Growth Accelerator

About Poh Teck Lim

Who I Am

I’m Poh Teck Lim 傅德麟, the Growth Accelerator, a speaker, facilitator, trainer, coach, and author. Since 1992, I’ve been driven by one mission: inspiring human excellence in leaders and teams to accelerate growth, a mission that has taken me across 26 countries and five continents.
I created the Hexcellence™ Growth System, a proprietary framework for structured thinking that helps individuals and organizations think more clearly, focus on what actually creates impact, build capability continuously, and sustain performance over the long run.

My Story

I know what it feels like growing up in a modest neighborhood, working through health challenges, and having early plans derailed. There was a point in my life where the path I’d expected simply wasn’t there anymore, and I had to decide what to build instead.
I took the leap into entrepreneurship, and later into corporate leadership, not because either path was easy, but because I’d learned something that has stayed with me ever since: setbacks aren’t the end of the story, they’re the material you work with. I navigated my own setbacks into sustained progress by applying timeless principles I first learned from others, then tested and refined through my own life and career.
That’s where Hexcellence™ came from. Not a theory I read about, a framework I lived first.

What I Believe

I believe every individual can accelerate their growth and create positive change if they learn to master their paradigm. I believe resilience is a skill that can be learned, not a trait some people are simply born with, this has been true in both my personal and professional life. And I believe the organizations that grow fastest are the ones whose people are growing too.

My Background

That belief has shaped the kind of work I take on: engagements built for depth, not just delivery.

At Unilever International, what began as executive coaching for the Head of Asia grew into group coaching for a twelve-member cross-functional leadership team, and eventually a series of workshops for sixty team members across five locations in Asia, built to turn a scattered regional team into a genuine high-performance culture. The ASEANA cluster went on to win The Best Transformation Award.

Beyond Hexcellence™, I’ve held senior Learning and Development leadership roles across Asia Pacific with The Coca-Cola Company, BASF, and Allergan, work that has taken me deep into the realities of building capability at scale, not just designing it on paper.

I also spoke at major international HRD platforms, including the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), ARTDO, IFTDO, and ASHRM, across the USA, Malaysia, Bahrain, Egypt, Pakistan, New Zealand, and Hong Kong