Blanchard Announces New Singapore Office

April 6, 2009 - PRLog -- SINGAPORE and SAN DIEGO, CA — The Ken Blanchard Companies announces the opening of its newest corporate location in Singapore. Continuing a global expansion strategy, the new location joins the Blanchard corporate office in California, as well as subsidiary corporate offices in Toronto and Guildford, UK. The Singapore office will focus on providing Blanchard content and solutions to organizations in the Asia Pacific region.

The new Singapore location is designed to support Asia Pacific clients through:
•   Business development and client discovery
•   Resourcing local rollouts of Blanchard leadership solutions
•   Consultation to provide for custom-designed learning initiatives
•   Train the Trainer sessions for Blanchard proprietary programs
•   Project management support

Jacinta Rajoo, Business Development Manager for Asia Pacific, and based in the Singapore office, sees a strong link between The Ken Blanchard Companies and regional and local businesses. “Blanchard has worked with international companies in this region for many years. Now we are able to meet our clients’ needs from a local operation while building and delivering the highly regarded programs and thought leadership that Blanchard has provided in the past.”

"Singapore gives us a very important hub for international business,” says Tom McKee, CEO of The Ken Blanchard Companies. “We are very excited about bringing a higher level of support to our clients in the Asia Pacific region, and the demand for Blanchard solutions in this part of the world has been strong for us for a long time.”
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Blanchard Singapore Office
Jacinta Rajoo, Business Development Manager, +65 6775 1030
Email: jacinta.rajoo@kenblanchard.com
Visit www.kenblanchard.com/singapore

Blanchard Media Contact
Wendy Wong, Vice President of Marketing and Director of Media Relations, 760 233-6710
Email: wendy.wong@kenblanchard.com

About The Ken Blanchard Companies:
With nearly three decades of helping leaders and organizations, more than 18 million books in print, programs offered in 10 languages and clients across five continents, The Ken Blanchard Companies® is recognized as one of the world’s leading training and development experts.

Our groundbreaking thinking and memorable learner experiences create lasting behavioral change that has measurable impact on the organizations with which we work—companies that wish to develop leadership capacity, improve workplace cultures, drive organizational change and strategic alignment, and become high performing organizations. Using a collaborative diagnostic process we help identify each organization’s unique needs and business issues, and then help to develop an appropriate leadership strategy to drive results and profits.

As the innovator of Situational Leadership® II the most widely used leadership development system in the world—our behavioral models add a situational context to the training experience so individuals learn to be more productive in real-world scenarios and make the shift from learning to doing more quickly and effectively. Learning takes place through both instructor-led and virtual experiences offered by our worldwide network of consulting partners, trainers, and coaches. To learn more, visit www.kenblanchard.com.

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With nearly three decades of helping leaders and organizations, programs offered in more than 12 languages and clients across five continents, The Ken Blanchard Companies® is recognized as one of the world’s leading training and development experts.