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Erin Meyer
INSEAD Professor & World Authority on Cross-Cultural Management | Bestselling Author of The Culture Map & No Rules Rules | Thinkers50-Ranked Thinker
Erin Meyer is the world's leading authority on cross-cultural management and the INSEAD professor behind the bestselling The Culture Map. Co-author with Netflix's Reed Hastings of No Rules Rules, she has given global organizations the standard framework for collaborating across borders. On stage, she equips audiences with a practical toolkit for leading, negotiating, and building high-performance culture across cultures.
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Erin Meyer biography
Erin Meyer is the world’s foremost authority on cross-cultural management, the INSEAD professor whose work has become the global standard for how leaders and teams collaborate across borders. In a business world where a single team can span a dozen nationalities, she gives organizations a clear, practical framework for turning cultural difference from a source of friction into a source of strength.
Business speaker Erin Meyer is best known for The Culture Map, her international bestseller built around an elegant eight-scale model that decodes how people from different cultures communicate, build trust, give feedback, persuade, disagree, and make decisions. Her HBR article on cross-cultural negotiation, “Getting to Si, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da,” was the publication’s most-read piece of its year, and her framework is now used inside companies and classrooms worldwide. She later co-authored the New York Times bestseller No Rules Rules with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, a landmark study of the radical culture of freedom and responsibility behind one of the world’s most inventive companies.
From the Peace Corps to the World’s Business School
Meyer’s global perspective is lived, not just studied. An American raised in Minnesota, she began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in Botswana, later worked with immigrant communities in the United States, and held director roles at McKesson and HBOC before joining INSEAD, often called “the business school for the world.” Today, based in Paris, she is a Professor of Management Practice and Program Director of INSEAD’s flagship Leading Across Borders and Cultures program. Ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential business thinkers and a winner of its Talent Award with Reed Hastings, she speaks and consults for organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations, Google, L’Oréal, and Johnson & Johnson.
As a speaker, Erin Meyer gives audiences an immediately useful toolkit for leading, negotiating, and collaborating across cultures, and for building the kind of high-trust, high-performance culture that lets organizations move fast. She speaks on cross-cultural leadership and global teamwork, giving feedback and negotiating across borders, and designing corporate cultures that unlock talent. Audiences leave with a shared language for difference and concrete strategies they can apply the moment they return to their global teams.
Erin Meyer Speaking Videos
The Culture Map: The Future of Management
Low Context vs High Context Societies
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Drawing on her international bestseller, Meyer introduces her eight-scale framework for decoding how cultures differ in how they communicate, build trust, give feedback, and make decisions. She gives leaders a practical, memorable model for anticipating misunderstandings and working effectively across borders, turning cultural complexity into a genuine competitive advantage for global teams.
Based on her book with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, Meyer reveals the unconventional principles behind one of the world's most inventive corporate cultures, from radical candor to minimal controls. She explores what leaders can learn from Netflix's high-talent, high-freedom model, and how much of it can, and can't, translate to their own organizations and cultures.
Feedback that motivates in one culture can devastate in another, and negotiation styles vary dramatically worldwide. Meyer offers practical, research-based guidance on how to give criticism, persuade, and reach agreement across cultural lines, helping leaders and teams avoid the costly missteps that derail international collaboration.
Culture is one of the most talked-about yet least understood drivers of performance. Meyer helps leaders move beyond vague values statements to intentionally design cultures that attract talent, guide decisions, and adapt across regions, using clear frameworks that make the invisible forces shaping behavior visible and manageable.
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FAQs on Booking Erin Meyer
Why Erin Meyer?
Booking Erin Meyer gives audiences the definitive voice on one of the defining challenges of modern business: leading and collaborating across cultures. An INSEAD professor whose Culture Map framework is used in companies and classrooms around the world, she pairs rigorous research with a rare gift for making complex cultural dynamics clear, memorable, and immediately actionable. She co-authored the bestseller No Rules Rules with Netflix's Reed Hastings, is ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential business thinkers, and has advised organizations from the World Bank to Google. Engaging, practical, and truly global in perspective, she is an ideal speaker for events on leadership, global teamwork, corporate culture, and international business, especially for organizations managing teams across borders. To bring Erin Meyer to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Erin Meyer?
Erin Meyer is an American author and professor of management practice at INSEAD, one of the world's leading international business schools, where she directs the executive program Leading Across Borders and Cultures. She is a globally recognized authority on cross-cultural management and the author of the bestseller The Culture Map, as well as co-author, with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, of No Rules Rules. Ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential business thinkers, she is based in Paris.
What is The Culture Map?
The Culture Map is Erin Meyer's bestselling book and framework for understanding how national cultures differ in the workplace. It maps cultures along eight scales, covering communication, feedback, persuasion, leadership, decision-making, trust, disagreement, and scheduling, so that leaders can compare cultures and anticipate where misunderstandings are likely to arise. The framework is widely used by global companies to improve communication, collaboration, and leadership across international teams.
What topics does business speaker Erin Meyer cover?
Erin Meyer speaks on cross-cultural management and global leadership, building high-performance corporate cultures, giving feedback and negotiating across borders, and the lessons of Netflix's culture from No Rules Rules. Her keynotes suit events on leadership, global teamwork, corporate culture, and international business. To book Erin Meyer as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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