About Us

Taryn Ash

Founder/Director

Taryn's entire career has focused on professional development and adult learning, initially as a lecturer of interpersonal and intercultural communication, then as an award-winning instructional designer, management and training consultant, and executive leadership coach. She has held senior management roles as a leader and developer of training teams, and run her own global talent development consultancy. She has designed and implemented local, regional and global organizational behaviour change programs for government bodies and multinational organizations such as FedEx, BP, Castrol, Singapore Airlines, Standard Chartered Bank and Changi Airport amongst many others.

She has also developed policies to foster diversity and inclusion, company-wide mentoring strategies designed to attract and retain valued staff, and award-winning global sales development programs.

She has given numerous papers at regional and international conferences on topics related to leadership and self-management, as well as on talent development initiatives at a national level.

Her work has taken her throughout South and North-East Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Currently, Taryn is living between Dubai and France and works internationally.

Associates

Liam Brown

Liam has worked extensively as a learning and development professional in Europe, Asia, The Middle East and UK including as the British Council's Development Manager for the worldwide English and Exams Business Unit for over 80 Teaching Centres in more than 50 countries.

Based now in Portugal, Liam now works with individuals and institutions around the world who want to build trust in leadership, foster pride in achieving high quality with increased effort and enjoyment of collegiality and teamwork.

Lori Figueiredo

Founder of Syzygy, Lori built a world-class think tank in the learning and development space.

Lori has thirty five years of industry experience, creating innovative tools and systems for some of the world's great companies.

She now resides between London and Dubai, and works internationally.

More about Wise World

Founded by Taryn Ash, Wise World is a formidable team of professional development experts from around the world who solve client's challenges.

Our mission is to create impactful solutions that cut directly to the needs of our clients, rather than selling a one-size-fits-all approach. We have the tools and talent to do this swiftly, and powerfully. We aim to incorporate participants' actual issues in the learning so the company and their people feel immediate ROI from their training investment. And we strive to turn the process and tools over to our clients to empower them, so we can step back.