Wanna Assavakarint
Passionate linguist • healthy lifestyle believer • music enthusiast • traveler • peace lover
Wanna is Managing Director of BTI Consultants Thailand and Kelly Services Thailand. She currently manages the full line of Outsourcing, Consulting and Staffing services to provide a more strategic and holistic talent management solution to clients. Wanna was educated in Thailand, Singapore and Canada. She has a degree in Sociology and formal training in financial analysis, which provide an important foundation for her management role.
With over 11 years in executive search and consulting, Wanna’s experience covers key industries especially pharmaceutical, financial services, manufacturing, consumer goods and professional services. As for the staffing operations, Wanna established Kelly Services Staffing & Recruitment in Thailand 5 years ago and continues to add new staffing solutions to the range of service offerings. Wanna’s previous professional background in capacities such as sales, account management, equity analysis and financial consulting within multinational organizations equipped her with the width of understanding across business communities as well as the reach to the senior leadership network.
On the work front, Wanna is passionate about the business, achieving bottom line as well as managing people. She enjoys the variety of the clientele, and the knowledge that comes with servicing and delivering solutions to clients.
Beyond work, Wanna loves music, language and travels. She speaks three languages; Thai, English and Mandarin, and is driven to add more languages to her repertoire. Wanna is an avid supporter of various children and healthcare related causes in Thailand. In her leisure, she is keen in working with charities and continues to educate the importance of these causes to her staff and others. Wanna strongly believes in keeping fit and eating healthy. She encourages her staff to exercise regularly. Wanna recently incorporates fitness, team-building and cooperate social responsibility activities together by involving the team in 5.4K fun runs to raise awareness for breast cancer and to support rural education.
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