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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 Jacki Nicholas - Senior Consultant to PMCG

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

Profile of Deborah Ee - Business Client Relations Manager
B Com

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

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.

Senior Consultant

Jacki is an organisational consultant and executive coach with 18 years’ experience in business, organisational, team and leadership effectiveness in the international business context.  Her career has spanned corporate finance, management consulting, and human capital development.  She has worked and consulted in a wide range of countries, working with a variety of Asian, European and American cultures.  Her areas of expertise include:

Jacki began her career in corporate finance and advisory, specialising in mergers & acquisitions, valuations, capital raising/venture capital and economic litigation.  These years as a finance specialist gave her a solid grounding in business and market drivers.  In this stage of her career, Jacki worked for two of the ‘big’ international chartered accounting firms with clients across a broad range of industries.

Jacki’s professional focus then shifted to enhancing the effectiveness of individuals, leaders, teams and organisations, as they ‘go about their business’.  She has worked for the past 14 years in leadership, organisational effectiveness, change management and human capital, working both in a consulting and corporate management capacity.  At the Hay Group, her roles encompassed consulting, project management, client management, industry sector management and regional knowledge management.  Her clients spanned a range of industries including finance & banking, engineering & manufacturing, government, universities, pharmaceutical & chemical, and professional & other services. During this time, she advised as consultant, project manager, client manager and coach in a range of issues including organisational & work design, leadership & management, competencies, organisational & cultural change, remuneration & benefits and assessment centres. 

Jacki has also worked in investment banking in a senior human resources capacity. She re-established Deutsche Bank’s human resource development function in Asia and led their Asia Pacific learning & development function across some 15 countries – Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam - providing services and solutions in leadership/management development, performance management, talent management, individual assessments, training, elearning and career development.  This involved managing across a complex, global matrix and with multiple national and organizational cultures.

Combined, these diverse business dimensions bring a unique breadth and depth to Jacki’s consulting and coaching.

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.

Deborah Ee

Business Client Relations Manager

B. Comm

Deborah has been with PMCG for the past 4 years. Her role involves:

• Management and co-ordination of PMCG’s business activities
• Client relations

Deborah has 16 years of experience in administration and customer service relations.  Prior to coming on board PMCG, she was with BHP Steel (Singapore) for 10 years in various administrative roles.  Thereafter, she was seconded to the Singapore Australian Business Council for a year as their Executive Director.  In this varied roles, cross cultural sensitivity, team work, leadership and a good sense of humour is critical to achieving an effective organization.  She is focused in providing value-add customer service within the organization and its clients.

In 1998 to 2001, Deborah has spent her time in New Zealand gaining her Bachelor of Commerce degree from The Auckland University and a Diploma in Teaching People with Disabilities, and held various part time commercial, teaching and financial posts in Auckland while studying.  Deborah is Singaporean.

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 Deborah Ee 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