Su Cheng Harris-Simpson is the Founder and CEO of SCHSAsia, a social enterprise that offers consulting, training, and projects focused on women empowerment. Su Cheng applies her exemplary client relations and project management skills, along with her 20+ years of experience in China, towards driving the change for gender equality in businesses. SCHSAsia focuses on this mission through independent consulting projects and the Women’s Advisory Council (WAC), an engaged and impactful network of corporate leaders and decision-makers who are committed to sharing, learning, and participating in this essential endeavour.

WAC members are comprised with multinational organizations who understand that gender equality, sustainable development, and business success are inextricably linked. Members have the opportunity to propose and test innovative women empowerment initiatives that can be incubated and developed into impactful, sustainable projects; all of which are implemented by the SCHSAsia team with support from members. These include the Women Empowerment Awards in China, the Gender Pay Project, Girls in STEMM, and much more.

Since moving to China in 1997, Su Cheng has been actively involved in the Beijing business community, served on the Board of AmCham, and is the founding co-chair of the AmCham Women Professional Committee. She has forged relationships with the American, British, Japanese, and Australian Chambers of Commerce, the U.S. Embassy, and a range of Beijing civic groups. Before becoming a social entrepreneur, she was engaged in the corporate arena and held management positions at The Boeing Company, United Technologies Corporation, and The Capital Club in Beijing.

Mr. Shao is Senior Client Partner with Korn Ferry based in Beijing Office and leads Industrial Market advisory business in Asia Pacific, helping multinational and local companies to drive and sustain superior business performance through talent and organizational interventions.

Mr. Shao brings near 20 years global experience in both corporate and consulting to clients and the Firm. He used to be the Global Head of Leadership Development and Learning & Development at Caterpillar Inc, a US Fortune 100 industrial company. Prior to that, he was Practice Leader at Hewitt Associates, advising clients from various industries, such as: industrial, real estate, pharmaceutical, financials, Hi-Tech and etc.

Mr. Shao focuses on helping Chinese companies going global and multinational companies to succeed in China through leadership assessment and development, talent management, succession management, org design, HR transformation, executive coaching, M&A and etc.

Mr. Shao holds Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Bachelor of Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is accredited for several leadership assessment instruments and trained for executive coaching.

Delivering results for clients

Jessica Shen is a Senior Client Relationship Manager for Korn Ferry, based in the firm’s Shanghai office. Ms. Shen is a member of the Digital team. Equipped with in-depth understanding of pay and compensation, a good sense of customer needs and outstanding skill of communication, she has a proven record of helping the clients tackle compensation related issues.

Ms. Shen serves different types of clients, ranging from local companies, both private and state-owned, to multinational corporations. She focuses on compensation database and compensation related services. Ms. Shen helps clients to figure out key issues through discussion, analyzing details, and then determining the most suitable solution.

Expertise

Ms. Shen has helped stated-owned as well as international companies analyze and evaluate grading and compensation structure. Thanks to her previous working experience, she is familiar with industries such as technology, fast moving consumer goods, chemical and hospitality.

Ms. Shen has expertise in areas including job evaluation and work measurement, compensation and rewards, and benefits and incentives.

Academic and Professional background

Ms. Shen received her master degree from University of Leeds, UK, majoring in international corporate law. She also earned her bachelor's degrees with a double major in translation and interpretation and in law (minor) from East China University of Politics Science and Law.

Ms. Shen is proficient Mandarin and English.