Chartered Manager of the Week

🌟 Meet our Chartered Manager of the Week: Dr. Guna Seelan Rethinam CMgr FCMI 🌟

Guna is always looking to learn. “I’ve always wanted to explore and gain experience in different industries so that my work keeps challenging and stretching me,” he says.

He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Management at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, a higher education partner of CMI Malaysia.

He realised that, despite his PhD in human resources development and years of experience across various levels of leadership, there was still a lot more he could learn about management. Guna became a CMI member three years ago and achieved Chartered Manager status in December 2023. He now sits on the Regional Board of CMI Malaysia.

One of the biggest lessons he has learned over his career is that your approach to management should never be set in stone. “There’s no such thing as one-size-fits-all,” he says. “You need to use different strategies with different people or teams, and it can be a case of trial and error, of course with calculated risk.”