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Carrie
Shearer
understands from her
own repeated experiences the cultural and practical difficulties
associated with international relocation. She is one of very few
women in the world who have faced cross-cultural adjustments as
both the spouse of a relocated employee and a relocated
employee with a spouse. She is also one of very few women who
have risen to a senior position in a man's world: a petroleum
company.
Carrie is a
native of New York and a graduate of Cornell University, where
she received degrees in nuclear physics and statistics. Before
starting her professional career, she spent two years in India
with the Peace Corps, then two additional years winding her way
through Asia and Africa. When she returned home, she worked
briefly for NASA, then settled into an 18-year career with a
multinational petroleum company. This gave her the opportunity
to travel to over 50 countries and to live and work in
Indonesia, Bahrain, Singapore, and Thailand, not to mention New
York, Atlanta, Houston, and, most recently, Dallas. In 1997,
Carrie left the petroleum company to follow her own passions.
With over 20
years of international relocations behind her, Carrie is a
frequent and persuasive speaker on the subject of "The Dual
Career Dilemma in International Moves." She also writes
articles and books on this topic. Recently published is her
first novel, which thoroughly debunks the myths of being an
expatriate spouse. Carrie is now completing her second novel,
which depicts the difficulties of maintaining a marriage and
his-and-her careers while leading a peripatetic life in the
global arena.
Evan
Kim
has devoted his life, beginning in young adulthood, to bridging
the cultural and commercial gap between Korea and the U.S.A.
Evan became acquainted with Americans when,
as a member of the Korean Army, he was assigned to KATUSA
(Korean Augment To U.S. Army). Then he finished his BA in
chemical engineering at Yonsei University and went to work for
SKC Limited, a major Korean business conglomerate.
Evan soon seized an opportunity to be
transferred by SKC to the U.S. where, beginning in 1985, he held
various positions culminating with Executive Coordinator. In
this final post, he had oversight responsibility for the
departments of Human Resources, General Administration, Export,
Logistics, Customer Service, and Purchasing. He played a key
role in site selection for a new manufacturing facility in
Georgia and in cross-cultural training for Korean expatriates at
that facility. He was responsible for the successful acquisition
by SKC of a major California company, and for developing and
delivering training for Koreans and Americans from both
companies. Meanwhile, he completed an MBA degree at Fairleigh
Dickinson University. Recently, Evan left SKC to become
Executive Vice President in charge of operations for LifeGear,
Inc.
Evan has written four books, all published in
Korea, intended to help Korean businesspeople work effectively
with Americans.
Cynthia Smith
is dedicated to using her business experience and
anthropological expertise to develop constructive ways to
improve international business operations and enhance
expatriates' experiences.
Cynthia's 30 years of experience was prefaced
by her growing up in a bicultural family and living abroad. Her
first work experience was managing information systems
technologies in the financial industry. After being trained as
an anthropologist, Cynthia worked as a business anthro-pologist
specializing in international project management. She created a
position for herself as an anthropologist in the Management
Development Group of Arthur Andersen's International Training
and Development Center. Recently, she completed her Ph.D. at
Ohio State University.
Cynthia has worked with a wide variety of
organizations on projects involving the globalization of
business strategies and corporate images, the improvement of
international project management, the preparation of indivi-duals
undertaking short- and long-term international assignments, and
the preparation of host populations who will be working with
assignees.
Cynthia feels very fortunate that her
vocation and her avocation have merged into a career that has
taken her all over the world. She has had countless
opportunities to meet people from many cultures, and has formed
friendships with many of them.
Paul Schroeder
has devoted his entire professional life to understanding the
culture and business practices of the People's Republic of
China, and to pursuing his own and others' business interests in
China.
Paul received his doctorate in Chinese
politics and economics from Ohio State University, then resided
in China for three years as trade represen-tative for the State
of Ohio. In that capacity, he worked closely with Chinese
business and government agencies at all levels, and negotiated
the 1988 Cooperative Agreement on Science and Technology
between the State of Ohio and Hubei Province. Returning in the
U.S., he joined the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations,
where he managed the legal, eco-nomic, and developmental aspects
of the Committee's corporate program.
Paul is the founder of East-West Equipment
& Technology, which buys and sells products in China and
provides representation in China for U.S. companies through
offices in Beijing, Wuhan, and Guangzhou. Recently, Paul
negotiated the East Lake Alamo Training & Consulting
Company's joint venture, which provides ISO 9000, GS 9000, and
ISO 14000 training for Chinese firms. Paul sits on this joint
venture's board of directors.
