Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Female Leaders Share Their Experiences at Annual 被听到! 会议

ST. LOUIS - Saint 路易 University’s Emerson Leadership Institute held its third annual 被听到! Women in Leadership conference on Friday, May 3. 事件，“打破和 Powering Through the Bamboo Ceiling,” kicked off Asian American and Pacific Islander 遗产月. 

启动幻灯片MICDS students in costume walk through the crowd at the Emerson Leadership Institute's 第三届被倾听! Women in Leadership conference on Friday, May 3. Sarah摄影 康罗伊.

The half-day event featured conversations about creating a sense of belonging and equity in the workplace, culminating in a panel discussion with local Asian women 领导人. The panelists shared their experiences and how they navigate the workplace.

The conference featured a panel of local Asian women 领导人, including:

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• Grace Lee – dean of faculty, Mary Institute County Day School
• Nalini Mahadevan – principal attorney, MLO Law and co-founder of the Immigrant Professional STL的妇女网络
• Shu Schiller – dean of the College of Business Administration, University of Missouri-St. 路易

The panel was moderated by Luchen Li, associate vice president for global engagement 在博彩网址大全.

巴纳利·古普塔博士.D., the Edward Jones Dean and professor of economics at Saint 路易 大学的Richard A. 查菲兹商学院, told the audience that 领导人hip is about the people being led and not the leader.

“If you make 领导人hip about you, you’ve already failed,” she said. 

Gupta challenged those in attendance to remember why their work is important. 

“我们的学生就是我的原因，”她说. “他们是我做我所做的事情的原因. 找到你的原因.”

The panelists shared experiences around tokenism, the paths to 领导人hip and finding solidarity with other women, whether in the workplace or through professional organizations. 

Lee said she found solidarity and kinship with other women of color early in her teaching career and those relationships helped her move up in educational administration. 查 said finding relationships with women of different generations helped her shed generational 偏见. She also noted that it was critical that she freed herself of the friendship 神话.

“There is this expectation that we are all supposed to get along all the time and that the work of teambuilding tends to fall on the women,” she said. “我们应该。 professional and be supportive of one another, but you don’t have to be best friends 和每个人.”

Being supportive goes beyond co-workers, Mahadevan told the group and should extend 给那些还没加入组织的女性.

“We don’t just need to be the best we can be, like the Army slogan, but we need to 要做前线的将军。. “我们树立榜样，教育人们 在我们身后. I think of my daughter when I am thinking about what comes next.”

Schiller echoed that sentiment, noting it was incumbent upon women in 领导人hip to ask themselves how they are developing their employees to be 领导人.

“Team success is grown by individual success,” she said. “作为领导者，我需要提供帮助 them be successful and continue to invest in their development and growth.”

The path to 领导人hip was varied for the panelists, with Schiller sharing her experience of creating an intentional path to academic 领导人hip at UMSL by determining her motivation and aiming toward a goal, while 查 shared that being a radio host was 这不是她想要的工作.

“I lacked the direction some of my colleagues here have talked about,” she said. “但 一路上我都在问问题. 我冒了很大的风险，但并不总是这样 served me well, but I am where I am because I am assertive without being loud. 这是 给我的秘方.”

查 challenged those in attendance to find their own secret sauce to propel them forward 在他们的职业生涯中.

“不要害怕做事，”她说. “领导力来自于共同行动.”

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