Our
Leadership Development Team
A
diverse set of recognized experts collaborating with each other and their
client partners to release energy and increase innovation and collaboration in
individuals and institutions in India, Asia, and the Middle East. Our on-going
original research and decades of experience help us urge forward the true
potential of emerging leadership.
CEO
 Author of Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders (Simon & Schuster) and a regular blogger for Forbes, Rajeev has extensive global experience in leadership development with a particular focus on developing and delivering on business strategy. Rajeev’s professional roots are in industry: former CLO of both Coca-Cola and Morgan Stanley, formerly of American Express and Goldman, Sachs. At Goldman, Rajeev helped found the acclaimed Pine Street group, and headed Pine Street for Europe and Asia. He has also provided coaching, consulting and advisory services globally. His current research centers around the differences between effective leadership in the East vs. West, and on how leaders resolve ethical dilemmas. Rajeev is a sought after international speaker and has been widely featured in international media platforms such as Bloomberg TV & radio, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Fast Company, Leader to Leader, American Management Association (AMA) magazine, Leadership Excellence magazine, The Times of India, The National Dubai, Mint-Wall Street Journal and the Conference Board. Rajeev and his family have lived in fourteen cities in eight countries.
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Mr. John Zinkin
Managing Director, Corporate Governance
John Zinkin, our governance chief, had both broad and deep line experience in both Asia and Europe before shifting his attention exclusively into governance in Asia. Earlier in his career, John succeeded in significant roles in corporate strategy, business development and operational positions in major multinationals. His experience in Asia includes being the CEO of the Malaysian Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC). He authored Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is It Anyway? (John Wiley) and What CEOs Must Do to Succeed (Prentice Hall) and co-authored Corporate Governance (John Wiley). His governance column “Whose business is it anyway?” appeared fortnightly in The Star. John speaks regularly on corporate governance and trains boards in the subject. He is a graduate of London Business School and Oxford University.
 More information on Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance
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Ms. Kate Sweetman
Director, Research & Curriculum
Kate Sweetman’s focus is the intersection between excellent leadership and successful business results. A former editor at Harvard Business Review and co-author of The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By (Harvard Business Press, now in 14 languages), Kate has been designated an Emerging Guru by the London Times. She blogs for hbr.org and writes a monthly column for the Malaysian business journal The Edge. In her consulting work, she has designed prize-winning large-scale leadership programs around the world for leading multi-national companies. She has lectured at The Legatum Center at MIT, coaching young entrepreneurs who are developing for-profit, sustainable businesses in Africa, India, Asia and Latin America. Kate received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA from Yale University. Kate’s current research examines what we really mean by “Asian leadership,” and what new forms are emerging.
 More information on The Leadership Code
 Kate's Blog at Harvard Business Review (HBR.org)
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Director, Research & Curriculum
With a rich mix of practical experience in both talent and leadership-development from Asian-regional and global perspectives, David Wee is our Talent Development insider. David was the Global Chief Learning Officer for Johnson & Johnson, and Chief Talent Officer for Johnson & Johnson China. He has also worked with the Singapore National Productivity Board, General Electric (GE) and DHL. Through his various roles, David has driven innovative training in Singapore, coached CEOs in Japan, and overseen the global leadership curriculum for Johnson & Johnson. He has formulated strategies for the GE Learning Board, delivered change management and executive development programmes at Crotonville – GE’s famed leadership development centre. David is the co-author of Camera, Lights, Action, a practical book on presentation skills for television, and edited Productivity Digest. He is currently researching leading edge practices in Asian talent management.
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Mr Mohd Sabri M Rawi
Director of Research and Curriculum
Mohd Sabri M. Rawi, Iclif’s own “coach’s coach”, has over 16 years’ leadership development experience, starting with PETRONAS in various learning and development capacities, culminating in the launch of a flagship mentoring programme for the firm. He was also a key player in initiating Leadership Road Maps for the Malaysian government. At Iclif, Sabri leads the coaching effort for senior Malaysian business leaders including those from the telecommunications and financial services sectors. As a certified executive coach and expert facilitator, Sabri’s repertoire includes managing change and performance, and helping frontline leadership. He has worked in Egypt, Vietnam, Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan.
