Multicultural Leadership Institute

📈 Are you a business leader committed to maximizing productivity and business growth? Don't miss our special Asia Society event on how to unlock the leadership contributions of Asians-- America's best-educated and fastest-growing workforce. 🗓️ Event Date: July 24, 12-1 PM ET. Online and free. Seats are limited. I'll be presenting an exclusive look into the research and 5-step roadmap contained in my recent Harvard Business Review article, “Stop Overlooking the Leadership Potential of Asian Employees," coauthored with Angela Cheng-Cimini. Joining me in discussion will be Bain & Company Partner Nishma Gosrani and Marriott International EMEA President Satya Anand. This will be a lively and interactive session engaging senior business leaders from around the world. I hope you will be among them! 🧧 The event is free, but seats are filling up fast. Secure your spot now: https://lnkd.in/gCnZdAGX Here's a paywall-free link to our HBR article: https://lnkd.in/efnCR-mc Feel free to share this invitation with any colleagues or networks that would find it valuable. #Leadership #TalentManagement #HR #StrategicHR #HBR #Management #InclusiveLeadership #MaximizeTalent #Inclusion #Asian #AAPI

Want to elevate your effectiveness as a global leader? Recognize how our culturally rooted leadership styles might inadvertently silence diverse voices. 🌏✨ Thank you, Kristen J. Appleman, for capturing the essence of Joy Chen's #SHRM24 session and amplifying it to the world! #Leadership #GlobalLeadership #Inclusion #BusinessLeaders #Culture #Connection

❓ Why does the percentage of female CEOs remain so low?  As a former executive recruiter, I saw this firsthand. I'd invest serious time developing gender-balanced candidate slates which delighted my clients—only to see them consistently choose a man. Here’s how I see it ↴ Most leaders are committed to inclusion. But often, their good intentions are undermined by their own behavioral norms, which impact who they choose as leaders. Early in my career, Deborah Tannen’s book Talking from 9 to 5 deeply influenced my understanding of this issue. It still does. Excerpts: ✯ "The head of a large division of a multinational corporation was running a meeting devoted to performance assessment. Each senior manager stood up and evaluated the individuals in his group for promotion. Although there were women in every group, not one made the cut. Each manager declared that every woman in his group lacked the self-confidence needed to be promoted. The division head began to doubt his ears. How could it be that all the talented women in the division suffered from a lack of self-confidence? ✯ "In all likelihood, they didn’t. Consider the many women who have left large corporations to start their own businesses, obviously exhibiting enough confidence to succeed on their own. ✯ "He was probably right to be skeptical. The senior managers were judging the women in their groups by their own linguistic norms, but women—like people who have grown up in a different culture—have often learned different styles of speaking than men, which can make them seem less competent and self-assured than they are." ✯ "The CEO of a major corporation often has to make decisions in five minutes about matters on which others may have worked five months. He uses this rule: If the person making the proposal seems confident, the CEO approves it. If not, he says no. This might seem like a reasonable approach. But my field of research, socio-linguistics, suggests otherwise. The CEO obviously thinks he knows what a confident person sounds like. But his judgment, which may be dead right for some people, may be dead wrong for others." ✯ " Using language is learned social behavior: How we talk and listen are deeply influenced by cultural experience. Although we might think that our ways of saying what we mean are natural, we can run into trouble if we interpret and evaluate others as if they necessarily felt the same way we’d feel if we spoke the way they did." ☀ Now, I enable leadership teams to expand their cultural toolkits, to more deeply engage with colleagues and clients of all backgrounds. In other words: I help leaders shift from demanding "culture fit" to embracing "culture add," so they can fully leverage the diversity on their teams. 💬   • How has YOUR communication style impacted your career progression? • How do you ensure that you hear and value all your team members? #Leadership #Inclusion #Diversity #Communication #Collaboration #Culture #Women

In 1966, LIFE magazine published a feature under the quietly chilling headline, “The Crime of Being Married.” Illustrated with photographs by Grey Villet, the article told the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a married interracial couple battling Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statutes. Villet’s warm, intimate pictures revealed a close-knit family, including children and grandparents, living their lives in opposition to a patently unjust law—but also captured eloquent moments that suggested just how heavily the Loving’s defiance of that law weighed on the very private couple. The LIFE article and Villet’s images, read and viewed today, assume a poignancy and power perhaps unimagined by the magazine’s readers in 1966. The couple, after all, was awaiting an appeal on a court ruling that had, in effect, banished them from their hometown. At the time, the Lovings were adamant (in their own unassuming way) that they had no interest in being cast as Civil Rights heroes. All they wanted was to live their lives and raise their children in peace. One year later, on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided in Loving v. Virginia that all antimiscengination laws across the country are unconstitutional. Above is from a deeply moving TIME article by Lily Rothman. Click through to see the article with the LIFE photos of Richard and Mildred Loving and their family. https://lnkd.in/eye7W7Uh ❤️ Sometimes, it can feel like society is ripping apart at the seams, but it feels to me that 2024 is the perfect time to contemplate the story of the Lovings. By now, families throughout America have mixed marriages within them. And Loving v. Virginia set the stage for the widespread acceptance of gay marriage. What once was illegal is now commonplace. Society moves forward. The night is always darkest before the dawn. 🌅 In the end, love wins out. It always will. Happy (bit belated) Loving Day, everyone! 💕 ⬇️💬 What do you think about the Lovings quiet, remarkable yet unremarkable story, and its lessons for our world today? Share your thoughts and reflections below! #Equality #History #LoveWins #Justice #Inspiration #Leadership #culture #pridemonth

