Chris Lonsdale
Hong Kong
Senior Fellow
Chris has vast client
experience in Asia. His clients include AIA, The Coca-Cola
Company, Boots Healthcare Int., DHL, the Hong Kong Trade
Development Council, The City University of Hong Kong, Coca-Cola
China, DuPont, East-Asia Heller, Hayco, Hewlett-Packard, The Hong
Kong Tourism Board, Ingersoll-Rand, Motorola, NFO Worldwide,
Rockwell Automation, Seagram Asia-Pacific, Swire Beverages Ltd. and
a number of international financial institutions and leading
investment banks.
Chris works with clients to induce organisational change, make
mission-critical teams more effective, and help senior executives
achieve peak performance goals. A focus for much of Chris' work is
the identification of the critical skills and thinking that
underpin extraordinary performance. This knowledge is then used to
help individuals and teams responsible for breakthrough performance
first achieve, and then exceed, their goals.
Chris is also Director of Third Ear Publishing Ltd., a start-up
company that is changing the way languages are learned. The company
has a rapidly growing business in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and in
the online space.
Chris's focus on business and communication is built on 25
years' experience in this field. Chris is fluent in Mandarin and
other Chinese dialects. After distinguishing himself with
inter-cultural psychology, communications and language skills in
China, Chris moved to Hong Kong where he worked for several years
with one of the world's largest Public Relations consultancies.
Chris' professional qualifications include a first class honours
degree in psychology from the University of Canterbury, advanced
certificates from the University of Hong Kong (Education) and Iowa
State University (Accelerated Learning Methodology), and an expert
trainer's qualification in NLP.
Based out of Hong Kong, and operating in the Asia Pacific and
Mainland China, he has over 25 years of experience creating
breakthrough results for his clients, with notable projects
including Coca-Cola's involvement in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.