Callidus Associate Consultants & Trainers

Hj. Arip Mohd (Consultant / Trainer)

Hj Arip B Mohd had about 29 years service in The Labour Department as a Labour Officer, Assistant Director for Labour and Director for Labour.  He retired in November 2006 as Director for Labour, Selangor.

During this period he has acquired considerable knowledge and experience in the area of Labour Laws especially the Employment Act, Workmen's Compensation Act, Children and Young Person's Employment Act, Workers Minimum Standards of Housing & Amenities Act and others. 

He has attended several seminars and training programmes on various aspects of labour laws, leadership, management, training and administration including a 3-month Human Resource Management & Development Programme in Australia.

In addition he has served a secondment of 1 year in the Human Resource Department of a leading multinational company under the auspices of the British Malaysian Industry and Trade Association and the Public Services Department. 

He is also a certified Trainer by Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad. 

Currently he is involved in teaching Labour Laws to students of the Diploma in Human Resource Management conducted by the University of Malaya - Continuing Education Centre, and also lectures in various public and in-house programmes on labour laws and employee relations.

Hj. Md. Hairi (Consultant)

Hj. Md. Hairi Bin Md Salleh had served the Industrial Relations Department and Trade Unions Department (Ministry of Human Resources) for a total of 28 years, before retiring in 2002. His last position was Director for Industrial Relations at the Industrial Relations Headquarters in Putrajaya.  Prior that he was the Director for Trade Unions - Selangor, Wilayah Persekutuan and Pahang. As a senior officer he was a resource person for the department and has given training to officers of the department and trade union leaders.

During his tenure of service with the Industrial Relations and Trade Unions Departments he has acquired wide knowledge on the various labour laws, industrial relations and human resource practices, the decisions of the courts and has developed a considerable amount of hands-on expertise in the field of industrial relations.

This wealth of knowledge and exposure has placed him well enough to be able to advise employers on all matters relating to employee relations. 

Since retirement, he has been a consultant providing advice on industrial relations and trade union matters to both employers and several trade unions.

Dr. V. Thanabalan Velloo (Trainer)

Thanabalan has extensive experience in the field of operations performance improvement particularly in various manufacturing and services industries. He is not only an excellent and resourceful trainer, he is also skilled in management and leadership of organizations. He graduated with an honours degree in Management and Biochemistry from University of Science Malaysia in 1987. He started his career in the manufacturing operations as a Production Executive and gradually moved in various managerial positions such as Production Manager, Packaging Manager, Planning and Logistics Manager, Sales Manager and Factory Manager. To name a few of the organizations that he has worked for are Carsem semiconductor, Baxter Healthcare, London Rubber Company, Solectron, Mona Industries and Asiatic Dipped Products. This experience has given him a thorough understanding of the opportunities and problems involved with managing work, people and customers

While working in the manufacturing sector he pursued an MBA program with University Kebangsaan Malaysia, majoring in General Management in 1996. Upon completion of his MBA in 1998 and also due to his passion for training, he switched his career to Training and development. To date he has conducted more than 900 training programs mainly in the area of employee development, customer management and operations management / improvement. He is a very versatile trainer not only on the topics that he could train but a bilingual trainer as well. His fluency in Bahasa Malaysia has given him a competitive advantage especially in the present workplace condition

As a corporate trainer he realized a major concern by organizations regarding Transfer of Training which he became interested to explore. He realized that organizations became concerned in sending their employees for trainings, as they don’t seem to transfer their knowledge/skills gained back to the workplace. Due to this he pursued his Ph.D in 2007 in order to identify the barriers to Training Transfer. He completed his Ph.D in 2013. Besides trainings, he also lectures part time in various higher learning institutions for their Degree and Masters programs. To name a few are University of Malaya, University Sedaya International and University Putra Malaysia.

He is a certified trainer with PSMB Ref. (15) PSMB/22/1/12 Klt82 and to date has also conducted TNA projects and Train the Trainer programs for several companies. He is also a certified business coach representing University Malaya in coaching programs. Participants receive enhance benefits and impactful results from his training programs because of his vast industrial exposure in various areas. He empowers people to increase their limits, level of commitment, higher level of performance of the individual, team and the organization in achieving organizational goals

Salim Ashedoff (Trainer)

Mohammed Salim Ashedoff has years of strong experience in the services and retails industry. His experience in the field of marketing, training, management and strategy is profound and rooted in deep hands on experience and always inspiring and elevates the mind.

He is an expert on Culture, Mental Models and the nature of Thought and Mind. He is an Inward Inquirer and likes to ask questions like WHO ARE YOU AND WHATARE YOU? He is a human performance technologist, where his favorite motto is “WHAT IS THE COST OF NOT TRAINING?” His expertise lies in No NONSENSE training needs analysis process and CRI based Instructional Design. Besides English and Malay Language, he speaks French, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and Indonesian language too.

He is a certified Master Trainer, Coach, NLP Practitioner, Hypnosis and Consultant with extensive experience in corporate and public training. He propagates result based training and coaching. His methodology of training is unique and tailor made to the needs and wants of the market.

He is an enchanting and mesmerizing trainer. He has acute understanding of the powerful force called culture and how to work across various cultures. His thinking is shaped by the works of Drucker, Kotler, Mintzberg, Mager, Robbins, Porter, Sun Tzu, Adair, Ohme, Imai, Demings, Juran, Maxwell and Hofstede. He likes to collect books and he is an avid student of nature. He studies insects and all kinds of flowers.

His motto in life is massive decisions equals to massive results and failures are the stepping stone success and how resourceful we are will determine the outcome which we want in anything we do.