Yen Chen, Senior Consultant
Contact: yen@billduane.com
Yen Chen
Specializing in innovation and collaboration mindset, adaptive leadership, and navigating complexities, Yen brings expertise from leading multidisplinary projects across diverse cultural and social contexts. As an entrepreneurin both the US and China, she also curated training programs and events for companies such as DiDi, HP, Alibaba Lenovo, and more. Her passion lies in supporting organizational development for dynamic startup teams.
Offerings:
- Facilitation
- Coaching
- Talent Development and Recruitment
Specilities:
- Unlock growth potential
- Navigating Complexity
- Innovation and collaboration mindset
- Cross-cultural Sensibility and Agility
About Yen
Yen is an entrepreneur and leadership development coach. She founded Stage AI in 2016 to bridge technology and humanity. Currently, she is the founder of Spring Zero, providing servies to individuals and teams to enhance creativity in both life and work. Yen also serves as a coordinator of an Inner Development Goals (IDG) Hub in San Francisco. A longtime meditator and dedicated spiritual practitioner, she remains deeply committed to continuous learning and growth.
Born in China and living as a global citizen, Yen began her career in the nonprofit sector, working with organizations such as Doctors Without Borders (France), UNDP, Refugees International, and the U.S. Medical Corps in China, Tajikistan, and North Korea. Committed to social consiousness growth, she later transitioned into the corporate sector, holding roles at L3 Communications in Beijing and Hong Kong (a Fortune 100 company), law firm( Wlolyka, MacDonald & Teng) in Vancouver, Dynatic Solutins in New York.
Yen holds a Master’s degree in Integral Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and is a SHRM-Certified HR professional in New York. She has also received training in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School, Somatic Leadership Coaching from the Strozzi Institute, Growth Edge Coaching from Cultivating Leadership, and Ecosystem Leadership from the Presencing Institute in Berlin.
In 2015, Yen founded Stage AI in New York. As a full-time entrepreneur for seven years, she gained deep insights into navigating cultural and social complexity, building trust and resilience, embracing conflict and vulnerability, and working with the wisdom of the body and emotions. Yen experienced firsthand the power of inner transformation and leading from the heart, which later became the guiding principle of her work.
After transferring her business and moving back to San Francisco, Yen Yen joined Bill Duane Associates. She brings unique value for companies seeking expertise in cultivating an innovation and collaboration mindset.
Beyond her work with organizations, Yen is also an excellent guide for individuals seeking to unlock their inner potential. She is mostly acknowldged by her clients in the technology sector—for her power in igniting passion and creativity.
