JYC
Hi, I'm Jah Ying.
I'm figuring out how to design organizations and ecosystems to do the most good.
In past lives, I've built and sold a sponsorship marketplace, launched climate change campaigns, incubated social enterprises, helped raise a venture philanthropy fund, and conducted basic research in policy and philosophy.
Currently, I'm focussed on helping social purpose organizations develop evidence-based strategy.
You'll typically find me conducting user interviews, market research or facilitating conversations around strategy design.
Here are some of my latest projects
User Research
How might we improve mutual understanding between Effective Altruism communities in Asia and the West?Business Transformation
How might we create a geospatial business that leverages our existing technology, experience and customer relationships?Service Design
How might we help jobhunters take a more efficient approach to finding exciting and impactful work?
Previously, I've worked in three main areas:
Helping Founders Grow
From storytelling to research to strategy facilitation, I work with impact-driven founders to test ideas, understand stakeholders and develop business strategy.
Bridging Talent Gaps
How might we connect people with opportunities to do their most impactful work? I build prototypes and work with HR entrepreneurs to find out.
Designing Life Systems
Helping people (like me!) stay sane by designing sustainable systems for everyday life. I like to iterate on routines, review processes and resource stacks.
Helping Founders Grow
I support impact-driven founders in scaling their businesses through research, coaching and facilitation.
Kevin Chan
Preventing forest fires and natural disasters by helping land owners collect and visualize data across their properties.
Hubert Thieriot
Mitigating risks of natural and climate disasters by making timely scientific data accessible to all.
Growth Team
Building a community of founders committed to donating a percentage of personal proceeds upon exit to charity.
Cohort 3
The first venture-backed accelerator in Hong Kong. Supporting startups as lead mentor and Entrepreneur in Residence.
Bridging Talent Gaps
I've always been fascinated about the best ways to nurture talent and connect them with the right opportunities. I prototype concepts and work with companies to build solutions across the talent lifecycle: education, recruitment, career planning to training.
Social impact expert network
Helping social purpose organizations scale their impact by matching them with experts who can solve their organizational bottlenecks.
Millennial recruitment
Vanna connects millennial talent and top companies by providing expert career advice and unique insights into the culture, values and environment of companies.Technical recruitment
Terminal 1 is a full-service recruitment firm bringing machine learning to recruitment. With a team of programmers, data scientists, and product developers, Terminal 1 connects technical talents with the fast growing startups and strongest engineering cultures in Hong Kong.
Designing Life Systems
Figuring out how to live an impactful, sane and sustainable life. I write about my experiments, ideas and operating systems for the many facets of everyday life.
Impactful Work & Career
Daily Life Operations
PLAN
- The Annual Life Review
A framework for reviewing the ups and downs of a year, and how to plan for the next. Content included.
GOOD WORKING
- Task Hierarchy - my process for prioritizing work
- Podcasts & Learning Stack
- The Annual Life Review
Sharing My Ideas
I shared my thoughts to a wide range of audiences, from students, investors and corporate executives to NGO leaders, entrepreneurs and government officials.
Business Magazine Albania
Thoughts on the Albanian Startup Ecosystem
Also see: co-interview on Good Morning Albania
Asia Pacific Weeks Berlin
Exits for Good: Rare Stories of Social Enterprise M&As
in Asia
DreamCatchers
Entrepreneurial Spirit in Social Innovation (panel)
Asia Pacific Weeks Berlin
Female Entrepreneurship in Action (panel)
TedxYouth Hong Kong
The Power of Inexperience
OurTV.hk (Cantonese)
《與青年對話》第六集:締造至型社企家實用手冊
Beijing TV (Mandarin)
Climate Change Campaign in China
Get in touch
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