HRO Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

HRO is an intercultural, creative behavioral science firm, and a provider of high quality Training, Assessment and Coaching services. The "O" in HRO stands for Objective: we are dedicated to reaching your objectives in your ASSESSMENT and TRAINING projects. We provide LOCALIZED and CUSTOMIZED services across China and other regions of Asia.

We established HRO Shanghai to serve the Chinese market with advanced and innovative products in 2002. Since then the company has enhanced it's significant intellectual property and know-how in the area of Personnel Assessment and Training in China, and established a steady customer base including major companies in Shanghai. HRO now also has representatives in UK, Germany, Malaysia and Australia.

- Increase the self-awareness of all the people we get in touch with;
- Support people to become more grounded, self-empowered, positive and balanced;
- Help organizations and employees in realizing more of their performance potential;
- Make work more meaningful and fulfilling;
- Create value for all stakeholders: customers, partners, employees, and owners.

- To leave a strong positive impact behind;
- To be recognized for the quality of our people, products and services;
- To be long-term development partner of great teams and fantastic individuals.

Gabor Nagy

Mr. Gabor Nagy, Managing Director of HRO, Senior Consultant and Trainer. He is a co-author of FiT In™ Professional Personality Profile, the HRO Motivational Questionnaire, and several other assessment tools and competency models.

As a trainer, he combines “mental learning” with experiential training and workshop facilitation elements to achieve a lasting impact. His areas of training:
- Intercultural Communication/Management;
- Teambuilding (especially for intercultural groups);
- Personality Development;
- Conflict Management;
- Motivation Skills;
- Interview Skills/Assessor Training.

Client companies for his in-house programs include: Ametek, Bacou-Dalloz, Bosch, Brady, Degussa, Fuchs Petrolub, Gale Pacific, ICA, International Nutrition, International Paint, Knorr-Bremse, Schenker, Shanghai Volkswagen, Sinochem, SLIC, UEAS, and he has been an invited speaker and lecturer at the German, Swedish, British and American Chamber of Commerce, and at the Tongji, Jiaoda, Maritime, Nordakademie University MBA/EMBA classes. He started to learn Chinese language in 1987, and started his career as a Chinese-Hungarian interpreter in Hungary, before holding a number of challenging positions across China for Global Autotech (Beijing Rep. Office Manager), Singapore Premier Technologies (Market Development Department Manager), and eGate InfoTech (Business Consultant). Mr. Nagy is also a Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Institute for Foreign Trade Professional Development Center. He is fluent in English, Chinese and Hungarian.

Senior Consultant, Trainer & Coach with extensive experience in corporate consulting and training: intercultural management issues, corporate culture, team building and group dynamics. In addition to training and consulting projects for leading multinational companies (ABB Beijing, Accor, AGFA, Allianz, Argosy, BENCHAM, BOSCH, Brady, CemTek, Codelco, CYTEC, DEGUSSA/evonik, EM Lyon, FCM Travel, FISCHER, Freudenberg Group, FUCHS, Gala Express, Gale Pacific, ICI/Akzo Nobel, International Paint, JMG, Knorr-Bremse, LG, MAERSK, SHELL, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, Saint Gobin, Siemens, Sinochem, Shanghai Volkswagen, Shimao Group, Schenker, T-Systems, TUI, Tradeland, von Roll, Wehrle Consulting, ZF Lemförder Fahrwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Ziehl-Abegg), he was a guest lecturer at the University of Budapest for cross-cultural group-dynamics from 2002-2004; since October 2005 he has been visiting professor at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade for practical applications in HR Development. He is a certified coach of the WIAL (World Association of Action Learning Washington DC). As accepted facilitator and trainer he has held a number of challenging assignments in China, Germany, Austria, Hungary, India, South Korea, Hong Kong. He is member of the TOPS Berlin & Munich (Germany) of Trainer & Consultant Society. He holds a postgraduate degree in corporate psychology; speaks German, English, Hungarian and Romanian fluently and is currently learning Chinese intensively.

Mrs Lin is an associate consultant, coach and trainer of HRO since 2006. She has over 10 years experience in HR Management, including 7 years experience in fortune 500 and publicly traded corporations. Mrs Lin has set up HR management from scratch for newly established companies and has implemented HR restructuring projects after M&A. She has gained deep understanding of both the operational and the strategic aspects of HR Management, just as gained experience in leading a team and creating business value as well. She always has been strongly attracted to and inspired by Training and Development, and she has participated and delivered many trainings over the years.

