Dr. Maria Rufina’s passion is in empowering people and bringing out the best in them so that they could make a difference in their respective organisations. Her specialty is in crafting bespoke solutions. Thanks to her vast 27 years of amalgamated experience in Quality Assurance, Mathematics and Human Relations. Where others see exclusivity in these areas, Dr Maria believes that the fusion of convergent and divergent approach results in effective training, consultancy and leadership of any corporate or non profitable organizations. Her professional qualification include Certified Professional Facilitator from IAF, USA, Certified Workplace Assessment, Cert IV from Australia, Fellow of IPMA (UK) and OXCEL and she is also a Certified Online trainer. In the corporate fraternity, she is a seasoned and renowned trainer and consultant. Todate, she has trained over 50,000 people both locally and internationally across various industries including Oil & Gas and the government sectors; specializing in areas such as Strategy, Leadership, Performance Management & Personal Empowerment. Her successful consultancy works include Succession Planning, Performance Management System and TNA to name a few. Companies that have benefited from her expertise are Golden Trust and Bahrain Credit (Bahrain), Islamic Development Bank (Jeddah, Arab Saudi), Polwell (Singapore), Oxcel Cambodia, ExxonMobil, Orpic (Oman), KWSP, SSM, Lay Hong Berhad and many more. Dr Maria is currently the founder and CEO of ACE Biznez Services. Some of her success stories in her 23 years of entrepreneurship journey include founding and adding value to two other companies before selling them off, coaching and mentoring young and new entrepreneurs and gig entrepreneurs, coaching trainers to fast track their training business. She has also trained and coached 400 women by collaborating with MyWin Academy under the PM’s department. Community service is another area that Dr Maria has been involved for the last 20 years. She is the founder and Honorary Advisor of MiWEPs, a national women organization that currently has 700 members from all over Malaysia. She made history in KLSICCI (with about 1000 members – male dominated) by becoming the first woman Secretary General of KLSICCI (KL & Sel Indian Chamber) and also brought in 5 women for the into the Management Council for the first time after 87 years in existence! Dr.Maria is also a board member of MIRM (Malaysian Institute of Retirement Management) and Koperasi Pesara. A graduate from University Malaya, Dr. Maria Rufina holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, MBA in Finance and Doctorate in Business Administration from European American University. Being a well known singer in the Indian fraternity in Malaysia, and having an open water licensed scuba diver adds more color to her portfolio and credibility. She is also often invited to share her views and expertise on RTM, Astro and Bernama News and Channels.