Dr. Dee Groberg, USA Consultant

Dr. Groberg is Founding Vice President of International Operations at Covey Leadership Center in Provo, Utah, U.S.A. He has presented Dr. Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to a wide variety of audiences in the United States and throughout the world.

Dr. Groberg has academic training and degrees in Asian Studies (B.A.), Applied Linguistics (M.A.), and Organizational Behaviour and Instructional Science (Ph.D.). He has researched, created, written, taught and published widely in many different countries. He has participated as a guest lecturer at many international conferences on such topics as productivity, quality and training. Most recently, Dr. Groberg was the keynote speaker at the National Quality Association Conference in Voronezh, Russia.

Dee deeply believes in people and in their inherent potential. He doesn't have to "build" what is already there. He just helps release it. He has real life experience with a broad range of organizations, from some of the world's largest multinationals to some of the smallest start-ups. He has lived and worked all over the world - in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and South-East Asia. He has directed training programs in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle-East - not only for expatriates, but for local executives too. Incidentally, Dee speaks several languages.

Dee has been to Malaysia on numerous occasions to conduct workshops to a broad spectrum of the Malaysian corporate and governmental sectors. He has been intimately involved in shaping the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People program into an impactful and interesting program that benefits individuals and organizations alike in improving effectiveness. His client-list includes organizations like American Express, Bank Bumiputra, Chung Khiaw Bank, IBM, Intel, Kontena Nasional, Kumpulan Guthrie, MPPJ, MAS, Motorola, New Straits Times Press Group, Perwira Affin Bank, Petronas, Biro Tata Negara, Prime Minister's Department of Brunei, Shell, Infineon, Tenaga Nasional, Telekom, etc.

Dee is the middle child from a family of eleven, and he and his wife, Sharon, have six children themselves. He enjoys reading, writing, poetry, music, learning, teaching, movies, traveling, swimming, skiing, scuba diving, spending time with his family. An article written about him once said, "If variety is the spice of life, then Dee is well-seasoned."

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