Ting Smith

“Ting makes an impact. I worked with Ting for 4 years. During this time Ting was the Ascential Head of HR APAC providing HR advice and guidance across multiple Ascential brands. Ting was the key HR advisor and my business partner during a critical APAC restructure for my APAC business. During a period of rapid change, Ting’s HR technical experience, commercial acumen and management of her team supported a collaborative approach and resulted in a successful outcome, resulting in consecutive YOY business growth across the region. Ting also led multiple workshops across the region, enabling teams to help better understand the colleagues they work alongside and provide insight on how they can work even better together as team. From what I observed and from my own personal experience, people enjoy their time working with Ting.”

“Ting was my HR business partner in various roles at Ascential in Asia-Pacific over five years and worked with me closely through mergers, restructures, launches and development programmes as we grew the business by 4x across the region. Ting navigates easily from senior engagement & planning to director level coaching to close contact with junior staff, making herself relevant at every level. She does that with a skilful mix of passion, technical expertise and light heartedness which is both effective and enjoyable. Ting has a passion for coaching and achieved her qualifications as a coach while with Ascential - she will bring those with great effect to whoever employed her. She has acted as a very useful mirror and coach to me as the leader of our group in APAC as well as several BU leaders. If you believe in HR professionals as business partners, Ting will be an excellent choice for you. I would hire her again in an instant.”