Professional Summary:
Maya Hu-Chan is an international management consultant, certified executive coach, author, public speaker and leadership development educator. She specializes in global leadership, executive coaching, diversity and cross-cultural business skills. As a frequent speaker at leadership and organization development conferences, Maya is a thought leader and expert on Global Leadership and Global Workforce Development. Harvard Business School chose her book Global Leadership: The Next Generation (Financial Times Prentice Hall) to be one of their Working Knowledge recommended books.

Through face-to-face, telephone, and videoconference consultation, Maya has coached over 3,000 leaders, from CEOs to front line supervisors in various functions such as R&D, Sales & Marketing, Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Operation, Customer Services, Community Affairs, and Engineering. She has worked with business leaders in creating high performing organizations through development of work cultures that tap the knowledge, experience, and skills of their people. To re-enforce this work, Maya has created customized Leadership Resource Guides based on clients’ corporate leadership profiles. Maya is the president of Global Leadership Associates, a management consulting firm based in San Diego, California.

Background:
Prior to her consulting career, she was an anchor for the China Broadcasting Company in Taiwan. She received her B.A. in Journalism and Business Management from National Chengchi University in Taiwan, and Master’s degree from Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. She has lectured at the University of California, San Diego and University of Southern California, and International MBA Program at University of Chicago. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Maya is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and English. She now lives in San Diego, California, with her husband and 9-year-old triplets.

Clients:
Maya has directly coached over 3,000 leaders in Global Fortune 500 companies and worked with major corporations throughout North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Australia. She has traveled and worked extensively in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, helping global companies develop their senior executives and high potential leaders and strengthen their teams. Maya has provided many bilingual training programs in English and Mandarin Chinese.

Select Client List: Abbott Vascular, Agilent Technologies, Allergan, AMD, American Airlines, Applied Biosystems, Arco, AT&T, Black & Veatch, Budget Rent-a-Car, Callaway Golf, Chase Manhattan Bank, Cisco Systems, City of San Diego, Conexant, Detroit Edison, Ericsson, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Fluor Corporation, General Motors, Honeywell, IBM, James Hardie, IMS Health, John Hancock, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, KPMG, Kraft Foods, Labatt Breweries, Lever Brothers Thailand, LifeScan, Las Vegas Metro Police, Lockheed Martin, Los Angeles Police Department, Merck, Merrill Lynch, MGM Mirage, Motorola, Netscape, National Oilwell Company, Nokia, Northern Telecom, Northrop Grumman, Novellus, Nvidia, Option One Mortgage, Ortho McNeil, Parker Hannifin, Qualcomm, Sematech, Schering-Plough, Semiconductor Research Corp., Shell, Siemens, SONY, Southern California Edison, Sun Microsystems, Texaco, Texas Instruments, Toyota, UBS Investment Bank, Unocal, U.S. Postal Service, University of Southern California, U.S. Olympic Committee, UTStarcom, Warner Lambert and W.L. Gore & Associates.

Publications:
In addition to “Global Leadership: The Next Generation,” Maya is a contributing author of the following books:

• The Practice of Leadership Coaching (Jossey-Bass)

• Best Practices in Leading the Global Workforce (Linkage)

• Leading the Global Workforce (Jossey-Bass)

• Coaching for Leadership: How the World’s Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn (Jossey-Bass)

• Partnering: The New Face of Leadership (AMACOM)

• A Study in Excellence: Management in the Nonprofit Human Services

She has also authored Leadership Resource Guides for: AT&T, Budget Rent-a-Car, Calpers, Eastman Kodak, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T Broadband, MGM Mirage Casinos & Resorts, Nortel, Schering-Plough, Siemens, and Sun Microsystems. Some of her publications were translated in Chinese, German, Spanish, and French.

Maya has an extensive list of publications of management, leadership, global business skills, multicultural teambuilding, as well as a well-received series of corporate training manuals on doing business with China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Honors, Professional Associations, and Community Involvement:

• Certified Executive Coach

• Certified provider of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Recipient of Leading the Global Workforce Best Practice Award, Linkage, Inc.

• Rated The Top Leadership Guru from Asia by Leadership Guru International

• Member, The Institute of Executive Development

• International Advisor, Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC)

• Former Board of Director for the Girl Scouts, San Diego-Imperial County

• Commission of the Status for Women (City of San Diego)

• Workforce Development Council

• Asian Business Association of San Diego