If you're committed to achieving diversity in leadership, this blog is for you.
Hi. I'm Joy Chen, CEO of JOYOUS, an executive recruiting firm. We combine best-of-class executive search experience with DEI expertise to recruit and develop the leaders you need to power inclusion and innovation. We recruit for Board members, executives and other strategic talent.
Prior to forming JOYOUS, I was an executive search consultant at Heidrick & Struggles.
Before that, I served as a Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, advancing access to new skills and jobs for millions of Californians.
My Diversity & Inclusion certification is from Cornell University.
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-- Joy
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Hey everyone, thank you for so warmly receiving my first newsletter last week! Your support motivates me to go deeper and push harder to give you the insights you need to lead.
Having immigrated to the U.S. not long before I was born, my parents always were mystified at the American turkey tradition. Each year, Dad would ask, “Why do Americans eat turkey? It’s so dry!”And then, buy us a Peking duck.To him, the idea of roasting a turkey was totally foreign. Two problems:
Thanks to the Model Minority Myth, most Americans assume that Asian Americans are “doing just fine.”
In fact, we suffer from what I call an Age 30 Problem:
