Enoch Li

Enoch LI

Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Enoch is an expert on leadership, resilience, and well-being across cultures in the workplace. At INSEAD, she programme directs, teaches and consults in Executive Education Programmes, such as the INSEAD Coaching Certificate, Management Acceleration Programme, and various Company Specific Programmes. She is the Co-Director of the MBA’s Personal Leadership Development Programme. Her work aims to help leaders navigate conflicting demands in ambiguous contexts, working with cultural differences, and to uncover the group influences that affect the quality of their decisions, relationships, and accomplishments. Having lived and worked in different countries in Asia-Pacific and Europe and across geographies and business functions, she combines her practitioner experience of managing cross-cultural differences as a corporate leader with academic research to the classroom. Enoch’s teaching highlights on how resilient leadership sustains group performance and psychological safety and considers the unconscious factors that sustain or hinder both outcomes, especially in culture transformation or working with differences and diverse backgrounds.

She advises on and is involved in the research of workplace mental health implementation and mental health equity and access in Asia, such as in joint projects with the Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Commissions by The Lancet Psychiatry, and as the Co-Chairperson of the International Lived Experience Advisory Panel for University of British Columbia’s Research for Equity in Mental Health in the Asia-Pacific. With her reputable thought-leadership in destigmatization and advancing employee wellbeing through organizational change, Enoch is often invited by the World Health Organisation to advise on relevant global policies and training material, and as a speaker at key events such as World Mental Health Report Launch and Investors briefings.

Enoch consults to Boards and senior executives on organizational transitions and social impact strategies. She is the Founder of Bearapy, an award-winning social impact consulting & training company in China that has pioneered workplace mental health in Asia-Pacific, imprinting employee wellbeing in company culture against taboos. She has received multiple recognitions for her contributions in this field, including the United Nations China Social Impact Awards and Beijing government’s OTEC Community Hero. She now takes her experience with the “S” in ESGs in her work as a Non-Executive Director. She sits on the Board of United for Global Mental Health, and other global and regional Steering Committees/Advisory Boards to advocate country and organisational-level policy changes in workplace mental health. She is a member of the INSEAD Directors’ Network, Associate Member of the Singapore Institute of Directors, and Women to Watch of the 30% Club Hong Kong Chapter.

Prior to being a teacher, a leadership consultant, and a social entrepreneur, Enoch had leadership & managerial roles at HSBC in London, Paris, Tokyo, and Beijing. She worked in business development, client relationship management with financial institutions, product development, learning & development, and credit & risk, with cross-functional reporting, stakeholder management responsibilities, and drove culture change.

Enoch trained in organisational behaviour and system psychodynamics to ground her transition from leadership to teaching, consulting, and coaching, graduating from INSEAD’s Executive Masters in Change with Distinction, and completing Advanced Small Groups Trainings in the Tavistock approach. She is certified in Play Therapy by the Canadian Association of Play Therapy, is a graduate of the Financial Times Non-Executive Directors Programme, and holds a Masters in Law (Hons) from the University of London.

She is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and speaks some French, but still finds Australian slang a challenge. In her spare time, Enoch studies Chinese calligraphy and philosophy, plays basketball, tackles jigsaw puzzles, and draws cartoon characters with her husband under the direction of their two children.

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