Expat Women Newsletter - September 2008

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Hi Everyone! Thanks for joining us. This month we talk to: our Expat Women Success Story - Herta von Stiegel, a finance industry leader in the UK, originally from Transylvania; and Vardit Kohn from Israel, about her natural nutrition Business Idea in The Netherlands.

Special thanks go to: Rebecca Grappo, for contributing her article Finding The Right Boarding School; Nina Cole, for sharing her research Managing Global Talent: What Do Expatriate Spouses Need?; Sheida Hodge, for her article Guanxi: The Art Of Building Relationships in China; Jenny Early, for her social media piece Stumbling Along; and one of our volunteer psychologists for her response to the Expat Confession: Beware Your Friends.

Here is our article from last week in The Telegraph UK: Expat Assignments: Are You Addicted?

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Success Story

Business Idea

Herta von Stiegel
Finance Leader

Born in Transylvania, Herta has spent her adult life in the US and the UK. She has an impressive track record in the finance industry and together with her partners, has just launched Ariya Capital Group, a fund management firm focusing on sustainable investments in Africa...

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Vardit Kohn
For Goodness Sake

Vardit Kohn has been interested in food for as long as she can remember. But it was not until after her linguistics studies in Israel, and her MBA studies in London, that she found her true calling and she now thrives as a Natural Nutritionist in The Netherlands…

Expat Spouses

Boarding Schools

Managing Global Talent: What Do Expatriate Spouses Need?
Report to Participants
Dr. Nina Cole

Surveys demonstrate that problems with spousal adjustment are the leading cause of early return home from expatriate assignments, which is costly in terms of repatriation and replacement of the expatriate, and in terms of company performance...

Expat Spouses: Managing Global Talent: What Do Expatriate Spouses Need?

Finding The Right Boarding School
Rebecca Grappo, M.Ed

Young people in internationally mobile families often face many disruptions in their education as their families move from one country to the next. Many times their educational needs cannot be met at the location of the new international assignment...

Boarding Schools: Finding The Right Boarding School

Expat Confession

China Feature

Beware Your Friends
Expat Women Girlfriend

Ciao! I just moved to Italy a year ago and have started to meet people. I am married to an Italian citizen and am getting over my culture shock, my rollercoaster emotions and I am finally settling in. I met a woman (also married to an Italian) at a common expat meet up as...

Guanxi: The Art Of Building Relationships In China
Sheida Hodge

In literal terms, Guanxi means "the art of building relationships". But for [foreigners] seeking to do business in China, this translation is somewhat misleading. The idea of forced socialization...

Winning Story

Social Media

Expat Empty Nest - The Emotions Without The Nest

This morning I breezed by the empty bedroom, door wide open, dusty abandoned papers - the sum of eight years of private school in Ghana - left in sliding piles... Where the door would once be almost closed, the hum of the air-conditioning purring and the soft breath of a teenager, sleeping within...

Congratulations
Holli
(In Ghana )

Stumbling Along
Jenny Early

The internet can be a dreadful bore. You visit the same old websites day in day out, whether from habit or necessity. Finding something new and interesting in the net’s plethora of pages can be a real chore...