Strategic advisory & executive development for senior leaders
We help boards, CEOs and senior leadership teams make sounder decisions on governance, finance and sustainability, then build the leadership capability to carry those decisions through. Every engagement is shaped and led by our founder, Dr. Harvey Gill.
Since 1987
Advising organisations in Malaysia and the region
1,000+
Leaders developed
200+
Organisations served
15+
Countries reached
HRD Corp registered training provider · programmes are claimable
The questions on your agenda
These are the situations senior leaders most often bring to us. Each one draws on the right mix of advice, executive development and practical tools.
01 · Board & governance
Board effectiveness reviews, governance frameworks aligned to the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance, and director development that sharpens oversight of strategy and risk.
Business Advisory · Executive Training
02 · Sustainability & ESG
Turning ESG from a reporting exercise into strategy: ISSB-aligned readiness under Malaysia's National Sustainability Reporting Framework, green and sustainable finance, and board-level ESG literacy.
Business Advisory · Professional Certification
03 · Financial judgement
Finance for non-finance executives, capital allocation and performance measurement, so that strategic decisions rest on a shared and rigorous understanding of value.
Executive Training · Business Advisory
04 · Regulation & risk
Independent counsel on risk governance, compliance and controls, informed by first-hand experience advising Malaysia's capital-market and central-bank regulators.
Business Advisory
05 · Leadership bench
Building the next tier of leaders through executive development and recognised professional credentials, with HRD Corp-aligned programmes designed around your succession priorities.
Executive Training · Professional Certification
06 · Data-driven operations
AI-assisted business analytics, intelligent workflow automation and a credible digital brand: practical tools that give leaders timely information and free teams for higher-value work.
Analytics · Smart Workflow · Digital Branding
What kind of firm we are
Our core is governance, finance and leadership. Our certification, executive training and digital capabilities exist to serve that core, so you work with one senior team that understands both the decision and the people who must deliver it.
A conventional provider
Harvey Gill & Associates
Dr. Harvey Gill leading an executive session
The senior expert behind every engagement
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Harwindar Singh · Founder & Principal Consultant
Nearly forty years of consulting practice, senior academic standing and professional accounting credentials, all applied to one purpose: helping organisations make sound decisions and build the capability to sustain them.
Since founding Harvey Gill & Associates in 1987, Dr. Harvey Gill has advised boards, business owners and senior management on corporate strategy, financial management, governance and sustainability, and digital transformation. His engagements range from strategic and business planning and financial performance improvement to board advisory aligned to the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance, ESG strategy, and Malaysian regulatory transitions such as e-Invoicing and SST. His advisory experience includes work for the Securities Commission Malaysia and Bank Negara Malaysia.
As an HRD Corp Certified Trainer, he designs practical, case-driven executive programmes in finance, business planning, risk and leadership, built on Malaysian and regional cases and updated with an applied AI lens. He has trained leaders across the corporate, GLC and public sectors, and teaches Corporate Governance & Sustainability, Strategic Economic Thinking and Finance on the MUST/KEDGE Euro-ASEAN Blended MBA.
Credentials
Appointments & advisory
Senior-level problems he has helped organisations address
Dr. Harvey Gill with the IPA team at the Institute of Public Accountants
Partnership · Institute of Public Accountants (IPA)
Harvey Gill & Associates collaborates with the Institute of Public Accountants to offer senior managers in finance and accounting a pathway to IPA fellowship and professional certification, based on the accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL).
Instead of starting again from the beginning, experienced professionals are recognised for what they have already achieved, earning an internationally recognised credential that matches their seniority and strengthens the credibility of the finance function.
Who it is for
Senior managers with substantial experience in finance and accounting
What it leads to
IPA fellowship and certification through APEL
HGA's role
Guidance led by Dr. Harvey Gill, himself a Fellow of the IPA
How we work · Inspire, Inform, Transform
01 · Inspire
A confidential conversation with you and your leadership team to define the decision, the risk and what success must look like.
02 · Inform
Independent, evidence-based counsel drawing on academic depth, boardroom practice and regulatory experience, free of vendor conflicts.
03 · Transform
Executive development, recognised credentials and practical digital tools, so your people carry the change forward after we step back.
Case studies
Four engagements where clearer financial insight changed how leadership teams and regulators decide, measure and report.
01 · Talent recruitment firm
≈ ⅓
Actual profit margins, measured against management's original estimates
Challenge
Despite strong business performance, management had overestimated the firm's profit margins and wanted a financial recording system with integrated business analytics.
What we did
Applied HGA's analytical tools to the firm's activities, revealing that actual margins were approximately one-third of the initial estimates.
Outcome
The company rebalanced its business portfolio to reflect the true profitability of each activity.
02 · FMCG retail distributor
≈ 24%
Cost improvement in the first year of KPI implementation
Challenge
Managing multiple suppliers and distribution channels made consistent performance across the organisation difficult to achieve.
What we did
Through consultation with Dr. Harvey Gill, the company identified the need for KPIs. HGA then designed customised indicators and supported their implementation.
Outcome
Significantly improved accuracy and on-time delivery, producing a cost improvement of nearly 24% in the first year. Structured feedback mechanisms now monitor results and guide management decisions.
03 · Large listed company
Owned reporting
Managers built their own system, linked to financial and operational KPIs
Challenge
Several managers took part in budgeting only superficially, partly because they lacked a clear grasp of financial terminology and reporting requirements.
What we did
Comprehensive training and practical workshops guided managers and department heads to develop their own reporting system.
Outcome
A structured reporting and feedback process now supports more meaningful participation in budgeting and performance management.
