About Us
Background & Business Activities.
Our client base spans an wide range of financial services organisations and multinational banks.
Formed in Singapore in 2006 by a group of financial services and human resource professionals, NoLimits has broadened its scope in Asia to include representation in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Mumbai, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur and has how opened up a London office to meet the needs of our Asia based clients in the UK.
Management Team
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MARTIN CROPPER
Martin Cropper BSc, FCMA, Regional President Asia, NoLimits
Martin is an experienced and inspirational leader, a corporate CFO, management consultant and coach. Martin’s passion is in developing high performance teams, discovering innovative business solutions, aligning the strategy and innovation with execution through people and team effectiveness.
Martin has extensive experience of developing people and teams in many leadership roles in global corporate organisations. He is an experienced executive coach and has broad knowledge of the deployment of leadership and employee development cultures. In his previous role he was Regional CFO and Head of Business Planning and Six Sigma for American Express in Japan/ Asia-Pacific/ Australia. In this role he and his teams led many key strategic projects, developing strategic alliances and new business opportunities.
Martin joined American Express in 1998, initially in London as head of International Strategic Planning, subsequently moving to Hong Kong as Head of Finance for the Asia Merchant Business, before taking on his final role at Amex.
Before joining American Express, Martin spent four years as a management consultant for a leading UK strategy house, where he worked for many blue chip organisations on business development, re-engineering and outsourcing projects. He also spent two years on assignment in Geneva helping to establish a private airline.
Prior to his consulting career Martin had four years experience with Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business where he also obtained his Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (FCMA). Martin also holds a degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Sussex, England.
SIMON CROPPER
Simon Cropper, Managing Director, NoLimits Japan and Hong Kong
Simon is the co-founder of NoLimits Recruitment providing innovative solutions in Executive Search, Onsite Recruitment Process Management, Executive and Career Coaching, Leadership and Team Development.
Simon’s thrives in developing customer tailored solutions for major organizations to attract, recruit and retain staff. Simon’s passions are motivating people and teams to drive better results and to believe in their own abilities to achieve both personal and career goals.
Simon has extensive experience across Asia Pacific and Japan building and developing teams in multi-national organizations and has held the position as Head of Deutsche Bank, Japan and Regional AP Specialist where he established the new recruitment organization for Permanent and Graduate Recruiting. Simon created powerful solutions to improve the process of internal mobility, employee branding and executive search.
Simon has also held the positions of Senior Onsite Consultant at Goldman Sachs and Asia Pacific, as well as Head of Recruitment at Bearing Point (KPMG).
Simon has spent 20 years working and living in Asia Pacific and is a fluent Japanese speaker.
Before moving to Asia Pacific, Simon was based in London as a member of the elite Queen’s Colour Squadron of the RAF Regiment with duties including guarding Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London and Windsor Castle.
MAUREEN KOH
Maureen Koh, BSc Senior Consultant and Coach
Maureen enjoys helping individuals unleash the leader within themselves. She is passionate about delivering outstanding interventions to clients who are open to change and who are committed and ready to be at their best and to live the best life they can.
She is fascinated with the study of actualizing human potential and has received extensive training internationally in her pursuit to facilitate positive change in peoples’ lives both professionally and personally.
Until recently, Maureen was Head of Human Resources at SEB, a leading Northern European Financial Group offering a full range of banking services, life insurance operations and private banking. Based in Singapore, she was responsible for developing talent, leadership and succession, implementing employee engagement and performance management programmes.
Maureen is a Trainer of Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a member of the International Society of Neuro Semantics. She is also a certified Meta-Coach with the Meta-Coach Foundation (MCF, USA) and a qualified psychometric assessor and Consultant Analyst of Identity Compass, a diagnostic instrument based on cognitive behavioural sciences.
She has broad, practical cross-cultural experience from working with international assignees in multi-national environments. With a BSc in Psychology and Diploma in Organisational Learning, she draws on over twenty years of senior management experience in banking and finance. Maureen is well-placed to integrate her practical business experience with her education and training to support individuals and teams to perform better and achieve their business and personal goals.
JANET CROPPER
Janet Cropper BA(Hons), FIPD, MSc, is a people developer, motivator and coach.
Janet’s passion is in motivating people to make the best business, career and life decisions. Janet enjoys facilitating and brainstorming ideas, agreeing actions with people and equipping them to have the confidence to go the extra mile.
