LEAP Connect
LEAP Connect aims to bring both needed and inspirational leadership dialogues to the community. Through a series of accessible monthly leadership conversations, trainings, networking opportunities and more, participants will build the tools and resources needed to inspire change within their personal and professional communities.
Upcoming Session
Reimagining Your Relationship with Your Parents: Healing Across Generations in the API Community
Many Asian and Pacific Islander (API) adults carry unspoken stories, expectations, and wounds from their upbringing—often shaped by migration, sacrifice, silence, and survival. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to reimagine our relationships with our parents, even if they never change. Drawing from the Parents Reimagined program, this session will offer insights into common intergenerational dynamics in API families and provide practical tools for fostering emotional resilience, deeper connection, and personal liberation. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their relational patterns, along with pathways for inner healing and change.
LEAP Connect leadership workshops are free, accessible to the public, and are intended to bring a safe space to the community. Participants can walk away from the sessions with the tools and resources necessary to increase their leadership skills and inspire change.
About Kan Yan
Kan Yan is an executive coach, facilitator, and the creator of Parents Reimagined, a podcast and program for adult children seeking to transform their relationships with their parents. A Harvard-educated former lawyer and McKinsey consultant, Kan helps leaders and teams navigate complexity with wisdom and compassion. He has facilitated leadership development programs at Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits alike and has led Asian American men’s groups focused on healing, identity, and intergenerational repair.
2025 Season
December
Beyond Achievements: Setting Intentions for the New Year That Feel Meaningful, Not Just Productive
As Asian Pacific Islanders, many of us have been raised to equate success with hard work, achievement, and meeting the expectations of our families and communities. We’ve been taught that productivity is proof of our worth—but what if true fulfillment isn’t about doing more, but about aligning with what truly matters to you?
In this workshop, we’ll take a culturally-rooted approach to setting intentions that prioritize joy, balance, and personal meaning over external validation. We’ll explore the unspoken pressures that shape how we define success, unlearn hustle-centered goal-setting, and reframe intention-setting as a practice of self-trust and agency. Through guided reflection and community conversation, you’ll walk away with intentions that feel deeply aligned—not just another list of expectations to meet.
This is your space to honor both your cultural roots and your evolving desires as you step into the new year with clarity and confidence.
This workshop is tailored to the API experience but is open to all allies and community members.
Thank you to our LEAP Connect sponsors
