Upcoming EDI Events

You are invited to EDI's 2010 Inclusion Fusion™

A Celebration of Friends, Food and Fun-raising!

Thursday, May 20, 2010 at SODO Park in Seattle

Event Hosts: 

• Linda Villegas Bremer, Director of General Administration, State of Washington
• John Hooper, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Weyerhaeuser Company
• S. Mae Fujita Numata, CFO Partner, Tatum LLC

Emcees:

• Jaime Mendez, Anchor, Univision
• Marlee Ginter, Anchor, KOMO TV

Auctioneer:

• Laura Michalek, Seattle's Fundraising Auctioneer

Visit our Inclusion Fusion web page to register, donate and/or volunteer!

Recent EDI Events

2010 Leadership Together Conference: Ignite the Leader Within!

On Saturday, January 30, 2010, nearly 100 attendees participated in EDI's first Leadership Together Conference at ACRS.  It was a rich networking and learning forum, with culturally tailored interactive trainings led by JD Hokoyama, Vanna Novak and Colleen Yamaguchi and an inspirational speech by keynote speaker, Chee Chew, Engineering Director at Google.

Thank you to all our sponsors, planning committee & volunteers for helping to make this event a huge success.

Congratulations EDI Class of 2009!

On Thursday, November 12th we celebrated the accomplishments of our 2009 Leadership Discovery graduates.  This year we had 26 participants graduate from our Asian Leadership Discovery program and 9 participants graduate from our INAUGURAL Hispanic Leadership Discovery program.  Over 200 attendees gathered at the Hilton Bellevue and enjoyed the program which featured Marlee Ginter, News Anchor - KOMO4, as Mistress of Ceremonies and Wes Hom, retired IBM Vice President as keynote speaker. 

Leadership Together:  Alumni Helping Alumni & Others

Effective Relational Networking

On Tuesday, November 3rd, over 50 people attended the Leadership Together - Effective Relational Networking event which was a collaboration between EDI, NAAAP-Seattle and TAPS and sponsored by Prudential Financial.  Tina Wang, TAPS President, served as moderator for the panelists: Elaine Kitamura, Joneil Custodio and Lori Ichimura (all EDI alumni and NAAAP-Seattle members).  Tina posed a series of questions to the panelists and they each shared their personal experiences about networking challenges, successes and strategies.  The evening ended with a post-networking session where attendees had the opportunity to practice some of the networking tips shared by the panelists.   

More Leadership Together events will be coming your way in 2010!

Leadership Together: Alumni Helping Alumni & Others

Career Networking Event

Are you job-seeking or willing to help others who are in transition? Looking for a job in the current economy can be a daunting process. Networking is the most successful way to find career opportunities and land a job.

On Wednesday, September 2nd over 30 EDI Alumni & friends gathered at the Hotel Sierra in Bellevue to network among fellow EDI alums and exchange tips and insights on networking and what appeals to prospective employers. Thank you to Prudential for hosting this EDI alumni event!

Welcome Reception for Dr. Qi Lu, President of Online Services, Microsoft Corporation

Dr. Qi Lu is the highest ranking Asian Pacific at Microsoft as President of Online Services.  EDI and the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce co-hosted a welcome reception in Dr. Lu's  honor on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 6-8:00PM at China Harbor Restaurant.

Over 170 guests attended this reception.   Thank you to all of the sponsors:  Chinasoft, iSoftStone, Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Prudential,  Boeing Asian American Professionals Association (BAAPA), Asian Counseling & Referral Service (ACRS), Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE), Executive Development Institute (EDI), International Community Health Services (ICHS) Foundation and National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP)-Seattle Chapter.

EDI's Tastes of Asia, Benefit Dinner & Auction

A Night for Friends, Food and Fun-raising

EDI's Tastes of Asia was held on Friday June 26, 2009 at SODO Park in Seattle.   Linda Villegas Bremer, Director of General Administration, State of Washington, John Hooper, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Weyerhaeuser Company and S. Mae Fujita Numata, CFO Partner, Tatum LLC will served as executive hosts, Christine Chen, Chen Communications and award-winning News Anchor for FOX and PBS as Mistress of Ceremonies and Laura Michalek as Auctioneer.

Highlighted achievements:

• 250 guests and volunteers joined our efforts, many of whom were new to EDI
• Gross donations of just over $90,000 were achieved
• EDI's visibility greatly increased, especially in the culinary industry
• The dinner proved to be a great professional networking event