#SHRM24 ! 🎉 Who’s excited to join 25,000+ top HR professionals in Chicago—and 5,000 more online—for 3 days of learning and connection?!   If this is your 1st #SHRM global convention… ➡ Follow #SHRM24 and official Influencers Kyra L. Matkovich, Mary Williams, and Jeffery Palkowski for frequent updates full of love and light. I can't wait to see them plus Wendy Fong!    ➡ Plan ahead by researching the incredible speaker roster. This convention is sprawling, so as you build your schedule, pay attention to room locations!   Here are speakers I'm eager to learn from. Check them out! ▻ Alexander Alonso, Chief Data & Insights Officer, SHRM ▻ John Baldino, President, Humareso ▻ Subha Barry, President, Seramount ▻ Alex Bombeck, CEO, North Highland ▻ Steve Browne, Chief People Officer, LaRosa's, Inc. ▻ Paul Falcone, Principal, Paul Falcone Workplace Leadership Consulting, LLC ▻ Lori Tauber Marcus, Co-Founder, The Band of Sisters ▻ Jyoti Mehra, CHRO, Gilead Sciences ▻ Christine Mixan, Talent Planning Lead, General Motors ▻ Kathleen Pearson, Chief Talent Officer, McDermott Will & Emery ▻ Prudence Pitter, Global Head of HR; Auto/Manufacturing, Amazon Web Services President ▻ Tim Sackett, CEO, HRUTech.com ▻ Jonathan Segal, Partner, Duane Morris, LLP ▻ Kevin Sheridan, Founder, Kevin Sheridan International ▻ Jennifer Spencer, Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion, Lenovo ▻ Scott Tillema, Partner, The Negotiations Collective   And if you'd like to be an even more effective global leader, join me for a fun and engaging session!   🌍 "Leading Across Borders: Elevate Your Impact in the Global Arena" with Joy Chen  🗓️ Monday, 6/24 at 2:00-3:00p 📍 E351, Lakeside Center Level 3 🌐 Available online In today’s business world, leading multinational teams is essential for modern HR leaders. This demands cultural agility, a deep understanding of diverse business cultures, and the ability to build relationships across divides, often through digital means alone. Don't miss out on this opportunity to elevate your impact!   Joy Chen, a former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles and executive recruiter for Fortune 500 CEOs and Board members, has led at the top across three continents. Through her speeches, trainings, books and online courses, Joy has empowered millions across Asia and the Americas with the insights and skills needed to thrive and lead in a globally interconnected business landscape. 🌟   SHRM is a fantastic place to meet HR thought leaders and colleagues you follow online but haven’t yet met IRL! If you'll be at SHRM24 and would like to meet up, connect/DM me or drop a comment below! Who are YOU excited to see and meet this year? 🤔     #Leadership #HumanResources #HR #HRLeaders #StrategicHR #GlobalHR #GlobalLeadership #Inclusion

🔥 Why has our Harvard Business Review article spread like wildfire? Because maximizing the contributions of Asian employees is just good business. Here's why: 1️⃣  Asians represent a whopping 50% of the workforce in many knowledge industries (EEOC). Amidst continued economic uncertainty, any company seeking to improve productivity should dismantle barriers to Asian employee contributions to corporate results and profits. (Chen/Cheng-Cimini, HBR, 2024). 2️⃣  Asians are America’s fastest-growing business and consumer segments (Pew, 2021) and are key to over half of the world’s markets. Any company aiming for growth should leverage Asian employees for insider knowledge and access to burgeoning markets (Chen/Cheng-Cimini, HBR, 2024). 3️⃣  When companies invest in Asian employees, the payoffs go beyond the financial. Companies leveraging the diverse talents of their Asian workforce can evolve into more global, agile, and powerful hubs of innovation and growth (Chen/Cheng-Cimini, HBR, 2024). In the article, we provide a 5-step roadmap for companies to maximize profits and shareholder value by better leveraging their Asian employees. Angela Cheng-Cimini and I appreciate all who’ve shared our article across your networks, including: 🔹 Dave de Csepel, Vice Chair of Southern California’s largest venture investor network, TCA Venture Group, calls it essential reading for every investor or senior leader. 🔹 Buck Gee, Denise Peck, Dave Lu, Brian Pang, Zach Heng, SHRM-CP and John Wang, OGs of civic leadership across our communities. 🔹 Quita Beeler Highsmith, the extraordinary Chief Diversity Officer at Genentech. 🔹 Civic organizations including Asia Society, Ascend, Stand with Asian Americans, and Asian Leaders Alliance. And especially YOU! We are so glad that you are finding the article useful. 🧧 To share our HBR article with your colleagues and networks, feel free to use this paywall-free link: https://lnkd.in/efnCR-mc 🔍 What aha moments, questions, thoughts, or stories come to your mind as you read our article? Please share below, so we can discuss and learn together! #Leadership #Management #Careers #Innovation #HBR #Inclusion #AAPI #HumanResources #StrategicHR #HarvardBusinessReview #HR