Leading Across Cultures: Does Gender Affect Leadership in Multi-Cultural Teams
HKU MBA's Women in Leadership Club presents it's annual event, The Gender Experiment. This year's topic is "Leading Across Cultures: Does Gender Affect Leadership in Multi-Cultural Teams."
This event features a panel discussion followed by a brief networking session. Through this topic, we aim to discuss how different genders react to culturally diverse teams and if a certain gender has an advantage leading such teams.
When - 8th December, 6-8 p.m
Where - 30/F Champion Tower Boardroom, 3 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong.
Agenda
Registration - 5:45 p.m - 6:15 p.m
Opening Ceremony - 6:15p.m - 6:30 p.m
Panel Discussion - 6:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m
Networking - 7:30 p.m - 8 p.m
Panelists
Mary Beth Asher
Assistant Vice President, Asia Pacific
Mary Beth Asher is the Assistant Vice President of the Asia Pacific Sales at AT&T. She successfully covers upwards of $700M sales revenue stream covering 14 country markets. Her role consists of effectively managing 130 Salespeople and overall responsibility of Asia Pacific Regional Operations. With over 29 years of telecom sales experience in diversified global businesses, Mary Beth is charged with the achievement of sales targets and client satisfaction levels. Besides managing various core client programs in the Asia Pacific region she plays a vital role in bridging relations between the Asia Pacific sales teams and the US sales teams.
In 2014, Mary Beth established an AT&T Asia Pacific Women’s Organization to connect and inspire members to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Kris Lui
Director, Human Resource
Ms. KRIS LUI is a passionate, seasoned and business-oriented Human Resources (HR) professional with over two decades of international experience of delivering business results via building sustainable organization capability in different industries, geographies, cultures, and matrix organizations.
Her strategic HR leadership covers various industries’ market leaders by relocating to different countries, including FMCG - P&G and Retail Fashion Global Sourcing - C&A. She is now HR Director of The Dairy Farm Group’s North Asia Food and Shared Services which is a pan-Asian retailer pioneer as a member of Jardine Matheson Group.
Charles Lankester
EVP, Ruder Finn
Charles Lankester has built a career in reputation management and crisis management and understands the business of delivering results whilst balancing the requirements and interests of numerous, complex stakeholders. His areas of specialism include reputation risk mitigation, communications, and social media strategy.
He has worked in Europe (London) and Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, China and South Korea) since 1986. Prior to joining Ruder Finn in 2014, he held leadership positions at many of the world’s most respected communications firms including Burson-Marsteller, Ogilvy, & Mather and Weber Shandwick. With a career built across Asia-Pacific and Europe, Charles has represented some of world’s best-known corporations and brands including Coca-Cola, Kirin, Visa, Johnson & Johnson, Credit Suisse and Roche. He has also advised the Governments of Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Priscilla Ng
Head of Customer Franchise, Citibank Global Consumer Banking
Priscilla Ng is the Head of Customer Franchise for Citibank Global Consumer Banking.She oversees Marketing, Digital Banking, Client Experience, Decision Management, and Business Learning & Development functions for the Bank. Priscilla is responsible for managing all these functions in order to grow the franchise by developing customer management strategy for different customer segments and creating the best-in-class client experience at different touch points and channels based on clients’ needs. Priscilla joined Citibank in 2001 and since then has held various positions in the bank.
Priscilla was appointed Country Marketing Director in 2011, responsible for the bank’s overall marketing and branding strategies, as well as the marketing and business development of all consumer banking segments, leading the expansion of Citibank’s retail presence in Hong Kong, and revamping the value proposition of the bank’s offerings.
Syed Musheer Ahmed
General Manager (Interim) at FinTech Association of Hong Kong
Musheer is a Global markets, financial services and strategy consulting professional with cross-
functional, international experience and is based in Hong Kong. He did his
engineering from RVCE Bangalore and worked with Futures First India for nine years before leaving to
do his MBA from London Business School- University of Hong Kong.
He is a founding Board of Director of Fintech Association of Hong Kong and as member of the UN ESBN
Youth Entrepreneurs Taskforce. Actively engaged with Fintech startups and young entrepreneurs in
Hong Kong. Mentor and speaker at industry events and hackathons on FinTech in Hong Kong. Guest
Lecturer and speaker on topics of Investment Management, Trading and Artificial Intelligence at MBA
Universities in Hong Kong.
Moderator
Joanna Chin
Joanna is the founder of M4W Group, an executive coaching and leadership development consultancy. Prior to following her passion and retraining as an executive coach, Joanna was a corporate lawyer working principally in the area of mergers and acquisitions. Her 15 years’ experience in the legal field spanned across New Zealand, London and Hong Kong. She worked for Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong and London before moving into regional in-house legal and consultancy roles for Fortune 500 companies.
Joanna is a Board Member of International Coach Federation. In addition, she is a committee member of “Women on Board” of the French Chamber of Commerce and advocates for “HeforShe” in Hong Kong’s business community. She mentors women, including women in The Women’s Foundation mentoring program.
Location
Dates
to 8th December 2017 - 08:00 PM