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After a 5-hour drive from the capital Phnom Penh, we arrived at a peaceful and typical Cambodian village in Tbong Khmom Province called Steng.  Driving pass a narrow road with rows of wooden houses, after a football field, sits a fenced and gated complex of an international school run by an overseas foundation. Engaged as a consultant in the Schools Transformation program, I was there to conduct a 3-day Mentor Teachers training for leaders and senior teachers of the school. It is part of a year-long capacity building programme  for leaders and teachers of more than 10 schools in the province that  were sponsored by  the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). Morning Assembly at  Rahma International School. CAMBODIA          Similar to the workshops held in Indonesia and Thailand, it was the last module of 5 that I personally designed for the Organisational Development (OD)  Program for Schools, which included: Strategic Management 1- Visi...

My professional coaching journey - the beginnings. In 2001, true to my practice of reviewing my career plans every five years, I decided to leave my education and training social enterprise and joined an  American technology MNC. Five year later,  I decided to extend my stay there after receiving a scholarship to do an external bachelor's business degree program in Business at the University of London. It was like a redemption of sorts because b ack in 1991 I couldn't qualify to study Business at the National University of Singapore, where I settled for a double major in Political Science and History. By 2011, I was itching to switch back to my old trade but again decided to stay as I had the opportunities to do training and continuous improvement projects as part of the organisational transformation program.  In the meantime, I took up many external consulting and training projects, including one for the World Bank in the Philippines. I occasionally took leave from work ...