Phil Yu Chien

Leadership Communication Coach | Content, BD, PM, S-PLAN, Trilingual (英中日)

Greater Tokyo Area

About

12+ years of Project Management experience in professional service, media and sports business industries. I help people and companies find their voice, grow capacity, and achieve their goals. I specialize in business development, client service, content marketing, and leadership communication. I utilize storytelling to build trust, convert sales, drive engagements, and inspire change. At present, I work directly with clients from MNCs and TSE-listed companies to grow communication competency. Main responsibilities include identify business prospects, design customized programs, conduct training sessions and assessments to ensure ongoing success. Command English and Mandarin Chinese at native level, with expansive experience working with global clients across APAC, North Americas and Europe. JLPT N3 now —> N1. I enjoy finding creative solutions to interesting problems.

Experience

  • Leadership Communication Coach at VERITAS
    Nov 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

    Client-facing business coach to mid to top level executives in MNCs and TSE-listed companies. • Leadership Communication: coach clients to make impactful presentations, grow capacity, and win negotiations in global business settings. • Business Development: identify and convert prospects, maintain and renew accounts, conduct meetings and interviews. • Counseling: create customized programs, assess strengths and weaknesses, provide support and recommendations for improvement. • Key Result: coordinated and executed a 12-week executive program for 10 Senior Partners of a top consulting company stationed across three territories. VERITAS' Mission: "To develop inspiring global leaders of tomorrow."

  • Assistant Manager, Business Development at AMUSE INC
    Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 · 6 mos

    Responsible to develop Basketball category and Greater China + SE Asia Markets for its sports division Client Service & Account Management: Research, plan, support athlete service and sponsors activation Key account: B.League, EASL,

  • Eurasian Publishing Group (10 yrs 10 mos)
    • Editorial Manager, Prophet Press
      Apr 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Promoted to lead a team of 5 members for Group's business and social science imprint, Prophet Press. Produced 20 titles a year, with 75% of those originated from US/UK and Japan. • Project Management: oversaw and executed end-to-end workflow, including strategy, acquisition, editorial and budget; advised and liaised design, marketing and sales. • Content Curation: develop ideas, edit content, copywrite campaigns; collaborate cross-functionally with creatives such as authors, translators, designers, and social media marketers. • Business Development: built and renewed agreements with rights proprietors. Responsible for writing proposals, presentations and negotiations to international clients. • Client Management: executed strategies that maximize owned and partner contracts, to drive business goals and priorities. • Key Results: Achieved 48% reprint rate and produced multiple bestsellers during tenure, including the 2018 #1 bestseller: Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. Expanded global portfolio by 30%

    • Manager, Digital Contents
      Sep 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Appointed to launch its e-book business from scratch. Devised and executed strategies that include content, production, marketing, activation, social media, payment, etc... Implemented campaigns that increase sales by 1200% from year 0 to 2; placed 20+ titles in the Annual Top-100 bestseller list for 3 consecutive years (2016-2018) Account Management: collaborated actively with key partners including Rakuten Kobo, Google Play, BW Kadokawa, Readmoo, Book.com.tw (博客來), etc. Represented Eurasian to speak at Taiwan's largest book retailer yearly forum, on e-book marketing and strategy【博客來年度報告,電⼦書主題論壇演講】

    • Associate Manager, International Rights
      Mar 2009 - Aug 2015 · 6 yrs 6 mos

      Licensing & Client Service: executed licensing, coordinated IP deliverables, QC process, performance analysis, royalty report, and contract. Business Development: supported content acquisition and marketing

  • Specialist, Sponsorship & Business Development at Disney Sports/ESPN Wide World of Sports
    Jun 2008 - Feb 2009 · 9 mos

    • Developed sponsorship packages to achieve client objectives - branding, publicity, on-site activation and hospitality • Conducted market research and analysis for sales prospecting • KEY ACCOUNTS: CIGNA, Febreze, Sharpie • PROJECTS: PGA Tour Golf, Major League Baseball, NCAA, marathon events