Speaker Categories: Impact Architects

Marcia Chen

Co-founder & CEO, Women Alliance Group (WAG), Women Alliance Group (WAG)

Marcia Chen is the Co-founder and CEO of Women Alliance Group (WAG), China’s first cross-company platform for women’s development and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Since its founding in 2020, WAG has brought together over 30 leading organizations—including Google, McKinsey, Intel, Didi, Tencent, Nike, Tiffany, and Sanofi—reaching more than 350,000 employees.

She introduced Google’s global initiative #IamRemarkable to China, expanding it to over 50 organizations and 5,000 participants within three years, while training more than 100 local facilitators. This experience led her to establish WAG to further support the growth of professional women and inclusive workplace cultures in China.

Having traveled to over 50 countries, she brings a global perspective, while her deep engagement with Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, and mindfulness informs her approach to integrating Eastern and Western perspectives. She is committed to advancing localized DEI practices and contributing to a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Yajun Kang

Co-founder, Chuangwen EcoTech, Chuangwen EcoTech

Yajun Kang is an ICF-certified MCC coach and an SCC-certified CEO coach. Her career spans from Procter & Gamble and LVMH Sephora to Tory Burch, where she served as Greater China General Manager, and later as a healthcare CEO before transitioning into coaching. Each step reflects her deep exploration of the essence of leadership.

She holds a Master’s degree in Materials Science from Beihang University and an MBA from CEIBS. With a combination of scientific rigor and business insight, she designs leadership development pathways while supporting executives through critical transformation phases. She has worked with leaders from companies such as Pfizer, L’Oréal, and Decathlon. Beyond her professional work, she engages in running and diving, believing that true transformation happens beyond the boardroom.

Tina Tao

Founder & Artistic Director, Leran Performing Arts Center, Leran Performing Arts Center

Tina Tao is the Founder and Artistic Director of Leran Performing Arts Center and a musical theatre producer and director. She is a Trinity College London-certified senior musical theatre educator, a guest lecturer at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, a mentor at Shanghai Lida University, and a member of the Shanghai Musicians Association.

She holds a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree in Directing from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (UK), along with bachelor’s degrees from Shanghai International Studies University and Wuhan Conservatory of Music.

In 2012, she founded Leran Performing Arts Center, pioneering English-language musical theatre training and performance for youth in China, and in 2015 introduced the Trinity musical theatre examination system to China.

She has directed and produced numerous musical theatre and concert works, including The Other School, A Chorus Line, Cats, Chicago, The Secret Garden, Mulan, The Lion King, Peter Pan, and Tarzan. She has also organized international cultural exchange programs, leading students to perform in the U.S., UK, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Bali, and Bhutan, including participation in the Edinburgh Festival and performances in London’s West End. Her teams have received multiple awards at the World Peace Choir Festival.

Melly Zhu

Deputy General Manager & Marketing Director, Yunnan Longsheng Tea Industry Co., Ltd., Yunnan Longsheng Tea Industry Co., Ltd.

From EHL Hospitality Business School in Switzerland to tea studies at Hunan Agricultural University, Zhu’s journey spans from hospitality professional to admissions officer, and now to a practitioner deeply rooted in industry. Through this path, she has witnessed how education awakens independent thinking and a sense of stewardship.

As a successor to the century-old Songpin tea legacy, she brings a global perspective into traditional tea culture, with a strong commitment to organic agriculture. She believes that education is not merely the transmission of knowledge, but a process of rebuilding the deep connection between humans and nature. Together with like-minded peers, she is actively advancing an ecological vision of co-existence and contributing to a sustainable future.

Lei Wang

Founder & General Manager, Suzhou Zhanqing Environmental Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Zhanqing Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.

Lei Wang is the founder of Suzhou Zhanqing Environmental Technology and a graduate of Tsinghua University. Since 2012, he has focused on the industrialization of green technologies. His company has been recognized as a national “Little Giant” enterprise and has developed breakthrough solutions in fluorine recycling, enabling the recovery of high-purity calcium fluoride from wastewater and closing the fluorine resource loop.