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2007 Asian American Forum Leadership Institute Saturday - April 21, 2007 - 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM The University of Texas at Dallas
Speakers
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President
& CEO WISE
Senior Services Santa
Monica, California
Grace
Cheng Braun joined WISE Senior Services in July 2005 as the
organization’s President and CEO.
The mission of WISE is to preserve the independence and dignity
of older adults, and to prevent premature institutionalism whenever
possible. For 39 years,
WISE, a nonprofit, social services organization, has been recognized
for its wide range of innovative support services designed to meet the
needs of a diverse clientele within the greater Los Angeles area.
An accomplished business executive, Ms. Cheng Braun holds
a masters degree in health planning and policy from UCLA and a
bachelor’s degree in psychology from the UC Riverside. She is an
executive business coach, having completed the coaching certification
training through The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, and is an
accredited coach through the International Coach Federation. Ms. Cheng
Braun is a two-time, past president of the Healthcare Public Relations
& Marketing Association of Southern California; has served on the
Adult Degree Program faculty at California Lutheran University in
Thousand Oaks, Calif.; currently volunteers as a corporate trainer for
LEAP, Inc. (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics), where she has
conducted workshops for Corning, Xerox and Microsoft; and has been
teaching graduate-level courses in the International Public Policy And
Management Program at the University of Southern California for the
past six years.
Ms.
Cheng Braun’s career includes a highly successful, six-year term as
Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations at Cedars-Sinai
Health System in Los Angeles.
Ms. Cheng Braun has also served as Associate Director of Business and
Organizational Development at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. In
this vice president-level position, she was responsible for human
resources, public relations, legislative affairs, marketing,
community/business outreach, strategic planning, program development
and physician relations.
With
more than 25 years of distinguished communications and marketing
experience, Ms. Cheng Braun attributes her accomplishments to her
ability to communicate, build teamwork and recognize the potential in
others, bringing forth the best in people.
Staff surveys consistently acknowledge Ms. Cheng Braun for her
leadership, vision and commitment to excellence.
North Texas Systems Engineering Director Raytheon Network Centric Systems, McKinney, Texas Kevin Hayata serves as the Systems Engineering Director within Raytheon's Network Centric Systems (NCS) Texas Engineering Organization. The NCS Texas Systems Engineering Center supports the Combat Systems and the Command and Control business areas. The programs in these business areas explore state of the art sensor analysis, development, and integration solutions to support the warfighter of today and tomorrow. Kevin's responsibilities for this position include the development of people and Mission System Integration (MSI) capabilities, the deployment of system engineering processes and procedures within the organization, the advancement of sensor based technology, the development of new business opportunities, and the superior performance of all the programs that he supports.
Prior to this assignment, Kevin served as the California Systems
Engineering Center Manager where he provided engineering leadership
supporting several major Raytheon NCS business areas including
Navigation and Landing Systems (NLS), Networked Communication Systems
(NWCS), and Highway Transportation Management Systems (HTMS).
In addition, Kevin served as Industry Representative for the
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) and California State
University, Long Beach (CSULB) Math Engineering and Science
Achievement (MESA) programs, volunteered his time to support the CSUF
Association of Computer Machinists (ACM), and served as a member of
the Fullerton Union School District Science Advisory Board.
Prior to his days in management, Kevin served significant time
as both software and systems engineer, where his technical emphasis
centered on the development of detection, tracking, and classification
algorithms for sonar and radar based applications.
Kevin is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles,
where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics-System
Science. He also holds a
Masters of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics and a Masters of Science
in Electrical Engineering degree from California State University, Fullerton.
Kevin is a Qualified Raytheon 6 Sigma Specialist.
Lighthouse Leadership Consultant Houston Texas John arrived in the United States in 1975 at the age of seven. John received his Electrical Engineering Degree from Texas A&M University in College Station in 1991. He later completed his formal "education journey" with an MBA in 1996 and Ph.D. in 2002 from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. While balancing full time work for the last 14 years in the petrochemical industry, John opened his second company, Lighthouse Leadership Consultant in 2002. The company's mission is to assist individuals in improving their abilities to recognize their potential and bring focus to their life's goals. The company was able to organize "sold out" workshops such as Navigating Corporate Politics, Conversation Confidence, High Impact Presentations and EnFusion (connecting your vision to your present reality), just to name a few. John's audience ranges from high school students to corporate executives. His talent to communicate effectively through interactive workshops is the hallmark to the company's success. John says that his strength and joy in life comes from the wonderful relationship with his wife and young son.
