Podcast The Culture Mastery

Music industry executive Patrick Joest shares his experience of being a German-Argentinian Jew in different cultures For years he had been traveling back and forth for work between Germany and the United States. Dozens of times Patrick Joest had visited Los Angeles. When his company sent him and his family on an expatriate assignment to California, Patrick quickly realized there’s ... Read More The post Making a Home Across the Atlantic and Back appeared first on The Culture Mastery.

The automotive marketing maven tells his cross-cultural tales of selling Porsches, Chevys, Subarus, and VWs around the globe Selling a product requires understanding the needs and desires of your potential customer. You need to recognize what problems customer have and how your product can be a solution to that problem. Sales and Marketing are professional tasks that are difficult enough ... Read More The post Tim Mahoney’s Success Recipe for Working Across Cultures? “Human Stories, Simply Told” appeared first on The Culture Mastery.

How Malcolm Ohanwe shines light on inequality by nudging white folks to talk about it He works for one of Germany’s biggest public broadcasting companies, the Bayerische Rundfunk. The country today is as diverse as it has probably never been, yet when Malcolm Ohanwe stepped foot into the BR offices for the first time he “thought I entered Narnia. Everything’s ... Read More The post A Conversation about Identity, “Race,” White Blindspots, and Apfelschorle appeared first on The Culture Mastery.

Back from California’s beaches Martin Brem reflects on expat life He works for one of the most global businesses in one of the most global industries. Yet, when Martin Brem made a professional move from Central Europe to Southern California for the music business, his Red Bull wings didn’t fully prepare him for the cultural change he was about to ... Read More The post Learning to Go 120 Miles Wide and 2 Inches Deep as a California Expat appeared first on The Culture Mastery.

Russell Harlow on why even monkeys fall from trees Can you be “too Japanese” as a foreign professional in Japan? Apparently you can. On this episode Russell Harlow tells us how his success in adjusting to his new environment in Tokyo initially had a detrimental effect on his effectiveness as a leader of a multinational organization in Japan. Russell is ... Read More The post Adapt. Don’t Adopt. [The Culture Guy Podcast] appeared first on The Culture Mastery.

Ted Terry on how a hyper-diverse community becomes inclusive He is in his 30s. He has been called a hipster. And he is the mayor who has been putting a small town just outside of Atlanta on the map. Ted Terry shot to fame via an episode of season 2 of the hugely successful Netflix show Queer Eye. during which ... Read More The post The Mayor who Manages a Multicultural Municipality [The Culture Guy Podcast] appeared first on The Culture Mastery.

Inês Nascimento shares her experience of being a serial expat She had always been curious about “the world out there” and so Inês Vieira Nascimento started working for international companies, supporting business functions and employees navigating the challenges of international transition. Then she became a serial expat. As an HR manager, Inês began her career in global mobility roles in Portugal. ... Read More The post When Everything You Think You Know About A Country Is Wrong [The Culture Guy Podcast] appeared first on The Culture Mastery.