Angi Ma Wong: Biography

The daughter of a diplomat and industrialist, Angi Ma Wong was born in Nanking, China, and has lived in New Zealand, Taiwan, and Washington, D.C. She was the founding president of Chi Delta Alpha in 1967, the only women's service sorority at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Ms. Wong later graduated from the University of Southern California and completed postgraduate studies at California State University at Long Beach and UCLA.

In 1989 she founded her intercultural consulting and corporate training service and Pacific Heritage Books in 1993, both dedicated to "bridging cultures for better business." Since then she has created and secured a niche as a pioneer and an internationally recognized authority on the U.S. Asian market.

Through consulting, seminars, training, public speaking, writing, and publishing, Ms. Wong facilitates profitability between Asians and non-Asians globally. Her diverse and impressive clientele includes over 150 major residential and commercial developers nationwide as well as ,Universal Studios, Motorola, Hughes, Nordstroms, Ford Motor Company, AT&T, Bank of America, New York Life Insurance, First interstate Bank, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Home Savings of America, United Way, cities, retailers and school districts.

Angi Ma Wong is an award-winning businesswoman and best selling author. In May 1995, she was honored as one of the "Outstanding L.A. Businesswomen of the Year" by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Merill Lynch and Ernst and Young, cosponsored Ms. Wong for INC. magazine's prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Ms. Wong's landmark TARGET: The U.S. Asian Market, A Practical Guide to Doing Business, published in 1993, was the first book written on designing, marketing, and selling to Asians on both sides of the Pacific, and won the Best Business Book of the Year Award from Bookdealers World... Night of the Red Moon (1994), a historical fiction based on the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown massacre, was favorably reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, Asian Week, and the International Examiner, and was nominated for the Beatty Award for children's literature.

Angi Ma Wong also authored The Baby Boomer's 4-Minute Bible: Enduring Values to Live By (1998), Been There, Done That: 16 Secrets of Success for Entrepreneurs (1997), and The Feng Shui Wheel: A Feng Shui Tool for Transforming Your Life (1996), The Practical Feng Shui Chart Kit (1992), an educational tool based on the ancient Chinese art of placement and featured in Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and YOLK.

Angi has developed a suite of tools for applying Feng Shui principles simply and effectively in a variety of environments: the best-selling Feng Shui Room by Room Home Design Kit, the amazing Feng Shui Desk for Success Tool Kit to transform your work environment and the Feng Shui Garden Design Kit and

Her recent publications include her best-selling Feng Shui Dos & Taboos Gift Edition, Feng Shui Dos & for Love and Feng Shui Dos & for Financial Success

NEW 2005 releases include Feng Shui Dos and Taboos for Health & Wellbeing and the Feng Shui Page-a-Day© Calender for 2006.

Angi is proud to announce publication of her first children's book: Who Ate My Socks In general release early November.