Bio - Cheng Zhu

Cheng Zhu is a senior Design and Delivery faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®). She trains innovation and leadership development programs for middle and senior managers and executives from diverse industries. She designs and delivers custom executive education programs to help organizations with succession planning and strategic development of high potential leaders. She is certified to deliver a number of psychometrics and 360-degree assessments, and she conducts needs assessment and program evaluation to measure organizational leadership development.

Cheng's areas of expertise include global leadership, adult learning, and psychology. Her work centers on leading change, innovation, coaching, and negotiation. Her dissertation analyzes how China's top private-enterprise CEOs addressed their leadership challenges. She conducted research at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she employed multi-disciplinary approaches to study best leadership practices in various organizations. She was also on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her publications examined business and public leadership in China.

During her tenure as President of Harvard Graduate Council and President of Student Government Association of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Cheng twice received the "Outstanding Service Award" from the Harvard Provost and the HGSE Dean. Cheng also received teaching and research awards from Harvard.

Cheng holds a B.A. from Beijing University and a Masters and Doctorate from Harvard University.

Publications:

• What We All Can Learn From China's Business Leaders (in Forbes)
• Chinese "Sheng Yi": Challenges for Chinese Leaders (in The Leadership Handbook of the American Society for Training and Development)
• Contemporary Public Leadership in China: A Review and Consideration (co-authored article in The Leadership Quarterly)

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