Cultural disruptions in executive performance: speech in Switzerland
Fri, 27 Jun
|Luzern
"Back to Basics: Underrated disruptions in intercultural executive performance" focuses on mundane but impactful aspects of leadership across continents, cultures and functions, with examples from the pharmaceutical, automotive and professional service industries.
Time & Location
27 Jun 2025, 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Luzern, Werftestrasse 4, 6002 Luzern, Switzerland
About the event
SIETAR Switzerland in-person event: Back to Basics: Underrated performance disruptions in intercultural executive performance with Gabor Holch
Date/Time 2025 June 27
This presentation + Q&A focuses on mundane but impactful aspects of leadership across continents, cultures and functions, such as different cultural attitudes towards timeliness, virtual conferences, productivity apps, boss-report relationships and projecting executive presence in culturally appropriate ways. Following my daily practice, my examples come from East-West executive challenges: C-suite leaders bridging locations in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, leading culturally diverse teams and bridging worldwide locations with corporate headquarters.
The session starts with a presentation of common challenges in intercultural executive assignments, based on live coaching cases from my work as an East-West Leadership coach, facilitator and advisor. These examples will then be placed in the context of relevant intercultural leadership methodologies and recommended tools (awareness, communication, teamwork, engagement and feedback), and finally cases of…