Leading Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling

What does it take to lead well across cultures and create workplaces where more people can truly belong and thrive? In Leading Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling, Christina Chia draws on more than three decades of personal and professional experience to explore how culture shapes the way we communicate, build relationships, approach leadership and navigate the workplace. Blending personal stories with practical leadership insights, this warm and entertaining book challenges leaders to look beyond what is immediately visible, lead with greater curiosity, awareness and courage, and create organisations where more people are given room to rise. Christina shares:how to ensure the most capable people in your organisation advance, not just the most visible underlying cultural influences that can shape behaviour, confidence, communication and opportunity how cultural influences can shape workplace behaviour in different contexts, and what leaders may be missing how family and cultural values can shape the way people approach work the techniques she has used to overcome challenges in her career how to create authentic inclusion in the workplace the commercial benefits of getting inclusion right, from retaining great people and improving performance to reducing the cost of disengagement and lost talent.