During her 20 years in advertising, as a Copywriter and Executive Creative Director, Janet was blessed to have had her every dream ful lled. She was a founding member of Spider Network, a local agency that rose to international fame when they became the rst Malaysians to bring home the major international awards: The One Show and New York Art Directors Club.

In 2000, Janet’s passion for people moved her to design and deliver experiential training programmes. Janet realised that she had an uncanny ability to see and bring out the gifts in each individual. Her new goal was to develop herself as a Trainer, and in 2004, she became a Certi ed Trainer for the Character Building Module of Malaysia’s National Service Programme, and was appointed as a Trainer of Trainers.

Janet’s strong background in both advertising and training puts her in a unique position to provide relevant and impactful trainings for the advertising industry. In 2004, Janet and partners Peter Gan and Shahnaz Karim, established 95% to provide trainings designed to be a bridge between academics and the actual workplace. They created programmes that synergises the learnings of over 20 years of working experience with empowering self-awareness to catalyse solid learning and development.

At 95%, Janet has created many innovative and highly successful programmes for the 4As of Malaysia such as SHINE, NEXT and The Strategic Planner’s Workout. She’s also created programmes like Hydrogen and Idea Rawkstarrs to get fresh talent job-ready for a career in advertising. For working professionals, she created the Shots series, a series of short workshops designed to deliver a quick and concentrated dose of a single new skill that cab be applied immediately at work. Janet has also trained BBDO/Proximity, Ogilvy & Mather, TBWA-ISC, J.Walter Thompson, Naga DDB, Publicis, Dentsu and many more agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia.

In view of this unique expertise, she was elected by the IAA Malaysia in 2012 to take on the position of Chairman of Training and Development and was commissioned by the AFAA to create FASTTRACK A Professional Excellence Programs.