Future of work expert, Diana Wu David speaks on reinventing work in relation to cross cultural communications and the modern elder phenomena.
Listen to “25. Reinventing Work – Cross Cultural Communications and the Modern Elder” on Spreaker.
Tune in and learn the following:
- Characteristics needed for succeeding in the future of work
- Differences in how Americans communicate in comparison to other cultures
- Disconnects on how some define what a global workforce really means
- Understanding just in time vs. just in case learning
- The world’s largest work from home community and their primary focus
- Communication best practices and boundaries that should be respected when working with businesses overseas
- Different work responses needed as a result of longer age expectancy in the workplace
- The fastest growing segment of the workforce
- The way age bias appears in different cultures
- Future of work for the retired workplace population
Diana Wu David Bio
Diana Wu David is a former Financial Times executive, author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School’s EMBA Global Asia. She works with global leaders to help them make sense of mega trends and take advantage of disruption. She is privileged to have spoken to or consulted with clients including JP Morgan, AXA, Credit Suisse, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, the World Bank, Asia Development Bank, Expedia and Randstad.
Her company, Future Proof Labs (formerly Sarana Labs), provides education to help people make sense of disruption from senior executives via the Future Proof Course to young people preparing for a bright future via initiatives like The Opportunity Project.
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