Heidi is Asia Pacific HR Solutions director for Dow who is accountable for exceptional and efficient delivery of HR solutions to drive a positive Employee Experience. She has worked in Dow for 19 years and is currently based in Shanghai. Before her HR experience, Heidi did a variety of commercial jobs in Shanghai and US, including managing Profit & Loss of Dow Polyurethane Business in Asia Pacific.
Heidi is passionate on driving gender equality and has dedicated herself on advancing female career development in Dow, and she serves as Chair of Dow Asia Pacific Women Inclusion Network (WIN) of over 1,500 memberships in past 5 years. She works together with WIN core team to enhance company HR policy to enable female with same equal career chance to be shine in traditional chemical industry which male used to be dominate, Meanwhile, she has also innovated APAC Dow WIN TOWN in Covid crisis time to help female colleagues better managing both physical and mental wellbeing through COVID challenge. And she has championed Job shadowing programs with bringing more real career exposure. Heidi has also built male allyship as one of the top priorities to invite male joining WIN as allyship to enable gender equality together. She has built a very inclusion culture, enabled more psychologic safe approaches.
Heidi has also spent a lot of efforts of advocating DE&I concept and sharing learning practice in external community like UN Women and leading Universities.
Women have profoundly shaped who I am: a female leader, a single mother of two sons, and a SISTER. I am deeply committed to the global sisterhood, practicing “Sistering” in my professional and volunteer activities to uplift and support women in business and communities.
For 30 years, I have been an advocate for women’s rights. My journey began with my master’s thesis on the salary and gender gap. In 2010, while leading the NGO Business Professional Women in France and Europe (with 18,000 members across 23 countries), I introduced the Equal Pay campaign, which continues to this day. In 2021, I co-founded “Les Négociatrices”, the first French-speaking livestream about women and negotiation, reaching over 10,000 women annually. That same year, I co-authored the book “Reveal the Negotiator Inside You”, with all profits donated to UN Women. In 2024, I founded WIN – Wŏmen In Negotiation in Shanghai, a bilingual (Chinese-English) digital platform that empowers women to navigate negotiations and advocate for their worth, addressing the challenges they face due to gender norms and socialization.
My career started as a social worker and social entrepreneur, focusing on economic opportunities for underrepresented communities, especially people with disabilities. Since joining LVMH in 2007, I have contributed to numerous talent initiatives, particularly for women, who make up 70% of the global workforce and 65% of leadership positions in China. I am championing EllesVMH, LVMH’s global gender equity initiative, serving as North America co-Chair (2020-2022) and now as China Executive Sponsor of the Women & Allies Employee Resources Group. One of my proudest achievements is leading the launch of the Women@Dior program, an international mentorship and educational initiative that has supported over 2,000 young women from 60+ countries and 90 nationalities.
