IS & AP Summit 2014

Just like our global partners in London celebrate annually the Executive Secretary and in New York,
Behind Every Leader events; for the 7th consecutive year, we are celebrating Secretary Week hosting
the International Secretary & Administrative Professional Summit 2014 - Powered by OD-TOOLS
because we know that YOU are a key stone for your company and we want to help you develop your
career even further. This April 17th-18th it is our true desire to invite all of you PA’s, EA’s, Admins and
Secretaries to share two days full of inspiring and meaningful training sessions.
Top speakers and professionals from different industries are going to share their experience
and teach new management skills to learn how to work smarter, better and in a more efficient and
productive way.
RENAISSANCE YANGTZE HOTEL - APRIL 17th & 18th - SHANGHAI
APRIL17th
Transformation with Design Thinking - Mr. Brian Tam,
Mr. Niu Lei & Mr. Hannes Helander
Using Economic and Demographic Trends for
Business and Life Success- Mr. Jason Inch
FiT IN™ Professional Personality Assessment by
OD-TOOLS - Mr. Gabor Nagy
How to Identify Conflict, Resolution & Team Roles
Effective Communications (Group Activity)
APRIL18th
Lean In™ Forum & Panel Discussion: How to Sit
at the Table
OPTIONAL: Networking Dinner
OPTIONAL: Yoga
Who are the Super-Secretaries? - Mr. Kenneth Lam
Professional Digital FootPrint - Mr. Jerel Bonner
Know your Worth, Develop your Value - Mr. James
Tremont
Lucky Draw & Closure
Vicious Circles in Business - Mr. Gabor Holch
EQ & Stress Management - Mr. River Tien
Mindfulness to Increase Focus: From Medication
to Meditation & MQ Report- Mr. Andy Wong
INVESTMENT
4500 RMB ONLY (Early bird 15% discount & for LinkedIn Members)
2850 RMB for one day.
Ana Leonelli
Marketing Specialist
C: +86 13818776962 | info@international-secretary.com
Do feel free to contact me about group discounts and any enquiries you may have.
Thank you in advance for your time.
Best Regards,
ORGANIZED BY FEATURINGPOWERED BY
INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY
& ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS
SUMMIT 2014

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7TH INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY & ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS SUMMIT
SUMMIT LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Be the BEHIND THE LEADERS’ Assistant that every boss or superior dreams about having:
• Acquire new management, leadership and people skills;
• Implement FIT-IN practical tools to help you work smarter and better, to handle multiple tasks in a
more efficient and productive manner; and stress less as a result;
• Learn how to ‘Sit at the Table’ and trust the leader within you to develop your full potential;
• Getting feedback and defining success within your career;
• Build and maintain successful emotional intelligence relationships with your managers and other
colleagues;
• Be the owner of your own professional and career development;
• Become a successful professional and advance your career;
• Develop a better balance between work and social life through MQ Report, knowing your motivations
in depth.
WHY ATTEND IS&AP SUMMIT 2014?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
KEY COMPETENCIES
Every year, we celebrate International Secretary Week by putting together Top Speakers and Secretaries
Trainers along with EAs, PAs and Admins eager to advance their professional career in our Shanghai Summit.
Our Partners in London celebrate Executive Secretary event, and in New York, Behind Every Leader.
This program is designed for today’s Assistants’ role in business: ambitious assistants who face more and
more challenges every day. As Assistants, it is key that you learn about your strengths and skills to be able to
work towards your career goals, acquiring all the competencies to be better professionals behind your
Leaders by assisting them improve their efficiency at the same time. This way, you can become a more
efficient and effective business partner with your boss and your colleagues.
It is for this reason that the 7th IS&AP Summit 2014 focuses on advanced topics to prepare you for increasingly
complex challenges while providing the perfect environment to connect and form a community with like-minded
professional Assistants who are leaders in their fields, as well as high-profile international speakers.
• Presentation Skills
• Mindfulness and focus
• Personality Assessment through psychometric tools
• Team Role Identification
• Problem Solving Skills
• Stress & Conflict Management
• Effective Communication Skills
• Creativity on the Role
• Identifying Trends to help your business grow

