Corporate Experience:

His career spans 25 years’ working for Fortune 500 companies, Starbucks Coffee Company where he was Chief Learning Officer (Seattle), YUM Brands Inc. VP of Yum University and Global Learning (Louisville), PepsiCo Restaurants International (Dallas), and Motorola (Singapore)

At Starbucks, Stephen was the VP of Global Learning at Starbucks Coffee Company. The role required implementing an enterprise-wide learning strategy for the 140,000 partners’ 12,800 restaurants operating in 37 countries to enable the brand’s planned and systematic growth across the globe. At YUM Brands Inc., Stephen was the VP of Yum University and Global training where he took care of the top 3000 executives’ developmental needs. YUM Brands operates 34,000 restaurants with 850,000 employees in over 100 countries for quick-service restaurant brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver, and A&W. At, PepsiCo Restaurants International, He was Regional Director in charge of designing and developing programs for all company-owned and franchise in the Asia Pacific region. At Motorola, he started as an Instructional Designer and rose to become regional manager for supplier-customer training. He started his career as a training consultant at the Singapore Institute of Management. These senior training and education roles in these companies have enabled him to develop and train leaders globally.

Conferences and Conventions:

He has spoken at multiple events worldwide and has run numerous training programs, and spoken in many countries across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East such as:

South Africa, Keynote, Leadership Conventions
USA, CLO Exchange Dallas, Atlanta Conferences
USA ASTD chapter meetings and ASTD national convention
Australia, Conferences
Germany, Leadership Off sites
Switzerland, Leadership Offsite
UK, Leadership workshops
Egypt, Keynote, Leadership Programs,
Thailand, Keynote, Public Programs and Conferences
Dubai, Keynote, HR, and Restaurant Managers Conference.
Malaysia, Keynote, Corporate Talks, ARTDO conference
Mauritius, Franchisee Conventions
Philippines – Keynote
China, Keynote, HR and Operations Leaders Conference
Japan, Workshops
Korea, Workshops
Singapore – STADA, APSS and HR Conferences
Indonesia – Keynote, Asian Corporate University Summit
USA Learn Share Creating the Connection Conferences
USA Youth Microenterprise Leadership Conference

Global Leader:

Stephen is also associated with major professional organizations and has served as President of the Association of Psychological Type, Singapore, Vice President of Asian Regional Training and Development Organizations (ARTDO), and is now a member of the National Speakers Association and American Society for Training and Development in the U.S. He was included in WHO’S WHO INTERNATIONAL (2000) and received numerous internal awards at YUM and PepsiCo. He instructed as an adjunct faculty member at University of London and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).

Corporate Clients:

Include but are not limited to doing work for Albertsons, VISA, BASF, Applied Materials Inc, Global Foundries. BNP Paribas, SMBC, OCBC, DBS, Schneider Electric, Barclay’s Bank, Kelly Services, CBRE, Monsanto, Hisense, YUM, ANZ, CB&I, FMCT, Telkom Indonesia, Mandiri Bank, Khazanah Nasional, South East Asia, National Parks Board, Yum! Brands, LM Ericsson, Fiserv ASPAC, Fluke, and Youth Olympics 2010 Organizing Committee.

Educational Clients:

Include running programs at Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Management University, National Technical University, National University of Singapore – MSc Industry 4.0, Washington State University – EMBA, University of Washington – Entrepreneurship Class, Millikin University – Communication and Business Class, Midland University – MBA, AUAP – Faculty Development Program.