If you are in leadership or want to remain competitive and you don’t have a culturally diverse board or staff, you are part of the past. We need to focus now on understanding the need for developing this untapped pipeline. This remarkable resource will set you on the right path.

Dr. Frances Hesselbein
President, Leader to Leader Institute (formerly The Peter Drucker Institute)

A solid, common-sense guide to creating a successful and diverse workplace in terms of culture, age, and gender....clear and illustrative.

Publishers Weekly

Hyun and Lee’s book accomplishes what few guidebooks for employers do: It empowers leaders not only to manage differently, but to think differently by cultivating cultural fluency that will enable them to work more effectively with diverse teams.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett
CEO, Center for Talent Innovation
Author of Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career

Flex provides a way for leaders to re-define how to lead by understanding, embracing and seeking out differences.

Karyn Detje
Chief Talent Officer, Tory Burch

Flex is the first real field manual for managing across differences. Its lessons are relevant to people at every level and stage of their career. Flex is required reading for every manager who wants to empower his/her employees to reach their full potential.

David A. Thomas, PhD
Dean and William R. Berkley Chair
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business

Read this book. If taken seriously, you will certainly challenge yourself to change the way you lead in today’s global marketplace.

Steve Reinemund
Dean of Business, Wake Forest University
Retired Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

Flex is about thinking — managing one’s thinking to meet the demands of business relationships inside and outside of your organization. From the conceptual rationale to the practical how-to, take this journey with the authors!

J.T. (Ted) Childs, Jr.
Principal, Ted Childs LLC

… a solid, common-sense guide to creating a successful and diverse workplace …Their guide is clear and illustrative …

Publishers Weekly

Coauthors Hyun and Lee provide the modern manager with a playbook on how to switch among leadership styles to get the most out of employees.

Library Journal

Hyun and Lee offer convincing evidence to illustrate how to enhance communication skills across various workplace divides.

Kirkus Reviews

Flex is based on real-life experiences of its authors. This book gives you a useful framework and real-world strategies for how thoughtful leaders should operate in today’s global workplace. You will learn how to remove the interpersonal gaps that erode trust in business relationships. Every corporate and nonprofit leader must read this book before taking on a new post.

Manny Espinoza
CEO, ALPFA

Flex provides a thoughtful guidebook for the crucial leadership skill of developing ‘fluency across differences.’ There are applicable tools here for reacting with agility to a changing workplace that is filled with rich and divergent perspectives. Hyun and Lee offer a helpful resource for honing adaptive leadership behavior.

Douglas Conant,
Founder & CEO, Conant Leadership
Former President & CEO, Campbell Soup Company

Jane Hyun and Audrey Lee have mined their experiences as consultants, coaches, and first-generation Americans to write a compelling and timely book. The authors challenge twenty-first century leaders to broaden their mind-set and acquire new skills if their organizations are to be successful in a world where the people they lead reflect cultural, racial, gender, and generational differences. Changing demographics have placed the United States on an inexorable path toward a genuine multicultural society. This book provides critical information and practical action steps for how leaders can make the journey productive for themselves and their organizations.

Price Cobbs, MD
Coauthor of Cracking the Corporate Code

In the twenty-first century, a new type of leader will need to emerge to develop an authentic partnership with the new global worker who will drive innovation and growth. Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences provides the new era attributes of leadership that highlight the leadership agility required to master success in a global environment.

Ronald C. Parker
President/CEO, The Executive Leadership Council

Jane and Audrey courageously get at the heart of why we seem to be ‘stuck’ when it comes to effectively managing across differences. Flex provides compelling reasons why we need to more openly and honestly address our differences if we expect better organizational and societal outcomes. Insightfully using their own experiences as well as success stories from others, the authors offer a practical roadmap to bridge the power gap to build stronger, more productive, and inclusive relationships with employees, clients, and the community.

Mary-Frances Winters
President and Founder of The Winters Group
Author of Inclusion Starts with I

As you drive growth through innovation for your business, you must connect with the hearts and minds of the people inside your organization. Hyun and Lee are the first to move away from the “safety zone” of other management books by showcasing real people who embrace difference as they lead across the barriers of culture and generation.

Kees Kruythoff
President, Unilever North America