Dr Caroline Josephine Dawson holds a professional Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Teesside University (TU), United Kingdom and Master of Arts degree in Mass Communications from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Director of Caroline Dawson International, Dr Dawson has more than 20 years of invaluable experience as an Editor of lifestyle and technical publications and 15 years teaching business management, environmental and soft-skills communication.
Dr Dawson’s pragmatic real world approach ensures that she understands and responds to the real pressures and issues faced by adult learners especially. By closely observing and identifying individuals with special learning needs, she has maintained that experiential, innovative teaching methods and highly interactive curriculum are key motivational factors that enhance one’s communication and personal development skills.
During her numerous corporate exposure with local and foreign delegates, Dr Dawson has provided counselling and coaching services to many multicultural individuals and teams while also mentoring fellow educators in developing their professional skills.
As a former journalist, Dr Dawson’s professional work experience as a Corporate Trainer has required her to market the value of her programs and persuade clients to value and understand the urgency of good communication and management skills in the work force. As an ACTA certified WSQ trainer, She has also worked with the Workforce Development Agency of Singapore to develop training content for the Employability Skills System where she successfully attained industry approved competencies in conducting, planning and designing competency based assessments for communication workshops.
Her experience in working with public and private sector training has become one of her training strengths. Participants of her training workshops attest to her motivational, instructional and highly experiential training methodology that have helped them in their workplace business writing. Dr Dawson has trained operational, supervisory and managerial staff from various organisations.
She has attained the Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certification through the London Teacher Training College and also teaches English as a foreign language. Dr Caroline is also an MBTI®, DISC Accredited Administrator, Enneagram, Lumina Spark practitioner; and Life Coach. She has administered the tools to top level managers and supervisors on managing their leadership styles and team members.