Yao Yao is an active member of Egon Zehnder’s Consumer Practice. Based in Shanghai, she serves clients in executive succession, leadership development, management assessment, and executive search. Yao Yao combines a business mindset and deep people insights to help clients identify and develop executives, unlock opportunities to dynamize their enterprises, and overcome organizational inertia.
Great leaders are self-aware and see things multidimensionally. The most exciting thing for me is supporting them on this path of constant breakthroughs and watching them grow and transform themselves.
Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Yao Yao supported entrepreneurs and executive teams as a certified freelance coach. Before that, she founded an international education technology company, which supports educational institutions in China and the U.S. Earlier, Yao Yao served as Amazon’s Senior Program Manager with responsibility for global strategy and operations planning. That was preceded by the role of Retail Measurement Service Manager at Nielson.
Yao Yao earned a BSc in economics from Shanghai University with honors and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has qualified as a Professional Certified Coach and Organizational Relationship System Coach. During the past five years she has also studied and practiced existential psychotherapy and is a practiced meditator. Outside work, Yao Yao enjoys the theater and cooking, and works as a volunteer in a nonprofit organization.
姚瑶是亿康先达消费品行业咨询团队的活跃成员，常驻上海。她为客户提供高管继任、领导力发展、管理层评估、高管寻访等领域的专业服务。姚瑶擅长将商业思维和对人的深入洞察相结合，帮助客户判明和发展高管人才、释放企业活力、克服组织惰性。
卓越的领导者能够不断加深自我认知，并从多个维度看问题。我很高兴可以陪伴领导者走在这条不断自我挑战突破的道路上，给予其最大的支持，看到他们持续成长蜕变是我最兴奋的事。
加入亿康先达之前，姚瑶是一位CEO和高管教练，专为中国本土企业一把手及其核心高管团队提供教练服务，并与红杉资本等多家顶级投资基金合作，为创业者CEO开发交付领导力项目。此前，她在中美两地创立了一家国际教育互联网公司，为中美教育机构提供数据服务和高端K12教育内容支持。创业之前，姚瑶在亚马逊美国总部任高级项目经理，主要从事全球战略运营的创新项目。职业早年，她在尼尔森中国担任零售咨询服务经理。
姚瑶是美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院MBA、上海大学经济学学士。她也是国际认证的专业教练和组织关系系统教练。过去5年来，她一直在进行存在主义心理学的学习和实践，有近10年正念冥想经验。闲暇时，姚瑶喜欢戏剧表演和烹饪，也在非营利性组织担任志愿者。
