Agility: the new response to dynamic change

Dave Ulrich is based at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is the Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a partner at RBL Group (www.rbl.net), a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He has published over 30 books and 200 articles and book chapters that have shaped current thinking about the ability of leadership to deliver results, of organizations to build capabilities and of human resources to create value. In 2012, he was recognized with a lifetime achievement award by HR magazine for being the “father of modern Human Resources.” He has worked with over half of the Fortune 200; has numerous lifetime achievement awards for organization, leadership and HR work; and is listed in the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

Arthur Yeung is Senior Management Advisor at Tencent, Shenzhen, China. He is a Senior Management Advisor to Tencent Group, where he leads and facilitates organizational innovation and leadership development. For a decade, he was the Philips Chair Professor of Human Resource Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and taught regularly in executive programs in association with Harvard, INSEAD, and the University of Michigan. Yeung is the founder and president of Y-Triangle Organizational Learning Oasis, a CEO learning consortium that has helped more than 200 Chinese entrepreneurs and CEOs systematically build organizational capability since 2010. He served previously as a Chief Human Resources Officer of Acer Group. He has sat on the board of seven listed companies and has consulted for major corporations in Asia, including Alibaba Group, JD.com, Mary Kay, Meituan–Dianping, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), Tencent and VIPKid. He is the author of 13 books and numerous award-winning articles.