George Quek is a contracted trainer with PEO China. He is an accomplished consultant, coach and facilitator who works with senior leaders like CEOs, VPs and GMs and their teams to improve their individual and organizational leadership and management performance. He has trained, coached and consulted for more than 3,000 executives and leaders from over 100 organisations throughout the Asia Pacific in the last 5 years. Prior to that, he had over 15 years of senior leadership experience with Fortune 500 and regional multi-national corporations.

Experience:

George has lived and worked in Singapore, U.S.A., Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia. As a result, he is proficient in the local languages and conducts coaching, facilitation and training in Mandarin, Cantonese in addition to English. Primarily, George focuses on providing holistic and “boutique” solutions in leadership development, coaching and mentoring to corporate clients in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, he serves as an executive coach to senior leaders and executives.
George is an adjunct faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership, the world’s leading leadership development provider, where he is ranked one of their top coaches. He is part of an elite group of coaches, specially selected by McKinsey & Company to work with its staff.

Background & Qualifications:

George has worked across a diverse range of industries. He started his career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture) before joining ServiceMaster, a US Fortune 500 multinational that was on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list and renowned for its service excellence. He rose through the ranks to become the Country Head for Singapore and later joined a regional logistics services group as its General Manager for Greater China where he lived and spearheaded start-ups. He was subsequently promoted to become the Vice President/Business Unit CEO with responsibility over 800 employees in 6 countries. He was then headhunted to be a Director of Service Quality Centre, the training and consulting arm that is part of the Singapore Airlines Group. In addition to spearheading the local and international business, George was also heavily involved in providing training, coaching and consulting solutions to Service Quality Centre’s clients.

George earned both Bachelor and Master in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He qualifies with a Certificate in Corporate Coaching from Corporate Coach U, USA. George is a Master Trainer for the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile as well as a master certifier for DISC. He is also an accredited MBTI and FIRO-B administrator and practitioner. In addition, he is a certified NLP practitioner and is also certified in Center for Creative Leadership’s suite of 360 assessment tools like Benchmarks as well as the Conflict Dynamics Profile.