Niran Jiang

Niran is a founding partner of the Institute of Human Excellence, with 15 years of organisational development experience in Australia, USA and Asia Pacific. She is a faculty for the Sustainability Leadership Programme at Cambridge University, and also a faculty for the High Impact Performance programme at ING Business School. Niran is a worldwide trainer and consultant for CTT (Corporate Transformation Tools) certified by Richard Barrett & Associates.

Niran started her career as an assistant professor at ShenZhen University, and was one of the first generation academics in China to pioneer free market economy. She was a research fellow on cultural anthropology at University of Utah. An ex-executive at Coca Cola and SC Johnson, Niran managed large brands and businesses in USA, Australia and Asia Pacific. She built the first trends intelligence function for Coca-Cola USA to lead strategic planning and managed innovation development for high profile brands. Niran’s innovation work at S.C. Johnson led to the largest acquisition in the company’s history.

In recent years, she designed and delivered leadership and organisational development programme for a diverse group of clients such as NIB, Telecom NZ, Datacom, Sunbeam, Saville Hotel Group, Sun Microsystems, Social Venture Australia, Lee Cooper, RogenSi, Mars, Uncle Bens, ING, National Trust of Australia, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare and the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Niran is actively involved in social change globally. She is a co-founder of Be the Change Australia, a grass root organisation which educates, inspires, and enables ordinary people to take personal responsibility for a shared global future.

Niran holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Marketing Strategy from University of California at Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Organisation Management from Nankai University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetic Engineering from Nankai University. She is a native of Inner Mongolia, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia.