Mark Steinberg About This Week's Guest Mark Steinberg Mark Steinberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of many books and articles on the Russian Revolution, urban history, religion, emotions, and utopias, including Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925 (Cornell 2002; Russian Edition 2022), Petersburg Fin-de-Siècle (Yale 2011), The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 (Oxford 2017; Russian Edition 2018), the seventh through ninth (2018) editions of A History of Russia with Nicholas Riasanovsky (O ..read more

James Kennedy About This Week's Guest James Kennedy James Kennedy is a professor of modern Dutch history at the Universiteit Utrecht. As an American, he particularly focuses on the postwar history and the contours of contemporary Dutch society. "Culture Matters. Also for the Dutch!" Don't think you can do everything, because you can't. The Dutch are good friends for life, they can be very loyal and very good. The Dutch look very happy and individualistic, but underneath are family people. Pay attention to that. Links mentioned in this episode are: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ke ..read more

Erika Bud About This Week's Guest Erika Bud Erika started traveling overseas when she was 18 years old, working as an Au Pair. Since then, she has traveled to over thirty countries, living in both Spain and Australia. International travel is her passion, and Erika takes pride in the fact that by the age of five, her son already had two stamps on his passport. Erika Bud started the Travel Rangers book series and Planes, Trains, & Kids Abroad travel podcast because she hopes to ignite a passion for travel abroad in both children and adults. She wants to teach them about the fascinating cultu ..read more

Jose Martinez About This Week's Guest Jose Martinez José Martínez is an expert in event management and international negotiations. He has collaborated with leading companies such as Informa Markets, Reed Exhibitions, and The Walt Disney Company. He is an industrial designer and has a master's degree in positive psychology, and a master's degree in business administration, in addition to several specialties in international business and leadership in Canada, the US, and the UK. He has collaborated with teams from different countries and cultures and has visited more than 25 countries and 75 cit ..read more

John Pabon About This Week's Guest John Pabon John Pabon has spent two decades in the business of saving our Earth. After leaving his role at the United Nations, John traveled the world studying the impacts of sustainability first-hand in factories, fields, and Fortune 500s. His mission is to move sustainability from theory to practical strategies that help people and businesses confidentially make a real impact. Over his 20-year career, he’s had the privilege of working with the United Nations, McKinsey, A.C. Nielsen, and as a consultant with BSR, the world’s largest sustainability-focused bu ..read more

Petya Rasheva About This Week's Guest Petya Rasheva Petya Rasheva has lived and worked in 9 countries on 4 continents. She speaks 5 languages and can get herself understood in 3 more. Managed multi-million and multi-billion dollars construction projects around the globe, within culturally-diverse environments and global settings. "-50 degrees is no exception here in Mongolia." Learn the local language. Even if it is a few words here or there. It makes a world of difference. Always remember you're a guest in the country you are in. You're not superior. Engage with the local culture. Eat an ..read more

Heather Hansen About This Week's Guest Heather Hansen Heather Hansen on how to develop UNMUTED leaders and organizations. How CEOs and C Suite Leaders need to encourage cultures of open listening Accent bias – how accents impact hiring decisions, leadership progression, and bias in humans and AI How AI needs to explore diversity in speech data. Why communications is not a skills problem solved by more training but at the core of who we are and the company cultures we make. Cross-cultural Communication Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion Language and Virtual Communication Policy Global English P ..read more

Douglas Herbert About This Week's Guest Douglas Herbert Douglas Herbert, a native New Yorker who's lived outside New York for almost 25 years. In France, his job title at France 24, the international news channel that he joined in 2006, is "chroniqueur". In Russia, where he launched his journalism career in the chaotic post-Soviet heyday of Boris Yeltsin, state media identified him as a "politolog": which means "political analyst". In Britain, he is more neutrally referred to as a "commentator", while back "home" in the US, he's a mere "pundit" or - worse - "a talking head". Douglas has lived ..read more

9-More signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! [Podcast] In this 23-minute podcast, we talk about 9 more of the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. Or in other words, 9-more signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! We cover 9 of the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. We’ll Give Everyone a Book It’s Too Expensive They Don’t Speak English We’ve Always Done It This Way, So Why Change? Business is Business in Any Country It Isn’t Our Priority At This Moment Cultural Differences Will Be a Thing of The Past Soon Doing Business Sim ..read more

9-Signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! [Podcast] In this 23-minute podcast, we talk about the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. Or in other words, 9-signs you're not getting it. It's culture stupid! We cover 9 (plus a bonus) of the biggest mistakes that people make in international business. The lumberjack syndrome You Think We’re All the Same They Don’t Get It (but you do) I Just Don’t Understand Them Everyone is Online I Tried It and It Doesn’t Work If I know Some Do’s and Dont’s That’s Enough My Business Partner is Simply an Idiot You Know It, But Thi ..read more