Janet’s fascination with aligning motivation strategies and developing people to achieving higher organisation performance has spanned both her career and professional education. She has extensive experience in training, coaching, career management and human resources. Janet’s clients have included HSBC, Reuters, PSA, UOB, BP, Agilent Technologies, 3 Com, American Express, Boots Healthcare International and BAT. She has worked in Singapore and Hong Kong for DBM, a global career management consultancy as a trainer and career management consultant. She has also worked in London in Human Resources for 10 years at Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business.
In her corporate experience of recruitment, selection and management development, Janet has focused on the components of personal development that transform individuals to become star performers. Her research has led her to learn about and develop in key areas of the personal growth equation, including soft skills development, voice, image and coaching.
Janet holds a MSc in Training and Performance Management. She is a qualified coach through Corporate Coach U and Coach House Asia and is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Janet is a qualified psychometric assessor and uses leading personality profiling tools, including, MBTI, FIRO-B and OPQ. Janet is a Fellow of the UK’s Institute of Personnel Management and Development and holds a degree in European Business Studies with German. She has also trained in image consultancy, voice and acting skills, having acted in various amateur performances from Greek comedies and Shakespeare to modern day plays.
KAVITHA IYERKavitha Iyer, Senior Consultant and Coach
Kavitha is an Organisational Development professional with over 15 years of experience in Human Resources.
Kavitha is passionate about leadership and team effectiveness and enables organizational interventions through increased insights and personal awareness. She is an accomplished OD professional with expertise on project leadership, needs assessment and process and change management. Kavitha is known to have a great blend of generalist HR and specialist OD expertise which she uses in crafting solutions that are specific to business needs.
In her 15 years experience, Kavitha has worked with the Financial Services, FMCG and Pharmaceutical industries. In her roles, she has provided a suite of Organisation solutions, which include Change Management, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Coaching. Kavitha’s consulting style focuses on robust action planning that would help organisations and individuals in furthering their growth and development. She has a rich and deep understanding of the region, having worked in companies such as Unilever, Arthur Andersen, Merck and American Express.
Kavitha ran her own OD Consulting boutique firm (Cresca Consulting) as a sole proprietor, for eighteen months. In this time, she started coaching with INSEAD on their Executive programs and offered broad ranged OD solutions and Executive coaching services for her clients. She is also a Certified Practitioner of the MBTI and continues to coach with INSEAD as adjunct faculty coach.
Kavitha is known for her strategic outlook and adopting a diagnostic approach towards problem solving – which comes from her strong OD background. She will be commencing her MS in Organisational Development and Change from the Case Western University, in August 2009.
Kavitha has worked and lived in the Asia-Pacific region for the past eight years. She is now based in Singapore, where she lives with her husband and two children.
JOYCE BILLINGTON
Joyce Billington, Senior Consultant and Career Coach
Joyce is passionate about people managers taking responsibility to engage their teams to achieve the maximum benefit for all stakeholders. With an in depth understanding of the impact of process change on people, she brings many insights and practical solutions to improving organisational climate and performance.
Joyce brings a wealth of experience with over 17 years in the Telecommunications industry. As Head of Organisational Learning and Development for Concert (The British Telecom AT&T Joint Venture) she has worked with teams from front line to senior leader level to drive process and cultural change programmes across a variety of functional units, including Sales, Customer Service, and Operations.
Joyce was involved in the design and implementation of a multi million dollar Leadership Programme for British Telecom that educated people managers in the core values of the business and how to engage their teams more effectively. Due to the geographical reach of the business, this involved working with a complex matrix of nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. The programme was successfully delivered over an 18 month period against a background of downsizing and restructuring within the business.
Joyce is proud of the work she has done within the Customer Service arena, particularly in helping to drive through the “culture vision” of the Business Team for Global Banking at BT. Joyce’s role was to establish how teams viewed their work climate and recommend and implement solutions to close the gap between actual and desired cultures. “For the first time, I saw people happy in their work and performing close to the best of their ability, instead of teams who were dissatisfied and unhappy with their work atmosphere.”
Joyce believes in helping people become the best they can be, by treating them as individuals and giving them a common goal. She carries this philosophy through to her charity work for Sok Sabay, a children’s refuge in Cambodia.
CHRISTINE DALY
Christine Daly BSc MBA, Senior Consultant
Christine is an experienced leader of large teams, with a passion for motivating people to drive results. With more than 19 years experience in Financial Services and extensive experience in leading and training large teams, Christine brings a refreshing practical business approach to the learning and development arena.
