Nick is British/Canadian, based in France and China. He is the Founder of Complex Adaptive Leadership Ltd, CEO of Agile+ Leadership International Ltd (UK) and MD of Agile+ Consultants (China). He links complexity science with ancient Chinese wisdom for leaders to navigate VUCA times in a practical way. His approach was awarded the EFMD Gold Award for Executive Development beating many leading blue-chip business schools, and he was recently voted a Thought Leader by the Agile Business consortia. He has wide ranging leadership experience including:
Practitioner: British Army Major (youngest at the time) in his twenties; Development Director of FTSE 100 firm (line responsibility for 12,000 staff, change responsibility for 45,000 staff); Consultant: Executive Strategy Consultant Ernst & Young. Academic: Professor of Leadership Nyenrode (MBA professor of the year twice); visiting leadership professor: LBS, INSEAD, EHL, Duke CE and Thunderbird. Currently visiting professor for leadership at CEDEP (INSEAD campus, Fontainebleau). Author: Various books including best seller: “Complex Adaptive Leadership – Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty” (Gower best seller translated in China as “Future Leadership” 未来领导力).

Georgina O’Brien leads the LinkedIn Learning team in Asia-Pacific. Her team helps companies develop and cultivate a culture of continuous employee development. Georgina has a sales career spanning over 15 years, 12 of which have been specific to the Talent and Learning industries in Australia, Singapore and the UK.

LinkedIn Learning is an online platform with over 23,000 courses led by industry experts. It taps into LinkedIn’s 1 billion members to gather information on the evolution of jobs, industries, organisations and skills in the fast-changing business world.

Georgina is an inquisitive learner herself and is passionate about helping companies understand the power of data driven learning to ensure they maximise the power of online learning.

Georgina is passionate about guiding her employees into their next play and is proud to work for an organization that supports transformation and bringing your authentic self to work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginaobrien/

Fragomen’s Shanghai office. With more than 17 years of experience in immigration consultancy, Roy serves as an Account Manager and manages a wide range of clients including global, regional and local corporations. Roy leads a team of immigration professionals to deliver China immigration consultancy and compliance services. In addition to some of the key operational functions in the Shanghai office, Roy is also responsible for liaising with immigration authorities across China. Roy is a frequent speaker on China immigration matters.
Prior to joining Fragomen, Roy was responsible for global mobility services for China immigration and consular matters into other jurisdictions at a global organization. Roy also has in-house human resources experience and experience working for a government department.

Jessie Xu is the talent lead at Kraftheinz, one of world biggest food company.
She has over 10 years of human resource experience in Asia, and she has expertise in areas such as talent development and performance management.

Ms. Joyce Zeng is the Visa Supervisor of Shanghai CCTong Human Resource Management Company, she has near 20 years’ experience in foreigner’s work permit and residence permit service. The clients she has served including AFRY, Adani, ITT, etc. She provides professional and efficient solutions for clients to deal with all kinds of visa related cases not only for hundreds of normal visa applications, and other add value useful certificates application for foreigners. She also has dozens of successful China Permanent Resident ID Card application cases experience.