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 mindset 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!

2023 FAL Program:

Asians in Advertising (AIA) is proud to launch the 2023 Future Asian Leaders Scholarship program, offering 30 talented Asian leaders a unique opportunity to receive coaching from life coach Nicole Cruz. This 6-week program is designed to empower participants with the clarity and mindset shifts necessary to advance their careers, break through the middle management barrier, and take on leadership roles.

This program is open to applicants worldwide with 5 to 10 years of professional experience. The program will run from August 23 to September 27, 2023, with 2 hrs/week sessions held from 5 to 7 pm EST. The sessions will be facilitated in English.

Don't miss this chance to advance your career and become a future Asian leader. Apply now!

Application Deadline: July 8, 2023

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

  • Virtual (Zoom)

  • 6 weeks, from August 23, 2023, to September 27, 2023, 5-7 pm EST 

  • Private Slack workspace for support in-between sessions

  • 30 participants

  • Introductions and connections

    Present coaching basics and values

    Review program logistics, objectives, and expectations

    Get clear on leadership goals, their “why”, and leadership identity

    Understand their deeper motivations for moving into leadership positions and developing a clearer view of what that would look like, long and short-term

    Takeaway: Determine leadership visibility project

    We will get to know each other better and understand what each of us wants to receive from this program. You’ll learn coaching and mindset basics as well as get clear on your leadership goals and your “why”. By the end of our first session, you will also identify the Leadership Visibility Project that you’ll be working on throughout the program.

  • We will identify the action steps, beliefs, and supporting elements necessary to complete your Leadership Visibility Project. You’ll have a greater understanding of the fears and obstacles that usually prevent you from being visible and the tools to move through those.

  • You will be supported to challenge pre-conceived notions of what a leader should look like and learn tools to start embodying the leader you want to be.

  • You will learn the cultural impacts of your self-confidence and how to cultivate self-confidence in a new way (not purely based on your achievements).

  • Part of being visible is to feel confident in advocating for what you want. You will get clear on what’s important for you to advocate for and why.

  • In our closing session, we will celebrate your Leadership Visibility Project, your progress, and create an action plan of how to take this work further, beyond the program.

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

Facilitator Nicole Cruz

Nicole Cruz is the CEO and lead coach of Nicole Cruz Coaching. As a speaker and life coach, Nicole supports people of color to lead fulfilling and free lives by unlearning oppressive beliefs and unleashing who they truly are. She has worked with over 200 immigrants and immigrant descendants and her ultimate vision is to co-create a joyful, equitable, and liberated world through radical embodiment of their full power.

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