You will learn how cultural differences impact financial industry professionals in complex situations like M&A, as well as in managing and integrating cross cultural working entities. With a framework for approaching international interactions, you will be prepared to avoid costly mistakes and unnecessary risk. In the global market place, cross-cultural core competences allow you to seize new opportunities and significantly impact everything from building relationships and negotiating to team and risk management. This meeting should be an eye-opening experience and a very comprehensive review of the issue.
During our meeting, Denise will discuss:
- How to develop a cultural due diligence process?
- How to communicate effectively across cultures?
- How to establish goals and measure performance?
- How to recognize success and reward employees?
- How to establish reporting structure and determine control?
The meeting will be highly interactive, so bring your openness, curiosity, attention and any questions relevant to the broad area of running cross-border acquisitions, departments, divisions, companies. We look forward to a great talk and some lively networking over bagels and coffee.
Speaker
Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., CEO, Universal Consensus
About Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., CEO, Universal Consensus
About Denise Pirrotti Hummel: Denise is an attorney, a published author and cross-cultural thought leader. She is a member of the U.S. State Department World-Wide Speaker and Specialist Program and speaks to foreign audiences globally. She has developed the Business Model of Intercultural Analysis™ (BMIA) framework. This is a model for leveraging international interactions to increase your ROI performance substantially.
Denise graduated from Columbia University with a degree in psychology, subsequently getting her law degree from American University. She began her career as an international attorney litigating, negotiating and mediating high-profile international disputes. Domestically, she tried and won the first class action under the Americans with Disabilities Act, obtaining Emergency 911 services for over 200,000 hearing impaired New York City residents. She was named one of the Top 20 Young Attorneys in the U.S. that year by the American Bar Association.
Denise founded Universal Consensus in 2000 to focus on cultural differences and how they impact communication, efficiency, business processes and profitability. Company clients include Fortune 500 companies such as FedEx, Whirlpool and Qualcomm, and government entities such as the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department. Their Strategic Alliance Partners in the finance sector include Swenson Advisors LLP and Hutchinson & Bloodgood LLP.
Our Meeting Sponsor
Our breakfast refreshments will be provided courtesy of Robert Half Management Resources and Robert Half International. RHMR and RHI have been FENG sponsors before, and we're pleased to welcome them back as the sponsor of this meeting.
CPE
Important reminder for those members maintaining their professional certifications: we offer the documentation for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for our speaker presentations. For those members interested in this, you may complete the appropriate forms, which we'll have available at the meeting, for 1.0 hours of CPE credit.
Speakers Chair
Thank you again to our colleague and Speakers Chair, Teddy Feliciano, for her work coordinating the arrangements for the excellent speaker at this and all of our monthly meetings.***