Helping Global Leaders & Teams Excel

GRANADA, SPAIN
Dr. Araoz delivered a talk for the SIETAR Global Conference in Granada, Spain, on “Working with India and Indians”, to professionals from around the world, in the field of Intercultural Management, Education and Cross-cultural Training.

LUXEMBOURG
Dr. Araoz conducted team-building workshops for the DuPont Tyvek Group that had cross-border and multi-corporate leadership teams from DuPont (USA), Brown and Root (Holland), Chemtex (India) and DuPont (Luxembourg). Conducted similar sessions and other intervention for the team in Mumbai, India & Delaware, USA.

MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
Dr. Araoz was inaugurated, after being internationally elected as President of SIETAR International: the world-wide organization for Intercultural Specialists, including Cross-cultural Management Trainers. The Inauguration was presided over by the late Paulo Freire, the highly respected Brazilian educator and author of “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Dr. Araoz is seen as one of the pioneers who raised an awareness of Intercultural & Cross-cultural Management issues with organizations and Universities in Sweden, starting in the 80s. She also facilitated sessions and addressed audiences in Stockholm, Lund, Linköping, Gothenburg and Uppsala, being invited back several times for years. She was also Visiting Faculty at the University of Linköping, Department of Business in their MBA & Project Management Program.

NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR, CANADA
Dr. Araoz conducted research in India for the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and was invited to present her paper and facilitate discussions on “Interpersonal Skills & Differing Perceptions on Community Participation in Development” with representatives from several countries invited to St. John, Newfoundland & Labrador in Canada. The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation developed the proceedings into a book, along with innovative research and presentations by people from various part of the world.

CHENNAI, INDIA
Conducted trainings to help a foreign Bank in India help their employees learn how to work effectively with their partners and clients in the UK and other countries.

Oriented Senior Executives from Chennai to live and work in the US for an automotive company.

EDISON, NJ, USA
Dr. Araoz developed orientation trainings for Indian IT Professionals entering the US as well as Local (US and other) hires for a leading, large Indian IT firm. Conducted Team-building sessions together with their US clients in Neenah, Wisconsin. Trained all the employees in the Division of a US company they were acquiring in Green Bay, WI, Chicago IL, Edison NJ, Schaumberg IL and Oldsmar, FL, and a joint Leadership Team meeting and de-briefing in Oldsmar, FL.

BOSTON, MA, USA
Dr. Araoz did an extensive needs assessment of the outsourcing operations, including perception of satisfaction/ dissatisfaction of employees and clients. She was also sent to assess the India operations in Mumbai and presented her report and recommendations to the President and top Management of the Bank.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Over several years, Dr. Araoz co-conducted and developed intercultural Management Training for a large percentage of managers and leaders at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, as well as lead Leadership and Team-building. Conducted training workshops for Senior Leaders. Innovative methods and a variety of assessment instruments were used to help participants become more self-aware and aware of effective management practices. An environment of intercultural understanding, good management practice, effective communication and gender equality was developed in participants.

TOKYO, JAPAN
Managing Across Cultures, with 5 associates from Japan conducted a total re-vamping of the Americanized Sales Training of one of the largest IT storage companies in the world, to make the training and sales approach culturally relevant to style of the Japanese sales force, and relevant to the Japanese customers. This transformed the sales outcomes and the success of the US company in Japan. Dr. Araoz has also conducted workshops for corporate managers through Professor Shoko Araki’s organization “Cross-cultural Training Services of Japan”, been an invited speaker at Oberlin University and Aoyama Gaukin Management School and conducted a workshop on “Virtual Teams” at the SIETAR International Conference in Japan.

NEW DELHI, INDIA
Dr. Araoz studied at Delhi University and its Law College. She has been called numerous times by different MNCs to conduct trainings or coaching sessions for its leaders and teams, including the Country Managers of DuPont and its Indian managers for over 5 years. In Delhi she also addressed the Pravasi Bharati Divas, invited by the Government of India and FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce). She spoke on BPOs at the Euro-India Conference, invited by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), and conducted a workshop for NASSCOM on M&As. Dr. Araoz received the prestigious NRI Award in this city. It was here she conducted a 4-day Immersion Session for the Asia Region Top Management of a leading American MNC, to consider and decide on their India Strategy.

RANTHANBOR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
Dr. Araoz conducted a 4 day Team-building Retreat for the leadership teams of Polaroid from India and the US, as well as their India partners, bringing together its VP and team from the US and the Latin American Country Manager and his team leaders and partners from India, that resulted in greatly enhancing the working relationships and business collaboration.

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
Dr. Araoz was invited to speak at the Management School of the University of Nicaragua on “Cultural Differences between Latin American Managers and American Managers”.

SINGAPORE
Dr. Araoz conducted workshops for a large German Publishing corporation on “Working with India and Doing Business in India and other Asian countries”.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
Dr. Araoz was invited by an NGO to orient their workers from the US in cultural sensitivity and effective communication, as they delivered services to underprivileged children and families in Costa Rica.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Dr. Araoz was invited to help a large multinational pharmaceutical company in Geneva to gain insights on how to work more effectively with their Indian counterparts.

