Hector Ramos
Director
Education
Hector Ramos holds a Master of Science degree in Creative Studies and Change Leadership by the University of New York, USA and a Bachelor of Science degree in European Community Studies (French, Italian) by the College of Cardiff, University of Wales, United Kingdom.
Professional Experience
Hector is a consultant, facilitator and trainer of creative thinking in Singapore. His area of expertise is the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (CPS) framework. He also offers training in creative thinking, including a diversity of frameworks, thinking tools, creative cognitive, emotional principles and instruments to enable Groups to discover and leverage on their creative and innovative potential and abilities individually and as a team.
In South-East Asia he has facilitated, co-facilitated and trained various clients and conducted public workshops. Some of them are listed below:
• Civil Service College (Singapore)
• Singtel (Singapore)
• Citibank, CitiCorp (SE Asia)
• Teachers Network (MOE) (Co-facilitation)
• Facilitators Network (Singapore)
• Junyuan Secondary School
• Marcus Evans (public workshop for 34 senior executives from the banking and insurance industries)
• Schneider Pte Ltd
• SIM (co-facilitated public workshop for executives in Singapore)
• Agape School of Education (Singapore)
• Aljunied Town Council
• Dynamics Pte Ltd
• Kavaq (Malaysia)
In Buffalo, New York, USA he facilitated diverse clients:
• Buffalo State College Leadership Center
• Bethesda World Harvest International Church
• Shabach Realty
• Erie County, Commission for Women under 30. State of New York
• Buffalo State College Computer Services
At the International Centre for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, New York, he was awarded the ICSC alumni foundation achievement award. He also organized the International Conference Expert to Expert to establish a learning community for alumni, students and professionals in creativity. This event attracted over 75 professionals. He was also the programme coordinator of the first American Creativity Association-Singapore Conference on Creativity held in Singapore in February 2008. This event attracted over 200 creativity professionals and researchers from 27 countries.
As a creative thinking consultant, he leverages on his professional experience in operations and marketing in the publishing and environmental sectors in South East Asia. He founded and is currently heading the Singapore International Affiliate of the American Creativity Foundation in Singapore to promote the study and use of creative thinking in Singapore. Hector is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian. He has also completed advanced studies in theology (Singapore and School of the Prophets, Malaysia).