manager of the Sabah Ports Authority.

Apart from his strong experience base in management, Dato Samad also has specialised exposure in the area of organizational transformation and human resource re-engineering. He has been involved for more than 20 years in programs of organizational reform and turn-around, and employee re-training associated with Malaysia’s 2 earliest port privatization programs. He has developed specialised skills in the area of preparing and leading the workforce in dealing with changes and optimization of human resources in a changing environment.

Dato Samad is a self-taught person having begun his career as a dock worker and risen through the ranks to become the head of a State port authority. He subsequently progressed to become the first Malaysian CEO to head Klang Container Terminal Bhd, Malaysia's first privatized port and the first port operating company to be listed on the main board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Dato' Samad is a strong proponent of life-long learning having gone through this very path in his own career development. He has developed a unique learning model based on his personal experience and which he aptly tagged as Continuous Action Learning for the Improvement of Personal Horizon (“CALIPH”). He has delivered talks on the subject.

Dato' Samad has often been invited to speak on the soft skills of management particularly organizational reforms and transformational leadership. He has spoken at international seminars and conferences in the USA and Canada, Africa, Australia and Europe. In Asia, he has spoken in Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Brunei and Sri Lanka. He has also provided consultancy and advisory services on port equipment management to the Chittagong Port Authority under the Malaysian government’s technical assistance program as well as collaborated with a World Bank-appointed consultant in the provision of a special training package for members of the Indian civil service. He has also appeared in several local television talk-shows.

Dato’ Abdul Samad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and a Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management, United Kingdom. He served for two terms as the President of CILT Malaysia and a member of its international council. He has also served for a term on the Membership Committee of the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH).

Dato’ Samad was named Transport Man of the Year 1998 by the weekly trade and shipping paper Straits Shipper. He was selected by Hong Kong-based Cargonews Asia as the recipient of the Life-Long Achievement Award under the Year 2002 Asian Freight and Supply Chain Awards. Dato’ Samad is a member of the advisory panel of the Malaysia Institute of Transport (MITRANS), University Teknology Mara (UiTM). He has also served for a term as an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Accounting and Management, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).

 

OUR TEAM OF CONSULTANTS AND TRAINERS

Our team of  consultants and trainers have  in depth consulting and training background and have extensive corporate experience of at least  more than 20 years of  corporate working experience in different companies and industries.  They are certified professional consultants and trainers having training multinational companies locally and overseas in Asia.   A number of them have worked in Accenture ( formerly known as Andersen Consulting) and have managed international projects as well  conduct training.  Many are experts in their respective fields and have done extensive research to contribute to the growth of their body of expertise.   In addition, perhaps the most important characteristic of our consultants and trainers is that they all possess great enthusiasm, passion, a global outlook, a sense of humor and total commitment to improve the skill set as well as the mindsets of the participants they develop.