Dr. Christa Uehlinger, founder of cross-cultural consultancy linking people®, embraces the challenges associated with collaborating across cultures as key to developing novel business solutions.
Why counting overseas assignments is no longer enough and how boards can bring cultural intelligence into the center of CEO and C suite selection. In global CEO and C suite searches, especially across Asia Pacific, a familiar pattern keeps appearing: boards overestimate “international experience” and underestimate cultural intelligence.
Digital transformation is not simply changing the tools companies use. It is reshaping how they decide, learn, collaborate, measure performance and distribute autonomy. As AI adoption and restructuring accelerate, cultural debt is becoming the hidden barrier to sustainable change.
