李迈之 Dr. Michael Lee

About

Dr. Michael Lee is a business and leadership advisor to CEOs, general managers and executive teams. He helps leaders through four high-stakes moves: sharpening strategy and turning around performance, taking Chinese companies global, building successful businesses in China, and navigating senior career transitions.

He has spent more than 30 years leading businesses at DuPont, Honeywell and a global Chinese technology company. As Chief Commercial Officer of Honeywell Building Technologies Asia Pacific, he led a large multi-country business across 12 countries. As VP/GM of Honeywell Sensing & Control Asia Pacific, he turned around a substantial business and significantly improved profitability over five years. Later, as Global Chief Commercial Officer of a Chinese IoT company, he grew the business across four continents and turned a loss-making operation into a profitable one. He has lived 28 years in the U.S. and 20 years in China, so he knows what it takes to win from either side of the Pacific.

In strategy, go-global and China-entry work, he focuses on how the business makes money and wins customers. That means finding out why performance has stalled, choosing where to compete and how to sell there, setting pricing and channels, building sales and service teams, and turning strategy into clear priorities, owners and metrics. He does not hand over a strategy deck and walk away. He works alongside leadership teams until the plan shows up in results.

He is an ICF PCC-certified executive coach and was named 2025 Coach of the Year. He has coached CEOs, GMs and VPs at more than 25 companies, including NVIDIA, TSMC, Ctrip, Siemens, Merck, Nestlé and Nike, often through promotions, new roles and career changes. Clients value his sharp questions, practical action plans, and ability to bridge Chinese and Western ways of managing. He believes effective leadership creates followership, and that a strategy succeeds only when people choose to follow it.

He holds a BS from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also completed Wharton’s Executive Business Program and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

What a first conversation looks like

1. You describe the decision, the constraints, and what you have already tried.
2. The expert pressure-tests your assumptions and names the real trade-offs.
3. You leave with a point of view, a short action list, and a clear next step.

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