Global Perspective.
Strategic Insight.
Real-World Experience.
International business strategist, executive educator, author, and keynote speaker connecting strategy, culture, and opportunity across borders.
Where Executive Experience Meets Strategic Thought
I am an international business executive, educator, author, researcher, and entrepreneur whose career has crossed industries, institutions, and cultures.
My experience extends from retail leadership, merchandising, product development, global sourcing, and international entrepreneurship to graduate education, academic leadership, research, and publishing.
Across those environments, one principle has remained constant: strategy matters only when it can be translated into decisions, capabilities, and value.
Experience gives theory meaning, and theory gives experience perspective.
Experience, Ideas, and Application
My professional work brings together four connected dimensions of strategy and leadership.
Books & Ideas
Books, research, and current writing examining international business, negotiation, strategic adaptation, artificial intelligence, academic governance, and the forces reshaping organizations.
Executive Experience
Four decades of leadership in retail, merchandising, product development, global sourcing, consulting, and entrepreneurship—translated into practical lessons about competition, execution, and value creation.
Global Perspective
Professional and academic experience across the United States and Asia, shaped by international markets, cross-cultural negotiation, global sourcing, and graduate education.
Teaching & Academic Leadership
An educational philosophy grounded in critical thinking, competitive advantage, stakeholder analysis, and the practical application of theory to consequential decisions.
Selected Professional Highlights
A career spanning business and academia has provided opportunities to lead, build, teach, research, and contribute across organizations and international markets.
United Nations ESCAP
Contributed to research examining global agri-food trade resilience and policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Honorary Leader of Global Trade
Recognized by the Hinrich Foundation for contributions to global trade, international business education, executive leadership, sourcing, and talent development.
Palgrave Macmillan Author and Editor
Editor of Contemporary Strategic Chinese American Business Negotiations and Market Entry, connecting professional experience with international scholarship.
Executive and Academic Leadership
More than four decades in business and approximately a decade in higher education, including executive leadership, entrepreneurship, MBA leadership, program development, and graduate teaching.
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