The Prestique founder talks PR, wellness and the importance of a healthy work-life balance
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Esther Ma could write the book on balance. In fact, she has. Well, at least one chapter of her book Harvest of the Seven Human Vines is on the importance of finding balance in life.
It’s fitting, given how many personas Ma balances on a daily basis. There’s Esther Ma the business owner, Esther Ma the philanthropist, Esther Ma the wellness advocate, among many others.
To the public at large, she’s perhaps best known as Esther Ma the PR guru—founder of Prestique, an agency whose client list runs the full A to Z of the world’s biggest brands. (In fact, she’s written the book on that, too. The title? The A to Z of PR.)
Two years ago, she also co-founded a sport management company, Harvest Sky, with her husband Harvey Lee. The agency looks after 30 of Hong Kong’s top athletes, including Olympians and Asian Games medal winners, and appeals to Ma’s “long-held passion for mentoring.”
Between her two businesses, daily workout schedule and other roles—including a seat on chief executive Carrie Lam’s steering committee on Basic Law—it’s no wonder Ma admits to only getting five hours sleep a night. We talk to her about management styles, mentorship and her journey to discovering the importance of balance.