Diana Gan

Diana serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer and Executive Coach at Asia School of Business, where she leads and delivers curated executive programs, public lectures, and leadership coaching for senior executives.

Her work focuses on two areas: leadership growth and corporate innovation.

In leadership growth, Diana designs curated programs as organizations prepare their next generation leaders to transition into C-suite roles, and cultivate a collective leadership culture that serves to future-proof the organization. On a one-to-one basis, Diana coaches senior executives through critical stages of professional growth, preparing them for the identity shift required to lead from the top and helping them develop executive presence.

In corporate innovation, Diana invites executives to critically examine long-held assumptions about business models. She explores emerging human-AI work models, their implications for team dynamics and prompts leaders to consider future strategies across four pillars: automation, intelligence, autonomy and new value creation.

Diana also works with corporations in the implementation of AI innovation, with a particular emphasis on human-technology collaboration – from assessing organizational readiness, identifying the critical value levers for innovation, to implementing suitable innovation models and facilitating the cultural transformation required to support the rollout.

Diana had over 20 years’ professional experience in growing global business. She was Group Executive Board member and Group Chief Legal Officer of a multinational education group Education in Motion (EiM), that operates international schools across APAC and the UK/Europe under the Dulwich College brand and other brands. She also launched the group’s corporate venture capital fund, EiM Ventures, investing in early-stage edtech startups. Earlier in her career as a lawyer, Diana worked extensively with multinational corporations on cross-border investments, design of new business models and new market entry.

Diana is a graduate of the INSEAD Global Executive MBA, where she was named to the Dean’s List. She holds a double degree in Law and Business from the University of Technology Sydney, graduating with First Class Honours. She is also a graduate of VC University, jointly run by the US National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and the University of California, Berkeley.