Marilyn Tam

Marilyn Tam

Former CEO of Aveda Corp.; President of Reebok Apparel and Vice President of Nike Inc., Marilyn Tam is a successful entrepreneur who has built and developed three diverse companies, a corporate consulting & training company, web portal company and a supply chain software company. She is author of How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want.


Topics: Business Excellence / Change Management / Diversity / Entrepreneurship / Work/Life Balance
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Marilyn Tam, Corporate Consultant, Speaker, Author, Executive Director and founder of Us Foundation. Ms. Tam speaks, trains and consults with companies and governments globally on Leadership, Change Management, Diversity and How to Integrate Social and Environmental issues to develop and enhance successful organizations. Ms. Tam is also a partner and Co-Visioneer of HealthWalk, a leading edge integrated healthcare services and products company.

Ms. Tam was formerly the CEO of Aveda Corp.; President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group and Vice President of Nike Inc. She is also a successful entrepreneur, having developed and built three diverse companies, a corporate consulting & training company, a web portal company and a supply chain software company. She is a national director of SCORE Association, affiliated with U.S. Small Business Administration www.score.org dedicated to the development, growth and success of small businesses nation wide with 11,500 volunteers and 389 offices.

She founded Us Foundation to facilitate global action and dialogue on social, economic and environmental issues.

Marilyn Tam's book, How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want, is published in English, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai.

She is an advisor to the country of Bhutan, working with the Ministers and government officials to transition the country into the 21st Century while retaining their cultural and environmental heritage.

Ms. Tam was recognized as one of the Top 30 Female Entrepreneurs in the USA by Fempreneur magazine. Jack Canfield detailed her work in his book on the strategies for success, The Success Principles. She is featured as one of 50 women in the best selling book, Fearless Women, midlife portraits by Nancy, Kentz & Halpin and in former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan's book, What's Possible.

She is one of fourteen accomplished, influential and inspiring women along with Cathie Black, president of Hearst magazines and Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET Networks, in GLOW, a documentary movie released internationally in November 2008.

Ms. Tam is featured in The Compass, a documentary movie released in February 2009, as one of four story tellers along with other respected experts in the fields of personal development, relationships, fulfillment and motivation. The Compass is a movie on personal growth, a story about the journey through life and the lessons we learn along the way.

She was honored with the Artemis Award for her business and humanitarian work by the Greek government and the Euro American Women's Council in Athens, Greece, 2006 with her likeness on a Greek postage stamp. In 2007 she was honored with the Femtor Lifetime Achievement Award from eWomenNetwork. Ms. Tam is a lifetime member of Who's Who World Wide and is listed in Who's Who in American Women.

  • How To Use What You've Got To Get What You Want
  • Leadership Excellence, How You Can Achieve It
  • Diversity: How To Reap the Rich Harvest of Culture, Creativity and Community
  • The Role of Business in the 21st Century
  • Global Business Ethics
  • Change Management: How To Increase Productivity & Morale in Rapid Change & Uncertainty
  • Mid Career Transitions, How To Reassess and Accomplish Your Dreams
  • Corporate Humanity: The Benefits of Community Service
  • Women In The Workplace and Marketplace
  • Life Balance: How To Juggle Work, Home, Personal and Spiritual Health
  • Enlightened Productivity: Bottom Line Benefits of A Values-Driven Organization

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