LEAD, LAUNCH & LEVEL UP: Fast Tools for Female Leaders

Marcia Chen graduated from Imperial College London with a Master’s degree in Strategic Marketing. She has worked at DiDi Chuxing and Google China, serving as a senior marketing consultant and overseas marketing account manager.

In 2020, Marcia Chen co-founded China’s first cross-enterprise women’s development and DEI platform—Women Alliance Group (WAG). The platform has gathered notable global companies like Google, McKinsey, Intel, GE, DiDi, Tencent, Amazon Web Services, Tiffany, Nike, Eaton, Sanofi, Kering Group, and Carrier, covering over 250,000 employees, making it China’s largest cross-enterprise platform for women’s development and DEI. The platform aims to promote the development of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in China.

Previously, with the mission to support more lives to flourish, she introduced Google’s global DEI project #IamRemarkable to China, building it from the ground up. In three years, the workshops have reached over 5,000 participants from more than 50 companies, training over 100 local instructors. During the promotion of #IamRemarkable, she was inspired to establish the Women’s Alliance to gather more strength to support the growth of professional women in China, officially co-founding WAG in 2020.

She has traveled to over 50 countries, and has a deep interest in and practices traditional culture, aesthetics, and mindfulness. In the future, she hopes to integrate Eastern and Western philosophies to find a way to empower personal growth and a diverse and inclusive culture in China, leading businesses towards goodness and achieving sustainable human development.

Rita is a “slashy”: certified coach/ DEI practitioner/ workshop facilitator/ change creator/ leadership trainer/ and so much more. Since its launch in 2014, Rita Malvone and Associates has been committed to creating the cultures, strategies and leaders of the future. She is bold, direct, and fiercely committed to helping her clients thrive. She actively supports the Rotary Club of Shanghai, the International Professional Women’s Society, and the Shanghai Coaching Circle since relocating to Shanghai with Ford in 2011.

Rita holds an MBA from Wayne State University and a BSBA from Boston University. Her corporate career included supply chain, strategy, and procurement leadership roles at Ford, Colgate Palmolive, and Unilever. Her client base includes Volkswagen, Airbus, McCann World, CITIC Group, and Evonik.

In her spare time, Rita enjoys afternoon tea, watching a performance, or wandering in the old lanes. She will always find an excuse to wear a fancy hat and lives by the motto: #alwayschoosefabulous.

Harriet has spent the last decade in China helping MNC’s and NGOs grow, through corporate communication, media, brand, and marketing strategy. Now guiding OUTFORM, a global retail manufacturing agency through market entry into the APAC region, with commercial, creative, marketing, and brand planning.

During this time Harriet has been active in creating communities, and running not-for-profit organisations in China; facilitating programs for the UN Gender Equality Conference China, Start-up Weekend for Google, and chairing the board of the British Chamber of Commerce Southwest China, to advocate for British Businesses in the region during Covid-19. She is excited to assist the chamber with brand, marketing, and strategy to support members in a new era of British Business in China.