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Asia-Pacific
 
 
Headquarters (USA)  
    Ernie Turner
    President & Partner
Tel: +1 (305) 692-2098
Fax: +1 (305) 692-4586
Mobile: +1 (305) 318-5847
ernie.turner@LIMglobal.net
 
 China  
    Vivien Pau
    Associate
Tel: +852-2891-3322
Fax: +852-2168-0899
Mobile: +852-9107-1392
vivien.pau@LIMglobal.net
   
    Pam Birkett
    Associate
Tel: +852-2819 4907
Fax: +852-2816 5038
Mobile: +852-9777 9361
pam.birkett@LIMglobal.net
   
Malaysia  
    Victor Miranda
     Associate
Tel: +6 (012) 323 0082
Fax: +6 (03) 7728 1112
victor.miranda@LIMglobal.net
   
    Jas Miranda
     Associate
Mobile: +6 (012) 372 2734
Fax: +6 (03) 7728 1112

jas.miranda@LIMglobal.net
   
     Gurbakhish Singh
     Associate
Tel: +6(03) 2031 1355
Fax: +6(03) 2032 1355
Mobile: +6 (013) 339 6465
gurbakhish.singh@LIMglobal.net
   
Philippines  
     Ana Emilia Ruby B. Palma
     Associate
Tel: +63 (2) 787 1949
ruby.palma@LIMglobal.net
   
    Maria Teresa P. Benitez
     Associate
Tel: +63 917 813 1153
Fax: +63 (2) 850 2421
te.benitez@LIMglobal.net
   
     Carivic J. Co
     Associate
Tel: +63 (2) 929 7056
Mobile: +63 920 914 8160
carrie.co@LIMglobal.net
   
     Rosario S. Ventura
     Associate
Tel: +63 (2)  931 1902
Mobile: +63 928 503 1050
Fax : +63 (2) 455 7942

chit.ventura@limglobal.net
   
Singapore  
     Charles Quah, CPLP
     Singapore Coordinator
Tel: +65 9737 7567
charles.quah@LIMglobal.net
 
 

Ernie Turner

President and Partner, LIM LLC

 

Ernie Turner has more than thirty years experience, working with a wide variety of international corporations in developing high-performing teams and leaders, managing organizational change, making mergers work and executive coaching.

He has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America. Ernie is co-author of "Action reflection learning: solving real business problems by connecting learning with earning" (Davies Black, 2008) and the author of the lntelitec Program Planning Guide: The Team Approach.
 

He has also co-authored articles on teamwork and Action Reflection Learning for the American Management Association Management Review and the ASTD Journal.

Ernie has an MA in Educational Administration from City College in New York and a BA in English Literature from Wheaton College.
 
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Vivien Pau
Associate

Vivien Pau has over 25 years management, marketing, coaching and training experience across a broad range of industries including e-commerce, market research and retail banking. She was the CEO of a leading e-commerce business in Hong Kong, where she started and built the business with no established industry model to follow. When she left the business, it was the largest Chinese e-commerce business in Hong Kong with a high performing team, an established infrastructure and a growing customer base worldwide.
 

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Pam Birkett
Associate

Pam Birkett is a LIM Learning Coach and has over 20 years of coaching and training experience, assisting companies to devise, develop and deliver customized solutions to meet their business needs.  She believes strongly that the best results come when the people themselves are actively involved in co-creating the desired outcomes.  She has worked with local and international companies in Asia, Europe, America and Australia.
 

After working for an international management consultancy company for 7 years, she worked as a Performance Consultant on a project basis for different organizations.   She joined LIM as an Associate in 2000. 

She is from the United Kingdom but has lived in Italy for three years and in Asia for over 20 years.   She has a BA in Modern Languages from Leicester University and a Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Oxford University.

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Victor Miranda
Associate

A former senior banker with a distinguished 25-year career with HSBC grounded in the principles of integrity, competency and resilience. A key feature of Victor’s banking career was the leadership role that led change in HSBC with the development and delivery of the highly successful Partner services in Malaysia. This initiative laid the foundation to the Group’s world-wide Premier and PowerVantage personal banking services.
 

In recognition of Victor’s contributions in conceptualizing, developing and marketing of financial services, he was conferred the “Fellow” status (FCIM), the highest professional award by CIM, the largest marketing body in Europe. He was the first banker in Malaysia and Singapore to receive this accolade.

Over the last 12 years Victor built his own practice in executive search. The knowledge, skills and contacts developed in Malaysia and Asia-Pacific over these years proved invaluable in finding solutions to the high level leadership positions in banking, finance, marketing and sales.

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Jas Miranda
Associate

An HR practitioner with 20 years experience covering in HR policies, change management, compensation & benefits and recruitment. Jas was recognized for her ability in adapting and driving organizational changes when the business operations changed hands twice from International Petroleum to BHP to Lundin Oil. This experience sharpen her skills in organization development, team work and change management.
 

