Strategic Planning Consultant Stephen Lin

Stephen Lin

Regional Managing Partner – Asia & Middle-East
Strategic Planning Consultant
Strategic Leadership Coach

Stephen Lin
stephen@csm-asia.com

Stephen Lin is a leading Strategic Planning Consultant in Singapore, Asia and the Middle-East. He is the Regional Managing Partner of the Centre in Asia. He is a member of the Centre’s Executive Committee and is responsible for its Certification programs. He holds a Master in Organizational Leadership, and is co-author of “Enhancing Your Strategic IQ – Winning Strategies from A to Z”.

Stephen is one of only a handful strategic planning consultants outside of North America certified by the Association for Strategic Planning (ASP) as a Strategic Management Professional (SMP) – the highest level of competency. He was also Founding Member of the Strategic Management Forum, an international organization dedicated to the advancement of strategic management.

Stephen works with organizations in Singapore and the region, to improve long term performance by developing their strategic and design thinking, 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, strategy implementation, leadership, design thinking and innovation.

Stephen has over 33 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 strategic planning consultant, he is in demand for in-company training as well as facilitation of strategic planning and implementation efforts. He also regularly leads public workshops and seminars on key strategic management topics such as strategic thinking, strategic planning, strategy implementation, leadership and innovation, and has conducted these workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, UAE, Kuwait, Fiji, Vietnam, China, Australia and the USA.

As an international strategic planning consultant. Stephen has led and facilitated numerous “live” strategic planning efforts and in-company senior management development programs. His clients include multi-national companies, non-profits and government agencies, such as Brunei Ministry of Finance, Building & Construction Authority, Catholic Welfare Services, Citibank, DELL Malaysia, DBS Bank, Fiji Council of Social Services, Hitachi Asia Group of Companies, INTEL Microelectronics Malaysia, INTEL Technology Malaysia, LIONS Home for the Elders, Merck-Millipore India, Ministry of Community Development Youth and Sports, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Ministry of Education Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, National Community Leadership Institute, National Council of Social Services, National Healthcare Group, National Institute of Education, National University of Singapore, Panasonic Asia Pacific, Raffles Institution, See Hoy Chan Group Malaysia, Singapore MRT Corp, Singapore Technologies, Singapore Telecoms, Singapore Turf Club, Toshiba Philippines, United Overseas Bank, among others.

Stephen has also trained over 2,200 managers from 37 countries to become better Strategic Leaders, with consistently excellent evaluations by the participants, who come from a wide variety of organizations such as: