Global Business Professor’s latest audio interview, “Working in Global Teams” features Dr. Denis Leclerc, a professor of cross-cultural communication and global negotiations, and academic director of the Executive MGM Program – Thunderbird School of Global Management.
In the 14-minute audio interview, Dr. Leclerc discusses and answers these questions:
- How would you describe the challenges most executives face in global teams?
- What challenges/solutions has technology brought into global teams?
- People have been looking a lot at different challenges that globalization has brought in the leadership field. What is your opinion or perspectives?
- The automotive industry has gone though lots of changes in the past decade. What recommendations would you give our listeners in order to prepare themselves to better lead teams?
Dr. Leclerc teaches cross-cultural communication and global negotiations at Thunderbird School of Global Management. His interests and research have focused on intercultural communication competence and global negotiation.
At Thunderbird, Dr. Leclerc teaches in multiple programs such as on-campus MBA, Executive MBA, customized programs such as Thunderbird International Consortia, and multiple oil and gas executive programs. He also serves as the academic director for multiple custom programs, such as Raytheon, Novartis and Medtronic, and open-enrollment programs such as Communicating and Negotiating with a Global Mindset and Leading Teams for Strategic Results. Before joining Thunderbird, he taught at Arizona State University and served for eight years as director of multiple international study abroad programs there. He directed and served on numerous master’s and Ph.D. committees in the U.S. and Europe. He was co-program evaluator for a National Science Foundation (NSF) three-year grant examining the cultural adaptation of U.S. scientists working in laboratories abroad.
Dr. Leclerc has been published in leading journals in his field, including the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and has been a contributor to Readers in Communication, authoring a chapter on the impact of culture on global negotiations. Dr. Leclerc also is an active and highly sought-after consultant. As the principal of his own consulting company, he has conducted cross-cultural research for companies in North America and France. In addition, he has provided support for international program evaluations and has planned, facilitated and analyzed professional-development seminars for a wide range of executive programs throughout the U.S. and Europe.
He is a keynote speaker and seminar leader for various companies such as American Express, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and ExxonMobil on topics as varied as cultural misunderstanding, improving multi-cultural awareness, and cultural strategic negotiation preparation.
In 2008 and 2009, he was voted the most valuable professor by the Thunderbird Executive MBA students. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was voted most outstanding faculty member by the Thunderbird MBA students.
A native of Normandy, France, Denis completed a maitrise in cultural geography (honors) from L’Universite de Haute Normandie, Rouen, France, and then a master’s in international tourism at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in crosscultural communication from the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State University. He received his certifications for the Global Mindset Inventory from Thunderbird and the COM/COI from the Training Management Corp.
