cooperate culture

Dr. Mark Young is a Negotiation Expert and the President of Rational Games Inc., a company that teaches negotiation using playful methods. Together with Mark, we talked about his interest in negotiation, the purpose of his work and the reasons why people need negotiation skills. Mark explained the difference between good and bad negotiators, why he thinks the urge to play is greater than the urge...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, we talked with Prof. Dr. Claude-Hélène Mayer about the chances and challenges of intercultural relationships - both in professional and private contexts. Claude-Hélène Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of Johannesburg, a Board member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research and holds Do...

Tobias Vollmer is a Senior Director at RAEDAS, a global corporate investigations and dispute resolution consultancy based in London. He focuses on evidence gathering in support of international litigation and arbitration. Tobias routinely works on cross-border and multi-jurisdictional disputes spanning the Commonwealth of Independent States, the MENA region, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. In this ep...

Born and raised in India, Rudrani Banerjee is a qualified commercial lawyer and researcher with working experience in financial institutions, law firms, NGOs and public institutions in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Rudrani's additional studies and professional stays in Hungary and Germany enable her to provide some unique insight into the cultural landscape of India, diversity in European wor...

Ruslan Sharipov is an international lawyer from Russia who worked at the European Court of Human Rights since the start of the war in Ukraine. Even after the expulsion of Russia from the Council of Europe, Ruslan continued working for the Russian section for one and a half years - finding himself in a strange situation where his country of origin is at war with another member of the organization h...

In the second episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I talked with Kalina Hristova-Tréhet about her work at Eurocatering - her family's own sandwich business and one of the leading Bulgarian companies in the industry. Kalina had a very interesting career path that allowed her to explore many different professional sectors and roles. Until at some point, she decided to return to Bulgaria and joi...

In the first episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I talked with Nicolas Synnott about his perspectives on working culture, leadership and teamwork in East Africa. Having his professional roots in the Canadian start-up world, Nicolas now looks back on several years of working experience on the African continent. He is currently the Chief of Staff at East African Power, a renewable energy compa...