About Me

Jiaran Wang

I build systems for founders who are done with chaos.

I am a cross-border entrepreneur and strategic architect operating at the intersection of business structure, capital alignment, and long-term value creation.

If you are here, you are probably building something real — an offer that matters, a business you actually believe in. And you are tired of advice that tells you to do more, post more, learn more, without ever helping you build something that holds.

That is exactly why I built The Leading Space.

20 Years Experiences. 8 years. 17 markets. 3 languages.

Over the past years, I have worked with founders, CEOs, and growth-stage ventures across Europe, Asia, and the US — supporting them in building scalable business architecture and disciplined expansion strategies across more than 17 international markets.

I have worked in German, English, and Mandarin — not as skills on a CV, but as a daily reality of navigating different ways of thinking, deciding, and doing business. I know what it is like to start with nothing but an idea in a new market. To build trust with people who operate on completely different assumptions about how business works.

And I know what it costs when a business has no system — when everything depends on the founder showing up every single day, fully resourced, without rest.

That is the problem I solve.

Featured in TEDx, Der Standard, Die Zeit, Kurier, Heute, Maxima, and more. Keynote speaker for Vienna Tourist Board, FFG, GIN, Female Factor, and others.

Not another marketing expert telling you to do more.

There is no shortage of people selling strategies, frameworks, and content formulas. Most of them will tell you: post more, show up more, learn more, optimize more.

I will tell you the opposite.

The entrepreneurs I work with are often already doing too much. They are creative, structural, sometimes chaotic — and deeply capable. What they are missing is not more information. They are missing a system that holds their decisions, runs their visibility, and grows their business — even on the weeks when they are not at their best.

The Visibility Academy is not a motivational program. It is a structured decision and implementation system for founders who are ready to move beyond reactive growth and build businesses with clarity, ownership, and scale in mind.

"Not motivation. Not hype. A real system — built around who you actually are."

Capital and expansion are part of the foundation.

Alongside The Leading Space, I founded Expand Future GmbH — where we design structured dealflow between startups, companies, investors, and family offices. This capital and expansion perspective shapes the foundation of my work: businesses must be built to hold — strategically, structurally, and financially.

I have served as a mentor and jury member for European expansion programs including FFG, Global Incubator Network, and Female Factor. I work closely with investors to help build and reshape ecosystems — not just individual businesses.

This means that when you grow with me — you are not just getting a program. You are entering a network that can grow with you. International reach, capital connections, and expansion thinking are part of the ecosystem from day one.

It is not overwhelming. You do not have to do everything at once.

But when you are ready to go further — it is here.

What I bring to the table.

Strategic architecture

I think in systems, structures, and long-term leverage. Not tactics. When we work together, you build something designed to hold — not something rebuilt every six months.

International perspective

Cross-border operations across Europe, Asia, and the US. Mentor and jury member for international expansion programs. Expansion is not an abstract concept for me — it is something I have navigated personally across more than 17 markets.

AI that actually works

I do not teach AI as a trend. I build AI-powered systems that run — content systems, lead funnels, automations. Practical tools for real businesses. No code required.

Creative and structural thinking

My foundation in classical concert performance taught me what applies directly to business: structure enables freedom, not the opposite. The discipline of daily practice, the precision of performance, the creativity within constraints — these are not separate from entrepreneurship. They are its foundation.

Predict the future by creating it

Business

  • CatalystX

  • Leadership Training; Uncouscious Bias: Form Aweareness to Action*

  • Wharton Business School

  • Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content.

  • Google

  • Foundations of Digital Marketing and E Commerce

  • NYC

  • Launch Your Online Business

  • Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

  • Private Equity and Venture Capital

  • Meta

  • Social Media Management

  • BFI

  • E Commerce Manager

  • LinkedIn Learning & Others*

  • Digital Marketing Expert

  • MBA Digital Sales und Vertriebsmanagement

  • Digitalisierung im Vertrieb

  • Wharton: AI for Business

  • Lund University: AI Business & The future of Work

  • Vanderbilt University: Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

  • Wirtschaftsakademie Vienna: Diplomierte Systemische Coachin

Awareness & Self Development

  • Transformation Life Coach

  • LOA Life Coach

  • Emotion Freedom Technique

  • Consciousness Consulting

  • Meditation

  • Mindfulness Trainings

  • The Science of Well-Being (Yale University)

  • Systemic Coach*

Creative & Pedagogy

  • Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory

  • Piano Performance Art

  • University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

  • Instrument (Voice) Pedagogic

  • BerkleeX

  • Creativity & Entrepreneurship*

  • LinkedIn

  • Creating Psychological Safety for Diverse Teams

  • Creating a Communications Strategy

  • Uncouscious Bias

Puplication

  • Interviews in 5+ Newspapers:

  • Interviews in more than 5 newspapers

  • 3+ Podcasts:

  • More than 3 podcasts

  • 3+ Magazines:

  • More than 3 magazines

  • 10+ Talks:

  • More than 10 talks e.g. Der Standard, Die Unternehmerin, Kurier, Die Zeit, Heute, Maxima, Von Magazin, Essenzleben, Careerzilla ...

Work

  • With 1000+ inspiring Artists, Scientists, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Institutions, and Groups

  • 10+ International Mentor Position, Jury, Keynote:

  • Business Agency Vienna

  • The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

  • Global Incubator Network (GIN)

  • Female Factor

  • i2b

  • Renault

  • Vice Agency

  • Vienna Tourist Board

  • Viennale Film Festival

  • Frame of Life Production

  • Wonderland with Kay Walkowiak

  • Renault Passion of Film Production

  • Newspaper Congress in Rathaus Vienna

  • University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Create & Participate

  • 300+ Events incl. Tournee and Mastercourses:

  • More than 300 events, including tours and masterclasses

  • More than 100

  • Workshops

  • Concerts

  • retreats

  • Projects in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Denmark, China and other 10+ Countries

  • TEDX Speaker 2022

  • Award Winning Concert Pianist

I love my work

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