Marilyn Tam Books

The Happiness Choice: The Five Decisions That Will Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Living the Life of Your Dreams: The Secrets to Turning Your Dreams into Reality

How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want

Speaker Lists Featuring Marilyn Tam

Happiness Experts, Gratitude & Positive Psychology Speakers

From jobs to families to navigating the everyday ups and downs of life, everyone has found themselves in times of stress, grief, or needing the right push to reach a difficult goal. While it's not a new term, positive...

Top Asian Pacific American Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders

From serial entrepreneurs and start-up founders to CEOs and humanitarian ambassadors, these Asian Pacific American business speakers are inspiring examples of leadership, success and innovation. During the month of May, as...

Top Motivational Business Speakers To Drive Organizational Growth

This motivational business speakers list features some of the most influential leadership speakers, industry disruptors, and successful entrepreneurs in the country. Innovative and inspirational, these speakers are not only...

Creative Female Authors of Bestselling Books

Famous for their creative and vulnerable storytelling, the bestselling female authors in this list have written successful novels, memoirs, poetry and essay collections, and children's books. From deeply personal stories to...

Women's History Month: Women in Business

Searching for the perfect female speaker for your next event celebrating Women's History Month? These strong business women are leaders and pioneers in their industries. These impressive females will inspire and delight your...

University Business & Technology Speakers

Whether it's to celebrate commencement, educate, or foster conversation around important topics, university speakers are a great way to bring students together. As entrepreneurs, executives, futurists and tech experts, the...

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Marilyn Tam Speaking Topics

• Diversity & Inclusion: How to Reap the Rich Harvest of Culture, Creativity and Community

  The demographics of the world’s population are rapidly changing. In the USA, 2020 is the year nonwhite children becomes the majority of USA children. Between 2041 • 2046 ethnic minority will comprise the majority of the USA population. In 2050, 58% of the world’s population growth will be coming from Africa. Learning how to benefit from diversity and to be a leader in a more diverse and global world is a challenge and an opportunity. The only way to prosper and grow in the 21st century is to embrace and leverage diversity. Learn how to successfully integrate diversity into your organization and network to create an inclusive, productive and thriving culture for ongoing success, employee and customer engagement and retention. Hear stories, learn principles, tools and action steps from Marilyn Tam's global business, humanitarian, and consulting experience to become a more successful global leader.

  A key focus is on helping leaders and employees understand how to adapt and grow their unique leadership styles to foster a multicultural workplace and attract and engage employees from across the cultural and diverse spectrum. Marilyn Tam is a self-made immigrant woman of color, you will learn from someone who has actually "walked the walk".

• Global Business today, the Opportunities and Challenges

  Business today is global. The development, production and consumption chain stretches from wherever and however “local” the company is to all points of the globe. To excel in this marketplace means that each person and each company have to understand and be proactive about the opportunities and challenges that come with globalization.

  Marilyn shares from her global business and humanitarian experience in 120 countries about the benefits, ethics and pitfalls that come with working in a complexity of cultures, traditions, geography and time zones. The increasing interrelationships between developers, suppliers, marketers, buyers and sellers mean that every business and organization need to operate with a much more expanded perspective of their market to be able to thrive today.

  Learn from someone who has successfully managed companies and organizations in a wide variety of cultures and environments. Marilyn share insights and principles learned from practical experience. You and your organization will grow and prosper from her wisdom.

• The Role of Business in the 21 st Century

  The 21 st Century is a wired and interconnected world, which has modified the roles and responsibilities of business. Business is no longer, if it ever was, only focused on the sole pursuit of the current Profit & Loss statement. It is now an integral and dynamic part of the global community, economy, environment and culture. For business to thrive in these circumstances, clarification of the mission and principles of the organization is needed.

  Companies, non-profit organizations, sovereign nations and cultures are converging. How do we ensure a healthy bottom line for everyone? What is our future? Marilyn shares four defining principles for maintaining integrity in business and in life. With real life stories of wins and mistakes told with humor and lessons learned, you will take away key principles and action steps to better navigate in today’s fast changing world.

• Living the Life of Your Dreams - Life Balance: How to Juggle Work, Home, Personal and Spiritual Health

  The conflicting expectations and conditioning that people have been bombarded with makes them vulnerable to feeling unsatisfied, second rate and confused. Uncertain economic times, the incessant marketing message of “you can have it all” and the hyper-speed of change is hitting people so hard that they are oftentimes reduced to feeling despair in being able to attain any semblance of a balanced life – and even more critically, economic sustainability.

  This hunger and fear is driving the collective unconsciousness. “Life Balance: How to Juggle Work, Home, Personal and Spiritual Health” is packed with motivation, encouragement, and practical resources for a happier more satisfying life.

  Marilyn shares from her own experience as well as from the numerous experts whom she has worked and interviewed in her career and life. You will hear stories and practical examples of both success and failures that lead to the development of Life Balance. Learn practical actionable principles and tools to be able prioritize, allocate resources and balance your life demands to greater success, inner peace and happiness.

• Leadership Excellence, How You Can Achieve It

  To be a successful Leader in the 21 st Century takes new skills and awareness. Fresh managerial tools and talents are needed to deal with today’s global business and the tighter and more visible connections between all aspects of the development, production and consumption cycle. Learn from Marilyn’s international business and humanitarian experience on how to be the more effective and productive in business and life while creating collaborative and lasting relationships.

  Marilyn will discuss how to define your mission and the principles and actions steps to ensure a cohesive, productive and energized team. Strategy and outlook into how to plan and lead in today’s tumultuous and interconnected business environment will be covered. She will help you review your personal leadership style and how to enhance it to increase effective communication and maximum sustainable profitable growth and development of your organization.

• Women in the Workplace and Marketplace

  In today's highly competitive and interconnected world, women are invaluable to any enterprise. Yet cultural biases and structural obstacles hinder women's progress. This is a loss for the company as much as it is for women. For a company to succeed and continue to thrive today, it needs to fully utilize all the resources available. In this presentation, Marilyn Tam uses her personal experience as a corporate leader, woman, consultant, and humanitarian to share the key factors that helped her become a star in the business world. She shares not only the elements needed to attain success and joy as a professional woman, but also how to support and foster the development of all women in business.