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Welcome to Six Seconds’ Asia Pacific (APAC) region! Please see below for contacts in this region, plus and .
APAC Contacts
Sue McNamara, Regional Network Director, APAC. An expert on integrating EQ into the fabric of organizations and communities, Sue supports rigorous, research-based implementation of EQ throughout Asia Pacific. | |
Yasuhiro Tanabe, Regional Network Director, Japan. An experienced business leader, Tanabe brings over three decades of operational and consulting experience in Japan and the US to integrate the concepts of EQ into the Japanese context. | |
Natalie Roitman, Regional Network Director, China. Natalie speaks English, Spanish, French, Chinese and Hebrew, and specializes in Cultural Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence and Strategic HR Management. | |
Yoshie Katsumata, Director of Operations, career consulting professional skills Grade 2 (national certification) ..
Wendy Wu, Founder, An experienced coach and author for Harvard Business Review and Fortune China, Wendy supports leaders to tap their full capacity and optimally manage talent.
in Asia
New Leaders – China – an HR consultancy supporting organizations to attract, select, develop, and optimize talent.
– experts in leadership, creativity, innovation, performance, customer service and communication.
– Malaysia – partnering with leaders to build customer-centered, thriving organizations that deliver their full potential.
– Malaysia – training & consulting to measure and multiply the “DNA” of performance.
– Australia – consulting to develop highly effective teams and organizations.
– Singapore – Emotional Intelligence to make companies and schools happier, more productive places.
Upcoming Events in APAC
18 Apr 2016 : Australia Wodonga Are you setting goals for the year? Unfortunately, 70-90% of change efforts fail – largely due because of a lack of emotional intelligence. So how do you get out of that trap? One key is to identify your unique talents and apply those in new ways. Join this insightful, interactive EQ Cafe to practice emotional intelligence.
11 May 2016 - 15 May : China Dalian Increase your mastery of emotional intelligence in order to increase your own effectiveness and to support others to develop EQ using Six Seconds’ powerful methodology and model
15 Jun 2016 - 18 Jun : China Beijing Ideally coaching supports clients to create positive change – but change doesn’t happen just from “knowing”. Emotions are a key driver for professional and personal transformation. The EQAC equips professionals with a powerful emotional intelligence assessment (the SEI) and the Six Seconds Change MAP as a roadmap for structuring a transformational coaching process fueled by EQ. The course has been approved for 33 ICF Coach Continuing Education units.
4 Oct 2016 - 7 Oct : Singapore Singapore Ideally coaching supports clients to create positive change – but change doesn’t happen just from “knowing”. Emotions are a key driver for professional and personal transformation. The EQAC equips professionals with a powerful emotional intelligence assessment (the SEI) and the Six Seconds Change MAP as a roadmap for structuring a transformational coaching process fueled by EQ. The course has been approved for 33 ICF Coach Continuing Education units.
11 Oct 2016 - 14 Oct : Singapore Singapore Coaching is a powerful process to support people to create positive change – which takes thoughts, feelings, and actions working together. This course equips you to get started as a coach. You’ll learn to apply International Coach Federation (ICF) Core Competencies for the essentials of coaching; a transformational emotional intelligence framework to make coaching highly effective; plus practical tools to provide metrics for growth.
7 Nov 2016 - 11 Nov : Singapore Singapore Increase your mastery of emotional intelligence in order to increase your own effectiveness and to support others to develop EQ using Six Seconds’ powerful methodology and model
14 Nov 2016 - 18 Nov : Singapore Singapore How to supercharge EQ learning? Teach the way the brain learns. This brain-based, humanistic, emotionally rich pedagogy creates transformational learning experiences by engaging head, heart, and hands. Join this course to learn how.
19 Jun 2017 - 23 Jun : Singapore Singapore How to supercharge EQ learning? Teach the way the brain learns. This brain-based, humanistic, emotionally rich pedagogy creates transformational learning experiences by engaging head, heart, and hands. Join this course to learn how.
