Working hard is a great early-career strategy, but as you advance there’s a point when the payoff is no longer worth the sacrifices. So maybe you decide to work smarter instead. But that just leads to more work in the same amount of time. If the answer to success is neither working harder or smarter, what can we do?
The answer is Fractional Success: a strategic method for reducing the stress of achievement by focusing on what’s important right now, instead of treating everything as equally important, all the time.
Jean Tien is an attorney who has spent 20+ years in corporate America, and learned the hard way that hard work doesn’t have to be so hard. In this impactful presentation, she’ll show you how you can stop merely expressing success and start experiencing it.
By the end of this presentation, attendees will:
Breaking the Manager Ceiling: Moving Capable Leaders from Execution to Decision-Making
Inclusive Leadership in Action: Recognizing Leadership Potential Beyond the Usual Signals
Execution vs Authority: The Hidden Pattern That Determines Who Becomes a Leader
Many high-performing professionals find themselves stuck managing the work rather than shaping the decisions.
In this talk, Jean explores the hidden patterns that keep capable leaders confined to execution roles and shows organizations how to recognize and elevate leadership potential before it stalls.
Audiences will learn how to identify the difference between strong performers and future decision-makers – and how to move the right people into roles where their judgment drives outcomes.
Organizations often talk about inclusive leadership, but many still rely on narrow signals when identifying who should lead.
In this talk, Jean challenges traditional assumptions about leadership potential and shows how capable leaders are often overlooked because they don’t match expected leadership profiles.
Participants will gain practical insights into recognizing leadership potential across diverse perspectives and building leadership pipelines that truly reflect the talent within the organization.
Why do some people shape decisions while others remain responsible for executing them?
In this thought-provoking talk, Jean reveals the hidden dynamics that determine who is trusted with leadership authority inside organizations.
By examining how leadership potential is interpreted and rewarded, audiences will learn how organizations can identify capable leaders earlier and ensure the right people are influencing the decisions that shape the future.
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Jean Tien is a licensed attorney in New York and an Executive Director at a global investment bank. With more than 20 years of experience in finance and leadership, her work sits at the intersection of decision-making, risk, and organizational leadership.
Jean speaks and consults on how organizations identify and elevate leadership potential. She helps organizations recognize capable leaders who may be stuck in execution and reposition them to roles where their judgment shapes decisions.
She is the author of Your S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Blueprint, which reached #1 on Amazon in Wealth Management, Personal Success in Business, and Business Mentoring and Coaching, and received the 2022 International Impact Book Award.
In 2023, Jean delivered a TEDx talk titled “Hard Work Doesn’t Have to be Hard.” She believes people succeed not in spite of who they are, but because of who they are - and that organizations thrive when they learn to recognize and elevate the leaders they already have.
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