Keynote Speaker

Candace Yung is an animated speaker that connects with and inspires audiences through customized presentations featuring storytelling, best-practice, and community engagement.

Topics from previous keynotes include:

  • From Awareness to Action: The Power of Allyship

  • EDI: The Path to Improved Recruitment and Retention

  • The Perpetual Foreigner in a Racialized Pandemic

  • How Community Involvement Started (and Saved) my Career

  • What can I do with my Psychology Degree?

  • Moral Distress and Resilience

Education

Candace Yung Coaching and Consulting offers a variety of custom equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and leadership professional development options that can be tailored to meet the unique needs of your team, organization, and/or community. We are passionate about building engaging and impactful learning solutions, including the development and delivery of:

  • Learning pathways/programs/curriculum

  • In-person and/or virtual workshops and courses

  • Webinars

  • e-Learning modules

  • Job-aids, toolkits, and other resources

Topics from previous education sessions and programs include:

  • Inclusive leadership

  • EDI foundations

  • The business case for EDI

  • Inclusive and equitable recruitment

  • Allyship

  • Inclusive language

  • Unconscious bias

  • Microaggressions

  • Power and privilege

  • Intersectionality and burnout

  • Anti-racism, Anti-Asian racism

  • Psychological health and safety

  • Conflict resolution

  • Organizational culture and values

  • Emotional intelligence

  • Team effectiveness

Organizational Development

Candace Yung Coaching and Consulting partners with clients to identify opportunities and implement solutions backed by research, industry best-practice, and change management principles. Our strategic approach helps leaders, teams, organizations, and/or communities achieve their vision for a more engaged, equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace.

We can support with:

  • Building EDI and employee voice strategies, roadmaps, and reports

  • Leading team-building sessions

  • Reviewing policies and procedures

  • Benchmarking employee engagement and EDI

  • Embedding change management

  • Conducting interviews and focus groups

  • Implementing organization-wide surveys, assessments, and other psychometrics

  • Establishing employee resource groups, communities of practice, committees, and/or councils

  • Advising on best-practices regarding EDI, employee engagement, culture change, mentorship, unconscious bias, psychological health and safety, leadership development, program evaluation, and survey methodology

Leadership and Diversity Coaching

The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as, “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”. As a leadership and diversity coach, Candace creates safe spaces for individuals and/or groups to identify their goals, maximize their potential, explore their identities, uncover biases, and move to action. Candace is committed to coaching the whole person by honoring their unique identities, strengths, perspectives, experiences, and challenges. She does not shy away from having tough conversations. She will support and hold you accountable throughout the coaching process to help you reach your goals.