Ep 4: Navigating Diversity in Asia (Part 1 of 2) with Robin Ong, Sr VP, HR

How deeply do HR get involved in sales besides the hiring? Do they really understand sales and sales people?

What's so interesting about HR roles? How has it evolved? Why are Asian sellers slower on the uptake of tech?

These are a few of the questions we discuss with  Robin Ong, Senior Vice President of HR fforLF Logistics.

LF Logistics is a leading logistics company based out of Hong Kong. LF Logistics provides land-based services such as warehousing and trucking to more than 250 global customers.

Robin is the Senior VP of HR for the ASEAN region.

A seasoned HR practitioner and leader with over 20 years of experience in global and regional roles, he is extremely well versed in the area of sales and not only in HR practices.

In the few years that I've known him, he has impressed me with his business acumen, and in his understanding of Sales and sales professionals.

We will be discussing "Navigating diversity in Asia" from a HR practitioner's perspective.

In this first of 2 episodes, we hear how he started in HR and how it has evolved.

We also discuss sales, his deep involvement in hiring, the qualities he look for and advice for sales professionals to stay ahead.