#131 How to build a sustainable Flexpat lifestyle with your family

Reduce your cost of living to the bare minimum in order to build a sustainable Flexpat lifestyle.

- What are the easiest ways to reduce the cost of living?

- How can international children attend public school?

- Why should children attend Chinese kindergarten and school?

- How do you deal with performance pressure?

- How can you build a sustainable Flexpat profile and perform?

- Why should international companies hire Flexpats?

Currently, Dr. Lockstrom is a Senior Associate Professor of Operations Management at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, where he is teaching and doing research in the areas of purchasing, logistics, and supply chain/operations management. He is also currently serving as Director of the Centre for Case Development (CCD). Dr. Lockstrom received his BSc/MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management at Chalmers University of Technology and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from European Business School, Germany. He has previously taught graduate courses at European Business School, Moscow State University, Tongji University, and MBA courses at CEIBS. He has published more than 50 academic and practice-oriented papers and book chapters, and made more than 60 conference appearances. Prof. Lockstrom has more than two decades of consulting experience working with multinational corporations such as BMW, Atlas Copco, DuPont, and EY, among others, and has also founded and operated multiple business ventures in the past.

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