Trainers
Art Fromm
North America
Sales Skills
Art has over 20 years experience and has been involved
with development and delivery of dozens of face-to-face and virtual classroom programs
for Sales Engineers, Account Managers, channel teams and partner sales member audiences.
His expertise ranges from consultative selling to opportunity management to customer
buying process.
Chris Longstaffe
North America / Europe
Sales, leadership and channel development.
Chris is a natural-born salesperson, earning him the
top performing Sales Executive title a number of times throughout his career. His
experience in the UK, US and Europe has included time in regional sales management,
international business development and consulting.
C.J.Ng
Asia
Sales, business management and conference speaking.
C.J. is a trusted sales advisor who has helped many international
companies achieve quantum
improvements in sales profits in China and beyond. C.J.
has conducted many Mandarin and English languages training, coaching and consulting
projects for audiences in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the People’s Republic
of China.
David Smith
Australia / Asia
Sales performance, management consulting and executive
coaching.
David has co-designed and delivered numerous training
programs including sales essentials,management training, account planning, presentation
and negotiation skills. He has over forty years experience and has facilitated training
in over 30 countries. David’s unique style combines his extensive sales and management
experience, with a practical, “no-nonsense”, high energy approach.
David Zhu
Asia / North America
Sales and management training/consulting.
David has over 15 years of sales and management experience
in multinational companies in the United States and China. He believes in consultative
training solutions, for which he invests time in needs analysis, program development
as well as follow up work. He delivers courses in both Mandarin Chinese and English.
Elton Kuo
Greater China
Sales, marketing, productivity and strategic business
planning.
Elton is a veteran of multi-national and multi-cultural
business environments with extensive field expertise in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
He uses real case studies to illustrate points and expertly blends the information
with the skills and awareness he has built up in the IT training arena. Elton is
multi-lingual.
Eric Lowe
UK, EMEA, Asia
Sales and business development with an IT focus.
Eric is an IT expert who understands the challenges faced
by sales teams in today’s complex IT world. His programs focus on the need to change
the sales philosophy of both pre and post sales teams.
George Du
Asia
Sales, marketing and management.
During his career in the United States and China, George
has developed exceptional product, business and strategic skills, which he happily
imparts to delegates in his courses. He brings his practical experiences to the
training environment and is a fluent Chinese Mandarin and English speaker.
Gordon Philp
Australia / Asia
Sales, sales management and business skills.
Combining 25 years of sales and sales management experience
and an instinctive ability to perform and entertain, Gordon has made his mark as
a Senior Consultant and sales training facilitator. His programs cover the full
range of sales and management skills, from transactional selling right through to
value-added solution sales.
Ian Hu
Australia / Asia
Consultative solution selling and service competency
development.
With 20 years of experience in the technology sector
across Asia Pacific and Australia, Ian is well equipped to deliver meaningful learning
outcomes to a wide-ranging corporate audience in either English or Chinese Mandarin.
Ian’s training methodology that makes even the most complex technologies, application
and procedures easy to understand.
Jae-Jun Song
Korea / Hong Kong
Sales, management and marketing consultant.
Jae-Jun’s career spans two
decades and includes senior positions in management, sales and project management
within Korea, the US, UK and Hong Kong. He is a Certified Microsoft consultant
and a sales methodology expert and is a fluent Korean and English speaker.
James Bent
Australia / New Zealand
Course developer and facilitator.
James has a background in training and course design, working on organisational-wide
business process strategy. As a Master Trainer, he has run Train the Trainer
courses and created pools of certified business instructors. James has designed
courses for customer service centres, systems implementations, channel partners
and in neuro-linguistic programming / body language. He also spent time in Japan
as an English language teacher.
Jie Li
Asia
Performance skills training, sales
facilitation and sales leadership development.
Jie is a sales management consultant
who specialises in developing and delivering training programs for the China, Hong
Kong and Taiwan markets. With her track record as a successful sales professional
and sales leader, Jie brings relevant industry knowledge into the training environment.
She is fluent in Chinese and English.
Kevin McLaughlin
Asia / Philippines
Sales performance, technical sales and leadership.
Kevin is a results driven sales leader and consultant with an accomplished 26 year
career in business development, sales and marketing, network design and operations,
sales and technical sales course facilitation and development. He has conducted
numerous training workshops in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Kotaro Takagi
Asia / Japan
Sales, customer service and leadership
Kotaro has nearly 20 years experience in specialised corporate training across
South East Asia. His work as business consultant has provided
him with a wealth of experience in developing and delivering training solutions,
at many times specifically in relation to a company’s product or solution. He is
well-versed in both western and Japanese business methodology, providing a smooth
transition of learning to skill application.
Lorenzo Yang
Asia
Sales performance, leadership development and team building.
Lorenzo has 20 years experience in multi-national
companies in China and has worked on consulting projects and training program development
for a number of local and international companies. His strength is his thorough
understanding of and ability to connect western management methodologies and eastern
management logics. He is fluent in Chinese and English.
Muffy Churches
Australia / US / Asia
Performance skills training, executive
coaching and employee development.
Muffy is a principle developer, designer
and facilitator of A.S.K Learning’s training programs, bringing over 20 years experience
across three continents. Her energetic style, sense of fun and ability to involve
all participants in the training journey has delivered outstanding results for many
blue-chip organisations. Her qualifications include performance, coaching and counselling
accreditations.
Owen Rounthwaite
US / Europe
Sales and technical pre-sales with
an IT focus.
Owen is a highly motivated, commercially
aware, technically orientated facilitator with over 20 years experience. In his
classes he expertly manages the integration of service-based technical skills, from
application profiling to developmental services for aspiring Sales Engineers.
Tony Muir
Australia / Asia
Sales, sales management and sales
training.
Tony is a seasoned operator and a
true professional. He has over 30 years of solid sales experience and is a certified
instructor for both sales training and management development. His programs are
highly successful in changing sales behaviours and resulting in improved performance.
He is a natural at entertaining and motivating his classes and has an innate ability
to explain concepts simply and clearly.
Warren Arbuckle
Asia Pacific / North America
Sales, project management and strategic
solution development.
Warren has over 25 years work experience and has been providing customised
training program development and instruction, in both English and Japanese for over
a decade. His experience in sales training spans working with sales engineers for
technical opportunity planning to developing innovative sales skills with the staff
of mobile phone providers. He is a certified Project Management Professional who
has coached and led many successful multi-cultural project groups.
Yeri Choi
Asia
Performance skills, executive coaching
and sales facilitation.
Yeri is a sales performance and management
consultant with a wealth of training and
development experience. As a fluent
Korean, Japanese and English speaker, she manages the localisation and delivery
of many training programs to those markets. Her energetic style and ability to involve
all participants in the training experience has delivered outstanding results among
a wide array of industries and audiences.