Executive Certificate in Managing Across Borders

The Aventis Executive Education Series

This Executive Certification is part of our Aventis Executive Education Series, which collectively provides a robust platform for like-minded and talented senior executives across Asia to partake in collaborative learning.

Facilitated by reputable industry experts and partnered with the prestigious University of Roehampton (London), our structured courses provide an excellent opportunity for you to enhance your professional skills and keep yourself updated with the latest industry insights, as a working professional. 

Get ready to learn, transform, and be empowered as a global leader of a smarter workforce.

Aventis Executive Certification in Managing Across Borders

The skill sets and demand of managing in an international operating environment have changed drastically over the past decade.

This Aventis Executive Certification in Managing Across Borders aims to extend and deepen your knowledge of managing and leading people to overcome the challenges of working in a global environment. You will learn to prepare for working within a global organisation setting where they are required to work with people from different cultures and across borders. Through a critical awareness of how key people are resourced and of cross-cultural management techniques, students will develop an appreciation for the potential challenges of managing across borders and become familiar with evidence-based strategies which can add value to organisations.

Course Schedule

This Aventis Executive Certification in Managing Across Borders is a structured program delivered across 4 days (2 blocks of Sat & Sun) from 9am to 5pm, held Virtually via Zoom.

In this 4-Day Executive Certification program, students will be equipped to learn the following:

• Learn key concepts of leading across global organisations
• Develop skills to manage non-local teams
• Improve your ability to negotiate and motivate internationally
• Understand cultural influences to make decisions and develop strategies for working successfully with colleagues across the world.

This Executive Certification is ideal for senior executives or managers seeking to enhance their credentials in this subject matter, and for any working professional eager to know more and get updated on current ideas in the respective field.

We would recommend this Executive Certification for the following audience:

• Regional executives based at headquarters but who manage international activities.
• Managers who have been tasked with cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
• Business Development or Sales & Marketing personnel who need to negotiate deals and close sales in other countries.
• Personnel about to be posted abroad or are currently posted abroad.
• Leaders who must manage the collaboration of project teams in multiple locations

Tham Chien Ping is an all-rounded, both strategic and hands-on senior HR practitioner with more than 12 years of experience in the South-East Asia & wider APAC region in HR Business Partnering, Learning and Organisation Development and Talent Management. Industries include technology start-ups, banking & financial institutions, professional services, IT and Government.

His expertise lies in leading M&A, culture & organisation change management projects, design & delivery of talent, leadership and learning programs and managing local labour laws and employee / industrial relations in the region.

Mr Tham is also accredited by HR national bodies in Singapore (IHRP-SP), Australia (CPHR), Canada (CPHR), UK (MCIPD) and US (SHRM-SCP). Other globally recognised accreditations include ODCP (NTL Institute), PMP and PMP-ACP (PMI), CPLP (ATD), AWI-CH (AWI) and CCMP (ACMP). Graduated with a MSc in I/O Psychology from Baruch College, CUNY and a MBA (Merit) from Strathclyde Business School.

Representative and Master Facilitator for Society of HR Management (SHRM) in South-East Asia, and also part of a team of global content developers, on assignments virtually and onsite in SHRM HQ in Alexandria, VA.

Adjunct lecturer since 2011 at Post Grad Diploma, Diploma and Certificate levels in HR, OD and L&D modules since 2011 at various institutions such as PSB Academy, SUSS, SMU Academy and Singapore HR Institute.

Associate Consultant since 2015, achieving accredited consultant status (Singapore Certified Management Consultant by TUV SUD) with more than 2000 hours of recognised consultancy hours provided to clients in various sectors such as MNCs, SMEs and NPOs.