Prior to this, Jas was the Program Coordinator for a UNESCO/UNDP organization that focused on training and upgrading broadcasting skills in developing countries.

Over the last 12 years, she remains an active Partner with VM Search Consultants that focuses on high level executive recruitment in the financial, ICT and Telco sectors. Jas holds the Master of Science (MSc) degree in Human Resources Management from the University of Lincoln, UK.

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Gurbakhish Singh
Associate

Gurbakhish is a Certified Learning Coach, Accountant, Internal Auditor, trainer coach and speaker. He is a fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and a Certified Internal Auditor (IIA Inc). His main interests are in coaching, solutions focused training, managing strategy and operations, performance management, governance, control and risk management.

He has over 32 years of experience and

Gurbakhish Singh

exposure across a broad range of industries from Manufacturing, Trading, Banking, Plantations, Property development, Asset management and many others dealing with a wide variety of nationalities at the most senior levels on very sensitive issues. He has designed and delivered management and business skill development workshops, and participated in panel discussions and delivered papers at international conferences in the fields of governance, control and risk management.

He believes that the best way to build a company’s future is to build its people and business at the same time.


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Ana Emilia Ruby B. Palma
Associate

Ruby is a seasoned Human Resource professional with demonstrated and recognized strengths in organizational development (OD) and strategic learning and development. Before joining LIM she served as Regional Learning and Development Director for AstraZeneca in Asia Pacific where she designed the strategic learning agenda, and development of talents for 14 markets in the region.

Prior roles included being Human Resource Director of the Philippine 

operations of two multinational pharmaceutical companies where she played a strategic part in the merger and integration of two companies Astra and Zeneca, then later on UCB and Schwarz where she drove the evolution of the new culture, led and navigated change, designed employee communication strategies, and managed the HR & Administration team.
 
As a big picture thinker, Ruby’s expertise includes a keen sensitivity and ability to develop and motivate high performing teams, and to coach executives in transition.

Ruby has an MBA from the Ateneo de Manila Business School.

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Maria Teresa P. Benitez
Associate

Te Benitez has over 25 years experience as a human resources and training & organization development professional with Intel Corporation, a multinational Fortune 500 company. Being a HR partner supporting the factories, she gained valuable experience in managing company life cycles including start-up, ramp-up and downsizing. She was responsible for all major HR functions before she left the Philippine operations to move to Greater Asia Region HR. In that role, Te was responsible for building global leadership and management
capability for Intel in Asia and co-developed strategies for technical and leadership capability development through continuing education initiatives.

At present, she remains an active capability development consultant, helping organizations in strategic planning and business development, global leadership and management development, change and transition management, executive coaching, building high performing teams, cross-cultural and virtual team development, HR strategy development and operations, and training for improved performance.

Te holds a degree in B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines and MBA units from the Ateneo de Manila University.

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Carivic J. Co
Associate

Carrie has 20 years of experience as a Human Resources professional in various industries including two reputable billion dollar global companies. She was responsible for all major Human Resources functions in her last corporate assignment. Her skills in the field of succession planning, performance management and change management brought her to other Avon Asia/Pacific region sites to coach and train senior managers.
 
At present, she does consulting work in the field of learning and development, review of HR systems and processes, personality development organizational development and change management to start up companies and those in transition.

Carrie holds a M.A. in Organizational/Industrial Psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Santo Tomas. She has a certificate course in Human Resources Executive Development Program from the joint partnership of Avon Corporation and Cornell University.

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Rosario S. Ventura
Associate

Chit is a veteran human resources practitioner, mostly honed in Intel Corporation’s manufacturing operations in the Philippines.  She is also active in the growth of the HR profession in the country as the first female president of the People Management Association of the Philippines and PMAP’s Society of Fellows.

Her other passions are in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and empowerment of women, which started when she pioneered the public affairs
function for Intel Philippines and later on in the Asian Region as Public Affairs and CSR Manager. She remains active in this area  through the American Chamber of Commerce Foundation as a a member of the Board of Trustees and through Zonta International.

She currently does consulting and coaching, focusing on transitions, change management, employee relations, communications and organizational development. She has a B.A. in Sociology and a Masters in Business.

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Charles Quah, CPLP
Singapore Coordinator

Charles Quah, CPLP, has been in the HRD profession since 1981. He has managed three training centers in the tourism and communications industries and in Singapore Technologies Group and has held senior positions.

He has trained and consulted for government organizations, statutory boards & MNCs. He has consulted for overseas organizations including APSDEP/ILO, International Resource Centre/Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan) and Raymond Group India.
 

Charles is a certified trainer by several well known consulting organizations. He has a keen interest in Scenario Planning, OD, Performance Improvement and Leadership.

He is current President, ASTD Global Network Singapore, a member of the Singapore IAL Manpower Skills Training Council (MSTC). He has a B.A, Grad Dip Ed (Credit), Dip CAM (UK), MA (George Washington University) and ASTD CPLP.

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