Vela joined SAF in 2019, responsible for social media, public relations, and co-branding. She has led major partnership projects with China Education Support Plan, IELTS, TOEFL, Duolingo and New Oriental. Her wide social network and outstanding professionalism also help SAF win media exposure, celebrity advocates and university campus influence. Prior to SAF, Vela worked as a journalist in an art magazine and a global internet media company.

JEFF HASENFRATZ is Managing Director of Mindsight Executive Development Services, a Shanghai-based consulting firm focused on helping clients improve their Team Effectiveness through better collaboration. Jeff, an executive team coach, coaching supervisor, dialogue facilitator, and Chinese speaker, has lived in Asia for 30 years. His interest in helping organizations develop the potential of senior leaders has led him to focus his career in this area, with a particular emphasis on effective collaboration.

Jeff’s 30 years of experience in the technology and human capital consulting industries includes functional specialization in business development and in talent assessment, development, and transition. Previous corporate associations include Hewlett Packard, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, and Russell Reynolds Associates, with assignments in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Mindsight was established in Hong Kong in 2001 and in Shanghai in 2008. Client organizations include professional services firms, plus Fortune 200 firms in the manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and financial services industries. Selected client organizations include Bridgestone, Caterpillar, Deloitte, Fast Fish, MAN Energy Solutions, New York Life, PopCap Games, Priva, and Siemens. Executive clients are typically CEOs, Managing Directors, Senior Partners, and their Teams.

Clients benefit not only from Jeff’s ability to help C-Suite teams gain and leverage greater self and team awareness, leading to increased effectiveness. They also enjoy his practical focus, energy, and humorous personal style.

Jeff is certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the ICF, a Coaching Supervisor through the Coaching Supervision Academy, an Integral Coach through New Ventures West, and a Team Coach (ORSCC) through CRR Global. He has also served as an Adjunct Coach with the Center for Creative Leadership. He holds the degree of Juris Doctor (Law) and has taught collaboration skills in his client workshops and at the Hult International Business School, Shanghai. Jeff is also certified to interpret the results of the Hogan, MBTI, FIRO-B, and SDI assessment tools.

Jeff founded the Shanghai Coaches’ Learning Group in 2008, and is also a founding member of what is now called the Hong Kong International Coaching Community. He is also a member of the International Coaching Federation. In his spare time, Jeff volunteers with a mental health hotline and also enjoys practicing Chen-style taichi.

Catherine is a certified trainer of MBTI®, DiSC®, Chartered Wealth Management and a Master Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Catherine’s career spanned over various prestigious international banks including Citibank, Bank of America, etc. She moved to Shanghai from Hong Kong in 2007. Catherine left the corporate world to become a trainer in 2016 with a view to sharing her vast experience and knowledge with a wider audience. She is specialized in corporate training in sales, business communication/behavior, etc.

ASQ Certified Master Black Belt
Founder of Linke Consulting Co., Ltd.
Bilingual Trainer of OpEx and Soft Skills


Graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with Master's in Industrial Engineering, Nadya has been deeply engaged in the field of Operations Excellence and proficient in Lean Six Sigma and quality improvement tools. She is currently the youngest of the 15 ASQ certified Master Black Belts in China and also holds Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification by TÜV.
Nadya has worked in a multinational group, responsible for promoting Lean Six Sigma in Asia Pacific region. Her main tasks include six sigma organization setup, continuous improvement project delivery, training development and delivery, project coaching, etc. After that, she worked as a management consultant in a world-leading strategic consulting company helping multiple Fortune 500 clients solve problems though projects. Currently, Nadya is the founder and chief trainer of Linke consulting, focusing on providing theoretical training and practical coaching on Operations Excellence for corporate clients and individual students.
So far, Nadya has delivered 100+ training sessions on Operations Excellence and project management soft skills, trained 2000+ students from over 20 countries, including entry level staff and mid to top management, and coached 500+ continuous improvement projects. She is spoken highly of by both corporate clients and individual students due to her solid knowledge and experience as well as the engaging training style.
Nadya 毕业于美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学，工业工程硕士，深耕于卓越运营领域，精通精益六西格玛方法论及质量改善工具，是目前中国仅有的15位美国质量协会 (ASQ) 认证黑带大师中最年轻的一位，同时还持有德国TÜV 精益六西格玛黑带认证。
Nadya曾就职于汽车行业某跨国集团，负责精益六西格玛在亚太区的推广，主要工作内容包括六西格玛组织架构搭建、持续改进项目交付、课程开发及授课、项目辅导等；而后在一家全球知名的战略咨询公司担任管理咨询顾问，以项目交付的形式帮助多家世界500强客户解决问题；现任遴科咨询CEO兼首席讲师，专注于为企业客户及个人学员提供卓越运营领域的理论培训与实操辅导。
迄今为止，Nadya老师讲授卓越运营和项目管理软性技能相关课程共计100余场次，培训了来自20多个国家的学员2000余人，其中包括基层员工、中层管理者和企业高管，并辅导了持续改进项目500余个，以其扎实的理论基础和亲切的授课风格，受到企业客户和个人学员的一致好评。

Liang Yu is passionate about business education, leadership development and entrepreneurship. He has over 18 years of experience in corporate education sector, and his responsibility includes strategic planning and execution, educational startup, product development, program design, marketing & complex sales and operational excellence.

