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Our Vision and Philosophy

“To promote Spiritual, Emotional and Economic Growth By Building Partnership, Peace and Prosperity across Cultures”

Effectiveness and success are as much concerned with what goes on inside us as what happens outside. Our values, personality, brain wiring, genes, beliefs and attitudes – our internal processes – have an enormous impact on how we view “reality” they drive our behaviour. In order to maximize effectiveness, success, and happiness it is therefore important that we spend time examining how these internal processes run our lives. 

In order to further the process of understanding what’s “inside” we have gathered together 3 of the “best in class” profiling tools which examine: 

Cultural Values – (Trompenaars Hampden-Turner)
Team Roles – (Belbin) 
Brain Dominance – (Hermann)

Our company is the only company in the world to officially work with and combine these 3 tools.

It is our belief that it is this understanding which gives the real “edge” in achieving sustainable lasting development to discover and maximize your contribution to the world and build world class organizations.

Founded by Philip Merry. PMCG is a Singapore registered company which conducts training, consulting, and research for organisations since 1991.

Highly Tailored Approach

All our programmes are tailored to your specific needs.  With all our clients we ask - 

"What are the specific outcomes you want at the end of our involvement with you?"

We then design around those outcomes.  All of our programmes are unique because your organisation is unique.

Our People

Our team of consultants have extensive experience with organisations from all over the world who operate in Asia. 

Our team are highly skilled in designing experiential workshops and have many years experience in facilitation with Asian audiences. Case studies and role plays are drawn from our experience in Asia. Our style is interactive and practical encouraging maximum involvement from participants. Workshops are based around the learner's current needs, thus enabling them to transfer the learning directly to real problems in the organisation. Opportunities are created to maximise personal feedback and help individuals gain a high degree of awareness of : -

• their personal teamwork style
• their cultural style and values
• their brain dominance
• their personal impact

Profile of Philip Merry – Founder and CEO
BA, CQSW, MSIM, P.Grad DipSocSci, P.Grad Dip Mgt (Self Management)

Profile of Normala Shamsudin Merry – Director ( Coaching & Counseling )
BA, Cert Ed

Profile of Geoff Barwise – Senior Consultant to PMCG
B Com, MSHRI, MAHRI

Philip Merry
Founder and CEO - Philip Merry Consulting Group Pte Ltd.
BA, CQSW, Post Grad Dip Soc Sci, Post Grad Dip Mgt(sml), MSIM

Philip Merry has been in the consulting, training and counseling field for 30 years.  He has extensive experience in multi-cultural consulting/training and team facilitation; and has delivered workshops in 33 countries around the world.  He has lived and worked in Asia for 18 years. 

As well as having worked with some of the world's leading multi nationals  - Cisco, Nokia, HP, GE, GM, JP Morgan Chase, Singapore Technologies, Applied Materials, Ciba, Dow Chemicals, Pan Asia Paper, British Telecom, Lend Lease, Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abbott Laboratories, Shell, Isuzu, Pepsi Cola, Cable and Wireless, BHP, Delphi Automotive - Philip has worked with a range of educational establishments.  He is Visiting Fellow at Bristol University, and has taught at the East West Centre - University of Hawaii, NTU, NUS, and is Lecturer on Strategic Alliances at the Melbourne Institute of Technology MBA.  

He is Founder and CEO of Philip Merry Consulting Group Pte Ltd.  Philip is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organisation be more effective by understanding how to maximise their potential.  Because of his long experience and training in a variety of therapeutic settings - he is comfortable when dealing with difficult emotional issues.  He is skilled at building a supportive learning environment when people can confront their internal blocks and make learning breakthrough which lead to increased confidence about their own skill and ability.

Philip has worked in a variety of business settings in the last 30 years, - Organisational Development Manager with Reuters Asia, Management Development Manager with Reuters Asia, Assistant Director of Management Studies at Roffey Park Management Centre UK, Leadership Training Manager with the Sri Lankan Govt, Field Director with the British Volunteer Programme in the Maldives, and Training Manager with local government in London. 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 practised for 8 years He holds a degree from Manchester University and 3 postgraduate qualifications in Counseling, Social Science and Self-Managed Learning.  Philip is English and was born in 1949.

Normala Shamsudin Merry
Director (Coaching & Counseling)
BA, Cert Ed

Normala has worked at PMCG for 7 years with a variety of the world’s leading private and government. organisations  – see separate list below. Her role involves

• Mentoring and Coaching
• Cross Cultural and Team Facilitation
• Working with Gender and Women’s Leadership
• Cross Cultural Counselling and Coaching,
• Team Leadership Counselling and Coaching

Normala has a wide background in Adult Education, Counselling, Cultural and Civic Education, English teaching, Management, Administration and Budgeting.  Her work experience includes 13 years in the Singapore Education system where she was responsible for teaching the values and culture of Singapore’s major racial groups, the cultural aspects of civil and moral education, and English. She was also a student counsellor. Normala was for 5 years the Officer in Charge of a Police Cadet Corps which involved her in managing 200 cadets and 9 officers and cadet inspectors, administration, planning, budgeting and conference & project management. She has served on various committees at the Singapore national level including and was regularly called on to serve as the MC for a variety of national events, including events involving the President of Singapore and other national leaders. Normala is Singaporean.

Geoff Barwise
Senior Consultant
B. Comm, MSHRI, MAHRI

Geoff Barwise has 25 years experience in human resources development and management, the last eight of which have been in Asia. Prior to moving to Asia he held various senior human resource management roles – covering a wide range of activities including training and development, succession planning, labour relations, recruitment, compensation and benefits.

Over eight years ago he moved to Malaysia where he set up all the human resource functions for a multimillion dollar start up manufacturing facility. Following this he moved to Singapore as Vice President Human Resources for Asia for BHP Steel. In this role Geoff established the human resource function in the newly created Asia regional office and instigated a number of initiatives in the area of training and development, succession planning, graduate recruitment and performance management.

In 1997 he moved to a large European chemical company based in Singapore as Director of Human Resources for Asia with responsibility for countries in South East Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand. In this role Geoff was involved in a number of merger, acquisition and divestment projects as a result of the constant restructuring in the industry.

Our Associates

In order to give the best to our clients when they require us to combine a variety of approaches we work with a variety of experts in their field around the world. They are: 

• Dr Meredith Belbin
  Originator of Belbin Team Styles 
• Dr Charles Hampden-Turner
  Renowned culture expert - THT Consulting
• Dr Fons Trompenaars
  Renowned culture expert - THT Consulting
• Mike Morgan
  Brain Dominance Technology, Herrmann International Asia
• Asma Abdullah & Peter Shepherd
  Working in Malaysia
• John Gu
  Working in China
• Sharon Tan
  Working in China
• Michael Brooks
  Business Simulations
• Peter Martini
  Corporate Outdoor Training
• Gregory Burns
  Innovation
• Roslan Shamsudin
  Empowering Minds

Contacts Us

For further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Philip Merry at pmerry@pacific.net.sg or Marnie Vergara at pmcg@pacific.net.sg.  Our telephone - (65) 6322 1477 or fax - (65) 6755 4151

Our mailing address :  Philip Merry Consulting Group Pte Ltd, Level 31 Six Battery Road, Singapore 049909