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 fast changing global business and the tighter and more visible connections between all aspects of the development, production and consumption cycle. An entrepreneurial mindset, innovation and the wisdom to take calculated risks are essential to ongoing success. In addition to standard business and finance, leaders have to consider the impact on cultural, social and environmental factors. A solid understanding of how to manage a partially remote and local workforce is crucial. Agility and entrepreneurial skills are needed. Learn from Marilyn Tam’s international business, entrepreneurial and humanitarian experience on how to be more effective and productive in business and life while creating collaborative and lasting relationships. Marilyn 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. She 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.

The demographics of the world’s population are rapidly changing. In the USA, 2020 was the year nonwhite children became the majority of USA children. Between 2041-2046 ethnic minorities will comprise the majority of the USA population. In 2050, 58% of the world’s population growth will be coming from Africa. Learning how to benefit from diversity and to be a leader in a more diverse and global world is a challenge and an opportunity. The only way to prosper and grow in the 21st century is to embrace and leverage diversity. Learn how to successfully integrate diversity into your organization and network to create an inclusive, productive and thriving culture for ongoing success, employee and customer engagement and retention. Hear stories, learn principles, tools and action steps from Marilyn Tam's 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 unique leadership styles to foster a multicultural workplace and attract and engage employees from across the cultural and diverse spectrum. As a self-made immigrant woman of color, you will learn from someone who has actually "walked the walk".

Happiness is a choice. Gallup research in 2013 showed that in the USA, $550 billion worth of productivity was lost due to unhappiness and poor well-being at work and the cost has increased every year since. People want contentment, love, and happiness derived from meaningful work. They want healthy personal relationships, a healthy mind and body, a spiritual core, and a reason for living. But with only 24 hours in a day and the competing demands of modern life, how can you achieve all of this? The author of The Happiness Choice, Marilyn Tam shares what she learned from being an unwanted, neglected, and abused child in Hong Kong to becoming an international business success and humanitarian who is happy, healthy, and at peace with herself. In this presentation, you will learn the principles, tools, and philosophies she and others have used to achieve a productive, healthy, and joyful life. You’ll learn what will help power your organization, employees and yourself to greater creativity, productivity and happiness.