PROFILE OF MAIN FACILITATORS

COL (Rtd) NIK ZAININ A. RAHMAN  MBA (Aston)  FIMgt  psc
Programme Director and Chief Facilitator.

Whilst most selected military officers were sent to additional military staff college courses to further their studies in the military sciences, Nik Zainin was sent to three different universities to be equipped with the latest in management. In the United States, he studied defence resource management. In the United Kingdom, he obtained his MBA degree from the University of Aston and then studied Criminology at the University of Cambridge when he was Fellow Commoner at the university's Wolfson College. Nik Zainin is a Fellow of the British Institute of Management, a pioneer Life Member of the Malaysian Psychological Association (PSIMA), is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Training Management with UPM and lectures, part-time, to post-graduate students (MBA/M.Sc.) of UPM in Human Resource Management.

In the Armed Forces, other than stints at command of troops at various levels, as instructor at the Royal Military College (twice) and the Army Combat Training Centre, Nik Zainin was one of only several officers to have served two Chiefs of Army as their Military Assistant. Other appointments with the top hierarchy of the Armed Forces included being the ADC to the Chief of Armed Forces, and then again as the Principal Staff Officer to a later Chief of the Armed Forces. He also had the distinction of service with our foreign embassy - as Assistant Defence Adviser at the Malaysian Embassy in the Philippines.

For the many years (since 1992) years that he has led and facilitated hands-on, the more than 300 courses attended by all levels of participants from both the private as well as public sectors, as well as studies for his Ph.D., Nik Zainin has added the knowledge gained to further enhance his personal practical skills in leadership and management enabling him to be better able to lead the courses he and his team conduct.

HJH JAMALIAH DATO’ RAHMAT
Director of Finance & Logistics and Facilitator

Hjh Jamaliah is a highly experienced educationist having begun in the field as a teacher at two of Malaysia’s premier schools, firstly at Sekolah Alam Shah, Cheras and then the Royal Military College, Sungei Besi. This was followed by a total of 16 years of lecturing: at Batu Lintang Teachers’ College, Kuching; at Maktab Perguruan Temeng-gong Ibrahim, Johor Bahru; at the Language Institute,  Lembah Pantai; and finally at the Malaysian Teachers’ College, Pantai Valley before her promotion to become Principal, firstly at Sekolah Menengah Bandar Sunway, then Sekolah Menengah Rawang Batu 16. She then became a lecturer at Intan, Jalan Elmu for the next 5 years.

Hjh Jamaliah holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Essex, UK; a BA in English Literature and Diploma in Education from the University of Malaya; Diploma in TESL from SEAMEO, Singapore; and Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language and Material Design from the University of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, UK.   

CAPT (Rtd) HASNOL ABDULLAH
Operations Manager and Facilitator

Capt Hasnol served in the Malaysian Army for more than a decade before deciding to contribute his experiences, knowledge and unique skills to the field of consultancy works in which PiBi is involved in since 11 years ago.

In the Army, though Capt Hasnol began his service like most other young officers as a commander of a platoon of 32 soldiers of various ranks, and was involved in a great number of combat military operations, he was identified as one with great capabilities at teaching and developing people. Appropriately, thus after a series professional courses both locally as well as overseas, he was whisked away to become an Instructor at the Army’s main Training Centre, Port Dickson.

Other than his excellence at teaching and developing people, Capt Hasnol also has an acute ability at map-reading as well as at competitive-shooting. He was an established member of the Shooting Team of every unit that he served.

ENCIK ZAINAL ABIDIN ISHAK
Administration Manager and Facilitator

Zainal began his working career in the Securities industry where he lasted for 17 years. He began to change interests to that of management, leadership and teambuilding in the outdoors using the experiential approach consultancy works after he himself attended one such course 8 years ago.  

Before committing himself whole-heartedly to it however, he was further equipped with additional and usefully relevant knowledge, skills and experiences in human resource management and administration from his two years as an Assistant Human Resource Manager with a city-hotel and then with a high-rise-building cleaning company where he went to the extent of becoming one of the instructors to those tasked to clean the Petronas Twin Towers, including its pinnacles.  

OTHER FACILITATORS

Other Facilitators are trained in rope-works, kayaking, canoeing and with experiences and expertise in other water-based and jungle activities.

The permanent Assistant Facilitators:

At times, there are also Guest Facilitators. Guest Facilitators are those who have attended previous courses, and are now practising the knowledge gained at their work-places.