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Professor Tan Liang is a Professor of Practice in Management and Business Strategy at the HKU Business School, and Programme Director of Customized Programmes of Executive Education.

Guided by his core mission to connect, develop, and inspire leaders of today and tomorrow, Professor Tan focuses on strategy-to-execution in the dual transformation era of AI and globalization. He has developed the 1391 Strategy-to-Execution Framework, which uses the “Three Capabilities and Nine Questions” approach to help enterprises build strategic capability, organizational capability, and leadership capability, address critical questions in AI transformation and global business operations, and develop their own strategy-to-execution roadmap.

Professor Tan has long worked at the intersection of strategy, organization, and people. His practice focuses on two major transformation contexts: enterprise AI transformation and global business expansion. He works with a wide range of leaders, from CEOs and senior management teams to key enterprise talent and future leaders, helping organizations translate strategic judgment into organizational capability, leadership development, and actionable transformation initiatives.

Before joining HKU, Professor Tan held senior leadership roles at GE and Alibaba Group. He previously served as Dean of GE Crotonville China, Global Executive Dean of Alibaba Corporate University, CHRO for Alibaba’s B2C Retail Business Group, and Head of Organizational Transformation and Talent Development for Taobao and Tmall Group. Across these roles, he accumulated deep practical experience in strategy implementation, organizational transformation, global leadership system development, corporate university building, and CEO and senior team development.