Visiting Faculty, Management
- Owner and CEO, CQ Leadership Consulting, LLC, Bangkok, Thailand.
- A U.S. company with a Thai branch that offers cross-cultural and leadership consulting, coaching, short courses at academic institutions, and seminars for organizations and businesses.
- CQ empowers leaders to navigate successfully between cultures to maximize performance, productivity, and financial results.
- Dr. Persons is a multi-cultural, bilingual expert helping organizational leaders in Thailand successfully navigate between cultures to maximize performance, productivity and financial results.
- Born and raised in Thailand and received by Thais as a highly acceptable outsider due to his strong command of the Thai language and worldview.
- Author of a groundbreaking book on “face” as social capital for leadership in Thai society: The Way Thais Lead: Face as Social Capital, Chiangmai, Thailand: Silkworm Books (2016)
- Teach leaders to increase their cultural intelligence in a globalized world
- Develop human resources through coaching
- Design and implement new organizational training programs
- Advise multi-cultural teams on how to pursue a shared vision and goals
- Understand cultural nuances in negotiations between Thais and foreigners
- Mediate sensitive cross-cultural conflicts due to miscommunication