Ong Teong Wan
Mr Ong Teong Wan is currently the Managing Consultant of ManagementWise Pte Ltd (www.managementwisetraining.com). In association with SearchPlus Asia Pte Ltd, Mr Ong offers human resource consulting, productivity and management development programs for middle management personnel for clients of SearchPlus Asia Pte Ltd.

Mr Ong has consulted and trained for government ministries, statutory boards, foreign and local multinational manufacturing, trading companies, departmental store chains, local banks, hotels, hospitals, IT organisations and regional bodies of international organisations such as WHO and ILO.

Mr Ong has been active in national and business organisations, and has served as board member of the Economic Development Board (EDB), National Productivity Board (NPB), Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation (CISCO), General Automotive Services Pte Ltd (GAS), and Comfort Group Limited.

He is an Independent Director of listed companies Vicom Ltd and Lion Teck Chiang Ltd serving on Audit, Remuneration and Nominating Committees.

He was conferred the Friend of Labour Award by the National Trades Union Congress for his contributions to the labour movement and was elected the first local President of the Singapore Training and Development Association for three terms. He has also been designated a Fellow of the Singapore Human Resource Institute for eminence in his field.

He has held positions of Group Director (Human Resources) of the Union Carbide Group of Companies in Singapore, and Area Training Manager NS Electronics (SEA). Altogether, Mr Ong has 12 years’ experience in government service and 12 years in the private sector with multi-national companies. He was full-time Consulting Partner with the Singapore Institute of Management (now UniSIM) for more than 25 years.

His work experience has ranged from educational institution to organisational training, human resource management, productivity improvements, marketing of professional services including club memberships, corporate management services to boardroom work.

Mr Ong graduated in Economics and Geography from the then University of Singapore and has post-graduate professional qualifications in Education from the same university and in Teacher Training from Oxford University, UK. He also holds an IBEAR MBA degree in International Business from the University of Southern California, USA.

He is also author of a book on people productivity: Results Management published by John Wiley & Sons Pte Ltd 2010 which has also been translated into Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia.