! NEW DATE !

Tuesday 24th November 2009 | 12h00-14h00

Diamant Conference Center | Brussels

RELATIONSHIPS IN A CROSS-CULTURAL MARKET

Speaker : Chris SMIT

Managing Director Culture Matters

We all travel and meet people from different cultures, religions and backgrounds.  Understanding other cultures are one of the stepstones to personal and business success.

"Relationships in a Cross-Cultural Market"

"Dealing with the relationship part of business can be difficult, but this difficulty often increases as multinationals spread out their activities to foreign markets. Your  procurement / travel manager contact who used to be Mrs Smith in London, has turned into Mr Mavroudis in Greece, or Mr Singh in Dehli..
This session, facilitated by Chris Smit, a Senior Consultant and partner at Culture Matters, will look at some real international examples facing the group and open a new way of looking at issues of international business." The presentation will have the following objectives:

• What is diversity / culture
• How to recognise the importance of cultural diversity
• Introduction to some basic culture-scenarios 

Speaker 

Chris Smit was born in Amsterdam on March 3, 1963. Midway while attending high school, his family and he moved to the USA for one year, where he attended 8th grade high school in Boiceville, New York.

After returning to the Netherlands he finished school and went to the Free University in Amsterdam to study Industrial and Organisational Psychology. He graduated in 1993.

While studying Chris joined KLM where he worked for 10 years as a Commercial Sales & Marketing coach and consultant. During that time he spent a lot of time abroad with a particular focus on Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia.

He joined ITIM|Result in 1999 and developed his international experience as an international business consultant.

In 2008 Chris found the organization "Culture Matters"; a company specializing in Intercultural Management Consultancy, Change management, and forms an Intercultural Business Think-Tank.

He is an experienced consultant and coach in intercultural business, and has implemented and consulted projects and run many intercultural and communication seminars throughout the world. Comfortable working at senior levels in organisations, he is known for his dynamic, enthusiastic and participative style as a public speaker, coach and business consultant.

Chris has extensive experience in managing and motivating a team of professionals, to make them perform and exceed expectations.

His specialties are India, Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the USA. He is currently living with his Indian wife and daughter in Brussels, Belgium.

Chris Smit has several international publications in his name, is a PhD candidate, and a frequent speaker at international business events.

 

Program:

12h00 : Welcome drink

12h20 : start lecture

12h50 : Q&A part 1

13h00 : lunch

13h50 : Q&A part 2

14h00 : end

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