Program
1. Welcome and Fundamentals: Human tendencies and behaviour, identities in different multicultural countries.
2. Ideas for personal action you can take
3. Ideas for action to drive external organisational and institutional change
For many hundreds of years successive waves of peoples coming from all corners of the world to Australia seeking better lives and living, evolving Australia into a global society. Throughout history and across the planet, waves and generations of migrants face diverse yet common and universal challenges.
This TEDx Salon event opened with a wide look at the fundamental foundations of human tendencies and behaviour, identities in different multicultural countries, then into the specific experiences of Asian-Australians, addressing the infamous 'bamboo ceiling' in Australian workplaces, and importantly what tangible actions we can take to create more inclusive, diverse and thriving cultures and organisations.
This TEDx event was an online Zoom event, FREE to attend, and featured a conversation between veteran professionals with extensive experiences and insights.
KAREN LOON is author of newly-launched book 'Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations: Lessons from Those Who Smashed the Bamboo Ceiling' (Aug 2022). Karen is passionate about ensuring that people from culturally diverse backgrounds are given the right opportunities to thrive within their organisations. She is a non-executive Director with 29 years working experience and with deep knowledge and practice of leading change initiatives around diversity, and academic research in system psychodynamics, She was formerly PwC’s Singapore and Asia-Pacific Diversity Leader and a member of its Global Diversity Leadership Team and Global Financial Services Diversity Steering Committee. Under her leadership, PwC won the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore’s 2017 Embracing Diversity and Inclusion Award. Karen regularly shares her views on enhancing diversity with leading organisations and professional and industry bodies in Singapore and Australia.
HOST DAVE LIM was pioneer and global Ambassador of TEDx since 2009, and is the founding curator of TEDxFlindersStreet in Melbourne. Dave is a global citizen and soul, and has lived, studied and worked in 4 countries: Australia, Silicon Valley USA, Canada, and Singapore, all of which have origins and long evolutionary histories as multi-cultural and immigrant societies and nations. Dave has worked for over 25 years across diverse professions and industries: Global fund management, central banking, environment @Earth Hour WWF, high-tech venture capital and startups across APAC, corporate innovation, etc.
Weblinks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Australians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling
Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Australia
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