News23/08/2022

Message from our CEO – Melanie Aloysius

It’s been six months since Terry stepped down as CEO of People Potential. And even though I’ve had 16 years of sales and business consulting experience in the tech industry, I was somewhat new to the learning and development arena. In 2019 I joined People Potential to head up the sales department; just one year later, I would face the biggest challenge of my career – the pandemic. 

When all training was cancelled or postponed, it felt like a freight train of uncertainty had hit us. Unless we quickly turned things around, the lack of cash flow threatened the sustainability of the business in its current size. But I was lucky. We have a team that banded together. They were able to quickly change direction in the face of uncertainty and had the mental fortitude to swim against a strong current.

It became obvious that Terry had established People Potential on a strong set of values and built a culture that had been consistent these last three decades. So when the pandemic hit, and even though we were unprepared, the creative, always-learning, and enduring spirit of my colleagues brought us back from the brink of disaster. 

Terry leaves me with a legacy. Clients trust that, with People Potential, they’ll always experience expertise – that their people will always receive well-designed, engaging, and impactful training programmes. So when we transitioned into virtual training, our clients (as doubtful as they were with the effectiveness of virtual training) continued to trust us to do a good job and we were able to get the business back to pre-pandemic levels. 

“Good news! I’m not going anywhere”, Terry said with a grin. He continues to serve as our Director of Organisational Development and Strategy, and he’s someone that I will lean on for guidance.

Our commitment to you is that in the years to come, we’ll enhance the experience that you rely on to develop your employees, with in-house training design, training programmes and post-training interventions that matter most to your organisation. We are prioritising investments to hire subject matter experts to raise the bar in training quality.

I look forward to continuing and building on Terry’s legacy of trust that he’s built with you.

 

Till we meet,

Melanie Aloysius

 

P.S. Terry wrote a not-going-anywhere outgoing CEO message too.

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