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Karen Ruth Shepherdson
Director, Research & Curriculum
Karen R. Shepherdson fulfils a dual role as Iclif’s chief design guru and master facilitator. A native Malaysian, Karen began her career in banking, and gained more than 20 years of experience in economic research, corporate planning, and regional office supervision before finding her true calling in leadership learning and development. She uses her analytic capabilities, understanding of organisational dynamics and HR background to design world-class curricula for Iclif’s clients in collaboration with other lead faculty. Karen is a certified Curriculum Developer, Instructional Systems Designer, experienced facilitator and 360 feedback coach. Karen holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (University of Lincoln-Nebraska, United States), and an MBA (University of Newcastle, Australia). Karen is collaborating with Rajeev Peshawaria in studying the relationship between effective leadership and ethical decision making.
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Adjunct Faculty
 Professor Nabil N. El-Hage is a globally sought-after speaker on issues of
governance and finance, and an anchor member of Iclif’s FIDE faculty team. An experienced executive, entrepreneur, board
member and academician who has worked extensively in Malaysia since 2005, Nabil
backs his teaching experience at Harvard Business School (faculty member for 6
years) with deep and rich experience in both governance and operations. Currently
the independent Chairman of the MassMutual Premier Funds, a $10 billion mutual
fund complex, Nabil has served on a dozen private and public boards. He was Chairman
and CEO of Jeepers! Inc., a private equity-financed national chain of indoor theme
parks in the US for almost a decade. Nabil received his BSc from Yale
University, and his MBA with the Highest Honors from Harvard Business School as
a Baker Scholar.
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 Nicholas Krasno, a core member of the FIDE team, is deeply knowledgeable about the
governance, management and technical issues in financial institutions from the
inside-out as well as the outside-in. In
a career spanning 30 years and broad geographies, Nicholas has been both
practitioner-in and judge-of financial institutions. His career started with Mellon
Bank and Bank of Montreal (London, Toronto, New York) in corporate loan structuring,
financial institution and country credit analysis, marketing, cash management,
project finance lending, capital markets, and loan syndication. He then joined
Moody's Investors Service where he was responsible for the management and
credit analysis of banks and other companies in the emerging markets of East
and South Asia as well as for the ratings of all the major international banks
headquartered in the United States and several European countries.
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 Robert P. Bood has helped hundreds of companies in over 30
countries explore their futures, and
brings that experience to Iclif’s Scenario Thinking and Business Innovation
program. Rob applies proven processes
around scenario thinking to issues of strategy and innovation to help any
institution develop more robust strategies and create attractive
innovations. He has worked with leading
multinational companies as well as with medium-sized companies; and with national
and regional governments, financial institutions and NGOs. Rob co-authored
'Communities of Practice: Sources of Inspiration' (2004; in Dutch) and 'Network
learning: dealing with wicked problems' (2010; in Dutch). The former is a
practical guide for professionals who want to improve and renew their practices
together. The latter offers a unique learning model to tackle truly tough
problematical situations. Rob holds a PhD in Economics from the University of
Groningen.
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 Ronald M. Bradfield Ronald brings a wealth of technical, business and academic know-how to his core
faculty position in Iclif’s Scenario Thinking and Business Innovation
program. A long-time senior executive in multinationals in Canada, the US
and the UK, Ron shifted his energies to consulting where he drove scenario/strategy
projects in an array of private and public sector organizations across the
globe in diverse sectors. A founding member of the Centre for Scenario Planning
& Future Studies at the University of Strathclyde Business School, Ron teaches
at SBS’ campuses in the UAE, with concurrent responsibility for the management
of the School’s postgraduate programmes in the Gulf and SE Asia. Ron is a professional member of the World
Futures Society and the Futurists Network, and a co-author of “The Sixth Sense:
Accelerating Organisational Learning with Scenarios” (Wiley, 2002).
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