Liang currently works in Duke Kunshan University overseeing its executive education business. He partners with the leading companies to grow their leadership and organizational capability and enjoys the process of designing transformational learning journey for leaders from around the world. Prior to Duke Kunshan, Liang has worked for Deloitte Consulting in organizational change practice and Duke Corporate Education in in senior executive development.

Liang is passionate about developing future leaders in the digital age in a responsible and sustainable manner. His current research focuses on developing purposeful and rooted global leaders in the digital age.

Liang Yu translated Giving Voice to Values, a masterpiece for value-driven leadership that was written by Prof. Mary Gentile, into Chinese. Liang loves reading about philosophy, ethics, politics, entrepreneurship, higher education, cross culture leadership and linguistics. He holds an MBA degree from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he served as a COLE Leadership Fellow during 2012-2013. He lives in Kunshan China with his family.

虞亮先生对管理教育，领导力发展和教育行业创业充满热忱。他在管理教育领域拥有超过18年的经验，其职责包括战略规划和执行，企业初创，产品开发，市场推广，复杂销售和卓越运营等方面。

虞亮先生目前在昆山杜克大学工作负责其高管教育业务。他热衷于为来自世界各地的著名公司的领导者规划领导力转型项目，帮助他们发展领导能力和组织能力。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，虞亮先生曾在美国德勤管理咨询公司和杜克企业教育做有关组织变革和高级管理人员发展的相关工作。

虞亮一直饱含热忱，以充满责任心和可持续的方式来培养数字化时代的未来领袖。他的研究主要专注于数字化时代的使命驱动和植根于本土的全球领导力。

虞亮还是《正义，不沉默》（Giving Voice to Values）一书中文版的译者。这是由詹玫玲教授（Prof. Mary Gentile）撰写的关于价值驱动型领导力的杰作。虞亮酷爱阅读哲学，伦理，政治，创业，高等教育，跨文化领导和语言学类书籍。他毕业于杜克大学富卡商学院，获得了工商管理学硕士学位，并在2012-2013期间担任科尔领导力中心学者（COLE Leadership Fellow）。他目前与家人居住在昆山。

闫妍⼥⼠曾有近⼆⼗年企业⼈⼒资源管理、咨询和领导⼒培训发展的⼯作经 验。她曾担任诺华亚洲⼤学⾼级领导⼒培训负责⼈⼀职，并⽤创新的⽅式与国 际和国内著名商学院共同设计开发多个亚太区领导⼒⼈才发展项⽬。在加⼊诺 华之前，她有⼗⼏年⼈⼒资源管理、咨询⼯作经验，先后就职于万科、圣⼽班
和IBM，并曾担任IBM公司咨询顾问和亚太区⼈⼒资源伙伴等职。
闫妍⼥⼠有超过1000⼩时的个⼈教练和团队教练经验。并曾作为福特中国签 约教练，和美国教练公司Better up签约教练辅导中国不同地区和世界不同国家的华⼈客户。她的客户跨不同的⾏业，有制造业、医疗⾏业、互联⽹、汽⻋⾏业、零售⾏业和教育业等等。在辅导客户的过程中，闫妍⼥⼠通过她的专业、热情和信念陪伴客户实现了态度和⾏为上的⻓期改变，并带给个⼈和组织
最终绩效的提升和⽬标的实现。

闫妍现任LMI企业领导⼒发展中⼼资深顾问与教练。

YAN has nearly 20+years of working experience in HR management, consulting and leadership training. She has served as the Senior Leadership Training Head at Novartis Corporate University-Asia, and designed and developed a number of Asia Pacific leadership talent development projects with international and domestic famous business schools in an innovative way. Before joining Novartis, she had more than ten years of experience in human resource management and
consulting, worked in Vanke, Saint Gobain and IBM successively. She also served as AP HRBP, to support the IBM ISC Asia over 10 countries to build up people development construction and
optimize performance.

YAN has individual and group coaching experience for 1000+ hours. She has been a signing coach for Ford China and a signing coach for better up, an American coaching company, to
coach Chinese customers in different countries of the world. Her clients span different industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, Internet, automotive, retail and education. In the process of coaching clients, YAN accompanied clients to achieve long-term changes in attitude and behavior through her professionalism, enthusiasm and belief, and brought personal and organizational ultimate performance improvement and goal realization.

YAN is currently a senior leadership consultant and coach to work with LMI now.