Of Counsel, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg (Los Angeles), is a nationally-recognized attorney, public lecturer, and community leader. Formerly a name partner and trial attorney at Beck DeCorso Barrera & Oh, she has represented individuals and entities in all facets of state and federal court litigation. During her years in public service and private practice, Ms. Oh has built a reputation as an effective advocate and negotiator, drawing upon a wide breadth of experiences in the community, legal, and political arenas. In 1992, Ms. Oh gained national prominence as a spokesperson and mediator for the Asian American community in connection with the Los Angeles riots. Thereafter, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as one of seven Advisory Board Members on the President’s Initiative on Race, which was charged with identifying and resolving problems relating to race relations in the United States. In 2002, Ms. Oh founded her own law firm, which focused on civil rights and criminal litigation. Throughout her career, Ms. Oh has served in leadership positions in numerous select commissions and boards, including as Chairperson of United States Senator Barbara Boxer’s Federal Judicial Nominations Committee for the Central District of California; a Member of the Los Angeles City Commission on Human Relations; a Lawyer Delegate to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference; and Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession. Previously, Ms. Oh was also a founding member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a recipient of its Trailblazer Award. Ms. Oh’s public lectures and writings reflect the opportunities and challenges that diversity presents. Her lectures have taken her into both national and international arenas, including China, Korea, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Her teaching appointments have been at UCLA School of Law, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, and UC Irvine School of Social Sciences and Political Science. Ms. Oh is also an ordained Priest, Zen Buddhist Priest - Rinzai Sect. Education King Hall, the University of California, Davis School of Law, J.D. (1986) University of California, Los Angeles, Masters in Public Health (1981) University of California, Los Angeles, B.A. (1977)
Sanjeev Venkatesan Director of North Texas Software Raytheon Dallas, Texas As director of software, Sanjeev is a member of the NCS North Texas Engineering Leadership Team. Mr. Venkatesan is responsible for people, process, and technology of all software programs and technologies within North Texas NCS Engineering and providing guidance and oversight in their execution. Mr. Venkatesan was Sr. Principal Software Engineer for NCS. His management, technical and research expertise lies in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Electronics and Embedded Systems. His educational background includes knowledge representation, engineering mathematics, radar and navigation, antenna and wave propagation, and electronic digital circuits. After supporting development activities for the Ballistics Missile Defense program, Mr. Venkatesan supported software subcontract manager on the future Combat Systems, Ground Sensor Integrator (GSI) program.
He is a graduate of Raytheon Principal of Program Leadership
program and an instructor of the course.
He is also Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist and an student of 2006
Engineering Leadership Development Program. At Denver C3I
organization, as the software manager for the Ground Systems, he was
responsible for 250 software engineers, multiple internal and external
development and support programs and national and international
customers. At
TI/Raytheon, Mr. Venkatesan was the software manager for risk
reduction program for Follow On to TOW.
He also co-authored the proposal for the same.
Mr. Venkatesan was the software manager for the HTI
Engineering, Manufacturing and Design (EMD) program.
He was successful in transitioning this program from EMD to Low
Rate Intital Production (LRIP).
Personal Finance Writer and Columnist Dallas Morning News At the Morning News, Ms. Yip writes the Monday personal finance centerpiece story and the Money Talk column that appear each Monday in the newspaper. She joined the Morning News in 1999 from the Houston Chronicle, where she was the personal finance writer and columnist for nine years. She helps develop training programs and seminars for The Morning News' business news staff, and was a team leader in 2006 for the newspaper's newsroom-wide reporting and writing training program for reporters and editors. Ms. Yip started her journalism career in 1979 with United Press International in Los Angeles, covering general news. Before that, she was a reporter intern covering politics at United Press' bureau in Sacramento, Calif. She was a business reporter at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, USA Today and the Stockton, Calif., Record. While at the Houston Chronicle, she covered the historic handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 by Great Britain. Ms. Yip has won several reporting awards, including one for best business reporting from the Los Angeles Press Club, as well as business reporting awards from the Houston Press Club and the Hearst Corp., the parent company of the Houston Chronicle. She also won an award for public affairs reporting from the Associated Press Managing Editors Council in California. She has served as a judge for the Gerald Loeb Awards at the University of California at Los Angeles. The awards are considered the most prestigious in business and financial journalism. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Ms. Yip has a bachelor's degree from California State University in Sacramento, where she majored in journalism, with a concentration in economics. She attended the Wharton School of Business' program for financial reporters at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Yip is a 1997 graduate of the University of Houston's Personal Financial Planning Certificate program.
Registration
$50 Special student rate $25 (includes
morning coffee, lunch and all materials)
Registration must be completed by Friday, April 21, 2007 Asian American Forum, Inc 9514 Hillview Drive - Dallas Texas 75231 Phone 214-553-5944 FAX
214-553-5944 Information AsianAmericanForum@gmail.com
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Angela
E. Oh, 
