Elsie Tsui is a certified coach and management consultant specializing in innovation. Prior to setting up her own consulting business, she worked for the Shanghai office of ?WHAT IF! Innovation Partner, a leading innovation consultancy. Her clientele included some of the top MNCs such as Pfizer, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pernod Ricard, Kraft and IKEA across Asia.

Specialized in innovation management, innovation capability building and organization transformation programs, Elsie has led many high impact workshops for leaders from Fortune 500 companies across Europe and Asia to promote innovation and change at the both individual and organization levels.

In addition to her consulting practice, Elsie is also a part-time lecturer for the post-graduate program of management studies at Institute of China Business, HKU SPACE. She teaches innovation management and coaching for organization development.

Michelle Lai is the responsible person for Green Ladies and Holyfield Social Enterprise, which are the social enterprise projects under St. James’ Settlement (SJS). Ms. Lai has joined SJS since 2011. With her experience in the business sector, she contributed to the eco-friendly projects under SJS as a Marketing Officer. Being promoted to Manager since last year, Ms. Lai continues to lead the SE operated by the consignment model to promote the reuse of fashion and employment for middle-aged ladies. Last year, Green Ladies set up the third branch outside Hong Kong Island with an area of around 1,000 sq. feet. The expected number of fashion items collected from the three branches per year is around 138,000 pieces, in which 97,000 pieces will be reused, achieving a reuse rate of 70%.
Green Ladies is one of the first batch of SEs being awarded the Social Enterprise Endorsement Mark organized by The Hong Kong General Chamber of Social Enterprises Limited and is assessed as Intermediate Level. Green Ladies also received the second donation of $100,000 from Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation Limited for developmental purpose in 2014.

Doris Leung was graduated at Hong Kong Polytechnic University studying Language and Communication. After the first degree, she finished the Master in Journalism at Hong Kong University.

She worked at I-Cable News since graduation and had been promoted to Principal Reporter before quitting in 2009. Doris’ interest is reporting community stories in which she enjoys human touch with the underprivileged.

With the deeply rooted concept on social injustice, she found her new career path with Social Ventures Hong Kong, a venture philanthropy organization supporting the social enterprises. She volunteers herself to organize the member activities at SVhk and also incubate the social enterprise idea of disabled transportation.

Doris is deeply involved in the disabled transportation because her mom became the wheelchair user in 2007 due to brain cancer. She found the social injustice with serious lack of legal, safe and convenient point-to-point transportation for wheelchair users in Hong Kong.

After working hard for years, Doris finally set up Diamond Cab (HK) Limited with the support of SVhk, taxi license owner, nursing home owners and a group of visionary individuals. She is the CEO managing the daily operation of the cab fleet and developing the business to sustain the company with groundbreaking social innovation.

Doris was awarded Young Social Entrepreneur Award 2011, Capital Leaders of Excellence 2011, Finalist (Asia Pacific) of Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards 2013 and The Purpose Economy Asia 100 respectively. Diamond Cab is the Highly Commended International Social Enterprise of the Year at UK Social Enterprise Awards 2012, The Fifth of My Favorite Best Five Social Enterprises in 2013, The 5th HK Outstanding Citizenship Bronze Award and Hong Kong Winner of Chivas The Venture, one of the 20 global finalists.