Our guest today is David Thomas, a.k.a the China Expert. Over the last 30 years, David has inspired, motivated and educated global business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors to pay attention to the massive growth potential offered by modern China and other emerging countries and taken them on a journey to identify and build long-term business and cross-cultural relationships.

In this episode we'll talk about:

· Why Australia isn't taking advantage of the Asian Century?

· Advice for young professionals navigating their careers.

· How to improve diversity and cross-cultural differences in the Australian workplace.

If you're interested in finding more about David, please visit www.theleadershipgroup.com.au and https://davidthomas.asia/bio/

Additionally, David will be holding a 2 hour workshop in May 2020: Breakthrough in Australia: Smash Through the Bamboo Ceiling, that touches on the many subjects we talk about in this episode. For more information, please visit http://www.acsme.com.au/breakthrough-in-australia

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Asian-American professionals, both men and women, are the most likely of any ethnic group to aspire to promotion and think they will get there one day. Yet they are the least likely to be promoted to management.

This is also true of Asian-Australians anecdotally. What is preventing that desire from translating into actual advancement?

To debate on this sticky topic, the Sydney Professional Development Forum is delighted to be joined by a panel of Asian-Australian business leaders with decades of experiences wrestling with the bamboo ceiling in corporate Australia across several industries. Including:

•Charles Cho, General Counsel, NSW Treasury

•Ken Woo - Partner, PwC

•Rahul Dutta - Director, ServiceNSW

Life and work are full of challenges. Whether you are a fresh graduate, entrepreneur, employee, employer or executive, you'll need grit and resilience not just to survive, but to thrive, so it pays to push your game forward.

Learn from the insights from high performers (U.S. Navy SEALs, Olympians, fighter pilots, surgeons, Michelin-star chefs) on how you can develop the resilience to thrive under stress, stay focused and determined to goals, keep pushing forward when others have given up, and cultivate the ability to adapt in an environment where change is the only constant.

Megumi will share experiences from her own career, her coaching program participants and insights from interviews with Quietly Powerful Leaders who succeeded by using their quiet strengths.