Lost in Translation: Navigating Corporate America When You Come From Abroad

Navigating Corporate America isn’t easy, but if you come from a different country, it’s challenging on a whole other level. Learning cultural nuances takes up a lot of space in your professional and emotional hard drive. It’s a process that doesn’t happen overnight, and it can lead to many awkward /embarrassing “lost in translation” moments (that hopefully will be material for laughter later on. Or therapy. Or both). During this episode, we speak with Susana Sala Bosch, a C-Suite level leader in the fields of operations, strategic planning, global HR functions across the industries of entertainment, alcoholic beverages, supermarket retail, and food production. Her most recent corporate role was as Chief Operating Officer, Southern Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa @ Paramount. Susana is from Spain, where being extremely direct, loud, and having a strong appreciation for curse words is the norm. When her career led to a leadership role in the U.S., Susana had to learn to adapt to the many cultural differences of Corporate America, and also, those of the teams she supervised with employees spread throughout the world. Susana is full of thoughtful and honest insights when it comes to understanding cultural nuance. If you work with people from other countries and want to understand international perspectives or if you are from a foreign country and are now working with the U.S., this episode is a MUST. FRIENDLY REMINDER : Surfing Corporate is completely self-funded, and it takes A LOT of work to make each episode. Please consider making a donation by clicking on this link. This would mean so much to us! ---- Reach out to us! Hello@surfingcorporate.com Subscribe to our newsletter @surfingcorporate.com Follow Surfing Corporate on LinkedIn and Instagram Credits: This episode was produced and edited by Aileen Merciel Cohosts: Aileen Merciel and Glenda Pacanins Intern: Stephany Gil De Sucher Original theme music is by Chaliwa Music. The rest of our music is by BlueDot Sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices