Haines Centre for Strategic Management
Global Partners, Principals and Certified Business Associates
Argentina
Argentia O Castello
Oscar Castello
Managing Partner, Mercusor
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Australia
austrialia allan bandt
Allan Bandt
Global Partner Australia and New Zealand
West Perth, Australia
 
Australia
Lewis Atkinson
Brisbane, Australia - Certified Business Associate

China
China Sophia Yeh
Sophia Yeh
Shanghai, China - Strategic Alliance

China Richard Zhou James McClain
Richard Zhou &
James McClain
Beijing, China - Strategic Alliance
Sino-American Haines Centre
Kuwait
Raja Al Laho
Raja Al Laho
Safat, Kuwait - Strategic Alliance

New Zealand
Nigel Wyse
Nigel Wyse
Global Partner Wellington, New Zealand

Saudi Arabia
Abdulgader Gabel
Abdulqader Gabel
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Stephen Lin
Stephen Lin
Global Partner Asia
Singapore

United Arabia Emirates
Chander Mohan
Chander Mohan
Global Partner Middle East
United Arab Emirates

Vietnam
Chander Mohan
Soeren Juelsbak
Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon Vietnam
- Certified Business Associate


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Singapore
Stephen Lin
Stephen Lin is a Global Partner of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management®, and the Haines Centre's master facilitator in Asia.  He works with organizations in Singapore and the region, to improve long term performance by developing their strategic management and innovation capabilities, through training, coaching and facilitative consulting.  Stephen is a former government scholar, national sportsman, naval officer and entrepreneur.  He has over 23 years of senior management experience in private and public organizations, both as an internal executive as well as an external consultant.  In addition to in-company training and consulting, Stephen also regularly leads public workshops/seminars on strategic thinking & planning, change management, leadership and innovation, and has conducted these workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, and the USA.

Full professional biography

Contact information:
Stephen Lin
Regional Managing Partner (Asia)
Haines Centre for Strategic Management®
3 Raffles Place #07-01
Singapore 048617
Tel: 65 - 63322 033
E-mail Stephen Lin

Web site for Haines Centre for Strategic Management®, Asia: www.hainescentreasia.com

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Argentina

Oscar Castello

Oscar Castello, is the owner and founder of "CASTELLO" Estrategia-Recursos Humanos-Organización in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a prestigious strategic and human resources consulting firm that provides strategic management consulting services as well as executive search. Oscar designs and implements management training and development to the competencies required by each business, plus 360° feedback and executive coaching. Additionally, they focus on strategic planning, organizational structures, HR reengineering, compensation, change management, and organizational behavior. "CASTELLO" Estrategia-Recursos Humanos-Organización has 12 permanent and 5 part-time professionals. It also has affiliates within Argentina, as well as Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay (all of Mercosur, the South American Free Trade Zone).

Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Argentina Representatives—locally and along the Mercosur and Chile

Web site for Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Argentina: www.centroliderazgo.com

Contact information:
Oscar Castello
Haines Centre for Strateic Management® - Argentina
Phone: +54-11-4772-5865
Cell: 54-9-11-4439-2220
E-mail Oscar Castello

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Australia
Allan Brandt
Allan Bandt is a Global Partner of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management® in Australia and is owner of Bandt Gatter and Associates, a strategic management and HR consulting firm based in Perth, Australia, since 1990. Allan specializes in strategic planning, organizational development, and strategic HR management. Allan was an executive in the public and private sectors and continues to serve both sectors throughout Australia as the Haines Centre's Global Partner there. He has been a National Director of the Australian HR Institute and Chair of their Strategic Planning Committee. He and his team consultants have led major long-term and strategic consulting assignments from Sydney to Adelaide to Perth. The Haines Centre's public workshops are run throughout Australia each year by Steve Haines, Allan Bandt, and others.

Web site for Allan Bandt: www.bandtgatter.com

Contact information:
Allan Bandt
Global Partner
Haines Centre for Strategic Management®
20C Churchill Avenue
Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Phone: +61-8-9388-3570
Fax: +61-8-9382-4134
E-mail Allan Bandt

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Lewis Atkinson
Dr. Lewis Atkinson has 25 years experience in knowledge production & transfer through both commercialisation and “free-to-air” innovation pathways to market. After starting his career in operations, planning and research with Unifoods Australia, in 1993 he became Research and Information Services Manager for Australian Meat Technology Pty Ltd, a CSIRO technology start-up and management consulting company. In 1998 he was part of a team that started a new industry owned company called Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd, where he has held several positions over the past 12 years.

Lewis is a natural systems thinker and has been awarded a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Queensland. He is also an associ- ate of Melbourne University - Melbourne Consulting and Custom Programs - http://www.mccp.unimelb.edu.au/about-us/our-people/associates

Lewis is a high calibre innovation professional. He likes people and people like him. Lewis has been a core member of many high performance teams. He has a solid technical and financial grounding which, combined with his strong creative side, enables him to see patterns, path- ways, and solutions that others don’t.

Lewe is best described as a connector, a link player, a networker, and systems thinker. His core strengths, are summarised as follows;

  • Innovation activist - Leveraging skills, knowledge, and resources to secure traction for in- novative ideas and solutions for individuals, organizations, and communities.
  • Big picture framer – Championing new insights and vision with key stakeholders such that they can view issues from the perspective of other parts of the same system.
  • Relationship integrator – Engaging, networking, and relationship building to create sustain- able collaborative partnerships.
  • A critical friend – Capable of facilitating safe environments for self-reflection and learning by individuals, teams, and organizations.

Lewis is a warm and generous person with lots of insights and wisdom to share with you through his own learning site; www.strategic-partnership.org

Contact information
Lewis Atkinson
Certified Business Associate
E-mail Lewis Atkinson

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China
Sophia Yeh
Sophia Yeh : CEO of Whole Brain Leadership Consulting (Shanghai) Inc.

Sophia Yeh of Shanghai, China, is one of the Haines Centre's Strategic Alliance Partners and Certified Business Associates. Sophia has over 21 years professional and pioneering experience in 5 different industries before starting her own business. Her specialties include Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Management, Public Relations, Information Technology, Legal and Administration. She published a popular book ìCharisma of a Leader ìin 1999.

In 1991, Sophia established her own management consulting company Whole Brain Leadership Consulting and then acquired the rights from the Franklin Covey Organization, marketing their programs and products in Taiwan and China as the first Chinese Master Trainer to introduce The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People into the China market. Whole Brain Leadership Consulting has grown to over 30 consultants and trainers and positioned themselves as the Strategic Partner of Sustainable Chinese Companies, focus on providing Tailor-made & Systematic Leadership Management Training Programs, helping clients develop and cascade Corporate Culture, dealing with Changes from Strategic Planning and Strategic Management Systems

Contact information:
Sophia Yeh
E-mail Sophia Yeh

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Richard Zhou
The Haines Centre has a Strategic Alliance with Global Development Partners of Bejing China.  Su Yue “Richard” Zhou in Beijing and James R. “Jim” McClain of California.  This is in establishing the Haines Centre as a global network of strategic management consultants and is known as The Sino-American Haines Centre for Strategic Management based in Beijing. This is a natural strategic fit that brings together all the needed components (practical business experience in China, strategic management research, a proven strategic management system, and senior level perspective) for the executives of China’s emerging global firms.

Richard Zhou has been an entrepreneur and consultant in China for over a dozen years. Richard has founded a number of established, successful PRC enterprises. An engineer by education, Mr. Zhou worked for the State Railway Administration in China and then for an electronics company for two years in the USA before founding his marketing research and e-companies in China.

GDP and the Haines Centre assist North American enterprises with strategic market entry into China with Strategic Planning and Strategic Change, specifically in the construction (materials, furniture, and appliances), health (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, vitamins, and herbs), and oil, gas, and fertilizer industries.

Jim McClain
Jim McClain has been a corporate marketing executive for 20 years. He is on the management facility at California State University – Fullerton, where he still teaches Strategic Management courses. Twenty years ago, Jim founded JR McClain & Associates, a strategic management consultancy. Together with Richard Zhou, he assists Asian companies penetrate US markets.

Contact information:
Richard Zhou & James McClain
Sino-American Haines Centre for Strategic Management
E-mail Richard Zhou
E-mail James McClain

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Dubai
Chander Mohan
Chander Mohan is the founder and owner of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Dubai, a training and management consultancy firm established in Dubai in 1996. Chander has an M.B.A. with specialization in finance and human resources management. After holding various senior management positions in the banking sector in India and the United Arab Emirates for 17 years, he spent the next six years in Dubai as the training manager at Mashreq Bank, one of the largest and most dynamic banks in the UAE/Gulf. During this period, he was actively involved in facilitating the process of strategic transformation and change, especially in the areas of strategic planning, HRD, TQM, and customer services.

Full professional biography
Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Dubai Profile
Testimonial to Superior Service

Dubai Quality Group Workshop - by Stephen Haines and Chander Mohan

Contact information:
Chander Mohan
Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Dubai
P.O. Box 22915
Dubai, UAE
Phone: +9714-268-9707
Fax: +9714-268-9636
E-mail Chander Mohan

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Saudi Arabia
Abdulqader Gabel
Abdulqader Gabel, is the Global Partner for the Haines Centre for Strategic Management® in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a certified consulting office in Management from Ministry of commerce and Industry in Saudi Arabia. Further, he has certifications to use PAQ Services Inc. from Washington, USA as well as Kepner & Fourie PSDM programs, and Skill Base Technologies in Talent and Performance management solution.

Full professional biography
Web site for Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Saudi Arabia: www.gabelconsultants.com

Contact information:
Abdulqader Gabel
Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Saudi Arabia
Mona Al Yousif Plaza, Al Hamra, Corneeche Rd. NT #13
PO Box: 100672 Jeddah 21311
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Office Tel: +96626693604
Fax:+96626692196
Mobile Phone: +966505659289
E-mail Abdulqader Gabel

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Kuwait
Raja Al Laho
Mrs. Raja Al Laho, a global partner for the Haines Centre for Strategic Management® in Kuwait, is also a partner and a consultant in Gulf Lead Consultants. She is certified for delivering Haines Centre training programs as well as being a Global Certified Coach from CoachInc and a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She has extensive experience in providing training and coaching services for managers and executives in leading companies in Kuwait. Combining the international knowledge with the local culture sense, Mrs. Raja successfully managed to lead and direct many executives towards their targets and dreams and taking them from where they are to where they want to be.

Gulf Lead ConsultantsGulf Lead Consultants (GLC) is a Kuwait based Company established in 2005 with Industrial and Management Consultancy and Training as its key business activities. GLC’s team of Certified Professionals aim to LEAD their clients towards success and prominence in their field.


Contact information:
Raja Al Laho
Gulf Lead Consultants
Kuwait, Hawaly
Bairot Street Al-Daboos Complex, Floor No. (4)
P.O.Box 29112, Safat 13152
Tel: +(965) 263-3634 - +(965) 263-3638
Fax: +(965) 263-3630
E-mail Raja Al Laho

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New Zealand
Nigel Wyse
Nigel Wyse is the Global Partner for Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - New Zealand, a strategic management and HR consulting firm based in Wellington, New Zealand, since 2004. This firm specialises in strategic planning, strategic management, organizational development, and strategic HR management.

Nigel was an executive in the public sector for thirty years with experience in health, education and welfare and in the State Services Commission [a NZ Government central agency]. He also has experience in the private sector and as a consultant with Ernst & Young. He serves both public and private sectors throughout New Zealand as the Haines Centre's Partner there.

He is an Associate Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management, a Member and past National President of the New Zealand Organisation for Quality, an Associate Member of the NZ institute of Directors, and Professional Member of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand.

Full professional biography

Contact information:
Nigel Wyse
Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - New Zealand
P O Box 12-189, Thorndon
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: +64-4-970-7339
Fax: +64-4-972-7399
E-mail Nigel Wyse

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Malaysia
Khoo Boo Yeang
Dr. Boo Yeang Khoo is a Principal of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management® in Malaysia. He has been providing consultancy services since 1997, in the areas of strategic management, capital restructuring, corporate governance, enterprise wide risk management and financial management. He has successfully helped his clients implement their strategies and enterprise wide risk management in their organizations in Malaysia as well as in the ASEAN countries. He is also an approved trainer for a number of professional bodies and statutory bodies in Malaysia. His clients include public listed companies and government linked corporations.

Contact information:
Khoo Boo Yeang
Haines Centre for Strategic Management® - Malaysia
98-2-33A, Prima Tanjung Business Centre,
Jalan Fettes , 11200 Penang , Malaysia .
Tel: 6 04 899 7933
Fax: 6 04 899 6553.
E-mail Khoo Boo Yeang

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Vietnam
Soeren Juelsbak
Mr. Soeren Juelsbak is a Certified Business Associate with the Haines Centre for Strategic Management. Soeren is also the Owner and Director of S T R A S O L Group International, an international Strategic Solutions provider that leads companies and individual business executives towards improved business performance. Soeren is native of Copenhagen, Denmark and has been resident in Vietnam for 14 years. Soeren has worked the last 20 years across a several industries in both Western and Asian working environments. Soeren holds an Executive MBA-degree from Thailand’s ‘Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)’.

S T R A S O L (www.strasol.com) was founded in 2005 and is gradually becoming an internationally recognized Strategic Solutions provider, serving companies and individual business executives as their long-term strategic partner-in-arms. The company offers its clients vital Management Consultancy Services, proficient Learning Workshops and transformational Strategic Solutions.

Contact Information
Soeren Juelsbak,
Haines Centre Certified Business Associate
S T R A S O L  Vietnam Co. Ltd.,
38 Tran Ngoc Dien,
Thao Dien, District 2,
Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon,
Vietnam
Tel.: +84 904 410 884
Email Soeren Juelsbak

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