1. Introduction

2. Education

3. Career

4. Publications

5. References

Introduction

Sanyin Siang is a CEO coach and the Executive Director of Duke University’s Coach K

Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) at the Fuqua School of Business.^[1] She is a professor at Duke University, an advisor to Google Ventures, Johnson & Johnson JLABS and the Sports Innovation Lab, and the author of The Launch Book.^[2]

Education

Sanyin Siang earned her BSE in biomedical engineering from Duke University, where she

was an Angier B. Duke Scholar.^[3] Later, in 2002, she earned her MBA from Duke’s Cross Continent program (an international executive MBA program).^[4] From these degrees she learned the importance of interdisciplinary work in understanding complex problems and their solutions.

Career

Prior to Siang’s work at Duke in 2002, she worked for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest federation of science and engineering societies. There she explored the ethical, legal, and social implications of technological advances and served as the Managing Editor for the AAAS Professional Ethics Publication.^[5]

In 2002, Siang became the managing director of the Teradata Center for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Research at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.^[6] In 2004 Siang co-founded the Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE), and became the founding Managing Director.^[7] Now, as the Executive Director of the Coach K Center, Siang focuses on collaborative leadership, mentorship, and strategic partnership. Her love for mentoring has translated into her coaching executives based in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, and Russia from organizations like Citigroup, JP Morgan, Deloitte, the US Transportation Security Administration, OMGEO, Areva, and BioMerieux.

In 2016, Siang began working with the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, the most prestigious civilian program in the US Department of Defense, 86th class. She continues to work with C-suite executives and generals to help them become even more successful.^[8]

In 2017, she was named one of LinkedIn’s Top Influencer Voices, along the likes of Beth Comstock and Justin Trudeau.^[9] In 2018, Thinkers50 named her a Radar Thinker^[10], and she was appointed to the faculty at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.^[11]

Her writing on leadership has appeared in Forbes,^[12] Fortune,^[13] The Wall Street Journal,^[14] and CNN^[15]. Her service on the boards of startups and nonprofits has included Algae Systems, a biofuel technology startup, the National Board of the Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center, the Governing Board of the Emily Krzyzewski Center, and the Museum of Life and Science. She has served on the editorial boards of the Remedica Clinical Research Journal, the American Bar Association’s Science and Technology Law Section Newsletter, and the AAAS Professional Ethics Report. She was co-chair of the Info-Structure Security Dialogue.

Most recently, she is the author of The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business, or Next Career, which was published in 2017.^[16] The Launch Book won an Axiom Business Gold Medal^[17] and National IndieExcellence Book Award in Business in 2018.^[18]

Publications

The Launch Book

Siang’s book, The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career helps readers build the leadership mindset for addressing the changes in their careers, businesses, and lives. Launch won the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award in the success/motivational/coaching category, and the 2018 National Indie Excellence Book Award in the business/motivation Category, and the Sponsor’s Prize Award.

Articles and Other Publications

Siang was the co-editor of a special 2008 issue of the Leader to Leader journal,^[19] and the co-author of a chapter in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership (2012)^[20]. She was a former deputy editor of the Professional Ethics Report (PER)^[21], the journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a contributing editor to the IEEE Spectrum, a magazine edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.^[22]

Siang is a regular contributor on leadership to Forbes. Her writing has appeared in PINK magazine, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the DNA and Cell Biology journal, and the Science and Engineering Ethics journal.

References

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