Eric Liu
A dynamic leader, educator, and author, Eric Liu has become the voice of a new generation.
Liu authored the acclaimed Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life, a very personal journey profiling a series of mentors who lead others to find purpose in life. As founder of The Guiding Lights Project, Liu encourages us to recognize our influences and pass lessons learned onto others.
A Fellow at the New American Foundation, Liu is a contributing writer for MSNBC and Slate. His book, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, essays on race, identity, and assimilation, was a New York Times Notable Book and was featured in the PBS documentary, Matters of Race.
Hailed by The New York Times and The Washington Post as “a leading voice,” Liu has served senior leaderships roles in politics, media, and business. He has written policy speeches for President Clinton and served as Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor. In 2002, the World Economic Forum named him one of the “100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow.”
Formerly an executive at RealNetworks, Liu is a frequent commentator on CNN and hosts NPR’s “The Power of Voice.” He now teaches at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.
Liu speaks eloquently on leadership, learning, e-democracy, ethnic identity, and political reform, always stirring audiences to practice mindful mentoring and powerful teaching on the road to finding personal purpose.
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Life Teachers The People Who Give Us Purpose: How We Can Find Our Own
Liu stresses that every one of us, no matter what our job or role, is a teacher. As parents, bosses, mentors, coaches, and leaders, we constantly shape one another, without even recognizing our touch as teaching. "Life Teachers" will change the way we see ourselves, and give us the clarity to change lives of others.
What Diversity Can - and Can't - Teach Us
Eric Liu says diversity doesn't matter unless we do something with it. Although we celebrate diversity now more than ever, only 20 years ago, community organizations (rotary clubs, fraternal groups, companies, etc.) weren't talking about diversity. Moving into the present, they are coming up with all sorts of formal and informal ways to recognize its importance.
But Liu says diversity is merely a means to an end. We don't celebrate the hammer, he says; we celebrate the house it builds. We don’t celebrate the instruments lying around on the floor: the bass, the guitar and the drums; we celebrate the music they create.
The Art of Mentoring
How to Cultivate Imagination
Race Beyond Black and White
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