Our 2nd May 2010 Speaker
Mai Moua, Ph.D helps individuals, groups, and organizations to transform their ways of thinking and being through workshops in leadership, diversity and inclusion, and spiritual development. She is Hmong-American and came to the United States in 1979 as a refugee from Thailand. Mai works with a variety of nonprofits, local and state governments, and private organizations. She has worked and presented training to: General Mills, New York Life Insurance, Ameriprise Financial, Minnesota Public Radio, MN Department of Human Services, Twin Cities United Way, Harvard University, and more. She has presented research and conducted workshops on leadership and organizational effectiveness, cultural competency and diversity and inclusion to an internationally diverse audience of leadership scholars and academics, executives and directors, practitioners, and students from the Middle East, Europe, and Canada.
Her professional and personal interests are in the areas of cross-cultural leadership, women’s leadership, cultural competency and intelligence, and nonprofit and public management and leadership.
Dr. Moua recently published her book Culturally Intelligent Leadership: Leading Through Intercultural Interactions in January 2011. She is currently working on a second book, Exercising Cultural Intelligence: Training Activities to Grow Culturally Intelligent Leaders, available in the fall of 2011.
About her Book:
Cultural intelligence is vital to working inter- and intra-culturally in today’s global economy. It is the unique ability to identify, recognize, and acknowledge the differences and similarities that exist between and among cultural groups and systems. When applied, cultural intelligence can bridge the gap in cultural misunderstanding by creating awareness, knowledge, and patience of cultural norms and behaviors.
As an organizational leader, learning to effectively lead and communicate cross culturally demands awareness, knowledge, and skill, as well as persistence, practice, and restraint of judgment. Culturally intelligent leaders understand that just because they acquired or developed the skills, awareness, and knowledge for one cultural situation does not mean that those behaviors and skills are applicable to another. Even if leaders are highly skilled, knowledgeable, or well trained, they can still make cultural mistakes.
This book outlines the importance of understanding culture and its impact on organizations, the strategic value of cultural intelligence, and the significance of integrating and practicing cultural intelligence in everyday business life. When all these aspects are properly integrated and applied in the leadership and management process, organizations are more innovative and adaptable to respond to cultural changes. his book outlines the importance of understanding culture and its impact on organizations, the strategic value of cultural intelligence, and the significance of integrating and practicing cultural intelligence in everyday business life. When all these aspects are properly integrated and applied in the leadership and management process, organizations are more innovative and adaptable to respond to cultural changes.
Mai Moua, Ph.D.
Leadership Paradigms, Inc.
California Address
3814 Clough Avenue
Fremont, CA 94538
Minnesota Address
775 Thomas Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104
(P) 651-523-0540
Email: mai@leadershipparadigms.com
Website: www.leadershipparadigms.com
Clear the mind and the spirit will be pure – Tao Te Ching