Keynotes
It’s not about being right; it’s about doing the right thing at the right time.”
-Diana Watson, excerpt from Called to Lead: Success Strategies for Women.
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Why Taiwan?
Taiwan is often called the Big Little Island off the coast of Mainland China. The island is small in size, but its global economic impact is huge. Taiwan has served as a critical location within the semiconductor industry. Understanding Taiwan’s culture is critical to unlocking its possibilities.
Diana’s informative and entertaining keynotes shine a light on the importance of cultural intelligence in today’s global business climate. If you want to understand your Taiwan colleagues and global customers better, these keynotes will enable you to build better business relationships and improve the bottom line.
Keynotes & Trainings
Strange is Okay (keynote)
Do you feel different? Look different? Don’t fit in, but so desperately want to? The path of finding solace in who we are is a challenge for all of us. At one point or another many of us have struggled with acclimating to a new environment or feeling out of place. And that feeling of strangeness can go deeper than physical appearances or lack of skill.
This is an extended English version of Diana’s 2017 award-winning humorous speech, “Am I Strange?” that she gave in Mandarin Chinese. It was downloaded and viewed millions of times.
This keynote shares how a life-long learning attitude, a situational and charismatic leadership style and grit all have allowed Diana to overcome the challenges of being a Black American woman in Taiwan for the past 16 years. Her ‘strangeness’ in Taiwan helped her discover her talent and has garnered her international recognition for her achievements. She shares inspirational and entertaining stories to encapsulate her key message: that we all need to be strange at some point in life in order to discover who we really are, what we are meant to do, and how to utilize our gifts so that we can share them with others to make a difference.
Participants will experience:
How showing up is the simplest, most important yet most often ignored leadership skill
How to shift perception from ignorance to curiosity to a learning experience
How to deal with feelings of inadequacy
Why grit is a long-game winner, but also knowing when it’s time to quit
The Risk of Not Understanding Your Taiwan (or US) Teams (training)
Everyone can unlock the mystery of a new culture, but it takes more than being open-minded and learning a few lines of the target language in a travel guide. With a clear blueprint, living or working with people in another culture doesn't have to zap all of your patience or energy. In this informative and entertaining training, you will gain a positive outlook on the adventure of working with foreign counterparts or making another country your new home. After the training, you will feel confident that you'll have the tools to accomplish your professional objectives, create formative bonds and make a positive impact on the local culture.
Participants will learn:
Define Cultural Intelligence and why it's important for effective Cross-Cultural leadership
Learn how to utilize effective Cross-Cultural communication
Understand how to use Cultural Intelligence to foster more effective innovative thinking
Explore how Cultural Intelligence helps establish trust
Discover how Cultural Intelligence helps with profitable initiatives