DIANE L. SIMPSON

Diane Simpson is a Senior Consulting Associate with Global Resources where she has designed, managed, and taught executive and staff level courses in a range of global business planning subjects for a variety of international clients. Dr. Simpson, who is also president of Simpson International Inc., empowers business executives to support their company's global strategies with skills and confidence and to assume leadership roles in today's global business environment.

The creator of over forty training programs such as Doing Business Internationally, Doing Business in Asia, Cross-cultural Challenges of Global Business and Women in the Global Business Environment, she has trained thousands of managers from more than one hundred countries. Drawing on her vast network of international regional experts, "stories from the trenches," and the latest global management and intercultural theories, her programs are consistently praised by clients for their thoroughness, insightful quality and direct applicability.

As coach to dozens of senior executives, including many from Europe and Asia stationed in the United Stares, she has worked to enable her clients to successfully work across cultural borders. She has also advised clients on such diverse matters as creating a global advertising campaign, resolving personnel tensions between the Japanese and Korean operations of a U.S. chemical company, averting public relations disasters with foreign media, and improving teamwork practices and communication in US - Japanese teams in various industries.

Dr. Simpson is a founding member of the NichiBei Exchange in New York and an active member of Asia Society, the International Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the Academy of Management. She lectures at the Japan Society and China Institute as well as before professional groups and university audiences. Her current research activities include developing a model of cross-national technology transfer using intercultural teams. Dr. Simpson speaks Japanese, French, and elementary Polish and she reads Chinese and Korean. She holds a Ph.D. in Personality and Social Psychology from Boston University.