Cross Cultural Issues in Business
Jennifer Burge, WorldWise Coaching
Jennifer Burge is CEO of WorldWise Coaching, an Arizona based company built on two decades of international business experience. They provide private executive coaching and customized team training in the field of intercultural business communication, global relocation, and multicultural team building. Their field of expertise includes consulting services to assist in conflict resolution across worldviews, international expansions, and cross-border mergers. WorldWise empowers teams to communicate globally with confidence and strengthens cohesiveness across geographically disparate business units. With experience on four continents and over fifty countries, WorldWise Coaching prepares its clients to thrive in international environments across the globe. International business is challenging, but when preparedness meets opportunity–barriers to growth are eliminated.
Jennifer, a dual national of the US and Australia, repatriated to the United States in 2018. Her career in management consulting took her to Germany in 2001, The Netherlands in 2002, Singapore in 2007, and Australia in 2011. After seventeen years abroad, Jennifer returned to Phoenix to found her own consulting company, WorldWise Coaching LLC. Having lived on four continents, successfully executed projects in ten countries, and traveled to more than fifty countries, Jennifer uses her broad business, training, and technology background to assist others to thrive in global business environments.
Her experience includes Fortune 100 companies, such as Honeywell and Fortune Global 500 companies—Accenture Consulting and EDS. She has also worked for smaller firms in The Netherlands and as an independent information technology consultant and trainer in Singapore
In addition to her corporate career, Jennifer is a memoirist and travel writer. She began writing Asian destination pieces for Vietnam’s The Guide magazine in 2009. Her first nonfiction book about her professional life in Europe, The Devil Wears Clogs, was published in 2014. The second, Singapore Salvation, tells her Asian story and was published in 2015. She is currently at work on her Australian chapter.
In 2017, Jennifer lived in Madrid to complete her certification and training in teaching English as a Second Language with a specialization in Business English earned with distinction. Following that, she was a Fellow at the Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon in 2018 and in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2019. In August 2019, Jennifer was appointed to the Pacific Rim Advisory Council for the City of Phoenix by Mayor Kate Gallego.
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Dr. Jeff McGee, Cross-Cultural Dynamics
Dr. Jeff McGee is CEO of Cross-Cultural Dynamics, an Arizona based company comprised of experts in the fields of cultural competency, leadership development and health and wellness. They provide trainings and consultations to all organizational sectors including businesses, nonprofits, education (both K-12 & universities/colleges) community groups and city governments.
Their mission is to provide leaders and organizations with a framework to effectively accomplish their mission and objectives within a cross-cultural world. Cross-Cultural Dynamics customizes all curriculum to meet the specific yet unique needs of every organization. They seek to fully understand the mission, values and goals of each organization and develop structures, along with leadership, that empower everyone to succeed.
Dr. Jeff McGee is a thought leader in using an asset-based approach to understand cross-cultural and leadership competencies. He is passionate about equipping leaders with principles and strategies to lead tomorrow’s organizations. He has studied and witnessed barriers between diverse groups where issues of trust, decision-making and roles are misunderstood. Dr. McGee has successfully led many organizations through trainings/consultations that has positively impacted organizational culture and relationship building efforts. His interactive approach to engagement empowers leaders to think differently and challenge norms. Dr. McGee has many years of experience as an educator and trainer for K-12 schools, higher education institutions, businesses and nonprofit organizations. His continued work and research seek to dismantle cross-cultural and leadership misunderstandings through education, practice, and policy making.
Dr. McGee holds a Bachelor of Arts in Community Ministry and a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership from Geneva College and a Doctorate in Education in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University.
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