Please join the Chicago Chapter on Tuesday, June 8 at 5:30 PM CENTRAL.

Since early 2020, virtually leading remote-work teams has been forcefully upgraded from a futuristic choice to a daily necessity. This ‘new normal’ (not quite new, far from normal) both separated and connected international management teams. On one hand, travel disruption kept people from developing and nurturing the personal intimacy that had been considered essential for trustful teamwork. On the other, remote work upgraded everyone with a broadband access to global problem-solver, often side-lining traditional brokers, intermediaries and representatives at companies.

Join us for Shanghai-based intercultural leadership coach & consultant Gabor Holch’s presentation to inspire mindfulness and practical solutions while working with diverse, geographically dispersed management teams in virtual spaces. Based on his 10+ years of supporting multinational executives in intercultural leadership and virtual outreach, he presents unexpected challenges and shares the way some companies overcame them, and invites participants to an exchange of ideas.

Audience Takeaways:

• Unexpected cultural, psychological and technological challenges in virtual teamwork.
• Tools and practices for creating constructively diverse virtual workspaces.
• Applying simple, practical approaches to the audience’s cases.

Speaker: Gabor Holch
Intercultural Leadership Coach & Consultant

Gabor Holch is an intercultural leadership coach, consultant, speaker and author specialised in East-West executive assignments and business relations. He supports corporate executives and public-sector leaders in succeeding across national and cultural boundaries instead of getting lost in translation.

An expat since age 4, Gabor transitioned from diplomacy to consulting, moved to China in 2002 and became China’s first foreigner granted a Certified Management Consultant degree in Mandarin Chinese. In 2005 he founded his Shanghai-based business, Campanile Management Consulting.

He has advised, coached and trained leaders for 100+ clients in 25+ countries through his own firm, partner consultancies and the business academies of half a dozen multinational corporations. He has spoken at conferences and corporate events and lectured at business programmes in Europe and Asia. He currently splits his time between his Shanghai base and international jobs, mainly in the Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Gabor holds degrees in languages, international relations and diplomacy, a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) degree and certifications in several assessment and coaching methodologies. He has written three books and published about a hundred articles for academic and business publications.