David Lim, CSP : is best known for leading the landmark 1st Singapore Everest Expedition in 1998 (as well as the second in 2001). Partially disabled from a devastating rare nerve disorder since 1998, his comeback story of overcoming the odds made the cover of the Readers Digest magazine in 2001, and has since been translated into eight languages. He was in management at a publishing house for nearly a decade until 1998.

Since 1999, David has been a sought-after leadership coach, with expertise in negotiation skills, facilitating change, building high performing teams, and creating experiential learning programmes. These add value to any client event or sustainable change initiatives.  David has a B.A. in Law from Cambridge University, and is accredited in many profiling instruments.

 He is also an Associate Meta-Coach, certified practitioner in Neuro-Semantics and Neuro-Linguistics Programming.

A past President of the Asia Professional Speakers ( 2007-8), his work includes being an adjunct lecturer for INSEAD Business School. David hasn't given up climbing, and is a veteran of over 60 alpine and expedition ascents around the world.

David is also a CSP(Certified Speaking Professional), the first and only Singaporean to be conferred the highest designation for professionaiism and consistent quality by the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers(IFFPS). He joins a group of less than 10% of 5500 professional members of the IFFPS who have this accreditation.