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Carrie Waley - CEO

Carrie Waley

Carrie is a trilingual cross cultural business leader with many years experience globally.

She founded Mandarin Consulting International in 2007 to provide career coaching, cross cultural consulting and training. Over the years, under her leadership, Mandarin Consulting International has become a cross-cultural career coaching industry leader and helped thousands of young Chinese to realise their career goals internationally. MCI have offices in the UK, the US and China, strategically covering all time zones to provide worldwide coaching assistance for Chinese candidates.

Carrie was born in Beijing and moved to Hong Kong when she was young, living there until the early 1990s. Carrie started her career in Hong Kong in hospitality, Public Relations and media sectors. She has built up a vast network of international professionals. She was a frequent guest speaker on cross-cultural issues to international and Chinese professionals. For 10 years, Carrie was a well-known columnist for Chinese newspapers, advising Chinese job seekers on job hunting issues. she also appeared on major TV and radio programmes in the UK and US and is regularly invited to speak at business events on cross-cultural and career development matters. After moving to the UK, She started her own businesses in the late 1990s. Prior to her founding Mandarin Consulting International in 2007, she worked as a China consultant for a number of Investment Banks in the City of London, involved in IPO projects for Chinese companies listing on the London Stock Market.

Carrie is fully conversant with both Chinese and Western culture. She speaks and writes fluent Mandarin and Cantonese as well as English and is uniquely equipped to bridge the linguistic and cultural divide between China and the West.

Carrie’s public positions include being the founder committee member for the Chinese Business Association of the London Chamber of Commerce; a Freeman of the City of London and a Founding Freeman of the Company of Entrepreneurs and sits on it’s Education Committee.