Roy Lai – Senior Trainer & Coach


For 20 years, Roy has been a principal consultant, head facilitator, executive coach and master trainer. A prominent speaker, he has addressed more than 100,000 delegates and facilitated above 15,000 hours of learning programs internationally.

Roy delivers speeches, lectures and workshops between Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, China, the Middle East and Europe annually. He covers subjects such as Professional Presence, Executive Leadership and Organisational Professionalism, Teams and Professional Development, Behaviour Profiling and Communication.

Roy’s experiential, activity-based & action learning programs are highly recommended and endorsed by past participants as well as sponsors!

Roy has the unique ability to liven up his audiences quickly. Offering a “practitioner’s view” and “the real world” of topics, he calls it REAL learning. The feedback received has consistently referred to the sessions being interesting, engaging, practical, humorous, entertaining, fun-loving – and effective.

Roy was a validation community member for the National Competency Standard of both the Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA) and the Diploma in Adult Continuing Education (DACE) with the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA). He was the Guiding Committee member of the Community of Practice Competency-Based Assessment of the Singapore Training and Development Association (STADA) and Vice-Chaired the Special Interest Group Facilitation with the Adult Education Network (AEN). Roy currently serves as a management committee member of the Singapore Training and Development Association (STADA).

As a pioneer of the national training framework, Roy played the key roles of an educator, developer, facilitator, coach, Assessor and supervisor. Roy had been a vivid trainer & Assessor of the ACTA and DACE course offered by WDA with the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) and the Institute For Adult Learning (IAL) since 2006.

Holding a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University Of South Australia, Roy is also a certified trainer in Problem Solving and Creativity with DPI and a certified Business Plan Consultant with CPCI Grant Thornton Australia. He has also obtained the Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment from the Workforce Development Agency Singapore and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from the Australian Qualification Framework.

Last but not least, Roy assumes the role of advisor to many developmental projects, institutions and associations. To many, he is both a mentor & a coach, and everso often a trainers’ Trainer.

Roy is fully conversant in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. In his unique way, he continues to offer an extraordinary learning experience for all. Aspiring to improve himself continuously, Roy aims to learn without ceasing, holding close to his heart a “never the best, always better” view.

Dynamic and truly authentic, Roy continues his journey of influencing and inspiring others tirelessly. With an entirely original personality, he believes learning is fun. As an educationist at heart, he conscientiously promotes his philosophy that learning is a mutual process.

Humbly, Roy strives to serve the community, instilling professionalism.

Roy has partnered with Stafford & Chan for many projects for more than 18 years.

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