Matthew James is the founder and Executive Director of Matthew James International. He has a combined seventeen years of experience in public relations, people development work, media relations and corporate training. He is a certified trainer by the Leadership Institute of America. Matthew is also a Fully Qualified and Accredited Administrator of the MBTI and DISC profiling instruments.

Matthew started out with the Singapore Economic Development Board as a public relations practitioner with the agency and spent five years there, involved heavily in corporate communications and media relations work. 

Through his active involvement in consultancy and training, he has garnered essential knowledge and extensive training experience in the areas of communication and interpersonal skills, teambuilding dynamics, personality profiling, time and stress management, customer communications, presentation skills as well as media relations. 

To date he has delivered training for about 150 companies both locally and within the region. He has conducted regional training in countries such as China, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia. These include organizations such as Singtel, Shell, Jones Lang Laselle, Nokia, Baker Hughes, Mitsubishi Corp, Housing & Development Board, URA, and Sun Microsystems.

His dynamism and practical approach to training has seen positive and encouraging feedback from past trainees and students. Matthew is also a strong proponent in the development and understanding of the role that human behavioural science has play in personal and organisational development.

Matthew has also attained the TOEFL certification through the British Council and also teaches English as a foreign language.