Just Minding My Business

Stephan M. Branch, MBA, PhD is the author of Cultural Intelligence in the 21st Century: Driving Inclusion, Revenue, and ESG. As the Founder and CEO of World Trade Resource, he has led privately held and multi-billion-dollar publicly traded companies in the US, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. During his tenure at those companies, he was responsible for a total of fifty-five countries and lived on five continents. Stephan has graduate degrees from George Washington University and is a graduate of Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation. He is multilingual and has served multiple terms on the Board of Directors of the National Foreign Trade Council.Stephan has been instrumental in global IPOs while simultaneously creating explosive growth to meet the very high expectations of investors and boards. The secret to his success is that he fully grasps how leadership, cultural intelligence, and inclusion coalesce to create extraordinary leaders with a transformative impact on revenue, business valuation, and ESG.