Seamus was nearly dead during his premature birth, and later developed structural left lumbar scoliosis (with a 50% chance of disability if he went for surgery), severe myopia, asthma, and allergies. However, through a disciplined life of diet, nutrition, meditation and exercise, he kept his physical challenges under control. He dropped out of high school while researching antioxidants and spirituality, and was unemployed during one of the worst economic crises in Asia in the 1980s.
Today, Seamus is a thinker and practitioner in business leadership, Internet, marketing, branding, and Asian philosophy. He is always happy to inspire and educate others in his own unique and simple way.
Seamus delivers inspiring, enriching, and thought-provoking speeches for leaders. Seamus combines 4 key areas that make powerful speeches – senior executive experience, pioneering new economy Internet knowledge, professional speaking expertise, and journalism.
As a thinker and philosopher, he has been inducted in the 500 Profiles in Excellence, humbly amongst the likes of Nobel Peace laureate President Kim Dae-Jung (Korea), artist Peter Gabriel, “Seven Years in Tibet” movie director Jean-Jacques Annaud, Cardinal Jan Peer Schotte (Sec-Gen of the World Synod of Bishops), and futurist Sir Arthur C Clarke. He was also a Barons 500 Leaders of the New Century inductee, humbly alongside the likes of leading futurist and visionary Sir Arthur C Clarke and Bill Gates of Microsoft.
Seamus is a long-time knowledge entrepreneur. He was the first Asian to be honored as a top business owner and coach by Business Owners’ Idea Cafe, a web resource highly rated by Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Inc Magazine, Dow Jones, SF Chronicle and USA Today. He is a National Speakers Association (NSA) professional member, and was featured as a Brainstormer in Seth Godin’s eBook “BullMarket 2004″ (featured on Fast Company). Seamus has done extensive radio reporting and TV commentary work with stations such as TechTV, NewsRadio, Channel NewsAsia, and CNBC.
Seamus is a long-time published author since 1995. He co-authored with Hui Peng the book Dot ZEN. Dot ZEN is a leadership and entrepreneurship book aimed at small business owners, high-tech startups, knowledge entrepreneurs, and senior executives, to help them see a whole new way of managing marketing, publicity, public relations (PR), branding, human resources, entrepreneurship, and the use of the Internet, in a non-aggressive, enlightened manner. The book is based on 30 years of collective experience between them, when serving corporations and clients.
As a biotech and naturopathic philosopher with prior research, he co-authored with brother CJ, the bestselling “This Body This Life”, which was featured in national radio, newspapers, and magazines.
One of his earlier books, The Internet Webmaster Logbook, became an Amazon Bestselling Book under the Webmaster category, probably a first for Asian authors. Seamus was also featured as the first eBook author in Asia on radio. He was also one of Asia’s leading serious business and technology bloggers, and his blog articles were often quoted or used for research and study by others.
