Stephen Lin

Stephen Lin is the Asian Regional Managing Partner of the Haines Centre
for Strategic Management®. He is a member of the Centre’s Executive
Committee and Board of Examiners for its Certification programs, and is also
an adjunct instructor of the University of San Diego’s Division of Continuing
Education. He holds a Master in Organizational Leadership, and is co-author
of “Enhancing Your Strategic IQ – Winning Strategies from A to Z”. Stephen
is the first, and one of only two, international consultants outside of North
America certified by the Association for Strategic Planning (ASP) as a
Strategic Management Professional (SMP) - the highest level of recognition
that ASP awards.

Stephen works with organizations in Singapore and the region, to improve
long term performance by developing their strategic management and
innovation capabilities through training, coaching and facilitation. He is the
Centre's master facilitator in Asia for training and consultancy in strategic
thinking, strategic planning, change management, leadership, and innovation.

Stephen has over 24 years of senior management experience in private and
public organizations, both as an internal executive as well as an external
consultant. As an internal executive, he has led strategic transformation and
capability development efforts and been a key member of strategic and
scenario planning teams. As an external consultant, he is in demand for in-
company training as well as facilitation of planning and implementation &
change efforts. He also regularly leads public workshops/seminars on key
strategic management topics such as strategic thinking & planning, change
management, leadership and innovation, and has conducted these
workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, China and the
USA.

Stephen has led and facilitated numerous “live” strategic planning efforts and
in-company senior management development programs, for a wide range of
organizations including multi-national companies, non-profits and government
agencies. His clients have included the ACS, Association of Muslim
Professionals, Building & Construction Authority, Citibank, DBS Bank, DELL
Malaysia, Hitachi Asia Group of Companies, Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies, II-VI Asia, INTEL Microelectronics Malaysia, INTEL Technology
Malaysia, Merck-Millipore India, Ministry of Community Development Youth
and Sports, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Ministry of Education Singapore,
National Community Leadership Institute, National Council of Social Services,
National Institute of Education, National University of Singapore, Panasonic
Asia Pacific, Raffles Institution, See Hoy Chan Group Malaysia, Singapore
MRT Corp, Singapore Sports Council, Singapore Technologies, Singapore
Telecoms, Yayasan Mendaki, among others.

Stephen has also trained hundreds of managers in workshops and seminars,
with consistently excellent evaluations by the participants, who come from a
wide variety of organizations such as: