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SILK ROAD ADVISORS is a China Business Development and Management Support Services firm. Silk Road Advisors has consulting and legal staff in offices in Chicago, Beijing and Suzhou to assist Western companies entering the China market and managing businesses in China.

 

SRA Managing Director William Dodson (second from left) with Notre Dame International Executive Program Directors (right and left) and the President of SIPIVT.

 

The University of Notre Dame International Executive Program and Silk Road Advisors (SRA) work together in China to present immersion programs to orient and educate Western executives to the 21st-century China market. Program elements include:

  • Structuring business entities in China

  • Negotiating with government bureaucracies at all levels

  • Local-hiring and employee-retention strategies

  • Legal considerations for operating a business in China

  • Chinese language primers

  • Corporate cultures that work in China for Western businesses

  • Western management Do's and Don'ts

SRA Managing Director William Dodson is on the International Programs Faculty for the University of Notre Dame Executive Education Department. He oversees the development of and presents at all programs in China for which SRA is responsible.

 

 

SRA Director of China Business Development Zhang Xiaoru (left) and SRA Managing Director William Dodson (center) with members of the Board of Directors of SIPIVT and the SIPIVT International Programs Director (right).

 

The Suzhou Industrial Park Institute for Vocational Technology (SIPIVT) and Silk Road Advisors provide a variety of one- to three- day training programs for Chinese professionals to develop their management skill sets. Programs include:

  • Project Management Training

  • Communications and Facilitation Skills

  • Problem-solving Skills

  • Time Management

  • Leadership Development