2019 Women in Leadership Forum

Phone: +86-10-85188858 xt. 3328
E-mail: bsteng@ckgsb.edu.cn

Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean for Strategic Research, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

PhD, City University of New York

Areas of Expertise: Chinese Firms’ Global Strategies, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, M&A, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Management

Biography

Teng Bingsheng is Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean for Strategic Research at CKGSB. He formerly served as a tenured Professor of Strategic Management at George Washington University (GWU), where he was a doctoral advisor and lead professor of the departmental doctoral program.

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Associate Professor of Behavioral Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Associate Dean for EMBA Program, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

PhD, the R.H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park

Areas of Expertise: Behavioral Psychology, Psychological Resilience, Organizational Resilience, Leadership, Motivation, Team Collaboration, Talent Development

Biography

Professor Zhang Xiaomeng is Associate Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, overseeing the EMBA program, and Associate Professor of Behavioral Psychology/Organizational Behavior with tenure in the Department of Management. She also serves as Deputy Director of the Integrative Psychology Specialized Committee of the Chinese Association of Social Psychology, Director of the Research Center for Leadership and Behavioral Psychology, and Academic Director of the CKGSB Juanyong – Women’s Leadership Program. Prior to joining CKGSB, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Management at the Kogod School of Business at American University, the first business school in the Washington, D.C. area.

Her research focuses on the intersection of behavioral science, psychology, and leadership, including individual psychological resilience and organizational resilience, leadership cognition, organizational motivation, team collaboration, talent pipeline building, and the application of behavioral psychology in these areas. Professor Zhang has published articles in multiple world-leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Resource Management Review.

Professor Zhang has taught Leadership, Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior, Organization and Human Resource Management, Business Policy, and International Business Practices in China. She holds a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Sun Yat-sen University (graduated with distinction) and a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.

For her outstanding academic achievements, Professor Zhang received the Frank T. Paine Award for outstanding research achievement. She has been named a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher for eight consecutive years from 2019 to 2026, and in 2026 was included in the 2025 World’s Top 2% Scientists list. In 2022, she published Resilience and The Resilience Handbook, both named among the “CITIC Press Good Books of 2022,” and received the “CITIC Press Author of the Year 2022” award. She received the “Science and Education Figure of the Year” award at the “Her Power · 2023 Women’s Influence Awards.” In 2025, the CKGSB Yongyong – Women’s Leadership Program, for which she serves as Academic Director, received the “Women’s Growth and Education Award” from the Global Women’s Expo; the same year, Professor Zhang published Resilience², which received the “2025 Super New Book of the Year” award from JD Books and CITIC Press. In 2026, she launched her new book Light Up Your Inner Universe – A Resilience Growth Handbook, created especially for teenagers and parents.