Most recently, Christine led Business Development for American Express' Customer Service International. Prior to this Christine was the Head of American Express Operations for more than 5 years. She brings strong relationship skills developed through her past experience as a Vice President for Citibank, NA, Singapore's Private Banking Group. Having held Executive positions in the Private Banking and Credit Card industries, Christine brings a passion for leading and motivating individuals to maximize their potential. With extensive work experience in Asia, Australia, Europe and the US, Christine brings a global perspective and awareness to the learning and development environment.
Christine holds a Masters of Business Administration from New York University, New York, USA, and a Bachelors of Science in Finance and International Business from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
Christine is the founding member and President of the American Express' Singapore chapter of the Women's Interest Network. She is a mother of two young children and enjoys running, golf and water skiing.
MICHAEL CULME-SEYMOUR
Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, Senior Consultant
Michael’s focus is about developing people and he is motivated to bring about change in even the most resilient of managers and leaders.
Previously, Michael was CEO Asia Pacific & EMMEA at DHL and sat on the board of directors of Deutsche Post Global Mail in Germany.
Before this position, Michael was based in Switzerland in various management positions with DHL and Swissair where much of his work was in the development of these companies internationally.
Prior to his 20 years of experience in the management of logistics companies Michael worked in the maritime industry in the Middle East and also spent six years in service with the Royal Navy.
Being a visionary, Michael has moved back to Singapore to focus on helping companies grow, re-shape and expand their business in Asia, leveraging his many years of experience in people leadership and corporate strategic planning.
In addition to being an outstanding facilitator and consultant, Michael is an avid professional photographer. Michael also dedicates much of his time to an NGO in India helping street children.
SALLY DELLOW
Sally Dellow, Senior Consultant and Coach
Sally is an outstanding coach, facilitator and a professional roleplayer for corporate management and leadership assessment. Sally’s focus areas are communication, creativity and innovation, diversity and cross-cultural competency and interpersonal skill development.
Sally works with both corporate and private executive clients, coaching individuals of many nationalities and personalities. Her clients work predominantly in accountancy, banking, finance and law.
Sally’s coaching provides executives with approaches and tools for understanding and managing themselves, their colleagues, competitors and corporate partners. Addressing differing cultural norms, modes of communication, expectations and preferred/accepted behaviours, her work with clients translates into more insightful behaviour choices and more successful management and leadership relationships.
Sally is accustomed to working with a range of well-respected measurement tools and strategies. Where appropriate, she leverages her creative background as a professional actor, playwright and poet to help clients. She may draws on visual stimuli, roleplay, realplay and creative thinking strategies. These right-brain approaches can be the ‘grit in the oyster’ and result in ‘pearls of wisdom’ for her coaching clients by offering fresh perspectives on old problems and opening up a wider range of possibilities in challenging situations.
Sally is a graduate of Coach U and a professional member of the International Coach Federation, the Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches and the Hong Kong International Coaching Community. She holds a certification in Relationship Skills (St John’s Counseling Service, Hong Kong) and is a registered Art Guidance Coach. Sally also holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from King’s College, University of London, UK (1987). She grew up internationally, and has worked in Asia for 20 years.
STEVEN MANN
Steven Mann, Head of NoLimits UK, Senior Consultant and Coach
Steven brings an impressive wealth of experience to each of his engagements. Whilst his base is the UK, his work takes him all over the world. Over the last 15 years, he has coached a vast array of senior executives from an extremely diverse client base, helping each of them to bring a greater personal impact to their leadership, their professional relationships, and communication.
Whether working with an individual, leading a small seminar, or delivering a larger public address, Steven brings an unparalleled degree of empathy and insight to his work, encouraging people to leave no stone unturned as they search for the most authentic and culturally savvy route to their goals. He enables his clients to get to the heart of any issue quickly, and he helps them develop solutions that are both personalised and sustainable.
Having spent 15 years as an actor and director, working with some of the most respected names in that industry, Steven realised that contrary to popular opinion, great acting is about truth, not pretence. The more honest the performance, the greater the connection with an audience.
His experience as a counselor led him to turn his attention to the corporate world, and his extremely loyal yet diverse client base – which includes several of the top ten Wall Street investment banks, as well as international communication, entertainment, and pharmaceutical companies – is the best testament to the strength of Steven’s work.
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