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  • [Sold Out] Living Your Dream: Voices Heard Through Publishing - Hosted by AMCHAM Women’s Leadership Committee
    • DATE & TIME

      Thursday, March 5, 2026

      11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

    • VENUE

      Grand Hyatt Seoul, Namsan III (2Fl.)

    EVENT DESCRIPTION
    Subtitle: Hear from three professionals who left their well-paying day jobs to follow their passion and tell their stories

    What does it take to drop everything and start a whole new career? Too often, our boldest ambitions seem too risky, never the right time or downright terrifying. This session brings together three trailblazing professionals—Jeanie Chang, Celina Lee, and Christiana Chae—who were all successful in their chosen field and one day decided to pivot toward a new career and write about it. Our panel will explore the courage required to shift careers, the discipline to write or edit a full-length book, the vulnerability of public storytelling, and the strategic impact of publishing a unique perspective. Led by the Women’s Leadership Committee, this conversation offers universal insights for any professional—regardless of gender—who is committed to fostering a culture of diverse voices and courageous leadership. Join us to discover how to amplify your narrative, manage the risks of reinvention, and turn lived experience into a lasting legacy.

    * Please note that registration will close once we reach 50 participants.
    Detail
    TOPIC Living Your Dream: Voices Heard Through Publishing
    COST Member companies: KRW 143,000*
    *2 complimentary admissions for Founding Partners

    Non-Member companies: KRW 165,000
    RSVP/PAYMENT BY Noon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026
    * No refunds or cancellations after this date and time.
    * Please complete registration in advance. No walk-ins or payments accepted at the door.
    About the Speakers

    • [Panelist] Jeanie Chang, Founder & CEO, Noona’s Noonchi and Your Change Provider, PLLC
      Jeanie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with special certifications in trauma and anxiety. She is a TEDx speaker and accomplished international speaker/educator providing keynotes and workshops for corporations, community organizations, and colleges addressing the intersectionality of mental health and identity, K-Dramas and identity, psychological safety, as well as education on burnout, resilience, mindfulness, stress, and mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Jeanie also serves as a subject matter expert on mental health for media outlets around the world.

      Jeanie is the Founder and CEO of Noona's Noonchi®, LLC, a global wellness company created out of her global social media influence as Noona’s Noonchi - a clinician, speaker, and coach who deep dives into K-Dramas from a mental health perspective. Noona’s Noonchi®, LLC provides mental health education and resources for organizations around the world. It is also a global tour operator, offering K-Culture healing tours including K-Drama filming locations, popular K-Pop sites , cultural immersion, and mindfulness sessions. In addition, Jeanie is also an executive leadership coach , external faculty for McKinsey & Company and a DEIB advisor for business and corporate leaders. Jeanie's book with Wiley Publishing titled, "How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health" was released with a strong, global response on May 7, 2024.
      Bio for Jeanie Y. Chang, LMFT .pdf

    • [Panelist] Celina Lee, Founder of Live Your Dream Club, Career and Executive Coach
      Celina Lee is the founder of Live Your Dream Club and a globally recognized executive and career coach. She is also a lawyer, award-winning writer, and the host of Live Your Dream Podcast.

      She has extensive experiences coaching many executives and corporate professionals to achieve success and fulfillment in their careers, and has given speeches and delivered workshops in many countries.

      Celina started her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and worked as a corporate lawyer at a law firm, Ropes & Gray LLP in New York City.

      On her Live Your Dream Podcast, which has listeners from over 100 countries around the world, she shares lessons learned in her journey as well as interviews from inspirational leaders from diverse industries about what they have learned in life and career.

      Celina is an author of an award-winning book in South Korea, “꿈을 이뤄드립니다” (“Live Your Dream”), a collection of life stories of people who overcame failures to achieve success in diverse industries.

      She has been invited to deliver keynote speeches and speak at industry-leading events, universities, and organizations including TEDx, MIT, Stanford, Princeton University, and Google.

      Celina received her undergraduate degree from MIT and law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She is a certified professional coach and is a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC).

    • [Panelist] Christiana Chae, Head of Brand Experience, FuriosaAI
      Christiana spent nearly seven years at Meta HQ, leading design and product strategy and serving as Head of Design for the AI Consumer Product Design team (AI Experiences). She later joined FuriosaAI, a unicorn AI semiconductor startup, as Head of Brand Experience, where she built an organization that integrated brand, design, marketing, and communications into a unified function.

      Previously, she worked at design consultancies in the U.S. and Oslo, delivering projects for a wide range of clients including Google, Bloomberg, and United Airlines. She has also been active as a mentor and instructor at organizations such as the Apple Developer Academy, Hyundai Motor Group Research Institute, LG Electronics, SK Planet, and AMD at the University of Design in Germany.

      Her recent book, A Dangerous Life Book [위험한 인생책], explores a recurring personal project of discovering a life and career that are truly her own. Her 2022 book, How Do People Work in Silicon Valley [실리콘밸리에선 어떻게 일하나요], introduces in detail the seven organizational culture principles emphasized at Meta Inc..

      She currently lives in Munich, Germany, with her husband, continuing to explore the most foundational design project, her own life itself.

    • [Moderator] Namju Cho, Director of Communications & External Relations, Dulwich College Seoul
      Namju Cho is the Director of Communications & External Relations at Dulwich College Seoul, where she oversees all communications and external relations activities to support the school’s mission of inspiring global citizens to make a positive difference in the world. Namju has been instrumental in helping to raise Dulwich’s visibility and expanding the school's enrolment capacity to 805 students.

      During her decades of storytelling experience, Namju has consistently been a trailblazing champion of women's rights and advocate for underserved communities. She was the first Korean national and woman to be named staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal’s Seoul bureau. She advocated for survivors of human trafficking and modern-day slavery, during which time she became the first Korean American woman to serve on the Women’s Health Council under California’s health services agency.
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    (email) committees@amchamkorea.org

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