Embracing Discomfort: Debra Stone on Global Perspectives, Adaptability, and Happiness
In the wake of a heated and emotional US election cycle, Hersh sits down with international executive Debra Stone to talk through the business and personal cultures at play, from America to Europe and beyond. The Founder & Managing Partner of Prism Coaching, Debra holds a master’s in business management from Boston University. After more than a decade in the US service sector industry, working for publicly traded companies (Verizon), she pursued a career in executive leadership for international organizations in the Europe and MEA region. Debra held senior leadership roles in the commercial launch of large-scale mobile telecom companies (France Telecom, Orange, BellSouth) across multiple countries, grew businesses into customer-focused enterprises, and helped scale multi-international startups.
Key Points
- Embracing discomfort and developing self-awareness can lead to personal growth and creativity.
- Understanding and adapting to different cultural perspectives can enhance collaboration and reduce misunderstandings.
- In a rapidly changing world, fostering intuition and fluid intelligence is crucial for navigating complex and unpredictable situations.
With 30 years of experience in global leadership and living across three continents, Debra offers broad perspective and creativity to her coaching. Her coaching and leadership clients come from highly diverse cultures and work in a variety of industries and countries.
Debra is also an adjunct professor, having built and taught courses at Boston University and Brussels School of Governance (BSoG). Drawing from her many professional lives, she continues to lecture and teach international business and leadership courses to students from across the globe and regularly holds workshops with medium and large companies in transition along with scientists, engineers and early-stage start-up CEO’s.
Connect with Debra website : prism-coach.com LinkedIn Profile : linkedin.com/in/debbiestonebrussels
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