HALO LEARNING WORKS

WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

Our name is our promise:  HALO Learning Works.

As an educational innovator in Hong Kong, we design, develop and deliver a broad range of original learning programmes for key professional segments – bankers, brokers, lawyers – across the region.  We also collaborate with a variety of multinational corporations.

HALO Learning Works is the next generation of HALO Associates: a Hong Kong-based strategic marketing and organisational development consultancy that’s been producing creative, practical and dynamic learning and development experiences across Asia since 2003.

Over the years HALO has served hundreds of corporate clients and taught thousands of accredited professionals throughout the Asia Pacific region.  And that business will continue, as clients value it highly (and we enjoy it!).

What’s changing is that as companies’ teams become more culturally diverse, the communication challenges they face increase correspondingly.  How can you effectively overcome differences and maximise potential?  How can you align collective behaviour with your brand values?  At HALO, our expertise has evolved to support senior execs in refining their intercultural leadership acumen and skills.

In addition to our workshops, seminars, off-sites and provision of consulting services related to marketing and organisational transformation, HALO is equipping leaders of diverse teams today to perform better tomorrow.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

WHAT ELSE DO WE PROVIDE?

We will continue to offer the kinds of marketing and organisational development services that HALO has built a solid reputation for delivering over many years:

Marketing Consulting

We counsel financial and professional service firms on matters related to brand management, client acquisition, and client engagement and satisfaction.

We do so on a retained or project basis.

Typical assignments:

  • Strategic marketing planning
  • Integrated communications
  • Brand positioning and brand values
  • Developing marketing and communication plans
  • Client marketing and retention programmes
  • Lead generation and client acquisition programmes
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Learning & Development Programmes

We conduct a wide range of workshops and seminars – ranging from one hour to two days – to expose professionals to new methods to improve performance.

We also structure and deliver long-term programmes – ranging from one week to multi-month – that focus on achieving meaningful and lasting behavioural change.

Recent programmes:

  • Building Resilience
  • Consultative Selling Skills
  • Doubling your Sales
  • The Brand within the Brand
  • Pressing the Right Buttons
  • Working a Room
  • Maximising Client Engagement
  • Having Difficult Conversations with Clients
  • Connecting across Cultures
  • Leading the Workplace
  • Foundations of Leadership

OUR CLIENTS

OVER THE YEARS

We Have Proudly Worked With

What Our Clients Say

  • We engaged HALO to deliver a motivational session on Building Resilience at our regional offsite.  We found the presenter Adrian’s style both engaging and energetic, and his story-telling approach caught people’s imagination.  The talk really addressed one of our key challenges: how to succeed in a business environment of constant change.

    Michael Reeve
    General Manager, EMEA Customer Centre - Semicon and Semi Service | Edward
  • Adrian has deep insight into cultural differences and provided valuable knowledge, examples and tips to navigate a variety of business and social situations. The training was adapted to our specific experiences, requirements and questions. It was completely tailored to our needs and delivered in a fun and collaborative environment. His practical experience brought the theory and subject matter of intercultural education to life.

    Sarah Clark
    Director, HK & PRC Client Operations, Solium Capital
  • Adrian, you always make the classes interesting and participants really like HALO’s courses. Thanks so much for delivering the sales and leadership seminars for us. You are essentially one of the best trainers in my mind and certainly one of my favourite speakers!

    Jane Ma
    Senior Executive Officer / Hong Kong Management Association
  • We engaged HALO to deliver a sales training programme to our lawyers, and found Adrian to be an enthusiastic and knowledgeable facilitator. He walked us through the various phases of the sales process and helped us examine our practice and offering from a client’s perspective. Feedback from participants showed that the course was both practical and well received.

    Hugh O’Loughlin
    Partner / WALKERS
  • Following on Adrian’s welcome involvement in our annual marketing offsite, at which he presented a primer on client marketing techniques, we selected HALO to deliver a structured programme of training on marketing skills that has enthused our team and left them wanting more. The continuing programme has proved a good way to get our lawyers thinking about marketing issues and has exposed them to the somewhat scary concept of role plays, which they have embraced with much delight.

    Ric Martin
    Partner / Kennedys
  • We engaged HALO mainly to develop our Chinese Legal Consultants’ skills when representing the firm in various situations. The interactive one-day seminar was highly appreciated by the participants and they found the learning experience relevant, engaging and encouraging.

    Ulf Ohrling
    Partner, Hong Kong, Shanghai MANNHEIMER SWARTLING
  • We were impressed by the content and tone of the first course conducted by HALO for our senior team and we followed that with another for our more junior solicitors to expose them to the kinds of best client contact practices which we hope to see them develop.

