PACE Institute of Directors, a member of PACE Education Group, is a school for business leaders and managers. PACE alumni come from the full spectrum of corporate and government leadership positions including top-level executives, and other positions of management/leadership responsibility. With emphasis on training programs serving the highest levels of management, many courses also support the needs of mid-level managers and support personnel as well.
To date, more than 50,000 entrepreneurs and directors from corporations, local and foreign companies have attended over 80 PACE training programs.
Vision
To be an internationally prestigious institute serving the education and training needs of business leaders and professionals.
Mission
To develop business leaders and entrepreneurs, and internationalise high-level labour force by world knowledge and genuine learning.
To realise this mission, PACE has consistently taken great efforts in researching and designing a wide range of training programs meeting international standards and serving the learning requirements of the business community in Vietnam and the region.
Training methodology
PACE’s training methodology is “Training as Consulting.” We apply international and modern training methods, especially the “director training technology” in implementing the training programs for business leaders and professionals.
PACE consistently combines international expertise, local insight, standard value, as well as genuine value in all subjects and programs.
Trainers
PACE trainers are Vietnamese and foreign experts who have both in-depth academic knowledge and profound experience in their own fields with a global business perspective.
Training facilities
All training courses are organised at PACE House and leading hotels in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
All PACE’s classrooms are well equipped in accordance with modern international standards.
Non-profit educational projects: PACE is collaborating with other organisations and individuals to establish, implement and develop large scale, not-for-profit educational projects. Some of these projects include the following:
SachHay.com (alternatively known as www.Goodbooks.vn): An educational entity with online and offline activities, dedicated to promoting intellectual development among Vietnamese people through quality reading encouragement. This website effectively serves as a meeting place where Vietnamese readers can conveniently share and gain knowledge pertaining to good books they have enjoyed and profited from. SachHay.com is also an open forum engaging Vietnamese readers with authors, translators and publishers to exchange thoughts and recommend high quality books.
OpenLibrary: (a part of SachHay.com) Vietnam’s first online library with legal, legitimately-acquired copies of quality e-books provided to Vietnamese readers at no cost.
OneBook: To bring books to the disadvantaged in remote and underprivileged areas in Vietnam, helping to spread knowledge and goodness embedded in worthwhile works.
Institute of Potential Leaders/IPL: To recognise and develop “born leaders” (young people with leadership potential) to become the “talented leaders” of the future. These rigorous training programs are offered at no cost to the selected participants.
Organising national and international economic, business and educational events
To achieve its mission, PACE has successfully organised national and international seminars and conferences to address issues in economics, business, management, culture and education. The international events are dedicated to linking Vietnam with the world’s great minds. The most recent events include:
The international seminar, “Global Competitiveness and Competitive Advantage of Vietnam,” December 1, 2008, keynoted by Professor Michael E. Porter, the world’s most influential thinker on management and competitiveness. This seminar addressed insights and main ideas regarding modern competition and competitiveness, helping entrepreneurs achieve greater performance and increase competitive advantage in the dynamic global marketplace. This event attracted over 700 top executives, scholars, and policy makers in private and government sectors, local, multi-national enterprises from Vietnam and neighboring countries.
The international seminar, “New Marketing for the New Age,” August 17, 2007, featuring Professor Philip Kotler, Father of the World’s Modern Marketing. This seminar addressed present-day global marketing issues facing the Asian-area business community with particular emphasis on Vietnam. The event attendees included more than 800 CEOs, general managers, marketing directors, other high-ranking professionals and government officials from Vietnam and other Asian nations in the region.
The national seminar, “Core Ideology of Vietnamese Entrepreneurs,” July 28, 2007. This event gathered 270 of Vietnam’s prominent intellectuals, business leaders, historians, lawyers, educators and government officials to discuss the core ideology of Vietnamese businesses. This theme was initiated after PACE launched the 10-book series of the same theme with each volume covering one of the world’s most legendary business leaders and corporate models.
The annual ceremony, Honoring Business Learning, every October. On the occasion of Vietnam’s Entrepreneur’s Day, October 13th, this ceremony has featured many themes including “Business Learning and National Competitiveness” (2006), “Competition in the Global Market and Vietnam’s Advantages” (2006), “Visions of Vietnam’s Business Leaders,” and “For the Next Generation of Business Leaders” (2007).
PACE is also establishing the Business Leaders’ Bookshelf, editing a number of valuable titles to serve the business community. An example is the 10-book series “Core Ideologies of the World’s and Vietnam’s Entrepreneurs.” Other highly influential contemporary business books selected and recommended/endorsed by PACE have been widely applauded: The Essential Drucker: the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (Peter Drucker), Competitive Advantage, Competitive Advantage of Nations (Michael Porter), Kotler on Marketing (Philip Kotler), Globalization and Its Discontents (Joseph E. Stiglitz), Making Globalization Work (Joseph Stiglitz), On Becoming a Leader (Warren Bennis), The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey), Managers not MBAs (Henry Mintzberg), Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan (Norio Tamaki), Good to Great, Built to Last (Jim Collins), and many others.
Contact
PACE Institute of Directors
Address: PACE House - 341 Nguyen Trai Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tel: +84 8 3837 0208
Fax: +84 8 5404 1173
Email: info@PACE.edu.vn