Dr. Araoz was also invited to present on the importance of cross-cultural management training for the UN to the HR heads of all of the UN Agencies meeting in Geneva.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Dr. Araoz was the Key Facilitator and Speaker for an AIESEC International Conference in Zurich at UBS.

BALI, INDONESIA
Dr. Araoz was invited to speak on “Culture & Peace” by UNESCO for their Global Forum on “The Power of Peace”. Dr. Araoz addressed 200 delegates from more than 30 countries representing invited stakeholders from government, academia, research institutions, media, broadcasting, and ICT and NGO sectors invited to Bali for the Forum to develop a strategy to harness the power of media and ICT towards building Peace and Harmony.

LONAVALA, INDIA
Dr. Araoz and Farokh Karani Lam conducted a Retreat on Going Global for the Board of Directors of one of the first multinationals from India that started a manufacturing plant in the US. Dr. Araoz also trained their first Country Manager in the US to enter the US and work effectively with Americans.

PUNE, INDIA
Dr. Araoz has consulted with dozens of Indian companies in Pune, assessed their people and cultural issues, helped their teams going global, beginning with an OD assessment and intervention at Forbes Marshall, followed by Hindustan Antibiotics and others. She is Pune-based from January through April. She oriented the US Directors of two leading US Multinational establishing R&D Centers in Pune, coached the CEO of this large automotive company, and trained their entire R&D teams on an on-going basis for 4 years to develop a culture of innovation and integrity, as they grew. She also trained their All India Technology Team to work more effectively with each other and with their global clients. She coaches senior executives of a leading US agricultural equipment company in Pune.

Dr. Araoz has worked with dozens of Pune-based companies to help assess and address their people issues and/ or their global collaborations. Dr. Araoz also taught at the Symbiosis Management Institute at Pune University, conducted workshops at TMTC and was the invited Director for one of the Management Schools under Pune University.

MUMBAI, INDIA
Dr. Araoz was invited by USIBC to be on President Obama’s Business Delegation to India. She has conducting trainings for DuPont, Chemtex, P&G, and other MNCs in Mumbai. The US Commercial Consul organized a Special CEO Breakfast for her to address US Country Managers in Mumbai. NASSCOM sponsored her workshops on “Going Global for Indian Companies” in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Hyderabad. She has also been an invited speaker several times to the Bombay Management Association as well as the Indo-US Society, and a Speaker at the World HRD Forum in Mumbai.

BANGALORE, INDIA
Dr. Araoz brought together for a week the entire India team of a leading MNC in India and the Country Manager to help the Americans, NRIS and Indians learn about their different ways of working and decide on how they would work together, and successfully addressed their important business challenges and goals. She has trained teams of leading US IT companies in Bangalore, helping them understand the expectations of their partners in Fort Collins, Co and Roseville, CA, USA. Trained the Bangalore team of an internet company to learn to work effectively with their counterpart in Dulles, VA, USA. Also trained the US teams in Roseville, Fort Collins and Dulles to bridge the differences and build understanding. Coached Leaders and US Country Managers from leading computer and also a semi-conductor chip companies in Bangalore to lead and grow the US company in India.

GOA, INDIA
Dr. Araoz was called to help set the stage of how the teams from the US and India, comprising of Americans, Indians and NRIs, would work best together, understand the diverse cultural ways of working and communicating in the team, come to a consensus on how decisions would be made and how they might best understand each other to work together effectively. Guidelines for the future were developed with active participation and creative activities to further understanding of each others ways of working and their business priorities. Utilized Managing Across Culture’s Assessment Instrument and Collaboration Simulation of “Cultural Ways of Working”. Also conducted a workshop in Goa for the Finance Global Leadership Team of a large US MNC to work effectively with people from different cultures, as they were expanding internationally and shifting some of their responsibilities to countries like India.

AUSTIN, TX, USA
For several years Dr. Araoz trained managers of a world leader in equipment and IT services for semiconductor companies to work effectively with people from India and collaborate effectively with their Indian IT partners. Dr. Araoz also coaches leaders from a computer company based in Austin.

FORT COLLINS, CO, USA
Dr. Araoz trained teams on both sides of the ocean (going back and forth between India and the US) to help the IT teams work more effectively and very successfully together, having developed a better common understanding of the meaning of commitments, schedules, quality expectations, the importance of relationships etc. to each of the teams.

MOHONK, NY, USA
Dr. Araoz helped the leader of the SIEMENS Medical Systems team in Princeton, NJ, prepare to bring together a multicultural IT development team from Germany, India, the US and other countries. The team was first brought to Mohonk Mountain House for 4 days to understand one another’s cultural similarities and differences, determine their common goals, learn and decide how they might best work together and have on-going peer groups to support these commitments, guided by Dr. Araoz. Working with the leader and team long-term, one of the best multicultural teams ever was developed with this group.