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Client Perspectives

What organisations say
after working with us

We share client perspectives here because they tend to be more specific than anything we could write about ourselves.

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60+

Organisations

4.8

Avg. rating

8

Years active

9

Sectors served

What Clients Say

In their own words

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Rosnani Lim

Director, logistics firm · Shah Alam

We came to Quillfern not knowing what we were looking for — just a feeling that something about how our teams worked together had shifted after a period of growth. The observation note they produced was surprisingly specific. I kept going back to a paragraph about our Monday briefings. It was written exactly the way I would have described it if I'd had the words.

April 2025

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Azri Yusof

Head of People, tech startup · Petaling Jaya

The Team Rituals Workshop came at a point when our stand-ups had become a bit of a ritual in the worst sense — everyone attending, nothing really happening. The written rituals reference that came out of it is something we still use. I'll be honest, the first workshop was a bit slow to get going, but by the second one the team had genuinely engaged with the material.

March 2025

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Cheryl Png

COO, property management · Klang Valley

We are now seven months into the Stewardship Retainer. What I value most is having someone outside the organisation who reads the monthly review carefully and responds to it. The fortnightly calls are useful, but the written exchange is where I find myself thinking more clearly. It is a different kind of advisory relationship.

April 2025

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Hamid Krishnan

Founder, manufacturing SME · Klang

The price of the observation note felt right for what we got. A six-page document that named three things I hadn't been able to put into words in two years of running the company. It was not a comfortable read, but it was accurate. That is what I asked for.

April 2025

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Siti Tan

HR Manager, retail group · Subang Jaya

Working with Quillfern helped me have a conversation with senior leadership that I had been trying to start for months. The observation note gave me something concrete to point to. What I appreciated was that they stayed within their scope — they were clear that they are culture advisers, not HR consultants, which is exactly what we needed at that point.

March 2025

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Jerome Ooi

Operations Lead, professional services · KL

The rituals reference document we produced with them is now part of how we onboard team leads. It was designed collaboratively in the workshops, so people felt ownership of it. Nine months on and we still run the quarterly retrospective the way we designed it together.

April 2025

Case Studies

How the work unfolded

Case Study — Observation Note

A 45-person logistics firm in Shah Alam

Challenge

The company had grown from 18 to 45 staff over two years. The founding team felt something had changed in how people communicated, but could not describe it specifically enough to address it. Staff survey scores were stable, which made it harder to identify what was different.

What We Did

We ran five staff conversations across warehouse, operations, and administrative teams, following written ground rules agreed with the founding director. The observation note focused on three language patterns that appeared consistently across conversations and described their relationship to the meeting cadence.

Outcome

The leadership team used the note to redesign their monthly all-hands format. The director described the note as "the first time someone had written down what we were all sensing." Delivered in four weeks from briefing. Cost: RM 560.

"It was written exactly the way I would have described it if I'd had the words." — Rosnani Lim, Director

Case Study — Team Rituals Workshop

A product team at a Petaling Jaya technology firm

Challenge

The eight-person product team had accumulated four standing meetings over three years. Two of these had no clear owner or purpose anymore. The weekly stand-up had expanded to 45 minutes and was attended by people who had nothing to contribute to most of it.

What We Did

The three-week engagement included an audit conversation with the Head of People, two facilitated workshops with team leads, and production of a written rituals reference that the team helped design. The workshops were conducted in English with some Bahasa Malaysia, per the team's preference.

Outcome

The team retired two standing meetings and redesigned the stand-up to a 15-minute format with a shared written format. The rituals reference document was adopted as part of new team lead onboarding nine months later. Cost: RM 2,300.

"Nine months on and we still run the quarterly retrospective the way we designed it together." — Jerome Ooi, Operations Lead

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Telephone

+60 3-5611 9847

Address

Block A1, Sunway Geo Avenue, Subang Jaya, Selangor

Hours

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