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Marilyn Tam

Transform your organization with Marilyn Tam: former Aveda CEO, Reebok President, and Nike VP, renowned for driving global business success and ethical leadership.
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If you’re looking for an engaging, inspiring, and genuine keynote speaker, I cannot recommend Marilyn Tam more highly! Marilyn was our opening keynote at our annual conference and set the tone for a conference that exceeded all expectations. Our members are career counselors across the lifespan and across the globe and require a balance between inspiration and information and Marilyn delivered both beautifully. Our Twitter/X feed for the conference lit up during and well after her presentation! On a practical note, she was incredibly easy to work with! We try not to repeat presenters too often, but I already had attendees ask me when we’d have her back. The sooner the better!

Lisa Severy

PhD President, National Career Development Association

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Why you should book Marilyn Tam for your next event

  • Unlock actionable leadership strategies from Marilyn Tam, whose transformative insights from Aveda and Nike will drive your organization’s growth and foster a culture of innovation and ethical excellence.
  • Inspire your team with Marilyn Tam’s proven methods for achieving dynamic balance and leadership excellence, derived from her extensive background as a CEO and entrepreneur.
  • Benefit from Marilyn Tam’s high-impact leadership insights, honed as Nike’s VP and Aveda’s CEO, to inspire ethical business practices and dynamic growth within your organization.
Elevate your event with Marilyn Tam, a transformative keynote speaker renowned for her leadership at Aveda, Reebok, and Nike. With a remarkable journey from adversity to global success, Marilyn delivers powerful insights on ethical business practices and dynamic leadership. Her proven track record and accolades, including the Artemis Award and recognition as a top global speaker, ensure your audience gains actionable strategies and profound inspiration. Book Marilyn Tam to drive your organization’s growth and inspire your team with a true visionary’s perspective.
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Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: Leadership Excellence, How You Can Achieve It

To be a successful Leader in the 21
st
Century takes new skills and awareness. Fresh managerial tools and talents are needed to deal with today’s fast changing global business and the tighter and more visible connections between all aspects of the development, production and consumption cycle. An entrepreneurial mindset, innovation and the wisdom to take calculated risks are essential to ongoing success. In addition to standard business and finance, leaders have to consider the impact on cultural, social and environmental factors. A solid understanding of how to manage a partially remote and local workforce is crucial. Agility and entrepreneurial skills are needed. Learn from Marilyn’s international business, entrepreneurial and humanitarian experience on how to be the more effective and productive in business and life while creating collaborative and lasting relationships. 

Marilyn will discuss how to define your mission and the principles and actions steps to ensure a cohesive, productive and energized team. Strategy and outlook into how to plan and lead in today’s tumultuous and interconnected business environment will be covered
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She will help you review your personal leadership style and how to enhance it to increase effective communication and maximum sustainable profitable growth and development of your organization.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: How to Reap the Rich Harvest of Culture, Creativity and Community

The demographics of the world’s population are rapidly changing. In the USA, 2020 is the year nonwhite children became the majority of USA children. Between 2041 - 2046 ethnic minority will comprise the majority of the USA population. In 2050, 58% of the world’s population growth will be coming from Africa. Learning how to benefit from diversity and to be a leader in a more diverse and global world is a challenge and an opportunity. The only way to prosper and grow in the 21st century is to embrace and leverage diversity. Learn how to successfully integrate diversity into your organization and network to create an inclusive, productive and thriving culture for ongoing success, employee and customer engagement and retention. Hear stories, learn principles, tools and action steps from Marilyn Tam's global business, humanitarian, and consulting experience to become a more successful global leader.

A key focus is on helping leaders and employees understand how to adapt and grow their unique leadership styles to foster a multicultural workplace and attract and engage employees from across the cultural and diverse spectrum. Marilyn Tam is a self-made immigrant woman of color, you will learn from someone who has actually "walked the walk".
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: The Happiness Choice: 5 Decisions that Take You from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Happiness is a choice. Gallup research in 2013 showed that in the USA, $550 billion worth of productivity was lost due to unhappiness and poor wellbeing at work and the cost has increased every year since. People want contentment, love, and happiness derived from meaningful work. They want healthy personal relationships, a healthy mind and body, a spiritual core, and a reason for living. But with only 24 hours in a day and the competing demands of modern life, how can you achieve all of this?  

