Instructors
Dr Shirley Lim
Adjunct Senior Fellow, SUTD Academy
Dr Shirley Lim is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at SUTD Academy and the Founder and President of Research Communication International Pte Ltd, a Global Corporate Research Consultancy incorporated in 1996 and Author of the Intelligent PEAKS™ Profiling Technology used locally and globally in 7 international languages to profile, track and benchmark Leadership and Human Capital.
Dr Lim holds a PhD, Masters and BA Hons from the National University of Singapore, an Academic Diploma with 1st Class Distinction from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and was a Research Fellow at Harvard University as well as the University of California.
Dr Lim’s passion in developing value-driven leaders led her to design and certify Leadership Programs for hundreds of Institutions, Multi-National Companies, Governments and Corporations in Singapore, Brunei, UK, Brazil, Sweden and Malaysia in the fields of Education, Finance, Travel & Hospitality and Medicine & Healthcare; having personally trained professional, business, medical, educational and political leaders to build winning teams and cultures of excellence. Dr Lim inaugurated the Global Leadership & Mentoring Congress held every few years since 2003 and conferred the Leader Mentor Award to some of the most prominent leaders in the region. Dr Lim has for several years since 2003 been listed among the top 300 leaders in Singapore by Singapore Tatler.
Charis Gabriel Lim
Adjunct Fellow, SUTD Academy
Charis Gabriel Lim is an Adjunct Fell
ow at SUTD Academy and CEO of Research Communication International. Charis is a graduate from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He holds a Bachelors degree and a Master of Philosophy degree, both with high honours from Cambridge University. He is also a member of the Cambridge Judge Business School Alumni Association. His Master’s dissertation studying the paradigms of charismatic leadership within multi national mega-organizations received high commendation at Cambridge. He holds Certificates in Personality Testing Administration as well as Occupational Ability Testing Administration from the British Psychological Society as well as the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. He is also registered with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and European Federation of Psychological Association (EFPA).
Charis has been involved in Business Development, Training and Project Management for fourteen years at Research Communication International (RCI), Singapore. He has oversight in multifarious areas including Research, project development, strategic visioning and planning, business transformation and people management.
He has spearheaded nation-wide government projects regionally in human capability & capacity building in transforming leadership culture, and the implementation of advanced human capital analytics platforms across government ministries, organizations and MNCs to measure, track and assess human potential & performance at all levels.