Lily Tang is a consultant with The FutureWork Institute, Inc.^®, helping create inclusive, more productive work environments now and into the future. Her special interest is in facilitating the process for heightened individual and team effectiveness.

With a multi-dimensional background in counseling, psychology, journalism, business development, Ms. Tang currently works with clients in areas of cultural identity and values, relationships and systems, strategic career development, authentic leadership.

As a consultant, Ms. Tang has lead global teams in original research projects in the Americas, Europe, and Asia including China, Japan, India. Recent client assignments include Unilever, Merrill Lynch, ADP, Johnson & Johnson, The Estee Lauder Companies, IBM, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Boehringer Ingelheim, Astra Zeneca, Tyson Foods, Tyco International, Raytheon, Nortel.

Ms. Tang serves non-profits organizations as a trainer and speaker. She is certified by ADL: Classroom of Difference and LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics). She has taught in the fields of psychology and cross-cultural communications at the college level and has spoken on cultural challenges in the global workplace for organizations including ODNJ, Catalyst, Working Mother Media.

Her work to help build sustainable, commercially aligned employee resource groups includes clients such as Tyson, IBM, HSBC, Citi, New York Life, ADP, NALC. She recently created and led a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary team to produce the first Asiana-Latina Symposium which was sponsored by JPMorganChase, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, L�foreal. Ms. Tang traveled to China with SHRM to promote greater cross-cultural understanding and intra-discipline cooperation within the global human resource management community. She was recently in Hong Kong working with clients and participating in the Asia 2007 Diversity and Inclusion Conference.

Ms. Tang is an executive committee member and director on the board Asian Women Leadership Network. She is a member of the Board of Directors for The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center which serves the underserved and immigrant communities of New York City. Active affiliations include Asian Women in Business, The Organizational Development Networks of New York and New Jersey, Society of Human Resource Management, Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research, Co-Active Network of The Coaches Training Institute.

Formerly a research panelist to the Government University Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) for the National Academies, Ms. Tang holds a masters degree in clinical counseling, MBA in operations management from Rutgers University and a doctorate in educational psychology from the State University of New York. Her undergraduate work was in the fields of psychology and art history. She is bilingual and conversant in several dialects of Chinese.

ltang@futureworkinstitute.com