Trained in intercultural management at the East-West Center in Honolulu, the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland USA and Cross-Cultural Management Co Ltd in Bangkok.
A globalization consultant and popular keynote speaker, Richard R. Gesteland is also a busy seminar leader, author and executive trainer. He has thirty years of hands-on international business experience, including 26 years overseas on eight expatriate management assignments: in Germany (twice), Austria, Italy, Brazil, India (twice), and Singapore. His executive positions with two U.S. companies included Regional Director for South and Southeast Asia and Vice President for Europe-Mideast-Africa with Sears Buying Services Inc.
Gesteland has been a keynote speaker, author, and workshop leader since 1993 for companies and business schools in Australia, Britain, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the USA and Venezuela.
An expert in international management and international executive education, Gesteland is the founding member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Competence and Management. His company, Global Management, offers a combined experience of more than 40 years in international management, marketing, sourcing and negotiations. Gesteland's programs are designed to help companies globalize by providing expert cross-cultural training
Gesteland has published articles on global management and international negotiation in the Asian Wall Street Journal, Chief Executive Asia, Foreign Trade, Purchasing Executives Journal, Singapore Economic Journal, National Development, Trade & Culture, UN International Trade Forum, Export Today, China Online and many others. He is author of the Copenhagen Business School Press best-seller, Cross-Cultural Business Behavior (1996, 1999, 2002), cited in the Harvard Business Review of March 2002, with Chinese, Russian, German, Polish, Lithuanian and India editions. He is co-author of The Global Manager At Work (2000), Marketing Across Cultures In Asia (2002), International Marketing, Cultures and Communications (2002).
Guide till globala affärskulturer: Att förhandla, sälja, köpa och leda företag i skilda kulturer