In training, the depth of her knowledge combined with her sensitivity to the needs of participants always leaves a deep impact. Fields of her trainings:
- Conflict management;
- Motivation skills;
- Interview skills;
- Orientation programs for fresh graduates;
- HR management to non-HR managers;
- Succession planning;
- Building effective corporate training function.

As a consultant, she can contribute to most aspects of HRM. Her typical projects may include HR audit, designing/updating JDs, hiring criteria, recruitment process, assessment centers, performance management, training and development systems, succession planning, corporate culture strengthening. Her Clients include Bosch Group, Carrefour, Fuchs Lubricants, Lansheng Group, MAN Turbo, Omron, Shanghai Volkswagen, Sinochem, Weisheng Group

Mr. Friedemann Demmer, Senior Partner and Senior Consultant, Co-Author of FiT In™ assessment system, builds on 12 years of experience in training and assessment, including more than 800 job-fit assessment projects for the German Employment Office. Mr. Demmer has worked at BFI Peters for five years, a well known German vocational training company, as trainer and project leader coordinating the work of 100 specialists. In Shanghai, he has performed coaching and training for Shanghai VW, Nestle, Siemens Dematic, Schenker, ICA, Osram, NEC, Rohm & Haas, Weltbild, the German Chamber of Industry and Trade and a broad spectrum of small and midsize companies. He is the recommended expert by the German Chamber in Crisis Intervention and intercultural issues. Besides executive coaching, he also has significant achievements as a watersport coach: has worked with World- and Olympic Champions in white-water kayaking, and now a coach of the Shanghai International Friendship Dragonboating Team. His educational background includes a Master of Education, majoring in psychology, and a Postgraduate Program in Business Administration. Currently, he lives in Germany, and he plays a key role in the quickly growing Business Academy of Peters.

Ms. Vivian Guo, university lecturer, besides working as psychologist in the past, has also hosted a popular psychological hotline radio show. Ms Guo has completed her Ph.D. in Management Psychology at Eastern China Normal University, with a significant thesis on organizational citizenship, based on quantitative research in 9 corporations. She has been lecturer of Shanghai Normal University Applied Psychology Department teaching organizational behavior and has been a Teaching Assistant for organizational behavior in the MBA program held by the University of West Australia. She is involved in assessment tool development, personnel assessment and training at HRO.

Mr. Guo started his career as a TV program project manager and later became a salesman and brand manager for a major food company. He now works as advertisement strategy consultant and part time team building trainer. Building on the experience of conducting more than 100 team building training programs for client companies including IBM, AIA, Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Rockwell, Brady, Schenker etc. and combining his intellect and wide knowledge area with commitment to high quality trainings, Mr Guo is one of the most effective team building trainers in Shanghai.

Professor Zhou Chun, HRO's Senior Advisor for Cultural Issues, is an expert in comparing linguistics focusing on the German, English and Chinese languages. From 1949-1955, he was working as the first interpreter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Peoples Republic of China, he translated for Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Mr. Zhou Chun has spent 13 years in Germany, living and lecturing in Berlin. He returned to Shanghai in 2002. You will not find many living people with a deeper understanding of what China has gone through in the last 50 years, whilst also having long experience in western societies and a stunning capability of communicating all this fluently in Chinese, English and in German.

Stormy Zhong, Marketing Manager, Assistant Consultant of HRO. More than 10 years experience in sales and marketing. She has participated in training programs as Assistant Trainer and Resource Consultant in the last 5 years. She has organized various group activities as the major organizer and facilitator. She majored in English and Integrated Marketing Communication.

The HRO team relies on the personality testing research of Dr. Lewis R. Goldberg and Dr. John A. Johnson. Dr. Lewis R. Goldberg is a senior scientist at Oregon Research Institute, while Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality & Individual Differences, the European Journal of Personality, and the Journal of Personality Assessment. He has more than 100 publications in the field of personality psychology.

Dr. John A. Johnson is professor at the Pennsylvania State University; his main research field is personality tests during personnel selection. He received an award from University of Bielefeld, was awarded the Provost's Collaborative and Curricular Innovations Special Recognition Program Award, received first place of STAR Project Award and received Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching. Besides numerous publications in journals, he also published a book: Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & Briggs, S. R. (1997). Handbook of personality psychology. San Diego: Academic Press.