Anis Whittingham

Lee brings a unique set of skills and experience to the multicultural consulting, training, coaching and marketing environments. He has travelled, resided, worked and trained professionally in more than 35 countries and is currently managing director of Global Diversity Management Sdn Bhd, a training organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Prior to his relocation to Malaysia, Lee lived in the United States, delivering cross cultural and global management training programs internationally to diverse organizations including General Motors, Ford, Avery Dennison, Hewlett-Packard, GE Aircraft Engines, GTE, Baxter Pharmaceuticals, Principal Insurance, and Nokia. His expertise in career transitions and outplacement consulting resulted in projects with Motorola, IBM, AOL and other Fortune 500 companies.

Lee has extensive international business and marketing experience and has designed intercultural strategy training programs for organizations in global business, hospitality, tourism, education and social services for more than twenty-five years. He has collaborated on training, marketing and educational projects in Tokyo, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Honolulu, Portland, Los Angeles, Detroit, Tucson, New York, Mexico City and the Peruvian Amazon for numerous clients including: Nike International, Hilton International-Asia and the Pacific, Samsung Corporation, Phillips Petroleum, Portland Community College, Ottawa University, LPPM Graduate Management School Indonesia, and the International School of Bangkok.

Anis Whittingham has a Bachelor of Arts in Education and an MA TESL from Seattle University and Northern Arizona University, USA.

She has 15 years of work experience in communications, customer relations, franchise business and management consultancy both in Malaysia and the England.

She started her career lecturing at UiTM overseas twinning programmes, developing syllabi and curriculum for the degree students and spearheading the annual language camps. She then moved to Celcom Academy to do training and staff development.

She was involved in the franchising business for 3 years, in business operations and was one of the original team members of the first Malaysian hot dog franchisor, the 1901 Sdn. Bhd. As a senior manager she was responsible for successful fund raising for the company.

During her two year stay in England, Anis conducted the Electronic Customer Service Relations (ECRM) training programmes for SkyDeal and Eurostar. She developed and managed events for Virtual Knowledge, Malaysian Students Department and Perwakilan London (Persatuan Wanita Kementerian Luar Negeri). She was also a substitute EFL lecturer for Kensington and Chelsea College, London at Marlborough, Hortensia and Holland Park campuses.

At present, Anis is an associate consultant with several consulting firms in Klang Valley. Her work involves consulting in career transitions, teambuilding and customer service.

As the Managing Principal of Right Management Consultants, a leading global HR consulting company, Ravi was responsible for the start up of Right’s Kuala Lumpur office in June 1998. Besides developing presence in Malaysia, he has provided consulting in Dubai, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam working with over 10 different nationalities with varied cultural background.

Prior to joining Right, he has had a distinguished career with leading multi-national corporation Gillette, where he held several senior management positions, including Managing Director in Malaysia, General Manager positions in Taiwan and Singapore, Marketing Manager for Malaysia and Financial Controller, Indonesia.

His broad hands-on experience has provided him with intimate knowledge in the key business disciplines of sales, marketing, finance and human resources. These business skills, coupled with his years of consulting, ensure his credibility with senior level client engagements – be they executive coaching, team building, change management or career management.

Ravi has lead and managed Leadership, Career Management and Change programs for some major clients in the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, IT, Petro Chemical, Banking, Communications and Consumer Goods industries.