Distinguished Fellow
Dr. Zhixing XIAO is a Distinguished Fellow of the INSEAD China Initiative. He taught at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) from 2004-2012. He led George Washington University’s China programme from 2012-2015. In 2011, he founded and became the Chairman for the Center for Leadership and Executive Coaching (CLEC), which is now the largest CEO coaching platform in China and provides executive coaching and training services for over 500 leading private businesses in China.
In 2019, with the generous financial supports from the CEOs he coaches, he founded Arete College in Shanghai and signed transfer agreement with 5 leading US universities. It is the first school in China that signs agreement of this nature since 1949. Arete College is now widely regarded as the most preferred college that teaches leadership and entrepreneurship to younger generations.
In addition to the CLEC, he is also the founder of the Association for Advancing Management Practices (in Shanghai), Chinese Master in Practicing Management (at Renmin University), Advanced Management Program (at CEIBS), and China Research Institute of George Washington University. He is the key person behind the prestigious Peter Drucker China Management Award. He is also the representative of International Master in Practicing Management (IMPM) in China.
Dr. Xiao has published many top-journal articles (in English). He is the first mainland scholar who publishes on Administrative Science Quarterly, the widely respected journal in management. He is also the author of many popular business books (in Chinese); the most recent one is Lead with Passion (《以热爱战胜恐惧》). He is frequently regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers in China.
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