Future Asian Leaders Scholarship

Overview:

The Future Asian Leaders (FAL) program is a recurring yearly scholarship initiative from Asians in Advertising (AIA) focusing on growing community leaders. Every year, the program focuses on a different leadership level and various API facilitators to bring it to life.

The FAL program is designed to help Asian marketing, advertising, and communications professionals develop their skills and mindsets to become future leaders.

The program is tuition-free and includes a stipend. If you are an Asian professional passionate about making a difference in marketing, advertising, and communications, the FAL program is for you. Apply today and take your career to the next level!

2024 FAL Program:

Are you an experienced leader struggling to navigate complex business challenges and break through to the next level? This year, we are partnering with API Rising to provide a culturally tailored program specifically designed to empower Asian Directors and VPs with 8-15 years of experience who want to articulate their value better, scale their impact, and accelerate their career.

Program Details:

  • All applicants, continentally and internationally, are welcome to apply 

  • 8-Week Intensive Virtual Course (2 hours per week)

  • Wednesdays or Thursdays, 4 pm PT/5 pm ET, America/US times 

  • Program starts 9/25 and 9/26

Application closes on Sep 5, 2024, at 11:59PM PT.

For any questions, contact us at AIAFALScholarship@gmail.com

Purpose

Asians in Advertising aims to support the advancement of API into leadership positions through visibility, clarity, and mindset shifts. With community care and culturally considerate coaching, participants will have completed a Leadership Visibility Project and emerge with more confidence and a clear vision of their leadership path.

Curriculum

  • Meet your FAL peers and create an intimate space to grow and learn together. This session is intended to build a deep connection with your classmates by sharing our life journeys, struggles, and goals. This session may influence the remainder of the course curriculum.

  • Step outside of your day to day and reflect on your core values, how it impacts your decision-making and fuels work culture. Reflect on your career journey to date, and recognize areas where you feel in flow with your values, and areas where you don’t. Deeply envision a future reality, and identify tasks and skills where you excel and how they might fit into a future reality.

  • Delve into deep self-reflection to identify your unique genius, the one thing holding you back, and how to incorporate both into your personal growth map.

  • One of the biggest struggles Asian leaders is honoring their capacity limits snf delegating, and yet it is the most crucial component in scaling impact. We’ll dive about your fears, pain points and struggle and discuss frameworks for delegating effectively.

  • Cultivating relationships in the workplace is the most important, and sometimes the most difficult, aspect of Corporate America. We’ll explore approaches to building relationships with specific personality types, and learn tools to navigate difficult conversations.

  • Understand types of power and influence, and identify your own spheres of influence. Concretely note how you can leverage your spheres of influence in the workplace, and determine your style on influencing decisions.

  • Oftentimes breaking through to the next level is dependent on the relationships you make and the brand you’ve established for yourself. We’ll delve into your genius as it relates to the business and position yourself for mutual growth.

This curriculum is subject to change based on the cohort’s needs.

Participants will:

  • Intentionally Define Their Values and Identity: Gain clarity on personal and professional values and confidently embrace their unique identity.

  • Honestly Assess and Refine Their Growth Map: Envision their next evolution, assess their experience and skill gap, identify growth opportunities, and create a clear, actionable development plan.

  • Confidently Engage in Strategic Discussions: Build the skills to participate in high-level strategic conversations with authority.

  • Navigate Difficult Conversations with Ease: Develop the confidence to effectively initiate and manage challenging discussions.

  • Expand and Maximize Their Sphere of Influence: Learn how to broaden their impact and influence within and beyond their organization.

  • Secure Strategic and Executive Mentorship: Establish meaningful connections with mentors who can guide their career trajectory.

  • Own Their Personal Impact Narrative: Craft and articulate a compelling personal story highlighting their unique contributions and value.

Van Tran, Co-Founder

Van is a program advisor for the Women in Leadership Program at University of San Francisco's School of Management. She's a visionary leader dedicated to advancing DEI in corporate leadership. She has a background in global leadership with a focus in marketing technology, operations, and digital experience.

She is deeply committed to supporting women in leadership, with over three years of active involvement as a founding member of Chief, a private executive women's network, and its wellness and API communities. Van also co-founded OPMG API Collective and served as Global Co-Chair of Asian Leaders Circle, amplifying API voices globally, and is leading an entrepreneurial mastermind group for women entrepreneurs.

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