Global Mobility and Talent Management: Ensuring Business Effectiveness in the Global Marketplace
Workplace Application: This interactive session provides strategies and best practices for maximizing the success of global mobility assignments and ensuring global competency development across cultures.
The challenge of mobility and talent management leadership is how to leverage functional talent in cross-border engagements. The session addresses global competency development as a critical strategy in enhancing the effectiveness of individuals and global teams. Four case studies of approaches in different regions will be highlighted to further illustrate strategic approaches: Anadarko Petroleum (Mozambique), Boston Scientific (India), Loomis Sayles (UK) and Zebra Technologies (China). You will learn how global competency development impacts individual, team and business objectives, as well as how cross-cultural communication is at the heart of success in the global marketplace.
Mercedes Naficy D'Angelo
Mercedes has served the international mobility industry for 15 years consulting on intercultural and performance needs. She also conducted field research on expatriate selection. Currently Mercedes is the Director of Business Development at Cultural Awareness International.
She graduated from Princeton and completed an MBA from Tulane. Mercedes is a product of a bicultural family (1/2 Iranian; 1⁄2 Puerto Rican), and has lived and worked in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East. Mercedes has experienced the impact of cultural competency on performance and behavioral health; including relocating internationally with her four children.
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