EDI board members with Mariners Manager Don Wakamatsu, from left: Mari Watanabe, Marci Nakano, Vanna Novak, Ted Yamamura, Wakamatsu, Charlene Grinolds, and Colleen Yamaguchi (Photo provided by EDI)
The Executive Development Institute (EDI), which partners with businesses in the Pacific Northwest to provide culturally-tailored leadership programs for Asian Pacific and Latino emerging leaders and managers, is currently actively recruiting emerging leaders at corporations and community organizations in the Puget Sound for its Leadership Discovery and Leadership Navigation Programs beginning in March.
EDI sets out to give Asian Pacific professionals the tools to maneuver through the complicated labyrinth of politics, social skills, and networking savvy required to make it to the top and be accepted and actually promoted in corporate America’s management ranks.
Participants have enrolled in the EDI from Pacific Northwest companies such as Boeing, Microsoft, Nordstrom, Nike, State Farm, Wells Fargo, Weyerhaeuser, and KeyBank.
EDI’s Leadership Discovery Program is tailored for the busy, working professional and consists of a two-day workshop followed by seven full-day seminars spread throughout the year, a community group project, and a graduation. ♦
For more information, please contact EDI’s Executive Director Starr MacDonald at 425-467-9365, starr@ediorg.org, or visit www.ediorg.org.