We are an international event management and consulting agency that specialises in Corporate Cultural Diplomacy. Using culture based relationship building events and initiatives, we serve clients who seek an […]
By Grant Hall, Founder of League Cultural Diplomacy. I was thrilled to be interviewed recently by Callum Laing for The Asian Entrepreneur. In the interview I talk about my business […]
By Grant Hall In a frightful article titled Your Job Is Literally Killing You, The Washington Post recently reported on a new study by researchers at Harvard and Stanford that ‘connects […]
By Grant Hall Corporate cultural diplomacy (CCD) is a field of expertise that is undergoing a resurgence. CCD is nothing new; it has been used by traders since at least […]
In a recent post to wherewordsfailblog.com, Australia-Vietnam Relations; Building trade, social capital and security through culture in Asia, I argued that Australian governments should strengthen assistance to the artistic, cultural and […]
By Grant Hall. How were the doomed ones supposed to know? I wrote in an earlier post about western household name companies that failed in China and how various commentators point […]
No sooner had the ink dried on my Orchestras and Cultural Diplomacy post, a cultural engagement program between the Beijing-based China Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) and the Perth-based West Australia Symphony Orchestra (WASO) […]
By Grant Hall. ‘Where words fail, music speaks’ said Hans Christian Andersen, and it’s largely due to this transcendent quality that music is so commonly used for cultural diplomacy. I’ve […]
Broadly speaking, as I wrote about in The twin challenges of international business, there are two main needs that your business will need to meet in its overseas operations: The need to […]
By Grant Hall If you do an internet search on “companies that failed in China” what you will get is a long list of Western companies with a range of […]