The Allsorts team consists of experienced trainers and facilitators who between them cover all major markets in Australia, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Meet some of the team.
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Wayne (aka The Switch Doctor) is founder and CEO of Allsorts. He is an experienced communications professional who developed his skills over many years in education and advertising in Australia and Asia. Wayne is a skilled facilitator, a published author, a motivating speaker and Director of four private learning academies. Businesses all over the world have benefited from his energetic and creative approach.
Wayne holds degrees in Economics, Education, an MBA and a PhD in business creativity. |  | Yen Lau
Yen is Allsorts' Creative Director. She takes care of the creative standards of our environment and our workshop materials.
Trained at the Ontario College of Art in Canada and the Exeter College of Art and Design in the UK, she graduated with a BA(Hons) in Design, specialising in illustration.
During her career, Yen has solved visual problems and puzzles for clients in Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Canada. Her work has won creative awards and international acclaim. |  |
Alan has had extensive experience working with the marketing departments of multi national organisations. He started Australia’s first Integrated Marketing Communications agency which he later sold to DDB, where he remained as Director of Integrated Communications.
Some years later he bought a small college, APM Training Institute, and grew it into one of Australia’s most prestigious private business colleges.
He volunteers much of his time to running personal development training sessions for disadvantaged people through not for profit organisations including The Salvation Army, Mission Australia, and Youth Insearch.
|  | Anne Yeoman Anne has spent the last 25 years in marketing communications in Australia and United Kingdom in both Partner and Managing Director roles. Her wealth of experience has enabled Anne to work at the highest level with Global brands such as Reuters (UK), MasterCard (Europe), International Committee of The Red Cross (Geneva) and Cadbury Schweppes (Australia).
Anne believes that the habit-forming methodology of the Allsorts workshops have become a crucial element in the success of many businesses. Anne is based in Europe with a business focus on Eastern Europe.
|  | Vivek Kuchibhotla Vivek runs the Chicago office for Allsorts and oversees North and South America. He has twenty years of marketing and advertising experience at Unilever, Kellogg, S.C. Johnson and Leo Burnett. Vivek has lived in seven countries on three continents and, being a local wherever he goes, is able to really bring Allsorts' workshops to life. Since he is perfectly bilingual Vivek is equally expert in delivering our workshops in English and "en espanol". |  | Although Simon values his experiences as Short-Order Cook, Cocktail Barman, Strawberry Farmer and Office Cleaner, it’s probably his 18 years as Advertising Copywriter and Creative Director that have the most bearing on his present career. Whether based in London, Hong Kong, Australia, Thailand or Singapore, Simon has been a passionate advocate for the power of creativity, with a shelf-full of creative awards to prove it. This passion continues with the creative approach of Allsorts where Simon is a popular facilitator working throughout Asia, with programmes such as Creative Selling, Creative Thinking and Creative Presentations. Simon lives in Singapore with his other passions: his two sons. |  | Greg Alder
Greg started out studying architecture, switched to psychology and worked in market research before settling down to spend a big chunk of his career as Creative Director of some fairly serious advertising agencies and picking up kilos of tacky awards along the way. He still gets a buzz from breakthrough creativity, but these days the creative process results in a new product or a much-needed solution to a sticky business problem rather than an idea for an ad campaign. Greg lives in Sydney, refuses to grow old gracefully and can’t stop learning. |  | Bob makes workshops come alive. He knows how organisations benefit from creative approaches to all aspects of business. Whether it's generating brand new ideas or creating the innovative culture you're looking for, Bob injects experience and enthusiasm into all his workshops. From presentations to creative thinking to innovative outcomes, his highly regarded communication skills and his commitment to skills development have been invaluable to workshop participants. Bob works across the government and private sectors in Australia and Asia. He lives in the Australian Capital Territory and runs our Canberra office. He is also the co-author of a book on Innovation. |  | |  | Born and raised in Taiwan, studied in the US, Denise later worked for various advertising agencies in the US, Taiwan and Shanghai including Lowe, D’Arcy, Batey Redcell and Saatchi & Saatchi. She has worked with many international Clients on account management and strategic planning but always sees herself ultimately, as a creative person. Positioning herself as the life adventurer, Denise feels uneasy when life is too easy. She has strong passion for good things in life and enjoys sharing them with people around her. Her biggest thrill is creating something new in everything she does.
|  | Maxine is Allsorts’ youngest member. At just 15, she is responsible for keeping our website up to date… so if you find any errors, just let her know! Maxine has been designing websites since she was 9, having picked up the skill from Neopets, a virtual pet website.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell where Maxine ends and the computer starts. | | |
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