Our People

Tim
Payne

Chair and Senior Adviser, Asia

Our People

Tim
Payne

Chair and Senior Adviser, Asia

Overview

Tim Payne is the Asia Chair and Senior Adviser at Global Mentors Group. With over 30 years of experience as a strategic adviser, he specialises in managing critical issues related to reputation, risk, geopolitical complexity, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), crisis management, and governance.

Tim had a background in politics and a career spanning the UK and US. He then built, over 20 years, a market leading consulting practice in Asia. He is now Principal at Kellaways, his own management consulting firm focused on areas of reputation and trust.

Formerly Head of Asia and part of the global leadership team at Brunswick Group, the leading critical issues advisory firm, Tim has worked on transactions and crises for many of Asia’s most significant companies, and on their highest profile issues around the world, as well as supporting leading global MNCs as they engage Asian markets. His appreciation for geopolitical, financial, cultural, and personal complexities enables him to formulate strategies framed by context. His roots as a political campaigner, and his deep understanding of the micro and macro challenges facing the business world of Asia, strengthen his role as a transformative adviser.

Tim is a committed advocate for inclusion, diversity, and gender parity. He served for 10 years as a director of The Women’s Foundation in Hong Kong and was a former Chair of the 30% Club, fighting to increase the representation of women on corporate boards. He is a founding director of XBMA, the International Institute for the Study of Cross-Border Investment and M&A, and previously sat on the International Advisory Board of the Renmin University of China, School of Business in Beijing.

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Our unrivalled global roster of board chairs and CEOs offers the seasoned wisdom of proven world-class leaders. Explore this rich array of talent and connect with us to begin a mentoring journey shaped around your leadership context.

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The Original Mentor

Mentoring has its roots in one of the oldest leadership stories. In Homer’s Odyssey, Mentor was entrusted with guiding the young Telemachus while Odysseus was away — not by directing him, but by offering judgement, perspective and wisdom born of experience. This enduring idea of counsel, grounded in trust rather than instruction, remains the essence of mentoring today.

That same tradition sits at the heart of Global Mentors Group today. 

We exist to provide leaders with access to seasoned peers who have walked the path before them, offering the clarity, judgement and discretion required to lead at the highest level.

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