Bio - Rola Ruohong Wei
Rola Ruohong Wei
Rola Ruohong Wei is a Research Associate with the Center for Creative Leadership, and based at CCL's Asia campus in Singapore. Her primary interest is to address leadership development issues that leaders in Asia are facing. Specifically, she focuses on individual process that helps one to become an effective leader as well as organizational efforts to develop managers so that they can resolve future challenges.
Prior to joining CCL, Rola's research centered on cultural difference between East Asians and West Europeans in their stress management as well as communication styles. She designed and conducted online surveys at Cornell University to measure students' stress level and contributing factors, and has presented research findings at various internationally recognized conferences. Other deliverable of this piece of research was her recommendation of a low-budget intervention program to reduce students' stress level, adopted by the International Students and Scholars' Office at Cornell. Her additional research experience included interviews with Chinese and Caucasian families and observation of their communication styles. Her co-authored paper of the findings was published in Journal of Cognition and Development (2006).
In addition, Rola has taught several classes in Psychology and worked as a Teaching Assistant at both Cornell University and Lehigh University. She received high evaluation from students in her class.
Rola has also served as leader for various student organizations in graduate school. She has facilitated communications between university leaders and students from Asian countries to help with Asian students' acculturation in the US. Some of her work involved event planning, funding raising, and project management.
Rola has a M.A. in Human Development from Cornell University and a M.S. in Psychology from Lehigh University. She completed her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Beijing Normal University in China.
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