04 · Securities Commission Malaysia
60+ officers
Trained in a 12-day programme, with the systems in use since 2016
Challenge
Officers needed the skills to evaluate new listings and valuations, read the details of prospectuses closely, and ask the relevant questions.
What we did
Designed and delivered a 12-day intensive training programme in four parts, and developed several financial models to support the officers' work.
Outcome
More than 60 officers were trained, and they have applied the systems and financial models in their work since 2016.
Continuing engagement
Senior faculty & strategic partners
Strategic Partner, Business Advisory & Training in Sustainable Supply Chain · CEO, Malaysia University of Science and Technology
A business leader with over two decades in senior executive roles. Since becoming CEO of MUST in 2017, he has grown the university from 347 to 4,200 students in six years, with a 19.6% net profit margin after tax in the last fiscal year.
Previously spent 12 years as a senior manager at Intel, leading global supply chain initiatives in Santa Clara and Penang.
Growth strategy · Supply chain resilience · Sustainability & circular economy · Innovation culture
Senior Consultant · HRD Corp Certified Trainer
An executive trainer and strategic advisor with over 15 years in business transformation, strategy, market intelligence and leadership development. Alongside his leadership role at MUST, he works with senior management teams on growth, innovation and capability building.
Known for translating strategic priorities into practical actions, measurable outcomes and stronger organisational alignment.
ESG & SDG alignment · Governance · Digital transformation · Generative AI · OKRs · Data-driven decisions
Trainer, Business Analytics · Microsoft Certified Trainer
A business analytics and digital transformation specialist with over 15 years of teaching and consultancy across Malaysia and international platforms. He is Head of Postgraduate Studies at MUST, where he built AI-enabled dashboards and workflow systems using Power BI and Power Platform.
Runs corporate programmes such as Business Analytics for Decision Makers and Mastering Power BI. Author of Business Analytics with Power BI (2026), and Microsoft-certified Power BI Data Analyst.
Power BI & Excel analytics · AI & automation · Power Platform · Dashboards for decision makers
Senior Consultant & Trainer, Supply Chain & Operations · HRD Corp Accredited Trainer
Over three decades in supply chain leadership with Goodyear Malaysia and BASF, including Regional Head of Strategic Supply Chain Management for Asia Pacific in Hong Kong and Singapore.
As Asia Pacific Project Lead for BASF's OECD BEPS business-model transformation, he restructured 17 legal entities in 12 countries, with sales of €4.4 billion. He holds a PhD, an MBA from the University of Bath and Harvard Business School's ASEAN Senior Manager Development Program, and coaches executives at Asia School of Business with MIT Sloan.
Supply chain strategy · Procurement & inventory · Business model transformation · CPIM · CSCP · CMILT
How we deliver
HGA is an HRD Corp registered training provider. Our programmes are HRD Corp claimable and aligned to recognised international bodies.
Leadership & governance core
Business Advisory
Independent counsel for the decisions that matter most.
Executive Training
Leadership capability for boards, executives and emerging leaders.
Professional Certification
Recognised, industry-aligned credentials.
Digital services
Automating Business Analytics
Business data turned into clear decisions, with AI.
Smart Workflow Management
Operations streamlined through intelligent automation.
Digital Branding Advisory
A brand identity that earns trust in a digital-first market.
Digital services
We start with the decision, the process or the reputation you need to build, then apply data, automation and AI only where they add clear value, with people, controls and accountability kept central.
01 · Analytics
Routine reporting turned into automated insight leaders can act on.
We start with the decisions that matter, then work back to the data, metrics and automation needed, applying AI where it adds clear value.
What’s included
Outcomes
02 · Workflow
Operations streamlined through intelligent process automation.
We map how work moves through your organisation and automate the steps that don't need a person, making processes clearer, faster and more reliable.
What’s included
Outcomes
03 · Brand
A brand identity that earns trust in a digital-first market.
We help organisations build a clear, credible and consistent digital presence, from brand identity and website experience to social media content, campaigns and performance monitoring.
What’s included
Outcomes
Reflections on sustainability
You are standing on a living organism that has been breathing for 4.5 billion years, and it is trying to tell you something.
A reflection on James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, and what it asks of those who lead organisations.
Read the full reflection (PDF)I · 1970
James Lovelock proposed that the Earth is not a dead rock with life on top of it, but a living system that regulates its own atmosphere, oceans, soil and temperature, much as the body regulates its own.
II · 4.5 billion years
It has run its own thermostat without a manual, survived five mass extinctions, and turned molten rock into rainforests and coral reefs. It recovered every time.
III · The last 200 years
We extracted, mined and burned, and called it progress. When the planet began to run a fever, we debated whether the fever was real.
IV · The real question
The question was never whether the Earth can survive what we are doing. It is whether we can survive what the Earth will do in response.
“We are not the owners of this planet. We are the tenants. And the landlord is losing patience.”
Tenants, not owners
You cannot poison the water and keep your blood clean.
You cannot burn the forest and keep your lungs clear.
You cannot strip the soil and keep your food alive.
Everything we do to the Earth, we do to our own body. We are not separate from nature. We are nature.
You are not on the Earth. You are the Earth. And it is running out of ways to tell you.
Discuss sustainability strategy for your board →Start a conversation
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Ms. JadeChief Executive Officer · programmes & scheduling+6012-212 4007Dr. Harvey GillFounder & Principal Consultant · advisory engagements+6012-268 2417Email: harwindar@gmail.com
Office: No. 197, Reed, Lakefields, Sungai Besi, 57000 Kuala Lumpur
