Marilyn Tam

Whatever qualities you have, no matter how limited or broad that they may seem in your own mind, global corporate executive, entrepreneur, and humanitarian Marilyn Tam will show you how to use what you've got to achieve your dreams. What seemed to be disadvantages in Tam's own life were in fact her keys to personal and professional success and freedom.

As someone who has broken the glass ceiling, she will share the leadership skills and character traits that really work. Starting from where you are now, she leads you to assess your own inherent talents and skills and how to utilize them to your benefit. Hear motivational real life stories, determine your life's mission, learn the four key principles, and then apply the action steps to achieve your dreams. She will show you how to maintain life balance and personal peace and happiness while achieving professional success.

You will learn from someone who has actual experience and can show you how to develop your assets and apply them effectively to your life mission. The talk is engaging and timely, and the results are immediate and inspiring.

Learning how to benefit from diversity and to be a leader in a more diverse and global world is a challenge and an opportunity. Indeed, embracing and leveraging diversity is the only way to prosper and grow in the 21st century. In Marilyn Tam's interactive style you will hear stories, learn principles, and apply action steps from her global business, humanitarian and consulting experience to become a more successful global leader.

A key focus is on helping leaders and employees understand how to adapt and grow their leadership styles to foster a multicultural workplace and attract and engage employees from across the cultural spectrum. How to benefit from the cornucopia of diverse cultures, knowledge, and traditions to further the well being of the organization and its standing in the market and community can also be covered.

Learn from someone who has actually "walked the walk." Tam shows you how to develop your assets and to maximize them to effectively advance your mission. She discusses the four principles that helped propel her to lead several Fortune 500 companies, despite her challenging and unlikely background as a second daughter in a traditional Chinese family from Hong Kong. If she can do it, so can anyone who applies her principles and action steps to achieve greater success and happiness for themselves, their companies, and their communities.

In today's highly competitive and interconnected world, women are invaluable to any enterprise. Women have specific strengths that are critical in today's global economy and environment. Yet there are cultural biases in both men and women, and many structural obstacles that may hinder a woman's progress in attaining her highest potential. This is a loss for the company as much as it is for the women who fail to fully contribute because of this.

Tam will discuss and share from her personal experience as a corporate leader, woman, business consultant, and humanitarian the development of personal awareness, interpersonal skills, strategy development, decision-making, and other key factors in how to be successful as a woman in business and how to support the development of women in business.

Much have been made of glass ceilings, but Tam will also discuss glass walls, which are oftentimes even more confining and hindering of one's career advancement than glass ceilings. She will share on how to move through them so that each person can excel. Humor, interactive communication, networking, coaching, feedback, and reflection are the common threads throughout.

The outcome is to increase each person's ability and comfort in making a more significant impact in the organization and community through immediate application of a wider range of leadership knowledge and skills. Additional benefits include increased employee and company satisfaction and productivity and reduced turnover.

The conflicting expectations and conditioning that people, especially women, have been bombarded with makes them vulnerable to feeling unsatisfied, second rate, and confused. The current poor economic times, incessant marketing message of "you can have it all," and hyper-speed of change is hitting people so hard that they are oftentimes reduced to feeling despair in being able to attain any semblance of a balanced life – and even more critically, economic sustainability.

The inner questioning of whether one can ever climb out of the hole of wanting and trying to gain some measure of financial stability, health, fulfilling relationships, inner peace, joy, and a meaning for life is pervasive, however conscious or subconscious. This hunger and fear is driving the collective unconsciousness. "Life Balance: How to Juggle Work, Home, Personal, and Spiritual Health" is packed with motivation, encouragement, and practical resources for a happier, more satisfying life.

Marilyn shares from her own experience as well as from the numerous experts whom she has worked and collaborated with in her career and life. The session is filled with stories and practical examples of both success and failures that lead to the development of life balance.

You will be inspired, relieved and also learn practical actionable principles and tools to be able prioritize, allocate resources, and balance your life demands to greater success, inner peace, and happiness.

To be a successful leader in the 21st century takes new skills and awareness. Fresh managerial tools and talents are needed to deal with today's global business and the tighter and more visible connections between all aspects of the development, production, and consumption cycle. Tam shares the secrets she learned from her international business and humanitarian experience – how to be the more effective and productive in business and life while creating collaborative and lasting relationships.

She will discuss how to define your mission and the principles and actions steps to ensure a cohesive, productive, and energized team. Strategy and outlook into how to plan and lead in today's tumultuous and interconnected business environment will be covered. Tam will help you review your personal leadership style and how to enhance it to increase effective communication and maximum sustainable profitable growth and development of your organization.

With real-life and practical stories to illustrate the points, you will soak up the information and be able to apply them to greater business success and personal satisfaction.

The 21st century is a wired and interconnected world, which has modified the roles and responsibilities of business. Business is no longer only focused on the sole pursuit of the current profit and loss statement. It is now an integral and dynamic part of the global community, economy, environment, and culture. For business to thrive in these circumstances, clarification of the mission and principles of the organization is needed.

Companies, nonprofit organizations, sovereign nations, and cultures are converging. Businesses are becoming networks with far-reaching influence. How do we ensure a healthy bottom line for everyone? What is our future? Tam shares four defining principles for maintaining integrity in business and in life, principles that have helped her improve profitability and working conditions for many companies across the world.

Tam shares the insights and success secrets she's gained from her global business and humanitarian work to guide you and your company on your path to prospering in this new environment. With real-life stories of wins and mistakes told with humor and lessons learned, you will take away key principles and action steps to better navigate in today's fast changing world.

Business today is global. The development, production, and consumption chain stretches from wherever and however "local" the company is to all points of the globe. To excel in this marketplace means that each person and each company have to understand and be proactive about the opportunities and challenges that come with globalization.

Tam shares from her global business and humanitarian experience in 120 countries the benefits, ethics, and pitfalls that come with working in a complexity of cultures, traditions, geography, and time zones. The increasing interrelationships between developers, suppliers, marketers, buyers, and sellers mean that every business and organization need to operate with a much more expanded perspective of their market to be able to thrive today.

Learn from someone who has successfully managed companies and organizations in a wide variety of cultures and environments. Tam share insights and principles learned from practical experience. You and your organization will grow and prosper from her wisdom.