Articles & Posts from APAC
By: on August 27, 2014 | 6 comments Stress is going up in the world -- which makes emotional intelligence even more important! Research shows that EQ skills are key to managing complexity. As complexity increases, we need to work harder and more directly to put EQ skills into place. What about in business, education, family & government in Singapore and Malaysia? Awareness is growing, but the question over and over: How do we actually USE emotional intelligence? How can we apply these skills in a scientifically robust way that…
By: on March 10, 2014 | 16 comments What is the status of emotional intelligence in the world today? For the first time ever, a view of world-wide data on key strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats for EQ globally.[button link="type="big"] Go to the 2016 State of the Heart[/button] Drawing on a database of over 75,000 assessments, a global sample was created to generate a balanced basis of comparison of EQ in 2011-2013, in the 3 regions of the world: APAC, AMER, EMEA.There is a new State of…
By: on December 1, 2013 | 1 comments We live in a world which is in great flux and flex. Competencies and Skills are in constant need of honing, shaping, restructuring, re-framing and realigning.The trainer or facilitator of learning and development is a key figure in the professional life of people. To get on that cutting edge of competence. To outrace, out beat and outlast the competition. Outside at the marketplace and perhaps even more critically, in the workplace itself. Everyday is a race to the finish post…
By: on September 9, 2013 | 0 comments Congratulations to our friends in Tokyo - we're looking forward to the 2020 Olympics! Japan is renown for hospitality and custom service, teamwork, and care in interaction. Many of the hallmarks of a high EQ organizations. Of course, to undertake such an ambitious project, even more EQ skills will be needed so people from diverse backgrounds can collaborate in a stressful, complex project. Good news! Six Seconds Japan is well on the way to providing this crucial ingredient. A…
By: on August 19, 2013 | 22 comments A few months before she was murdered, I was speaking with Irene Ong about her Noble Goal. Half in jest, I asked her to tell me hers. I was surprised when she said, “I need to go home and start thinking about it carefully.” It surprised me because Irene was well known for her caring and service. She was Director of Kids Programs in a Kiwanis Club, an international non-profit organization involved in alleviating the plight of disadvantaged children. She…
By: on July 16, 2013 | 41 comments One of my favorite elements of our global network is the opportunity to discuss ideas with EQ allies from around the globe. Through the lenses of culture and language and across borders and time zones, we're forced, invited, to reconsider "simple" words. Yesterday I was in the sauna of summertime Tokyo, today in the fog-swathed cool of the San Francisco Bay, and amid jetlag I've been thinking about "teamwork." Tanabe-san, our Regional Network Director in Japan, said that…
By: on December 5, 2012 | 25 comments My family and I are back in Japan "on the way home" from our 10 weeks in Asia; almost 2 months ago we visited Kiyomizudera, the temple of pure water, in Kyoto -- and there's a scene that keeps playing in my mind. We went early in the morning, and the grounds were echoing with peacefulness... until a group of Japanese schoolchildren came bounding down the path. Patty, Emma (now 13), Max (11) and I were enjoying the spring for…
By: on November 30, 2012 | 0 comments "Smart Emotion" featuring Anthony Dio Martin, Six Seconds' Country Director for Indonesia, airs weekly on SmartFM in Jakarta. It's one of the most popular stations, with millions of listeners learning about emotions in business during their morning commute. Below, listen to this week's broadcast: Martin is joined by Joshua Freedman, author of At the Heart of Leadership and COO of Six Seconds - The Emotional Intelligence Network. In a mix of Bahasa Indonesia and English, the lively discussion focuses on…
By: on September 3, 2012 | 18 comments In the wee hours of that Thursday morning, 15 hours before he passed away, I was alone with John in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. With just the sounds of medical machines gently beeping around us, I had an unforgettable “conversation” with John. He never regained consciousness after his surgery. But I quietly looked at him while he rested, and then I said to my only brother of 40 plus years – “John, what happened to all those years?” Putting…
By: on June 20, 2012 | 10 comments Last week in Japan my translator asked, "when you say, 'reflection,' what do you mean?" Midori said she couldn't find a Japanese word that matched what I seemed to be talking about. It's something I love about travel -- and about parenting -- I have opportunities to look at something so familiar, so known, that I don't know it. "Reflection" is a word I use often, it's part of our Change MAP and central to the skills of Know Yourself…
By: on November 21, 2011 | 8 comments To support highly technical leaders and teams to be more effective at collaboration, Shell sought out a customized emotional intelligence development program. Using a blended-learning approach, Six Seconds’ tailor-made program yields an 85% success rate when assessed an average of three years after the program. Background: Shell is a global petrochemical company headquartered in the Hague, Netherlands, with over 90,000 employees in 90 countries worldwide and a 200-year history. Shell Asia’s assets include their largest investment, Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex in Singapore.…
By: on September 30, 2011 | 16 comments The World Academy for the Future of Women (WAFW) leadership program is a bold and rigorous training initiative for young women students committed to acquiring skills and confidence to develop as campus, community, national, and eventually global leaders. These young women found a focus on emotional intelligence played a big part of how they evolved and developed as leaders in the nine-month program. Supported by a grant from Six Seconds, The Emotional Intelligence Network, and the commitment of network member…
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