Our Trainers
The DSpring Team
Bernard Tang
Senior Trainer,Trainer of Trainers
Bernard Tang is a Hong Kong–born leadership and experiential learning facilitator, with over 25 years of experience in experiential training, leadership development, and organizational facilitation.
A graduate of the University of Hong Kong, Bernard joined AsiaWorks Asia in 2000 and became the first Chinese facilitator to achieve international certification across its Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 programs. His unique expertise spans facilitation, facilitator development, and organizational operations, enabling him to deliver original experiential learning programs in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English.
Over the years, Bernard has facilitated programs across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and has served as a Director of AsiaWorks Hong Kong and Chairman of the Fung Charity Foundation.
In 2016, he was appointed by the China Adult Education Association under the Ministry of Education as a Senior Facilitator, recognized for his distinguished expertise and multi-disciplinary leadership in experiential learning and facilitator development.
Michelle Chuang
Senior Experiential Trainer
Michelle Chuang is a senior experiential learning facilitator from Taiwan with over 20 years of experience in experiential training, corporate coaching, and leadership development.
Since 2002, she has studied the AsiaWorks experiential learning system across Levels 1–3 and spent 13 years as an interpreter for internationally renowned facilitators, gaining extensive exposure to diverse training methodologies and perspectives.
Her facilitation style is authentic, perceptive, and incisive, combining Eastern and Western perspectives with a strong ability to adapt concepts across cultures. She draws from Gestalt psychology, Nonviolent Communication, theatre and body expression, dream analysis, and modern management to create training experiences that are flexible, impactful, and tailored to each client’s needs.
Danny Soon
Founder, DSpring Trainings (M) Sdn Bhd
Danny Soon is an experienced experiential learning facilitator and leadership development trainer, with over 12 years of professional experience in the field.
Since 2012, he has been actively involved in experiential learning and has facilitated more than 130 leadership development programs, reaching over 10,000 graduates. His expertise extends beyond facilitation to program management, logistics, administration, and post-training client support, giving him a comprehensive understanding of successful training delivery.
Since 2020, Danny has served as the Founder of DSpring Trainings (M) Sdn Bhd, leading the organization and overseeing the coordination and delivery of its training programs.
In 2023, he became a certified facilitator of The Samurai Game®, ranking among the Top 10 certified facilitators in Malaysia and Top 120 globally. He is also an HRD Corp Certified Trainer, has completed an advanced psychology program at Peking University, and was recognized as one of Britishpedia’s Successful People in Malaysia & Singapore 2025.
Gary Lee
Psychological Counsellor and Corporate Coach
Gary Lee is a senior psychological counsellor and corporate coach with extensive experience in education and training. He is a nationally certified level-two psychological counsellor and senior psychotherapist (certified by the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources), holds professional trainer accreditation from China’s Ministry of Education, and is a certified corporate coach and coach educator under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University with a degree in management and went on to complete an MBA. He worked at Philips China’s lighting division and at CECT Lighting, building substantial experience in corporate management and training. He entered the education and training industry in 2003 and has now spent more than twenty years in it.
As founder of Shenzhen Origin of Life Culture Communication and Jinan Chuangying Culture Communication, Gary focuses on wellbeing education, family education, and counselling for parent-child and intimate relationships. His relaxed, open teaching style and his conviction that learning and growth should be a joy have made him a favourite among participants. Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to mindset trainer development, helping countless people grow and build happier lives.
Dennis Lam
AsiaWorks Stage-One Trainer and Interpreter
Dennis Lam was born in Hong Kong in 1979 and works fluently in English, Cantonese and Mandarin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Simon Fraser University in Canada and entered the training industry in 2006 after completing the three-stage AsiaWorks curriculum.
From 2014 he focused on course interpretation, interpreting more than 200 programmes in nine years for Hong Kong’s five largest training companies, including premium courses such as The Samurai Game®️, and serving as simultaneous interpreter for Jordan Belfort’s thousand-seat Hong Kong seminar. He was certified as a stage-one trainer in 2017, with participants including senior executives from companies such as Shiseido and AIA.
He is currently an AsiaWorks stage-one trainer and holds senior trainer certification from the China Adult Education Association. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife.
Dennis Becker
Master Trainer, Personal Development
Dennis Becker is known as a master trainer in personal development and corporate training. His life-long purpose is to positively touch the lives of the maximum number of people through our trainings.
As a pioneer in the Human Potential field, he has 45+ years experience and a distinguished record of results. He is instrumental in designing courses offered worldwide today. Nearly 1,000,000 participants have attended his personal development trainings.
He also contributes to developing new trainers to continue our work in the future. His passion is teaching in-depth, high-energy, results-producing trainings. Words like empowering, energizing, inspiring, and life changing, are ways participants describe his trainings — a true alchemist in the training room.
Jasmine Yick
Transformational Trainer, Coach and Mediator
Jasmine Yick has nearly 20 years of experience in experiential training. Since 2015, she has focused on trilingual course translation and transformational training, learning under internationally renowned trainers including Chris Gentry, founder of AsiaWorks.