The author of
The Happiness Choice
, speaker Marilyn Tam shares what she learned from being an unwanted, neglected, and abused child in Hong Kong to becoming an international business success and humanitarian who is happy, healthy, and at peace with herself. In this presentation, you will learn the principles, tools, and philosophies Tam and others have used to achieve a productive, healthy, and joyful life. You’ll learn what will help power your organization, employees and yourself to greater creativity, productivity and happiness.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: Women in the Workplace and Marketplace

McKinsey & Company’s survey showed that better financial returns, recruitment, retention, customer relations and business decisions are the benefits of a more gender balanced organization. In today's highly competitive and interconnected world, women are invaluable to any enterprise. Yet cultural biases and structural obstacles hinder women's progress. This is a loss for the company as much as it is for women. For a business to succeed and continue to thrive today, it needs to fully utilize all the resources available.

Tam will share the key factors that helped her become a successful woman in business and discuss her personal experience as a corporate leader, woman, business consultant, and humanitarian. You will learn the elements needed to attain success and happiness as a woman in business, and how to support and foster the development of women in business. Included in the presentation will be how to deal with “glass walls” as well as glass ceiling.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: How to Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want - Leadership and Personal Excellence: How You Can Achieve It

What seemed to be disadvantages in Marilyn Tam's life ended up being the keys to her personal and professional success. In this engaging presentation, she will show you how to use what you've got to achieve your dreams, just like she did.

As someone who has broken the glass ceiling, Tam will share the leadership skills and character traits that really work to get to the top. You will hear motivational real-life stories, learn the four success principles, and how to maintain life balance and personal peace and happiness while achieving professional success.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: Living the Life of Your Dreams - Life Balance: How to Juggle Work, Home, Personal and Spiritual Health

The conflicting expectations and conditioning that people have been bombarded with makes them vulnerable to feeling unsatisfied, second rate and confused. Uncertain economic times, the incessant marketing message of “you can have it all” and the hyper-speed of change is hitting people so hard that they are oftentimes reduced to feeling despair in being able to attain any semblance of a balanced life – and even more critically, economic sustainability.

This hunger and fear is driving the collective unconsciousness. “Life Balance: How to Juggle Work, Home, Personal and Spiritual Health” is packed with motivation, encouragement, and practical resources for a happier more satisfying life.

Marilyn shares from her own experience as well as from the numerous experts whom she has worked and interviewed in her career and life. You will hear stories and practical examples of both success and failures that lead to the development of Life Balance. Learn practical actionable principles and tools to be able prioritize, allocate resources and balance your life demands to greater success, inner peace and happiness.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: 8. The Role of Business in the 21st Century

The 21
st
Century is a wired and interconnected world, which has modified the roles and responsibilities of business. Business is no longer, if it ever was, only focused on the sole pursuit of the current Profit & Loss statement. It is now an integral and dynamic part of the global community, economy, environment and culture. For business to thrive in these circumstances, clarification of the mission and principles of the organization is needed.

Companies, non-profit organizations, sovereign nations and cultures are converging. How do we ensure a healthy bottom line for everyone? What is our future? Marilyn shares four defining principles for maintaining integrity in business and in life. With real life stories of wins and mistakes told with humor and lessons learned, you will take away key principles and action steps to better navigate in today’s fast changing world.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: Global Business today, the Opportunities and Challenges

Business today is global. The development, production and consumption chain stretch from wherever and however “local” the company is to all points of the globe. To excel in this marketplace means that each person and each company have to understand and be proactive about the opportunities and challenges that come with globalization.  

Marilyn shares from her global business and humanitarian experience in 120 countries about the benefits, ethics and pitfalls that come with working in a complexity of cultures, traditions, geography and time zones. The increasing interrelationships between developers, suppliers, marketers, buyers and sellers mean that every business and organization need to operate with a much more expanded perspective of their market to be able to thrive today.  

Learn from someone who has successfully managed companies and organizations in a wide variety of cultures and environments. Marilyn share insights and principles learned from practical experience. You and your organization will grow and prosper from her wisdom.
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Keynote by speaker Marilyn Tam: Lean In – Is that the Magic? The Choices and Challenges of Attaining Happiness and Success

Having achieved the fabled professional success the popular concept, “lean in” alludes to, Marilyn Tam shares the insight on what it really means. “Having it all” is a fallacy; we cannot have it all at the same time. The multiple roles and expectations for a woman in the 21
st
century is impossible for any single person to achieve and maintain. The conflicting and demanding expectations have resulted in a measureable global decrease in women’s happiness over the past 40 years and also in comparison to men’s in all the 35 developed nations. 

Hear stories, learn the tools and the skills each person needs to attain the happiness and success as they personally define it.
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Customer Reviews

5 of 5

If you’re looking for an engaging, inspiring, and genuine keynote speaker, I cannot recommend Marilyn Tam more highly! Marilyn was our opening keynote at our annual conference and set the tone for a conference that exceeded all expectations. Our members are career counselors across the lifespan and across the globe and require a balance between inspiration and information and Marilyn delivered both beautifully. Our Twitter/X feed for the conference lit up during and well after her presentation! On a practical note, she was incredibly easy to work with! We try not to repeat presenters too often, but I already had attendees ask me when we’d have her back. The sooner the better!

5 of 5

I have heard from many of the participants who have said this was the best conference yet and they could really feel a different energy and excitement level. I attribute it to you who brought such great insight and a wealth of knowledge to the group. I can't thank you enough.

5 of 5

Thank you for sending along a copy of your keynote address. It is powerful, moving, and inspirational. From our perspective we wouldn’t change a thing.

5 of 5

Marilyn is an amazing speaker and person! Marilyn was captivating through her storytelling which included data and humor. We were humbled, awed, and inspired with how she discovered the lessons she was teaching. The lessons were presented to us as easy to remember tips. Marilyn’s message was universal and felt inclusive. Our keynote attendees continued sending us her praise days after the event.

5 of 5

The conference attendees LOVED the program, the content: Fabulous, dynamic speaker. Really practical application. She was dynamic and flexible to cater to audience’s needs. She was fabulous, very inspirational & uplifting. A breath of fresh air - great content - personal plus professional value.

5 of 5

Marilyn Tam is truly a super star...... Her presentation and her principles are what we believe in and how we need to operate and live to succeed. She expressed so powerfully and eloquently our mission and standards in a way that we can all understand and use to achieve our mission. Her experiences are indicative of her commitment to promoting and enhancing cross-cultural awareness and diversity throughout the world. Her achievements reflect great credit upon her, global leaders, and the United States of America…… My wife and I are going to have our children read her book to further inspire them to attain their dreams.

5 of 5

Thank you for being our Keynote Speaker at the event. You inspired and informed our audience. We value the diversity in our customer base and thank you for helping us reach them. I will certainly reach out to partner on further initiatives when we see opportunity.

5 of 5

Thank you for your outstanding participation as moderator and plenary speaker for Minority Enterprise Development Week Conference. Your insight into the strategies, tactics and tools critical to building a successful business through deal making was particularly helpful. Thank you for your excellent contribution.

Rated 5.00/5 based on 8 customer reviews

Marilyn Tam

Unlock Global Business Success and Ethics
Marilyn Tam is a distinguished keynote speaker known for her expertise in leadership, ethical business practices, and organizational growth. As the former CEO of Aveda Corp., President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group, and Vice President of Nike Inc., Marilyn Tam offers a wealth of experience in driving impactful change and fostering innovation.

Her keynote speeches emphasize dynamic leadership and cultivating a balanced corporate culture, drawing from her successful track record with high-profile brands. Recognized as one of the top 100 leadership speakers globally, Marilyn Tam provides motivational insights that inspire and empower organizations.

By booking Marilyn Tam for your event, you gain access to actionable strategies and motivational guidance that will enhance your team’s performance and drive organizational success. Marilyn Tam’s engaging presentations deliver practical tools for improving leadership capabilities and implementing ethical business practices. Book Marilyn Tam for your next event and discover the transformative impact of her expert advice and inspiring vision.

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