Paul also provides cross-cultural training
for Americans doing business in China as well as Asia in
general. His training covers the entire gamut of topics that are
useful to American businesspeople who are in the process of
doing — or are just thinking of doing — business in the
People's Republic.
Cornelius Grove's
career has
been dedicated to enhancing people's ability to thrive in
unfamiliar cultures through research, program design, teaching
and training, writing, and consulting.
A native of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Cornelius began his
professional career as a high school teacher, then became an
editor of textbooks and multimedia programs. After working for
IBM in the early 1970s, he and his wife lived and traveled in
Europe and Africa for two years. In the mid-1970s, he completed
a doctorate in intercultural communication at Columbia
University, then was an administrator at its Institute for Urban
and Minority Education. From 1978 through 1989, he was director
of AFS Intercultural Program's Center for the Study of
Intercultural Learning. In January 1990, he founded his own
company.
Cornelius has written two books and numerous professional
articles, most notably "A New Conceptualization of
Intercultural Adjustment and the Goals of Training" (with
Prof. Ingemar Torbiörn of the University of Stockholm), which
won two major awards; and Encountering the Chinese: A Guide
for Americans (with Prof. Hu Wenzhong of Beijing Foreign
Studies University), a best-seller for Intercultural Press.
During 1986, Cornelius was a visiting lecturer at Beijing
Foreign Studies University, and between 1997 and 1999, he
instructed a course in "Human Resources Issues in
Multinational Organizations" at the Milano Graduate School
of Management and Urban Policy. Recently, he was honored by
being made a Fellow of the prestigious International Academy for
Intercultural Research.
Ginger Irvine
grew up in Boston and has a bachelors in history from Wheaton
College, but she became a globe-trotter thereafter, living in
Seoul and Brussels before finally settling in London some 25
years ago.
Since moving to London, Ginger has been
involved in both the non-profit and profit sectors. On the
non-profit side, she has planned and managed volunteer work
programs for AFS exchange students. She was a founder and first
president of FOCUS Information Services, a non-profit resource
organization created to enable expatriates to settle in the U.K.
more efficiently. Through her FOCUS connection, Ginger became a
founding member of the steering committee of the Women on the
Move Conference, served as program chair for the London
conference, and has attended all five conferences. And Ginger
was a founding member and is now General Manager of TRIPITAKA,
an international touring theatre company.
As an intercultural consultant working with
companies such as National Power, Gillette, and Goldman Sachs to
help smooth the transition of international assignees and their
families, Ginger has gained broad experience with people of
various nationalities relocating to and from many parts of the
world. She also has worked for twelve years for a British
seminar and conference company, setting its marketing strategies
for management training courses.
Willa Hallowell
long ago
dedicated her life to understanding people and societies
different from her own. A native of New York, Willa's
fascination began during childhood sojourns in France and
intensified during periods of living and traveling abroad as an
adult. She is fluent in French, conversant in Italian, and has
studied Portuguese, Spanish, and Persian.
Having completed her doctoral coursework in anthropology,
Willa taught college anthropology courses and, for 12 years,
pursued culture-related photographic assignments. These enabled
her to live and work with the Cuna Indians of Panama, French
peasants, and Louisiana Cajuns, among others. Her photographs
have been widely published in such magazines as Audubon,
Smithsonian, GEO, Glamour, Louisiana Life, and Parents.
In 1991, Willa seized an opportunity to deliver corporate
training programs for incoming and outgoing expatriate families
at Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. She then began to expand
the ways in which her anthropological training and her overseas
experience could be applied to help corporations in the throes
of globalization. Since 1992, Willa has been a partner in an
intercultural management consulting firm.
Sonoko Mizuta
has been active cross-culturally for most of her adult life
through living, studying, training, and consulting in unfamiliar
cultures, and through writing articles and books on
intercultural communication.
Born in Tokyo, Sonoko spent a year in France
while completing her first degree at Tokyo University for
Foreign Studies. After working for Seiko Time Company and being
involved in a major French-Swiss-Japanese-U.S. joint venture,
she attended Stanford University and received a masters degree
in intercultural communication. Since then, Sonoko has devoted
herself to the cross-cultural field. At Japan Women's University
she devel-oped and taught courses on intercultural
communication, simultaneously serving as a trainer and
consultant for Japanese and foreign businesses. In 1990, Sonoko
followed her expatriate husband to New York and began working on
a Ph.D. in intercultural education at New York University.