A graduate of Hong Kong Baptist University with a degree in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing, Jasmine holds an ICF-accredited coaching certification, HKMAAL-accredited General Mediator qualification, and MBTI® Certified Practitioner certification.
Combining a rare breadth of professional expertise with a deep passion for human growth, Jasmine spends more than 40 weeks each year on training assignments, serving over 10,000 participants across Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Her expertise and dedication have established her as one of the youngest internationally certified Chinese female transformational trainers in the industry.
Jasmine has also achieved distinction beyond the training industry, winning the McKinsey Asia-Pacific Business Case Competition and receiving multiple accolades in international fashion and supermodel competitions.
Known for her ability to balance strength with empathy, Jasmine brings together internationally recognised credentials and extensive real-world experience. Together with master trainer Beth Hollahan, she co-designed the Women of Power programme, Awakening the Power Within.
She has delivered professional training programmes for multinational organisations including L’Oréal, HSBC, and Jardine Matheson, helping participants unlock their potential, strengthen their capabilities, and achieve exceptional results.
Joan Shih
Stage-Two Trainer, Healing Practitioner
Joan Shih has served as a coach and coordinator for three-stage experiential programmes since 2004. She has built deep expertise in the field, working as an experienced Chinese-English interpreter across many kinds of programmes and, for years, as a stage-two trainer.
More than thirty years of varied and serious mind-body-spirit practice give her teaching a focus on the core purpose and meaning of life, supporting awakening and healing in others so they can create real change and growth in their own lives. Since 2021 she has studied and taught healing and personal mastery courses under Bill Dean, and in 2023 continued her studies in healing and practice with Bill’s own teacher.
Joan continues to learn and share healing work as her life’s calling. Her wider professional background includes 12 years as an advertising producer and director, 16 years of Chinese-English interpretation, 10 years as a course trainer, 8 years teaching yoga and 3 years teaching on a healing platform. Her mind-body-spirit credentials include Usui Reiki master, advanced animal communicator and Huna shamanic healing.
Leo Shih
Bilingual Corporate Trainer, Samurai Game® Facilitator
Leo Shih served in the United States Marine Corps for eight years before being discharged, then worked as a police officer in Wichita, Kansas.
He first encountered experiential learning in 2003 and became an interpreter for three-stage experiential programmes, and moved into coaching in 2007. From 2015 he worked with a management consultancy as an adventure-based facilitator and a leadership-in-action programme facilitator. Leo is one of four certified Samurai Game® facilitators in Taiwan.
He has led corporate training successfully in both Taiwan and Hong Kong, helping organisations internationalise and raise the calibre of their people. What he brings: training grounded in one of the most rigorous American traditions, delivered in fluent English and Chinese; a scope that covers corporate training as well as personal growth; and Chinese-language delivery that needs no separate simultaneous interpretation.
Michellette Ching
Leadership Trainer, Entertainment Media Founder
Michellette Ching has spent 20 years in the entertainment industry and runs her own entertainment media company. She set her sights early on working behind the scenes for artists, which led her to study mass communication and pursue that dream wholeheartedly.
The belief that guides her career is simple: your dream, our mission — let the strength of artists connect with everyone. Over the past two decades she has worked successfully with many well-known overseas artists to develop their careers, using strong interpersonal skills to create opportunities for them. She invests sincere care and support in every artist she works with, helping them stand out in a fiercely competitive industry.
Alongside artist management, Michellette is passionate about education. Ten years ago a training programme awakened her love of learning; seeing herself and the people around her grow showed her what education is worth. Two years ago, with guidance from Danny Soon, she began her own trainer development, becoming an HRD Corp certified trainer in 2023 and a recognised leadership programme trainer at DSpring Trainings, committed to helping more people realise their potential.
Approachable, warm and genuinely interested in people, her goal is to use her own experience to help others who love the entertainment industry reach their dreams, and to let one life influence another.
Charles Chau
Trainer and Corporate Coach, Samurai Game® facilitator
Charles Chau is a seasoned trainer and corporate coach with over 15 years of experience and more than 8,000 hours of training and facilitation experience, specialising in leadership development and personal leadership style.
He is a China Adult Education Association Certified Professional Trainer (Corporate Coach), TTI Success Insights DISC Certified Analyst, Newfield Asia (ICF) Certified Coach, and a Globally Certified Facilitator of The Samurai Game®.
Charles has delivered training and coaching programmes for leading organisations and institutions, including CSTDI, Max Mara Group, 163.com, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, BNP Paribas Cardif, and Centaline Property.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Management from the University of Sunderland, UK, and has also completed the Executive Programme in Corporate Psychology and Mentoring at Peking University.
With extensive experience across leadership development, behavioural profiling, coaching and experiential learning, Charles brings a practical and insightful approach to helping leaders understand their strengths, develop their leadership presence, and lead with greater clarity and effectiveness.