Keynotes on AI, sustainability, and cross-cultural market entry.

I keynote conferences, moderate executive panels, and run closed-door briefings for boards, investors, and leadership teams. Audiences leave with a sharper read on how technology, capital, and culture actually move decisions, and a clearer next step.

Signature talks and briefings.

Each adapts to a keynote, a moderated panel, or a closed-door briefing.

01
AI Trust in Asia: Why Governance, Culture, and Adoption Must Be Designed Together
Best forEnterprise and policy leaders rolling out AI in new markets.
02
Singapore as Asia's Trust Bridge for AI and Sustainability
Best forFirms and investors basing their Asia strategy in Singapore.
03
The Human Layer of AI: Leadership, Communication, and Judgment
Best forExecutive teams and boards adapting to AI.
04
How Cross-Border Deals Fail: Trust, Narrative, and Stakeholder Misalignment
Best forDealmakers and BD teams negotiating across cultures.
05
Sustainability Credibility in Asia: From Green Claims to Trusted Action
Best forSustainability and communications leaders.

Selected stages and formats.

Keynotes, panels, and moderation across Silicon Valley, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Keynote · Silicon Valley Forum
Why Cultural Intelligence is Critical to Next-Gen Leadership

Power Talk at the Women in Tech Festival, Computer History Museum, Mountain View.

Film · Yingfluence
Why become a Cross-cultural Leader?

A short film on the work: executive workshops, lectures, and building influence across markets.

"The future will not be shaped only by technology, capital, or strategy. It will be shaped by trust, culture, communication, and the ability to understand one another across systems."

Yingying Li

Coaching leaders to cross cultures.

Executive workshops, corporate training, and university programs on cultural intelligence and going global.

Executive Positioning Intensive.

Four to six weeks, one to one, for leaders who are about to be read differently than they intend.

The hardest problems senior leaders face are rarely technical. They are questions of what you stand for, how you decide, and whether any of that survives translation into a market that has no prior read on you.

This is not a skills course and not a motivational program. It is positioning work for people who carry real responsibility.

Who it is for
  • Executives stepping beyond an institutional role
  • Founders entering a market that does not know them yet
  • Leaders working between cultures, systems, or disciplines
  • People who value coherence over short-term performance
The four stages
01
Position
What you actually stand for, once the title is removed.
02
Decision logic
The principles you hold when holding them costs something.
03
Narrative
Language that carries your position into rooms you are not in.
04
Application
Where it lands: the audiences, the channels, and the next moves.

Four to six weeks. Focused one to one sessions, a written synthesis after each stage, and reflection work in between. This is active work, and your engagement is part of the result.

Tell me where you are and what is changing. A short conversation first, to confirm scope and fit. No obligation. If you would rather see where you stand before you write, the diagnostic is free and takes five minutes.

Hosting, featured, in conversation.

From hosting a globally-followed podcast to magazine features and diplomatic panels: a look at the conversations and coverage along the way.

How China Works podcast cover
Podcast · Host
How China Works

Host & co-producer: 150+ global guests, reaching audiences in 100+ countries.

Featured in The Worldly Marketer: Top 10 episodes of 2020
Featured
The Worldly Marketer

Selected among the podcast's Top 10 episodes of 2020 on global business & marketing.

Panelist at G100 Sheconomy diplomatic meeting
Panelist
G100 · Sheconomy

"Closing the Capital Gap": funding pathways for women-led enterprises in ASEAN & beyond.

Co-authored opinion in the South China Morning Post on US–China tech
Op-Ed · Contributor
South China Morning Post

Co-authored opinion: "How US and Chinese tech will thrive through connection, not competition."

In conversation, fireside dialogue at a bookstore in Beijing
In Conversation
Fireside Dialogue

An on-stage conversation on China, culture, and worldview: FLTRP Bookstore, Beijing.

Featured interview and panel at She Loves Tech
Featured Interview
She Loves Tech

On-camera interview and panel at She Loves Tech, a global platform for women in technology.

Where I've spoken, taught, and built.

Forums, universities, and organizations across four continents.

Unreasonable Impact
Green Expertise Council
Stanford University
Hult Int'l Business School
Silicon Valley Forum
Horasis
LinkedIn
She Loves Tech
Gotion High-Tech
AGORA SCOLAR
Yenching Academy · PKU
Nottingham Ningbo
CETYS University
SF State University
Wuhan University
Hong Kong Fintech Week
Beyond the stage

The stage is where the conversation starts. The decisions get made in private, through advisory work and closed-door briefings.

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