RESULTS

Executive Coaching

Clients experiencing challenges of change emerge with new perspectives, strategies and skills. They advance business and personal goals. Read more / Hide

A Fortune 50 company relied repeatedly on Janice to help key executives lead through a series of mergers. With coaching, senior managers recognized how change could benefit the business and how to embrace change personally. They also gained tools to help identify key talent and help their team members drive for results and make the most of a dynamic environment - all requisites for building a high-performing culture.
WON enabled high-potential Asian directors within a government enterprise to re-brand themselves with a stronger executive presence. In the process, they became adept at collaborating, expanding their spheres of influence. Each ultimately gained increased authority.
WON has aided numerous professionals as they launched job search campaigns. Coaching guided them in refining their career vision, developing their brand, and preparing for interviews. It also helped them frame career advancement discussions with potential managers and prepare for internal career moves.
WON coaching guided numerous executive directors at nonprofit organizations to align their work more closely with their employer's goals. Doing so heightened their fundraising capabilities and increased their effectiveness and visibility with board members. Coaching also helped these clients become more attuned to cultural nuances, to engage their people through enhanced listening skills, and to prevent burnout.

Organizational Consulting

Organizations leverage WON's executive human resources background to drive strategy development and manage change initiatives, while increasing productivity and organization effectiveness. Read more / Hide

Change Management. A CPA firm was merging with a financial organization; the new organization needed to unify its human resources and benefits programs within a matter of months. WON, working with the human resources director, provided expertise in organizational integration, communication strategy, and project and resource planning. Proposals for a new benefit program were adopted and implemented, and a framework for new human resources policies was developed.
Strategy Consultant. An alliance uniting several multicultural and women's nonprofits with a for-profit company -- each highly successful as an independent entity -- engaged WON to design and facilitate its first-ever strategic planning retreat. With WON's guidance, five CEOs as well as key staff members defined their purpose, vision, mission, and strategy for their shared diversity initiative. They collaborated well among themselves, heightening their teamwork, communication, and use of resources. WON returned to support this collaborative entity in reaffirming its vision, and maximizing its influence and impact through aligned goals and actions.
Transition Consultant. Engaged by the Board of Directors of a leading New York City nonprofit as interim executive director, WON helped the organization deal with the resignation of its long-tenured executive director. As described by a board member with 40+ years in the multicultural arts arena, WON kept board members "motivated and moving", fully engaged and embracing change. WON's consulting enhanced governance, helped retain key talent, and led to innovative programs during a seven-month transition. After the board hired an executive director, WON on-boarded the new director and led a transition that was seamless for staff, donors, and organization members.

Leadership Clinics

Participants from prestigious companies develop valuable insights, and gain new skills and resources that can be applied immediately. Read more / Hide

Hundreds of corporate Asian and Asian-American professionals have benefited from WON's facilitation of leadership programs. Employees of Chartis, Chubb, Citibank, Credit Suisse, IBM, Lockheed Martin, New York Life, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Unilever are among those who have experienced WON's masterful facilitation and creation of safe spaces for learning. Incorporating personal insights as a corporate executive, WON also created customized thought-provoking, inclusive, action-oriented workshops that helped tap hidden potential in the talent pipeline.
Prestigious employers such as the McGraw-Hill Companies, IBM, and Pfizer have invited Janice Won to speak as a thought leader at leadership development events, addressing the experiences and expectation of Asian and Asian-American executives and professionals. Janice has also been a frequent speaker at corporate and community events.
Janice Won has presented or facilitated at numerous large-scale industry conferences that include:
- The Conference Board Diversity Conference
- Catalyst Awards Conference
- Working Mother Media Multicultural Women's Conference
- Network and Affinity Leadership Congress
- Diversity Best Practices Global Advancement for Women Conference
- Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics
- National Association of Asian American Professionals
Janice Won co-created the Multicultural Women's Symposium for Asian Women Leadership Network. Selecting themes relevant to real challenges for multicultural women in the corporate workplace, companies invested in sponsorship and identified a total of 75-175 women to attend the innovative and interactive program each year. Participants included executive and professional women from Colgate-Palmolive, Credit Suisse, HSBC, IBM, KPMG, New York Life, Pfizer, among other Fortune 500 companies.

Employee Resource Group Development

WON is a catalyst for new and mature ERGs, enabling them to add business value, foster the development of talent and enrich communities. Read more / Hide

A global information and education company was challenged in launching its Asian employee resource group; identifying leaders was a particular problem. Working with the company's Diversity & Inclusion director, WON designed a session that demonstrated the business value of ERGs and recruited highly committed and visible executives to lead the organization, along with committed volunteers/members. The Asian ERG was successfully launched under the stewardship of an executive sponsor who was President of a major subsidiary.