She has been engaged in the AHRD research community since 2007. In the past eight years, she has actively participated in the AHRD International Conferences in Americas and in Asia as a reviewer, presenter, and symposium chair, track chair in the previous AHRD conferences and currently serves as the chair for China HRD SIG and Co-chair of R.Wayne Pace Book of the Year Award Committee. Additionally, she has been the recipient of Dissertation of the Year Award at the 2013 AHRD conference, and has received Cutting Edge Award in both 2012 and 2013. Prior to her academic appointment, she had worked for multinational corporations, such as Motorola and KPMG, as a senior consultant for over ten years. Her research interests include career development, international HRD, HRD theory building, and management development.