In 1988,
Japan UNESCO and a major Japanese newspaper gave Sonoko an award
to encourage her contributions to international education. She
thereupon became a prolific writer. Her books include Theories
on International Human Relationships, declared the most
recommendable book of 1989 by the Japan Library Association; Intercultural
Communication for Japanese (1990); Culture Shock —
Foreigners' Experiences in Japan (1990); and An Invitation
to Intercultural Communication (1998).
Robert Kohls
has spent more than a quarter of a century in the IHR Development field.
He has trained thousands of corporate managers in improving their
intercultural skills and increasing their companies' global activities.
He has also pioneered in the development of effective systems to be used
in analyzing foreign cultures and creating strategies to bring
contrasting cultures into mutually beneficial relationships.
Bob's career includes seven years designing and
directing training programs for the HRD divisions of Westinghouse and
Time; ten years in the U.S. Foreign Service, where he had full
responsibility for the training and development of the Cultural and
Press Attachés representing the U.S. in Embassies worldwide; and 20
years as a university professor teaching courses in international
business and international relations. He has lived abroad for ten years
in Korea, Japan, Brazil, Libya, Tunisia, and Spain.
As a cross-cultural consultant, Bob has assisted more
than 60 Fortune 500 companies, 20 large agencies of the Federal
Government, and numerous foreign governments and corporations in
developing their international activities. He is a senior cross-cultural
trainer for NTL (The National Training Labs). His work assignments have
taken him to more than 90 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
Latin America, and Africa.
A Ph.D. from New York University, Bob has written
many books in the intercultural field, including Survival Kit for
Overseas Living (revised in 1996), Intercultural Press's all-time
best-seller with over 150,000 copies sold. In 1986, Bob was awarded
SIETAR's prestigious Primus Inter Pares Award (known as the
"Nobel Prize of the Intercultural Community").
Julie Judice,
a native of Los Angeles, discovered her fascination with other cultures
during a study-abroad program in London, which provided her with
invaluable exposure to students from the world over. She made
friendships then that continue to this day.
A psychology major at Loyola Marymount University
where she received her bachelors degree, Julie immediately went on to
attend law school at Boston College. There she became active in a wide
range of activities (such as the First International Holocaust
Conference) and began to explore ways to leverage her legal training
internationally. While in her second year, she began studying Japanese
at Harvard University. After being awarded her Juris Doctor degree in
1988, she first briefly served as a clerk with a law firm in Los
Angeles, then relocated to Tokyo.
After working as a free-lance consultant in Tokyo,
Julie joined the Tokyo office of The Boston Consulting Group as Director
of Corporate Communi-cations. Later she moved on to the Tokyo office of
K.K. Canning, a U.K.-based training organization, and for the next five
years provided training — management, financial writing, negotiation,
presentation skills, and cross-cultural relations — to senior Japanese
executives and Japan-based Western expatriates in the financial
services, pharmaceutical, and hi-tech industries. During this time she
also established, together with her Sudanese husband, a small antique
and apparel trading enterprise.
Kathy Molloy
has dedicated her career to helping businesses achieve high performance
by aligning people, performance, and strategy in the context of culture.
She takes a systemic approach to organizational change and believes that
long-term success is achieved through people's commitment within
cultures that encourage them to contribute fully.
Kathy began her career as a cultural anthropologist,
earning a bachelors in anthropology from Boston University. At Duke for
her masters, she carried out fieldwork in Montréal analyzing ethnic
responses to socio-political conflict. She joined a firm helping to
develop public sector and small businesses, and worked with Native
American tribes and community organizations in New England to build
their socioeconomic capability.
Kathy joined Aetna Life & Casualty in 1982,
assuming strategic HR roles in several business units. At Aetna
International, she helped build Aetna's global leadership and
organizational strength in Hong Kong and Malaysia. She then led high
performance initiatives at the corporate level.
In 1995, Kathy completed an MBA in international
business and formed her own consulting firm, ChangeWorks International,
which works with health-care, financial services, and "Big
Six" consulting firms. She is certified in several organizational
and executive development programs and in IHR. Kathy co-authored
"How the Learning Organization Manages Change" in National
Productivity Review (Winter 95/96). She has spoken at national
conferences on the topics of competencies and performance management.
Rashmi Aggarwala
is a cross-cultural coach and trainer. Her specialties are assisting
people who have recently moved to the United States, and preparing
people who will soon begin living and working in her native India. For
this coaching, she relies on her own life experiences.
Rashmi was born and raised in New Delhi. She came to
the United States as a student in 1979, and by 1983 had received her
bachelors and MBA degrees from Western Illinois University. She then
moved to New York, where for 12 years she worked in the financial field
in three different industries: transportation, consumer products, and
insurance. In these positions she gained valuable skills in managing and
raising funds, dealing with people at various levels, implementing
strategies in the face of corporate reorganization, spearheading
projects, and building teams.
