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NeXT Career Consulting Group Principal Coaches

NeXT's Founder

Paul Heng is the Founder/MD and an Executive Coach of NeXT Career Consulting Group, Asia and NeXT Corporate Coaching Services (www.nextcareer.net), the Asia Pacific partner of arbóra Global Career Partners (www.arboraglobal.com), a global organization of over 20 professional coaching and career management firms. He is currently the Chairman of Asia Pacific, Arbora, and also sits on its global board.

Paul is certified as a career coach (CMF) by the Institute of Career Certification International (ICC, Intl). He has also been awarded the designation of Master Coach (MC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Solution Focused Coach (CSFC) by the Behavioral Coaching Institute (Australia), International Coach Federation (USA), and Canadian Council of Professional Certification, Canada respectively.

Clement Ong - Deputy MD

Clement is the Deputy Managing Director and an Executive/Career Coach of NeXT Career Consulting Group, Asia. The group is the Asia Pacific partner of arbóra Global Career Partners, an international association of over 20 professional corporate coaching/career management firms based globally.

Clement is a certified coach specialising in executive and career coaching. He connects people with critical aspects of their work and helps enhance their self awareness and clarity about life's purpose and goals. He is a collaborative partner to the coachee and a catalyst to bringing out fresh perspectives to stretch the leader's effectiveness and potential. He has been awarded the designation Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Certified Solutions Focused Coach (CSFC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF), USA and Canadian Council of Professional Certification respectively.

Helen Lim - Senior Consultant

Helen joined the Singapore Public Sector in 1971 after graduating from Monash University, Australia with Bachelor of Economics and Statistics. Her postings at Public Service Commission, Ministry of Health and Civil Service Institute gave Helen a broad experience in national scholarship administration, personnel management and training civil service-wide.

From 1985 onwards, Helen moved on to the private sector, and gained further HR expertise in MNCs and large conglomerates, namely Xerox Singapore / Malaysia. Haw Par Corporation, Ethyl Corporation and Uniroyal Chemical Corporation.
In the last 2 USA-based MNCs, Helen headed the HR function for the whole Asia Pacific region.

Her main focus was on recruiting talent for each location and handling Mergers and Acquisition people-related issues.