Our Global Lead­er­ship Experts

Wolfgang Schmitz
Dr. Wolf­gang Schmitz

Founder and CEO, eurac estab­lish­ment

  • Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment Advisor for C‑suite and Top Manage­ment in over 60 coun­tries
  • Ph.D. in Busi­ness Science, Univer­sity of Cali­fornia (USA)
  • EMBA, Ross Busi­ness School, Univer­sity of Michigan (USA)
  • M.A. in Psychology, Univer­sity of Hamburg (Germany)
Joyce S. Osland
Prof. Dr. Joyce S. Osland

Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Lead­er­ship, Founder and Exec­u­tive Director, Global Lead­er­ship Advance­ment Center, College of Busi­ness at San José State Univer­sity, USA

  • Inter­na­tion­ally known specialist in inter­na­tional manage­ment with a focus on global lead­er­ship and orga­ni­za­tional devel­op­ment.
  • Exten­sive exec­u­tive educa­tion and consulting expe­ri­ences in global compe­tency devel­op­ment with global corpo­ra­tions, non-profits and univer­si­ties.
  • Winner of the highest teaching award (Outstanding Educator Award) by Inter­na­tional Manage­ment Divi­sion of the Academy of Manage­ment.
  • Co-founder, the inno­v­a­tive Global Lead­er­ship Lab.
  • Prolific and award-winning scholar with over 150 publi­ca­tions.
  • Ph.D. in Orga­ni­za­tional Behavior, Case Western Reserve Univer­sity.
Gigi
Gigi de Groot

Senior Lead­er­ship Specialist at FBA (Folke Bernadotte Academy), Sweden

  • Highly expe­ri­enced trainer and consul­tant devel­oping global teams and indi­vid­uals from over 75 cultures.
  • Special­ized on inter­na­tional facil­i­ta­tion, inter­cul­tural manage­ment, organ­i­sa­tional devel­op­ment, cross-cultural commu­ni­ca­tion, organ­i­sa­tional culture, culture and person­ality, change manage­ment and global lead­er­ship devel­op­ment.
  • Previous CEO, itim Inter­na­tional, nowa­days known as Hofstede Insights.
  • Master’s Degree in Inter­na­tional Rela­tions, Univer­sity of Gronigen, Nether­lands.
  • Fluent in English, Dutch and Swedish with a good under­standing of German and French.
Claudia Jing Zhang
Claudia Jing Zhang

General Manager, eurac Asia Pacific

  • Special­ized in Mindful Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion for Global Busi­ness and Global Lead­er­ship
  • Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, Summer Insti­tute for Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Reed College (USA)
  • Master of Science in Educa­tion, Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Univer­sity of Penn­syl­vania (USA)
  • Bach­elor of Art, English Language and Liter­a­ture, Lanzhou Univer­sity (China)
Claudia Jing Zhang
Prof. Subhasis Ray

Marketing and Sustain­ability, Xavier Insti­tute of Manage­ment, Xavier Univer­sity, India

  • 24 years’ work expe­ri­ences in corpo­rate and acad­emia.
  • 8 years in strategy and busi­ness devel­op­ment for leading MNCs in emerging and markets-BP, HILTI and the TATA group.
  • 16 years’ acad­emic expe­ri­ences of teaching/speaking on sustain­ability, CSR and marketing at leading univer­si­ties (Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Darden, INSEAD) to partic­i­pants of 35+nationalities in 23 coun­tries.
  • Ph.D. on Corpo­rate Social Respon­si­bility, Osmania Univer­sity.
Piotr Gryko
Piotr Gryko

Co-founder and Senior Partner, House of Skills, Poland

  • Special­ized in visual strategic facil­i­ta­tion, orga­ni­za­tional culture analysis and tran­si­tion manage­ment, cross-cultural effi­ciency, exec­u­tive teams’ effi­ciency.
  • Over 25 years’ profes­sional expe­ri­ences across multiple cultures including Poland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia.
  • Accred­ited prac­ti­tioner in Inter­cul­tural Manage­ment
  • MA, Inter­na­tional Busi­ness, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
Steve Terrel
Steve Terrel

Pres­i­dent at Aspire Consulting, USA

  • Special­ized in Global Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, and Manage­ment Consulting.
  • 30 years’ expe­ri­ences in improving orga­ni­za­tional and human perfor­mance. Deep and broad capa­bil­i­ties in virtu­ally all aspects of executive/leadership devel­op­ment.
  • Ed.D., Human Resource Devel­op­ment, The George Wash­ington Univer­sity.
  • M.S. in Educa­tion, Old Dominion Univer­sity.
Satu
Satu Kreula

Exec­u­tive Coach & Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment Consul­tant, UK

  • Special­ized in inte­grated approach of coaching senior exec­u­tives and teams for global lead­er­ship effec­tive­ness across cultures.
  • A wealth of inter­na­tional project and program manage­ment expe­ri­ence working in over 40 coun­tries across six conti­nents. 
  • Accred­ited MBTI, LCP Prac­ti­tioner; Member of ICF, SIETAR, AC.
  • M.Sc. Orga­ni­za­tional Behavior and Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­ca­tion, Helsinki School of Economics (HSE).
  • Bilin­gual in English and Finnish, full profes­sional profi­ciency in Spanish, basic French, Portuguese, and Swedish skills.