In recent years, Rashmi has spent a great deal of
time in her native India, where she explored business opportunities for
American companies and helped them to meet their infrastructure needs.
She also has delivered similar services in Austria. For personal and
professional reasons, she returned to the States. Her cross-cultural
experiences have convinced her of the value of having a variety of
skills to draw upon while surrounded by novelty. Here in New York,
Rashmi teaches Indian cooking at the New School and offers a Myths &
Legends story-telling class for children.
Rashmi is an organized thinker and likes to tackle
challenges with attention to detail. Her consulting technique emphasizes
the under-standing of other cultures' values and the opportunities for
developing a global and universal approach to conducting business.
Rashmi visits India as often as possible, and lives on the East Side of
Manhattan, NY.
Pamela Perraud
has spent much of the past 20 years living in England, Brazil, and
especially France. She has relocated frequently with her French husband,
who is vice president of Schlumberger.
A native of Minneapolis, Pamela's first
cross-cultural experience was in high school as an exchange student to
Mexico. In college, she worked one summer as an AIESEC trainee at a
private bank in The Hague. Besides her bachelors, she has a masters in
urban studies from Occidental College and a masters in industrial
relations from the University of Minnesota.
Pamela has worked for many types of organizations
including IBM Europe, the Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann Corporation, and the
American Embassy in Paris. She has worked as a professional business
trainer in London and has taught management classes at several European
universities. She is a senior professional in human resources (SPHR) as
well as a certified compensation and benefit professional (CCP and CBP).
A longtime supporter of expatriate causes, Pamela was
a founder of FOCUS Information and Referral in London. In 1990, she
helped organize the first "Women on the Move" international
conference on mobility, held in Paris; she also served as chairperson of
the steering committee for Women on the Move when it organized
conferences in London in 1994 and Brussels in both 1992 and 1996. Pamela
is a past president of WICE, a continuing education organization based
in Paris.
Marianne Brandt's
fascination with people from other cultures began in Germany, where she
was born and completed her primary education. After being employed by
the U.S. government there, she emigrated to the United States in 1965
and became a citizen.
Following a 20-year tenure-track career at Wayne
State University in Detroit, Marianne left to accept the challenge of
forming customer-focus teams in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the
U.S. for a well-known computer manufacturer. Soon thereafter, she formed
her own consulting firm and soon was engaged by each of the "Big
Three" automobile manu-facturers. Among many other assignments,
Marianne has (1) helped roll-out a customer service course for car
dealership personnel in five European nations, (2) familiarized U.S.
business people with global business practices, (3) delivered workshops
for German employees working in the U.S. and American employees working
in Germany, (4) coached American trainers preparing to conduct training
outside the United States, and, most recently, (5) served as a key
member of a team assigned to commonize worldwide Best Practices in
automotive product development.
Marianne graduated from American universities with a
BA in languages, an MA in counseling, and an MBA in marketing. Fluent in
German and English, she has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.
She has studied at the Institute for Intercultural Communication in
Portland, OR. She also is a certified International Trade Advisor.
Marietta Baba
is one of the most active business anthropologists in the U.S. and a
leading member of the anthropological profession.
Marietta received her Ph.D. in anthropology from
Wayne State University in Detroit; she holds an MBA from Michigan State
University as well. Currently, she is Professor and Chair of the
Department of Anthropology at a leading university in the United States. She also holds an
appointment as Adjunct Professor of Industrial Manufacturing
Engineering. From 1994 to 1996, she was Program Director of the National
Science Foundation's industry-funded research program entitled
"Transformations to Quality Organiza-tions," which
investigated successful organizational change.
Marietta has led multidisciplinary industrial
research teams whose efforts have focused on cultural analysis and
development of factors to facilitate transformation of the product
development process in the automotive and aerospace industries. She
devotes nearly 50% of her professional time to business research and
consulting and is now advising Procter & Gamble on virtual (global)
teaming. Among her other clients are American Axle & Manufacturing,
Whirlpool, Ford, General Motors, Upjohn, and McKinsey.
Marietta is author of more than 50 publications about
organizational cul-ture, technological change, and evolutionary
processes. Titles include Business and Industrial Anthropology: An
Overview (1986) and articles such as "The Cultural Ecology of
the Corporation: Explaining Diversity in Work Group Responses to
Organizational Transformation" (1995). She holds U.S. Patent No.
4773862 for ethnohistorical mapping methodology.
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