Hai Yan Zhang
Ms. Hai Yan Zhang was born, raised, and educated in Beijing, China, where her family still resides. She worked for the Chinese government as a computer scientist before coming to the United States in 1987 to earn a Masters of Science degree in Satellite Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Afterwards, she worked as a scientist for Colorado State University. Since 1992, she has been a business partner with Dr. Gordon working as an international business consultant to Fortune 500 companies & SMEs in the United States and Asia. Recently, Ms. Zhang worked in China as Senior Corporate Adviser to a Fortune 200 company helping them work through an acquisition deal, handling Government relations, facilitating and participating in most of the negotiations with land developers, business partner companies, and Chinese government entities.
She was Colorado Governor Bill Owens’ China consultant and interpreter during Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji’s visit to Denver. In 2001, Ms. Zhang accompanied Denver Mayor Wellington Webb to China for the opening of Denver’s Chinese Trade Office where she served as his Special Consultant and interpreter. Furthermore, she was featured in Newsweek (Select) Magazine (March 2007), the Chinese version of Newsweek Magazine, as one of China’s outstanding business women. Hai Yan was recently interviewed in China about her background, keys to her success, and her role in Gordon Pacific, by China Radio International (CRI) on a program called ‘Face-to-Face’, which interviews exceptionally successful overseas Chinese (August, 2016).
Previously, she was featured along with Dr. George Renwick, in the video titled “Chinese Cultural Values: The other Pole of the Human Mind” produced by the Intercultural Press. She has also been the subject of an article in Emerging Markets magazine. She has appeared on television in the USA and China, and has been featured or quoted in a variety of different popular press articles appearing in such newspapers as the New York Times, the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, the Boulder Daily Camera, and the “In The Know” series of intercultural business books.
To keep pace with the rapidly changing conditions in China, Ms. Zhang spends approximately five months a year in China, working closely with the Chinese business community, corporate clients, government contacts, and expatriates living and working in China. Her functional areas of expertise are: Asian business strategy, new business development, negotiations, government relations, & international management. She is a Certified Executive Leadership Coach (LPI). In both China and the USA, she has consulted and participated in large-scale Chinese negotiations, designed management strategies, conducted executive coaching, training, and research. Ms. Zhang has also been a keynote speaker at several large business conferences.
