speaker reflection
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Ms Lisa La Bonte will be speaking to us. She is a graduate from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and has been the Secretary-General of the United Nations Association UAE for some time now. She is also the CEO of the Arab Youth Venture Foundation and a member of the Carnegie Ventures.
For more information on her, feel free to review her profile on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/li
staying in her speech until the end and then writing a reflection and submitting it to me via email on what you took out of her talk, what ideas resonated with you, your opinions about the themes she addressed on her speech. The reflection needs to have a minimum length of 500 words.
The speaker recording link in below:
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Global businesses require a person to understand how other people think and do based on their culture. It is because marketing at a global level can have challenges of a language barrier and cultural differences. After listening to Ms. Lisa La Bonte’s message, I found that the subject matter was all about cultural sensitivity and choosing a different path to success. From her advice, I learned that one has to come out of his/her comfort zone to succeed in international business. Looking at how Lisa finally became an international businessperson, it is evident that she had to come out of her comfort zone. After she moved to Hawaii and dealt with people from different ethnic groups, she knew how to handle different kinds of people (Zoom, n.d).
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