Helping East and Southeast Asian professionals lead as themselves.
Strong performers, and too often overlooked for advancement. The reasons are rarely about ability, and they can be learned. After 25 years as a British Chinese professional in Western corporate life, I coach ESEA professionals into leadership and help the organisations that employ them close the advancement gap.
5 Unwritten Rules of Leadership for ESEA Professionals
You have the ability and the track record. Leadership asks for something more, a set of skills that sit outside the work itself and decide who steps up at senior levels. This guide names five of them, drawn from 25 years of doing exactly this. Each comes with a concrete shift you can put to use the same week, and none of them asks you to become someone you are not.
Inside the guide
- Excellence in your scope is the floor, not the ceiling
- The work doesn't tell its own story
- When feedback feels obvious, ask anyway
- Say the one thing, not everything
- Disagreeing visibly is a competence signal
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The East and Southeast Asian Advancement Gap: how to recognise it, and where to begin
ESEA professionals are among the most likely to be hired and the least likely to be promoted, and the research consistently rules out ambition as the explanation. This referenced briefing is written to be put in front of colleagues. It shows why the pattern stays hidden in standard reporting, and where to look in your own data.
Inside the briefing
- Why ESEA populations average away in UK ethnicity reporting, and why mandatory pay gap reporting will hide the gap further rather than reveal it
- What the gap is actually made of: perceived visibility, withheld feedback, and absent sponsorship, and which of the three coaching can and cannot move
- The one analysis that makes it visible inside your own organisation: promotion conversion by cohort, usually straightforward to run and rarely run
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About Dr Jung
Dr Jung Wing Wan spent 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry, rising to Global Regulatory Strategy Lead at companies including Bristol Myers Squibb, as a British Chinese professional climbing a Western corporate structure. He is a coach, speaker and author of the Amazon best seller Personal Mastery: A Leader's Guide to Finding Meaning and Fulfilment in the Modern World. He works with a small number of clients at a time, so each engagement gets proper attention.
Whether you are stepping into leadership yourself or developing it in your people, it begins the same way. By seeing clearly what moves you forward.