Digital Executive Portraits

Pearl Zhu is an innovative "Corporate Global Executive" with more than twenty-one years of technical and business working experience in strategic planning, Information Technology, software development, e-commerce, and international trading, etc.  Executive Profile 

Pearl is a digital visionary who can capture business insight and perceive digital leadership and management philosophy from multi-dimensional lenses and global perspectives. Executive Profile Presentation.

Pearl’s cross-industrial, cross-functional and cross-cultural backgrounds make her natural strategic and creative thinker, always see the other side of the coin, also inspire her to observe deeper and broader with the fresh eyes and open mind, to be an innovator.

Pearl is a change agent who continues to transform herself from an engineer to an entrepreneur to a digital visioneer. She is a forward-thinking digital leader who advocates continuous improvement and cultural evolution.

“Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (28+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.”

Digital CIOs play the provocative, sophisticated and innovative role in the digital business future orientation which is the ability to identify, interpret, and lead change in the dynamic business environment.

The futurist digital leaders can predict the emergent trends which can shape the behavior of future enterprises, prepare people for the digital new normal to recognize increasing collective consciousness, in order to drive the seamless digital transformation.

Great leadership includes mentoring capability, and an excellent mentorship is both art and science. To improve leadership maturity, digital leaders should transform their leadership style from “command & control” to coaching and mentoring.

Great ideas only happen outside of the usual restraints. Outliers are expected to constantly propose new ideas, challenge the status quo and make creative communication. 

There is as much creative thinking that goes into problem identification as solution discovery. Creative problem-solvers have the ability to reframe the circumstances or conditions around a problem and solve it creatively.

Digital leaders today are supposed to be the guiding force in the enterprise, envisioning and leading the business towards its future, make the good policies or set digital principles to drive changes and lead digital paradigm shift.

Logically, simplifying the complicated thing is an optimal and smart choice either for running the business or solving a problem. "Less is more."