    Michael Lintern-Smith
    Managing Partner / Robertsons
  • We originally engaged HALO to help us with some corporate positioning work, but soon brought them on to conduct a multi-month sales training programme for our entire team in Hong Kong. What made a particular difference to us was not only the quality of the course work and Adrian’s dynamic teaching style, but the customised role plays that allowed our solicitors – at all ranks – to practice and adopt the methods they had been exposed to during the training.

    Gordon Oldham
    Senior Partner / Oldham, Li & Nie
  • Dear Adrian, many thanks for another excellent CPD session yesterday. You’re still the only CPD presenter worth listening to!

    Peter Wynn Williams
    Investment Director & Partner / The Henley Group Limited
  • I was really impressed by [the trainer] Adrian’s experience.  He understands banking culture, from the inside and out.  He also had an amazing historical understanding of China, which surprised the whole class.  His teaching style was fun and entertaining, so no one ever felt bored.

    Tony Lei
    Senior Software Engineer / HSBC Guangzhou

BEHIND THE SCENES

OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM, ADVISORY PANEL & BUSINESS PARTNERS

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Adrian “Ho” Overholser

Founder & CEO

Adrian imparts learning with passion on marketing, sales and organisational development matters that leverage his 25 years of broad-based financial services and marketing experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia where he held senior level positions with Citibank, MeesPierson (part of ABN AMRO), Fortis Investments and PR agency Golin/Harris.  At the helm of HALO since 2003, he works primarily with financial and professional service firms and a variety of MNCs to help them in the areas of leadership development, strategic marketing, brand management, cross-cultural sales and sales management.

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Sonoko Hara

Director and Senior Consultant

Sonoko is a certified trainer with 20 years of professional experience in Hong Kong constructing and conducting learning and development programmes.  Formerly in financial services in the insurance, venture capital and financial planning industries, Sonoko specialises in course development and delivery.

ADVISORY PANEL

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St. Clair Ripley

St. Clair first visited Hong Kong in 2000, and has been returning frequently ever since, such is the allure of the HKSAR and Inner Mongolia, whence his wife Baiju hails. His career over the past 25 years has spanned editing, copywriting and education, as well as dot.com experience in the U.S. For the last 10 years he has managed St. Clair Properties, a US-based land company. He is a CELTA certified teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL). St. Clair was an initial angel investor in HALO Learning Works.  He and Baiju live in New Jersey, but enjoy surfing in Hawaii.

Peter-Succoso

Peter Succoso

Peter Succoso has over thirty years of diverse experience in finance and the real estate investment business. Over his career, he has held senior positions at O’Connor Capital Partners in New York, Citigroup both in New York and Hong Kong and more recently with Apollo Global Management in Hong Kong. Peter is acutely familiar with legal and compliance training as at Citi he served as the SFC licensed responsible officer holding both Type 1 (Dealing in Securities) and Type 9 (Asset Management) licenses.  His experience spans management, acquisitions, financing, compliance and due diligence and the execution of complex strategies to achieve superior returns. Peter is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, but now lives in Singapore with his wife Angel, a native of Chengdu.

Nigel-Watts

Nigel Watts

Originally from Kent in the UK, Nigel began his investment banking career in London with JPMorgan, where he worked in Equities for nearly 20 years and rose to be SVP, Senior Convertible Bond Trader. He came to Hong Kong in 2004 with JPM, to head up the convertible bond desk, moved to Lehman in 2006, then joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 2009 as MD, Head of Asian Bonds. Since 2014 he’s been at SC Lowy as a Fixed Income Specialist and still trades Asia Convertible Bonds. An avid sportsman and accomplished Dragon Boat and OC6 racer, Nigel has undergone hundreds of hours of compliance related CPD training during his career in finance and looks forward to the day when he can fulfil his CPD requirements sitting at the beach, not in a classroom.

BUSINESS PARTNERS

We have three strategic business partners that work with us to deliver customised programmes related to leadership development, cross-cultural communication and interpersonal skills development.

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One of Australia’s preeminent organisation development consultancies, Sheppard Associates focuses on creating more successful organisations through leadership and capability development. With over 25 years of consulting experience, Sheppard Associates has a proven track record assisting major national and international clients in organization development, talent management and leadership development.

″Better Leaders Build Better Organisations″

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Headquartered in New York, RW3 CultureWizard is an intercultural learning organisation that supports the development of culturally agile, global professionals through a unique blend of online, mobile and instructor-led learning. CultureWizard is their flagship online learning platform, which makes it fun and easy to build intercultural competence whenever clients need it, on whatever device they prefer.

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Based in Hong Kong, The Buckingham Academy is a partnership of Coaches, Mentors and Facilitators providing learning services to Asia Pacific. It supports clients in three main learning areas: Leadership development; Interpersonal skills development; and Fraud & Financial Compliance training.

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Infinitus Plaza, 199 Des Voeux Road, Sheung Wan.

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