Jane Hyun

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Flex Your Leadership

Today’s leaders juggle a lot—managing teams across different functions, time zones, and cultures while keeping everyone aligned. Flexing, the art of adapting your cultural and communication approaches, is a critical future-proof skill. Join global strategist and bestselling author Jane Hyun as she reveals the science and art behind this foundational approach for creating trust with your multicultural teams, clients, vendors, and external partners. This dynamic session combines proven, data-informed insights from Fortune 500 companies, healthcare, and schools to help you put the skill into practice.

Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling

Hyun shares her personal journey to Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling as well as introduces a framework for managing cultural differences in the workplace. Asian cultural values can be at odds with Western dominant corporate culture on many levels, resulting in a costly gap that individuals and companies need to bridge. Using real-life examples from her research on how Asian culture can be perceived in a dominant corporate culture, author discusses a strategy for developing an authentic leadership style…in a way that does not compromise your core cultural values. She also offers insights into what managers can do to create a fertile environment for their Asian colleagues and employees.

Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences

In this presentation, Jane Hyun offers a proactive strategy for managers to navigate and leverage diversity effectively in this new global economy, showing managers how to: Understand the power gap, the social distance between you and those in the workplace of different cultures, ages and gender. Flex your management style by stretching how you work and communicate with others, and bridging the gap with more effective communication, feedback tools and building healthy teams. Multiply the effect by teaching these skills to others and closing the power gap with clients, customers and partners to create innovative solutions.

The Art of Cultural Fluency

What if you could unlock stronger business outcomes by improving how you and your sales team engage across cultures and boundaries? Culture deeply influences how people interact—both within teams and with clients, customers, and consumers. To succeed, you need to crack the unwritten “code” for understanding the unspoken nuances that matter. Failing to do so can be costly, leading to disengagement, inefficiency, or lost revenue. Jane Hyun, global advisor to Fortune 500 companies, reveals how mastering the art of cultural fluency connects your values to your day-to-day interactions. It will help you decode the signals and unspoken rules that shape behavior—leading to increased trust and sales results.

Bridging the Distances to Build High Trust Teams

Are you ready to unlock new growth in your team? Trust is a fundamental driver of results and a key to effective leadership. Yet how we build that in today’s global marketplace demands more agility to navigate change and respond to differences. Relying on our default mode won’t work. We need to be mindful of the motivations, preferences, and conflict/communication styles of our team members, clients, vendors and external partners, while recognizing our own blind-spots. When practiced, this skill, called “cultural fluency” can accelerate trust and drive performance. In this session, interculturalist and bestselling author Jane Hyun shares how to unlock trust by leveraging differences to drive insights that lead to bottom-line growth. Participants learn practical tools that lead to high trust, innovative teams.

Leadership Toolkit for Asians (Interactive workshop)

How can Asian Americans lead and influence in a way that feels culturally authentic? 19 years after her groundbreaking book Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, global leadership strategist Jane Hyun unveils Leadership Toolkit for Asians – a guide for Asian Americans to build their capacity to lead and influence with a blueprint that is achievable and culturally relevant. Asian Americans are the least likely demographic to be promoted or to have a mentor or sponsor– they make up 13% of the professional workforce, but less than 3% of executive positions. These dynamics hurt everyone, and the solution calls us to embrace our unique perspectives while organizations create a more fertile environment for growing Asian talent. This toolkit—based on Hyun’s work with thousands of leaders—is filled with self-assessments, checklists, quizzes, and stories of Asian American leaders to help you put ideas into action. It will show you how to leverage your life experiences to craft a bespoke leadership journey.

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