Leadership Institute: Panney Wei - "Be the Star of Your Life: How to Get from Here to There in your Life and Career"
Having trouble visualizing ways to achieve your personal or professional goals? Feeling like starting a new venture or wondering if you are making the most of your unique abilities? Get the answers to these questions and more as award-winning writer, TV-radio host, motivational speaker, and NAAAP National Senior Advisor, Panney Wei brings her positive message and uplifting perspective. She will discuss her 8P's to Success, methods for re-channeling your energy, producing individual change, and implementing a workable plan for creating opportunities and help you get from here to there in your life and career!

Leadership Institute: Vu Pham - "Influence through Emotions and Motivation"
Influence proves powerful tactics in professional career development. Combine this with emotions and you create powerful win-win situations. By asserting influence, executives and leaders attained their current positions—and they continue to leverage these skills on a daily basis. Any professional will benefit from this session, from effectively dealing with supervisors and colleagues to interfacing with clients. Join thousands of other professionals who have attended Dr. Pham’s presentations and continue to advance their careers. This fun and interactive session opens doors that will increase your influence and persuasive abilities. For those who attended Dr. Pham's sessions last year, this will magnify your skills with new ones--for those joining for the first time, you'll start on a journey of learning systematic influence skills.

Sanjeev Venkatesan - "Five Essential Tools For Corporate Navigation - Fish Need Not Smell."
This workshop will reference the 5 topics that have been previously presented at the NAAAP National Conventions and will tie the 5 topics of the past into One Synergetic story. The five previous workshop topics are: 1) Personal Branding 2) Visible Performance 3) Power Networking 4) Paradigm Shifting 5) Ctrl + Alt + Del

Wayne Miyamoto - "Leadership Beyond Business"
New Business Models – Technology-Driven Collaboration Today’s world being connected and collaboration. This seminar focuses on how a company like Cisco applied its own technologies to work smarter and reduce cost. It takes you through one person’s journey about how becoming a leader in the community is more challenging and more rewarding than in conquering the business world. As a minority, we have break free of the comfort and security of our own ethnic communities.

David Lum - "From Geek-to-Chic: Adding Value To Your Career In Times Of Recession"
Does the economy have you worried? Already impacted? Interviewing a lot but having a tough time landing a job? The current time for employment has never been tougher. With businesses laying off people by the thousands, and so many people competing for so few jobs, advancing one's career has never been more challenging than today. Keeping the job that you have is even more worrisome. This seminar will cover a variety of strategies for all Asian professionals in Corporate America who are worried about losing their job, and need strategies to make sure that they maximize their chances of survival. It is also for those who have unfortunately been impacted, and need strategies of getting back into the marketplace.

Naomi Takeuchi "Triple Bottom Line Thinking: Evolving Your Organization to Achieve Financial, Social and Environmental Returns"
Organizations are finding that in addition to financial returns, social and environmental factors are also important to fostering employee satisfaction and customer loyalty. Participants will learn how they can immediately begin to incorporate some of these principles into their organizations whether this is through social enterprise, corporate social responsibility or innovative business practices.

Community Service Panel
Many of us wonder how we can make a difference in society. Everyone has unique values and skill-sets but may not know how to effectively utilize them. This panel consisted of experts representing politics, legal, and community will discuss their experiences and offer advice.
 
ERG Panel
From market expansion to recruiting, the employee groups, commonly referred to as ‘resource groups’ or ‘affinity groups’ are asked to play increasingly bigger roles in today’s business. How are these groups utilized by the companies? How do these groups benefit you with your career and personal development? These are some of the questions this panel will be discussing in this dynamic session.

Personal Marketing and Branding Panel
How do you market yourself to companies and expand your career possibilities in this difficult time? This panel of experts in marketing and personal branding will offer an informative yet interactive session to give you their insights and solutions.