About
Speaking, Consulting and Thought-Leadership on the most challenging issues of our time
Caroline is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, coach, consultant and a global thought leader on some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Caroline first came to global attention through her founding of Hua Dan, one of China’s first and leading social enterprises. Hua Dan uses the power of participation in drama-based workshops to reveal and develop individual and community potential. Hua Dan has a particular focus on working with China’s rural-to-urban migrant workers, particularly women, who work in the manufacturing and service industries, at the heart of China’s economic boom, and it's work has affected the lives of over 32,000 people to date.
Caroline has received numerous awards for her work: Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Architect of the Future by the Waldzell Institute, Fellow of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, Annenberg Scholar at Principia College and Social Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD.
Since relocating to Europe, Caroline has developed the work she did in China into a globally-replicable model for using theatre-based approaches for the empowerment of migrant, refugee and displaced populations, through Hua Dan's sister organisation, the Scheherazade Initiatives.
Caroline is also the founder of The Centre for the Arts and Global Leadership, that empowers the 'higher order' leadership potential of current and future leaders in the corporate, government, and non-profit sector, through participation in the arts, creativity and experiential learning.
Caroline has been educated at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, INSEAD and Lancaster. She has lived and worked in China, Hong Kong, the Middle East, Mongolia, Spain, the UK, the US, India, Argentina and France. She speaks English, Mandarin, French, Spanish and Arabic, and splits her time between London and south west France, where she lives with her husband and three children.