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Refugee-Entrepreneur and fervent Strategic Diversity & Inclusion advocate, Mohamed Ly is Founder and Executive Director of A2Z Lingua International (A2ZLI.com) and MultiLingualPros.com.
Ly also heads the company's Return on Diversity™ council, whose main purpose is to ensure a proper understanding and effective application of the company's (and its clients') Diversity & Inclusion initiatives as a viable and successful recruitment strategy, with tangible, long-term bottom-line impacts and community advantages--beyond the usual racial and gender "quota games". |
Ly launched A2ZLI.com in 2003 for one purpose initially: to assist organizations to overcome the very language and cultural barriers he faced before as a displaced refugee and Limited English Proficient (LEP) individual by providing—paradoxically—language services in today's global marketplaces.
Prior to founding A2LZI.com, Ly was a Foreign Language consultant, with clients in Government, Commercial and non-profit spheres. Before that, he did get his short share of Corporate America experience in the ranks of a leading designer and supplier of digital signal processing solutions and semiconductor products, and a managed network solutions provider.
Ly went on to grow what was originally a language service company into the, now, five-division company, and has been heading its multiple operations, starting up and directing all of its divisions, respectively offering:
- Foreign Language services (Localization, Translation, Interpreting and more),
- Multilingual Staffing and Diversity/Global Recruiting solutions,
- Diversity Training and Consulting services
- MultiLingualPros.com, the world's only online Global Diversity Job Board & Career Search Engine; an exclusive portal for multilingual & cross-culturally competent professionals to connect with global & diversity-committed employers,
- And Multilingual Yellow Pages/Business Directory services.
Typical of millions of immigrants, Ly came to the United States in January of 2000, with only $100 to his name and six foreign languages at his command, but nearly no English. He is no stranger to the cultural collisions, limited access to public services and related benefits, increased difficulties, dramatic impacts and frustrations faced by limited-English populations when dealing with service providers including commercial, government and even non-profit entities.
His responsibilities include setting and executing company vision, products & business development and strategic alliances. Nothing, including his background in Physics and Chemistry, predestined Ly to the linguistic and cross-cultural communication business and to his role of coach/expert on matters of Language Access, Diversity & Inclusion, and Intercultural nature – especially not his limited English proficiency, still an impeding reality just six years ago! But the calling has been answered, and the mission successfully tackled – against all odds, throughout the years.
Thru MultiLingualPros.com, job seekers increasingly continue to be connected to wonderful and often previously unconsidered (or simply unknown) language-related and global career opportunities. The world's only Global Diversity Job Board and Career Search Engine takes recruiting and job search to the next level, with powerful and innovative online tools right at the fingertip of job seekers and employers: discussion groups, Blogs, networking and development.
MultiLingualPros.com continues to foster diversity & inclusion from the classroom to the boardroom, thru multilingual and cross-cultural competencies, globally. Thus, making it possible for world-class employers and diversity candidates to meet face-to-face in the most exciting setting—the world's only series of Global Diversity Career Expos & Multilingual Job Fairs (www.ReturnOnDiversity.com)—dedicated to the recruitment of multilingual, cross-culturally competent and international talents, from all levels--across borders, industries and specialties. |
