How Thriving Talents Keeps HR Simple With brioHR

Meet Thriving Talents

Thriving Talents is a Malaysian corporate training company founded by Michael Teoh Su Lim in 2012.

The company runs programmes in leadership development, corporate training, team building, and sales. Over the past 12 years, its programmes have reached participants across more than 43 countries.

Delivering those programmes also requires a team that can manage clients, facilitators, projects, and internal operations. Reliable HR processes help everyone stay focused on that work.

The Problem

Michael had tested several HR platforms before his HR team introduced him to brioHR.

Many came with plenty of features, but Michael found them difficult to navigate. He openly describes himself as “a tech idiot” and needed a system his team could understand quickly and use without constant help.

The company also needed reliable support for payroll, claims, and annual leave. Problems in these areas create stress for employees, and that stress can affect the work they do for clients.

The Solution

Thriving Talents’ HR team recommended brioHR and described it to Michael as “idiot proof.”

That description got his attention. Once he tried the platform, he found it simple to use. He also appreciated the green interface, which he found comfortable to look at.

Thriving Talents has now used brioHR for around three years. The team uses the platform to manage payroll, employee claims, and annual leave.

These are routine HR tasks, but they affect everyone in the company. Having them in one accessible system makes the work easier for both HR and employees.

The Results

Michael says Thriving Talents no longer faces the backend problems that could distract employees from serving clients.

The company recently reviewed its technology subscriptions as more AI tools began offering similar functions. Several subscriptions were removed during that review. brioHR stayed because the team continues to use it for its core HR work.

Michael joked that other tools had been “cannibalised,” but none had managed to cannibalise brioHR.

For Thriving Talents, that decision says plenty. The platform remains useful in the company’s daily operations, three years after implementation.