Marcus Teo

Marcus started his career in 2010 at Deloitte Singapore as an HR consultant. But something didn’t sit right — all the time management training in the world wasn’t actually helping people get their lives back. They’d still feel burned out, scattered, and like they were chasing their tails.

That gap between theory and reality became his obsession. He spent years researching behavioral productivity science, eventually earning his Master’s degree from the National University of Singapore in 2015. More importantly, he started testing his ideas in the real world — with actual teams, actual deadlines, actual chaos.

For the past decade, he’s worked with over 200 multinational corporations across Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Financial services firms, tech companies, family businesses. He’s implemented custom frameworks that actually stick because they’re built around how people really work — not how productivity gurus think they should work.

In 2019, he published “The CBD Productivity Framework” — a methodology combining cognitive behavioral strategies with time management. It became the reference point in the region. Now at ChronoMaster Pte Ltd, he’s doing something different: he’s writing and teaching what he’s learned. Because the best system in the world doesn’t help anyone if nobody knows how to use it.