VS Pandian, Principal Consultant / Managing Director

Mr. V. S. Pandian is Principal Consultant and Licensee of Franklin Covey, Inc. for Malaysia and Brunei.

Prior to assuming this position, he served for a period as Group Operations Manager and then as General Manager to a public company in Kuala Lumpur. He has also previously been with a large public manufacturing enterprise as Training Manager and as Deputy Manager for Coordination and Planning. His work experience spans Corporate Planning, Operations Management, Share Portfolio Management, and Personnel and Administration.

Mr. Pandian graduated from the University of Malaya in 1973 with a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Mathematics and a Diploma in Education. Upon graduation, he worked for the National Productivity Corporation in Kuala Lumpur as Trainer and Consultant for a period of nine years specializing in Industrial Engineering, Quality and Productivity.

In 1978, while still with the NPC, he secured a scholarship from the East-West Center in Hawaii to do his Masters in Business Administration. He returned in 1980 with majors in Operations Research and Finance. In 1983, he left the NPC to join the private sector.

As Principal Consultant of the Franklin Covey operation for Malaysia and Brunei, Mr. Pandian serves as a lead facilitator for the highly acclaimed Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® training program and for other curricular such as What Matters Most® and The 4-Roles of Leadership®.

His client profile includes large multinational companies as well as smaller domestic enterprises. He has facilitated the Franklin Covey curriculum in Malaysia, Thailand and India. Feedback from the audience in his programs has been very positive. He is able to relate well to all levels of executive management from CEOs down to lower level executives.

From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Pandian has conducted The 7 Habits® program in India on an in-house basis for organizations such as Motorola India Electronics Ltd., Novell, Sun Microsystems, Lucent Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra, HCL Technologies, and Sony. He has also facilitated public workshops on The 7 Habits® in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.

In Malaysia he has been active in promoting and facilitating Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s works since 1993. Some of his Malaysian clients would be names such as Telekom Malaysia, Petronas, Infineon, Citibank, Hong Leong Group, Seagate, Proton, and Maybank.

He believes in people empowerment through living, and teaching, timeless principles. Dr. Covey’s work blends well with his own outlook and passions in life.

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