S3.E18: The Double Paned Glass Ceiling

In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, our guest Kelly Huang shares highlights from her article in Forbes, “How Organizations Can Help Asian American Women Break Through The Double-Paned Glass Ceiling.” Together, we dive into stories from our past and current events to examine our reactions and experiences with stereotype threat and gaslighting. Give WISEcast some monthly listener support or make a one-time donation  →Paypal.

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Our guest, Kelly Huang brings 20+ years of Asian business development, entrepreneurial marketing, and management training experience to her role as a board diversity advocate and executive leadership coach.During her 10 year board tenure at American Money Management, she led the audit committee to provide oversight to a $20 million mutual fund. She is also the former co-chair for Women in Bio’s Boardroom Ready program which has added 125+ board placements out of 150 female life-science executives. Kelly started her career in sales and marketing at IBM and then moved to China business development at Monsanto. At both organizations, Kelly created strategic partnerships with customers and partners to contribute to the bottom-line. More recently, she is active in the San Diego life-science community as a mentor and advisor. You can connect to Kelly on LinkedIn and visit her site https://www.coachkellyhuang.com/888/ . Kelly also shares with us this platform to share your stories of microaggression/discrimination: https://stories.righttobe.org/ 

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