Dr. Balakrishnan Muniapan [BEcons (UKM), CIWT (AUST), MSc (HRM) (Portsmouth, UK), DBA (Philippines), Certified NLP Practitioner (ABNLP, USA), a Certified NLP Coach (ABNLP, USA), HRDF (Malaysia) Certified Trainer (via Exemption) and a Certified Trainer, Speaker and Coach with the John Maxwell Team (USA)]. He is a HRM specialist was conferred the “Best Professor in HRM” award at the World Education Congress, Asia’s Education Excellence Award 2014 in Singapore, and at the World HRD Congress 2017 in Mumbai.
He has also been a Visiting Professor in HRM and has served as an external examiner for DBA/PhD thesis in HRM for several universities within Asia, Africa and Europe. In academia, Dr. Bala has published over eighty research papers and articles in several international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters; and was the recipient of the Best Research Paper award at the 3rd National (Malaysia) HRM Conference in 2006.
He is frequently honored as an invited speaker in HRM (including on Valmiki Ramayana and Vyasa Mahabharata) at numerous national and international conferences, and has presented papers at conferences and delivered talks in several countries within Asia, the Middle East, Australia, South Pacific, Africa, Europe and USA.
As a HRM trainer and consultant, Dr. Balakrishnan Muniapan has vast experience in conducting training and consultancy programs in HRM and has contributed tremendously towards HRM effectiveness for hundreds of organizations within Malaysia, in Asia and Europe. His trainings are interactive, thought provoking, engaging and with practical insights, that helps to transform participant’s strategic and critical thinking skills.