Jean Sun Shaw

Jean Sun Shaw is founder and managing principal of life’s journey, LLC a personal and professional development company. Forming life’s journey, LLC is the culmination of her own life experiences, and serves to further her goal of helping individuals perform the profoundly soulful task of asking and answering “who am I, really?”

Jean’s early years were spent in Taipei, Bangkok, and Manila, where she had extensive opportunities to interact among many nationalities and cultures within the diplomatic and United Nations communities. Collectively, these experiences have enhanced her understanding of, and provided insights into nuances that are prevalent in racial-cultural identity development issues. She has a humbling appreciation for the complexities that contribute to identity formation, as well as the challenges that individuals face as they travel their own path of individuation.

In the thirty years that Jean has been in the United States, she has attended higher education, performed staff and line functions for multinationals for over fifteen years; and in 1993, she decided to return to a very early interest – a career in counseling. Jean’s professional experience spans multiple disciplines, including legal, commodities trading, management consulting, information systems sales, and today, personal and career counseling. Within the framework of life’s journey, LLC Jean continues to serve the personal and professional development needs of individuals and groups who seek to live their lives from an authentic place, grounded in integrity to themselves and to their communities.

Active in her community, Jean has served on the board of the Asian American Federation of New York, and supports many other cultural and educational non-profit organizations such as the New York Asian Women’s Center, American Ballet Theatre, Cancer Care. She has lectured to the New York community on career management strategies, and has presented at the annual convention of National Association of Asian American Professionals in 2000, as well as the Asian Diversity Conference and Career Expo in 2003. Jean is also a member of the Asian American Psychological Association.

Originally trained in Economics, Jean has an M.A. in International Relations from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver; and an M.A and Ed.M. in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University. She was a 2002 Fellow of the Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute.

In her spare time, Jean enjoys raising orchids, attending the ballet and opera, and sharing a good meal with old friends. She lives with her husband, Lawrence in New York City.