With the announcement of the winners of the 2019 AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards just days away on 7 February 2020, we’re featuring profiles of the MBA students and graduates that have been shortlisted. Today we meet Xia Yixin a graduate of Jiangnan University (China) who is a finalist in the MBA Entrepreneurial Award (not-for-profit) for her organisation Wu Xi Beizhe Wenhua Chuanbo
Xia Yixin was born in 1989 in China, she got her bachelor’s degree in economics from Suzhou University in 2007, MBA Degree in Jiangnan University in 2017 and Hypnotist Certificate issued by NGH in the US in 2017.
Xia Yixin worked in China Telecom and started Beizhe non-profit business with her brother in 2015.
The non-profit business is targeted on culture and reading promoting, spiritual growth, women and children developing, psychological counselling etc. She is also a mother.
Have you always aspired to be an entrepreneur?
Yes. Although in my country, it is not widely encouraged for women to become entrepreneurs. I have had such a sense of career and ambition since I was a child. After MBA study and years of practice, I also believe that I gradually had such ability.
Besides, I have my husband, other family members and excellent partners who encourage and support me, as well as the expectations of people who need me for the organisation, and I am willing to dedicate myself into this.
If you were to win this award, how would that make a difference to you and your organisation?
If I win this award, it will be such a great affirmation to me and my organisation. What we have done is a matter recognized by organisations of an international level.
My organisation will also take this opportunity to further improve our mechanism and cooperation mode and better realise social responsibility. At the same time, winning this influential international award would also be a great encouragement to me.
I will invest more resources in our career, and my daughter will be proud of me, which will encourage our next generation to continue my project.
