Erin Meyer is a professor at INSEAD. She is well-known for her 2014 book, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business which analyses how national cultural differences impact business.

She is also the co-author of a book ‘No Rules Rules, Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, It’s time to do things differently’ (Penguin Press, September 2020), which she co-wrote with Reed Hastings Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix. In this book she investigates the underlying principles necessary for building a corporate culture that is inventive, fast, and flexible.

Her main area of focus is how how the world’s most successful managers navigate the complexities of cultural differences in a global environment.  Through her keynotes she helps companies develop organisational cultures that breed both flexibility and innovation and offers cutting-edge strategies to improve the effectiveness of projects that span the globe.

She is an American who has lived in Africa and currently in Europe, this prompted  her study of the communication patterns and business systems of different parts of the world. Her ‘Culture Map’ framework allows international executives to pinpoint their leadership preferences, and compare their methods to the management styles of other cultures. Erin has taught thousands of executives from five continents to decode cross-cultural complexities impacting their success, and to work more effectively across these differences.

Erin’s work at INSEAD includes directing the Leading Across Borders and Cultures program.

In 2019, Erin was listed by the Thinkers50, for the second time, as one of the fifty most impactful business writers in the world and in 2018 she was selected by HR magazine as one of the top 30 most influential HR thinkers of the year.

Prior to INSEAD Erin was a Director of Training and Development at HBOC and a Director of Business Operations at McKesson Corporation.

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