Brian Tam, Founder of Let’s Make Great & Creativity Catalyst
As a creativity trainer and coach, Brian LOVES innovation & entrepreneurship.
The only thing better is really taking ACTION to convert those creative sparks
into powerful flames. He sees a near future where GREAT continuously comes
from China to make the world even better!
Originally from New York, Brian moved to Shanghai in 2007 to drive the change
that is happening in China & the world. He studied International Business at the
University of Maryland, where he was one of the founding fathers of Alpha Theta
Sigma Multicultural Fraternity, the university's first to promote diversity.
Lei Niu, Partner at Let’s Make Great & Social Changemaker
Lei is originally Shanghainese and after spending 7 years in New York, he came to
realize that the only way to succeed on a global stage was to have a global mindset!
He believes real power comes from within, before anyone can change the world,
he has to change himself. Lei came back to China in 2012. During the past two
years he has been working on building a transformative program to coach young
professionals in China. The goal is to empower them with open mindsets and practical
techniques.
Hannes Helander, Intrapreneurship Leader
Hannes' broad experience in Agile and Lean Startup methodologies gives him the
skills to work closely with teams and organizations to improve processes and
maximize the returns of Agile.
He specializes in supporting product and innovation teams focusing on value to
the business and strategic alignment. Hannes has worked for 20 years for
organizations of all sizes and all cultures in Europe and Asia.
He currently resides in Shanghai with his family, where you'll often find him running
early in the mornings at the crack of dawn.
TRANSFORMATION WITH DESIGN THINKING
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
THE SITUATION
Corporate admins and secretaries are facing more and more challenges everyday from both their
work and personal life. From urgent crises in the office to big-life questions, they are constantly
solving problems. In order to perform at their best as these challenges increase, they have to be
both efficient and productive.
THE SOLUTION
Design Thinking – is a combination of creative problem-solving skills and self-awareness, which
are essential pieces to taking performance to the next level. Self-awareness is the inner strength
to achieve transformative goals that result in life-long change. Creative problem-solving skills are
tangible tools for them to solve challenges day in and day out.
WHAT WE WILL DO
We will help empower admins and secretaries with a creative problem-solving approach: they will
be introduced to the 5-step methodology by rapidly applying it to a real challenge and creating their
own innovative-solutions. It will be fun and it will be fast! By the end, participants will be INSPIRED
to look at problems with fresh eyes and come up with new solutions.
SPEAKERS & CONFERENCES

FiT IN™ PROFESSIONAL PERSONALITY ASSESMENT BY OD-TOOL
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
C: +86 13818776962 | info@international-secretary.com
Jason Inch, MBA & Author of the book China’s Economic Supertrends
As a professional speaker, Jason has spoken at industry, educational, and public
forums on China's role in the global economy, its environment, and its business
opportunities. From 2007 to 2010 he was an adjunct professor at Benedictine College
and Keiser University campuses in Shanghai, and since 2010 he has taught courses
on China’s economy and cross-cultural communication at Shanghai Jiaotong
University’s MBA-C program for China-based executives.
Before coming to China, Jason worked in the United States, Japan, and his native
Canada as a business consultant and project manager to some of the world’s
largest high-tech companies including HP, Microsoft, and others. In 1995, he founded
his own trading company in Japan and an Internet marketing company in 1997.
Jason holds BA in Asian Studies from the University of Victoria (Canada) and he
speaks fluent Japanese and Mandarin.
Gabor Nagy, Senior partner and Managing Director of HRO
Gabor’s credentials include the creation of powerful tools and learning experiences for
team, leadership and organization development; supporting people and organizations
towards increasing self-awareness meaning, passion and joy at work.
As a trainer, he specializes in Conflict management, Motivation tools for managers and
Intercultural training.
Co-author of FiT In; Author of MQ and ODMap online assessment tools; the Five
Minute Feedback and Leadership Core Competencies 360 assessments.
AC/DC and Talent Management Consultant.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
“A modern guidebook to China’s macroeconomic trends and opportunities,
for business people seeking new strategies, investors seeking growth and
professionals interested in new career directions.”
Questions and orders: jasoninch@chinasupertrends.com
Or visit the book’s webpage at: http://www.ChinaSupertrends.com
This presentation will help you understand the trends of modern China, and how to use them in
your career, life, investments and more. Author and speaker Jason Inch will give you ideas from
his series of books, China's Supertends.
USING ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS FOR BUSINESS AND LIFE SUCCESS
Through an innovative and forced-choice questionnaire this tool delivers an amazingly accurate,
relevant and detailed personality profile, key to understand one’s strengths and areas of
improvement.
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LEAN IN™ FORUM & DISCUSSION PANEL
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
MINDUFLNESS TO INCREASE FOCUS: FROM MEDICATION TO MEDITATION
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Andy Wong, Senior HR Consultant
Andy is a third generation Singaporean who has accumulated more than 15
years of international exposure in senior management level. Serving in Ashland,
Inc and Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. He had extensive involvement across
multi-industrial segments such as Chemical, Banking, Insurance, FMCG, Automobile,
Hospitality and the Real Estate industry. With a strong passion for training &
classroom facilitation, his classes are highly interactive, fun and informative, full of
the latest information and techniques and he makes sure that every participant
walks away with practical skills they can apply on their job.
He is certified in Kirkpatrick Four Level Evaluation and Facilitator for Introduction for
Training Evaluation & Training Needs Analysis. He is bilingual in English and Chinese,
and connects well with all level of an organization. His expertise lies in Recruitment,
Organizational Development, Behavioral Training and Leadership Coaching.
Previously involved in numerous human capital projects with Rohm & Haas, Standard
Chartered Bank, Siemens, ICBC, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft amongst others.
Lean In™ Lean In™ is a fantastic book to discuss the current situation of
Assistants in business: all the way from leadership to taking risks and being
confident at the workplace, Sheryl Sandberg - COO at Facebook - covers
all the key topics that most professional women face.
How to ‘Sit at the table’, how to ask for and give feedback, how to handle
work-life balance (and more) are going to be the main topics that will be
discussed throughout the forum.
One of the first pieces of job advice most people hear is to do something that THEY love.
Workers that enjoy their jobs look forward to going to work, stay engaged during the day and show
dedication to the business. Not everyone has the opportunity to be involved with a business that is
an absolute passion, but an employee needs a supportive workplace where employees feel valued
and rewarded.
This kind of positive working environment fosters job loyalty and keeps employees happy and
motivated. MQ-R will provide the participants with deep understanding of their motivations.

PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Jerel Bonner, Founder and Principal Consultant at Sharpening Axes
Jerel has an extensive Global IT background of over 20 years in various industries.
He also has a sound understanding of Mandarin and Chinese culture in the
work environment. Now he has re-invented himself again as an executive coach for
senior level managers and supervisors of employees working for MNCs in China.
His coaching system is built on the foundation that relationship and expertise power
creates more influence on an individual than role power.
Jerel has published several white papers and case studies, such as The Six
Competencies of Business Success for the 21st Century and Fun At Work Creates
Higher Employee Engagement Coaching. His fields of expertise are Top Talent
Behavior, Understanding Human Emotions, Employer Branding, How to Measure
Improvement, Building Better Relationships and Managing Chinese Employees to
Success.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This workshop will help you manage your presence on LinkedIn. By learning how to
share content, being active and vocal in groups, giving others recommendations and
sharing profiles to you can position yourself as top talent. After this session you can
update your LinkedIn profile to one that shows your values as a person, your career
progression while showing focus, experience, initiative and success.
WHO ARE THE SUPER-SECRETARIES?
The nature of the workplace these days demands that Senior Executive Secretaries and Personal
Assistants become excellent multi-taskers, manage a portfolio of demanding responsibilities and
direct almost every aspect of the CEO’s function. You will learn about first managing yourself so
that you can manage others by managing their issues and their expectations professionally.
You will learn how to promote yourself so that they will recognize your presence and your
contribution to their work and the organization.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Kenneth Lam, Strategic HR Consultant
Kenneth has 26 years of working experience with several Fortune-400 multinational
corporations in the Banking and Finance industry, the Manufacturing industry, the
FMCGs and also in the Consulting business. He held senior appointments in these
organizations and travelling very widely, he is internationally cultural competent.
Kenneth is the only certified facilitator in Change Cycle management in Asia and a
certified practitioner in Appreciative Inquiry training. He is also a qualified trainer in
Managerial Effectiveness program and in the Strategic HR Business Partner program.
Kenneth is both MBTI-certified and PDP-certified.

VICIOUS CIRCLES IN BUSINESS
Gabor Holch, Consultant, Trainer, Speaker & Writer
Gabor has spent the last 15 years linking opportunities across cultural boundaries.
He started his career in International Development Programmes (United Nations and
OSCE) before coming to China in 2002 and starting up his Shanghai-based team of
consultants. He focuses in cooperation between East Asia and the EU, advising
clients in China, the EU, Eastern Europe, Japan and South-East Asia.
Gabor firmly believes that success has its roots in healthy teams and communities.
In 2008 he became the first non-Chinese member of the China Association of
Certified Management Consultants, he is an active Toastmaster and a member of
various professional associations worldwide.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
KNOW YOUR WORTH, DEVELOP YOUR VALUE
James Tremont, B.S, B.A., of Proactive Inc.
James has earned a reputation as an immersion and transformation expert for both
individuals and entrepreneurs venturing into China. Arriving in Shanghai in 2007, he
made it his target to effectively identify and release potential for leadership and
entrepreneurs on the broadest platform for growth, China.
Earlier in his life, James ran a thriving and successful technology outsourcing company
in Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, CA. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker, Insurance
Professional, Paralegal, Oneness Trainer, DISC Consultant, and Meditation Guide &
Trainer. His degrees are in Finance, Economics and Communication from the Pac-10
University of Arizona.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Even smart people often find themselves caught in worrisome situations they cannot escape.
Some of them easily become what we call Vicious Circles: challenges that recreate themselves
over time. Overtime undermines performance, which necessitates more overtime. Lack of trust
results in poor teamwork, which leads to ever more suspicion and blame.
In his presentation Gabor Holch will show you how we end up in Vicious Circles in business -
and how to get out of them. Whether you are a PA or CEO, these skills will help you take control
of challenging situations, see the way ahead and help others to do so.
Administrative assistants and secretaries have a unique position in a company. This position gives
them access to valuable insight and knowledge, particularly of the key drivers of business. They are
involved, and can observe, how important decisions are made, how priorities are shifted, and how
things get done at the highest levels of the organization. But is this enough to go beyond and
become a leader of a dynamic, growing and sustainable business? It is, if the person has invested in
themselves to understand how, and in what measure, their own personal worth and value impacts
these dynamics from a management perspective. Knowing your worth and developing your value
is the key to realizing creative leadership and making business successful.
James Tremont will introduce, explain, and offer practical experience to some of the critical aspects
of this topic that you can begin to observe everyday, and the steps you can take to bring context to
your own leadership potential including: cycles, efficiency, goals, and balance.

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