Linghui Zhang: Founder, president, and chief trainer of Timeline Consultancy

As the first group of college students after China's reform and opening-up, Linghui Zhang was enrolled to Sun Yat-Sen Medical University in 1977 and graduated from the Department of Clinical Medicine. She used to be a neurological physician with rigorous clinical psychology training. Out of love for psychology and management, she founded Timeline Consultancy in 2001, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary employee relations management practices, promoting continuous improvement of human resource management and employee relations, and helping enterprises in transformation and upgrading to achieve the goal in the aspect of employee relations management, taking corporate social responsibility as the entry point.

As the earliest trainer and consultant in the field of employee relations management and corporate social responsibility in China, she boasts rich training and consulting experience in corporate management practices. As a senior trainer and expert in this field, she has host dozens of research, training and consulting projects in employee relations management every year, covering the topics of workplace dialogue and cooperation, employee participation, gender equality and employee development, conflict management and employee grievance mechanism, human resource management, leadership, cross-cultural management, employee satisfaction research, employee retention strategies, corporate social responsibility risk factor assessment, and corporate social responsibility project impact assessment, etc.

In addition, she is often invited by international institutions and well-known brands to give speeches or conduct training at international or important conferences. Her expertise in the field of employee relations management is highly recognised by brands and enterprises owners.

Linghui's personal style and characteristics: She focuses on combining research data, project experience, international cutting-edge theories of employee relations management and in-depth research on enterprise employee relations management practices over the years with the projects. Adept at integrating her expertise and management wisdom into the training, she delivers training in a highly interactive form, fully mobilising the participants' participation enthusiasm, and inspiring participants to think deeply through case sharing. She speaks concise, vivid, and humorous language. Many participants from Linghui’s trainings have spoken highly of her, e.g., "I joined Mrs. Zhang ’s training nearly 10 years ago. Her training is very useful for my whole life, and I still remember the training today" and "Mrs. Zhang has helped and influenced me greatly. What she has taught me even surpassed what I had received during the entire university period. ".

She is the author of “The Management of Mindset” (Tsinghua University Publisher, 2005). It is the first book in China which provides insights on enterprise’s daily management practice from the perspective of cognitive psychology.