Shirley’s leadership strength lies in empowering others to become better in terms of creativity, innovation, and excellent quality. She propels the integration of landscape design, urban planning, urban design and economics services. She also promotes regional and global collaboration with offices in Mainland China, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and the United States.
Being always on the lookout for bold design ideas from history, nature, and culture, Shirley encourages and inspires her teams to approach a site context from multiple perspectives and provides platforms to exchange thoughts.
Shirley Chen is not only a committed, energetic, and passionate professional who gains the trusts of clients, she is also a team builder that constantly provides for others a supportive and collaborative platform. She brings positivism, creates an engaging culture that enables all to strive further together.
Shirley is one of the most agile and dynamic leaders we have in Asia. Her ability to steer the business to improve profitability and enhanced engagement with the staff during the pandemic when the business were facing different challenges is a testament of her outstanding leadership skills!”
As managing director, one of her key focus is enabling more collaboration between the internal planning, urban design, landscape, and economics teams. Her team delivered strong and sustainable financial performance in the past three years. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, revenue increased 6% per year and profit increased 1% per year. She was also the sole representative from Asia in the 2022 CEO Circle, AECOM’s in-house top training program for its global executives.
Shirley leads charismatically and uses her influence to draw out innovation, whether this is through ideation, workshops, refining design, or presenting to clients. Always paying heed to the varying needs of different project types, Shirley tailored her managerial approach and design methods to ensure high-quality services and deliverables are provided to the clients. She possesses a keen sense of what clients need and confidently proposes solutions, whether in design or project management which includes keeping cash flow healthy.
Shirley is a goal-getter. She will do everything she can and pull together all the resources she needs to achieve a goal.
As the best working partner, I sincerely thank you for guiding me to find a suitable career plan and helping me systematically improve my management ability, just like a lighthouse that lights up the direction for sailing sailors.
She creates the space for you to step up, take action, and lead. She provides the platform for constructive criticism and feedback for decision-making. And she never stops learning.
Company Name – Shirley Chen
Website – shirleychen.com
Founder – Shirley Chen
