The Global Thought Leaders You Want to Follow

Social media is a terrific resource for global professionals to gather news, insights, and nuggets on working and living internationally. However, the cacophony of the many channels can sometimes be a challenging environment to navigate. From hashtags, to accounts, to lists, to moments, there are so many different ways to keep up with trending news that it can be a bit difficult to figure out who to follow.

Here are some of the accounts we think should matter to global leaders. You will get valuable information, quick tips, and sometimes entertaining tidbits around work and life in an international context. So check them out ans see how many of these accounts you want to follow.

None of these lists are ever complete and surely we missed a few relevant people here. Feel free to add your suggestions in the comment section.

David Livermore

David is president and partner at the Cultural Intelligence Center in East Lansing, MI, and a visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Before leading the Cultural Intelligence Center, he spent 20 years in leadership positions with a variety of nonprofit organizations around the world and taught at several universities. He says he is insatiably curious about people, cultures, the world.
Twitter – Facebook

Sue Kallenbach Shinomiya

Sue is the founder and principal consultant at Global Business Passport and the co-author of Business Passport to Japan, an essential guide for anyone doing business in Japan. Living a Japanese-American life, her posts are insightful for anyone interested in working with people from Japan or the U.S.
LinkedIn – Facebook

Hyde Flippo

Hyde, a former high school teacher from the U.S. Southwest, runs The German Way Expat Blog, which provides a depth of resources about life and work in German-speaking Europe plus German language and culture.
Twitter – Facebook – Instagram

Melissa Hahn

Melissa is an intercultural expert and writer. You should look for her work on Harvard Business Review (here’s an example). Melissa has also been a guest on The Culture Guy Podcast.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram

Alan Headbloom

Alan is the principal of Headbloom Cross-Cultural Communication in Allendale, MI, and he facilitates conversations across ethnic, cultural, and linguistic barriers. For more than 30 years he has been helping foreign-born professionals communicate with increased comfort and accuracy when the stakes are high. Alan is also the host of the web TV show Feel Like You Belong. Check him out as a guest on The Culture Guy Podcast.
Twitter – Facebook – LinkedIn

Micah Bellieu

Micah is the founder of Fluency Corp., a language learning firm based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She is also passionate about cultural competency and posts regularly about the connection between language & culture fluency.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Facebook

Andy Molinsky

Andy is a professor at Brandeis University in Boston and author of the two best-selling books Global Dexterity and Reach. He writes for the Harvard Business Review, and his work has been featured in the Economist, Fast Company, Fortune, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, NPR, and the Voice of America. He helps individuals and teams reach their potential by learning to step outside their comfort zones. Andy has been a guest on The Culture Guy Podcast twice (here & here) and wrote an article for our blog.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Facebook

Janina Kugel

Janina is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at German industrial conglomerate Siemens. She is quite active on social media where she displays a passion for leadership, Diversity & Inclusion, education and society.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram

Farzana Nayani

Farzana is a Diversity & Inclusion specialist and Intercultural trainer with a heart for connecting community.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram

Salvador Rodríguez Gil Batista

Salvador is an experienced cultural trainer and founder of Gea Cultura in Mexico City. Sal is the son of Mexican parents in a Spanish family with an American education. He tweets about Mexican culture, society, and politics. Salvador has been a guest on The Culture Guy Podcast.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Facebook

Yinka Kehinde

Yinka is a German-Nigerian connector of people, interested in inclusion, diversity, and leadership. She works as cultural trainer and posts about communication, identity, and belonging.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram

Country Navigator

Country Navigator is a cultural training tool enabling teams & individuals to develop global mobility for enhanced relationships and outstanding business results. Based in the UK, the CN team regularly post relevant insights and tidbits about culture on social media.
Twitter – Facebook – Instagram

Kyle Hegarty

Kyle is the Managing Director of Leadership Nomad, part of the TSL Group in Singapore, where he focuses on helping companies expand across the globe. He shared nuggets of his cross-cultural experience on The Culture Guy Podcast and he tweets about being a business nomad trying to figure out how to work across a shrinking, fractured planet.
Twitter – LinkedIn

Felicity Menzies

Felicity is the founder and principal of Include-Empower.com. She writes and posts about diversity & inclusion, gender equality, and cultural intelligence.
Twitter – LinkedIn

Kathrin Bussmann

Kathrin is an international marketing consultant. She is the founder of Verbaccino and host of The Worldly Marketer Podcast. Kathrin helps brands leverage a global marketplace.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram

Tamara Thorpe

Tamara is the Millennials Mentor who helps young professionals lead with more confidence, competence, and authenticity. She works exclusively with Millennial leaders and entrepreneurs to build effective leaders and healthy organizations that challenge the status quo and make a difference.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Instagram

Kelli McLoud-Schingen

Kelli is president of KMS Consulting and specializes in global Diversity & Inclusion, healing racism, and storytelling presentations. She’s a storyteller who believes that hate is wrong and has no place in the world.
Twitter – LinkedIn – Facebook

Nicole Barile

Nicole is an expert in cross-cultural communication and cultural intelligence. For years she has worked with global clients through a big U.S. destination services and training firm. Now, as an independent cultural trainer, she is publishing great work mainly via LinkedIn.
LinkedIn – Instagram

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