Asian American professionals have often stayed in their respective technical disciplines for their entire careers, not capitalizing on opportunities to enter the managerial track. Over the past nine years, a group of Southern California Asian-American corporate executives and educators, who have all advanced in their respective professional careers to the executive ranks in private businesses and public institutions, have offered annual Mentoring Programs.
The Mentoring Program was designed to provide Asian American technical professionals with real-world insights to business management and leadership, with the objective that attendees would be aware of the many facets to business management, as well as the requisite skills to become managers.
After their initial successful Mentoring Program offerings, the same group of Southern California Asian-American corporate executives and educators founded the Asian American Professional Association (AAPA) in 2003. They all share one common vision – to foster a national network of Asian American professionals in advancing Asian Americans in management pipelines. AAPA is dedicated to promote and inspire Asian American to achieve maximum career and leadership potential.
AAPA offers a synergistic program by identifying outstanding Asian-American leaders as role models, organizing networking forums, providing executives mentors, and offering mentoring training sessions and workshops. AAPA has been incorporated as a non-profit, educational organization and is offering its 9th annual Mentoring Program which began in July 2007.
