Laurence Smith - Managing Director, RBL Asia

Laurence Smith is the Managing Director of RBL Asia & is based in Singapore. He was most recently one of the very few foreigners to ever hold an Executive HR Leadership position in a major Korean conglomerate, & be specifically charged by the CEO with a transformational agenda.

As the Global Head of Learning & Development for LG Electronics in Seoul, he was part of the senior HR Leadership team driving the global HR Transformation. As part of this strategy, he developed a new Global Leadership Frame- work, drove cross-boundary collaboration & innovation with new Social Media approaches & completely re-structured the learning organisation to support the CEO’s vision of transformation & globalization.

Previously he was Head of Learning & Development for GE Money Asia in Tokyo, with responsibility for GE’s most senior leadership development programs in Asia. Prior roles were as Head of one of Accenture’s Business Process Outsourcing businesses in Asia, & with the Organisation Design Practice of McKinsey in Boston.

Three of his most recent speaking engagements are:
▪ “Driving Collaboration & Innovation in LG
Electronics” at the 2011 Global Learning
Summit, Singapore.

▪ “Developing a Global Leadership Brand at
LG Electronics” ICEDR at INSEAD Singapore, October 2010.

▪ “The new Social Learning, Fact or Fiction” at the 2010 Global HR Technology Conference in Chicago.

He holds an MSc in Organisational Learning from the US and a BA Hons. in Organisation Studies from the UK. He has spent 13 of his 22 year Human Resources career, based in Asia.