David Heng
Managing Partner, Global Leadership Dynamics Asia
- Managing Director, CIMB Bank
- Associate Dean, World Economic Forum
- Director of Consulting, Organization Solutions Pte Ltd
- Head of Organizational Excellence, Singapore Economic Development Board
David is an accomplished strategic human capital management expert. He has successfully designed, developed, implemented, and evaluated numerous organizational transformations. He has also completed many executive assessments and initiated their leadership development. David has over 25 years of progressive, insightful corporate experience across private and public organizations in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Extremely conversant in executive assessments and organizational transformations, David has direct, hands-on experience as both a provider and a consumer of a wide range of assessment techniques and tools. With great accuracy, he assesses and shapes developments to improve the performance of C-level and senior executives. David is highly effective in aligning divergent organizational perspectives to support the creation and eventual governance of both comprehensive corporate executive assessment centers and corporate universities, most often from the ground up.
In leadership development, David is actively engaged in diagnosing, developing, implementing, and evaluating strategies and targeted interventions for organizations experiencing performance challenges of rapid global growth. David had served as the Associate Dean of the Global Leadership Fellows Programme for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. In this capacity, he was tasked to identify, acquire, and develop talent worldwide in order to create the leadership pipeline required to sustain the projected growth rates of the world economy
David was the Head and Managing Director, Talent Management and Culture Building for CIMB Group operations across all markets and businesses. In this capacity, he established the CIMB Academy, a corporate university serving over 40,000 employees worldwide. He also created a global talent management system to identify, assess, develop, and promote high-potential individuals to serve at the CEO-1 and CEO-2 levels. He also created and spearheaded the corporate culture-building strategy to institutionalize it.
Before joining CIMB, David held various posts, including Director of Consulting at Organization Solutions Pte Ltd; Head of Organizational Excellence at the Singapore Economic Development Board; and several senior positions in the Singapore Police Force. He also served two terms as the International Human Resource Advisor for the International Baccalaureate Organization’s (Geneva) Governance Board.
David graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications and Economics from the National University of Singapore. He holds a Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University, USA.