Global Tribe Experts Discuss Exporter Strategies 2022

Join us to get ready to grow more effectively and with less risk in the 'new normal' of 2022.

We held this globinar "Experts Discuss Exporter Strategies 2022" to provide ideas for exporters to be even more successful in the days ahead.

Watch the conversation HERE.

The framework of the discussion was that each expert shared ideas in the areas below, and then we held Q&A.

• Global Opportunities
• Getting Ready for the 2022 'New Normal'
• Tips and Techniques for Export Planning
• Other Topics

Expert Keynote Speakers

• Kathryn Read - Consultant/Partner, Uniconsult: Wick & Partner
• Hank Marshall - Honorary Consul for the UK in Arizona; Global Business Leader; and Economic Development Executive Officer at City of Phoenix
• D. Yvonne Rivers - CEO at Phoebe Global
• Elizabeth Glynn - Speaker/Advisor at EMG Global Business Solutions

Biographies

Kathryn Read - Consultant/Partner, Uniconsult: Wick & Partner. Kathryn is an international sales and marketing consultant with over 20 years’ experience developing niche consumer products in emerging markets. She helps small and medium companies to break through international barriers, creating successful entrepreneurs and a thriving global marketplace.

Kathryn firmly believes that business is done between people, and therefore places her focus on building strong relationships that form a solid foundation for doing business. The last 18 years her main geographical focus has been on Asia, especially China. Kathryn is based in Austria and is a member of Global Chamber®.

Hank Marshall - Global Business Leader; Economic Development Executive Officer at City of Phoenix. Hank is Economic Development Executive Officer for City of Phoenix and he oversees the department's International, Business Development and Business Retention/Expansion programs and initiatives. His team is charged with the pursuit of opportunity that advances economic prosperity for the city of Phoenix. Prior to joining the city of Phoenix, Hank was Senior Vice President of International at the Arizona Commerce Authority. Hank was one of the key executives that assisted with the launching of the Arizona Commerce Authority in July 2011. From 2005 to 2011, Hank served as the CEO of AISLE21, an international consulting firm. Hank also serves as the British Honorary Consul to the state of Arizona. Marshall was raised overseas and spent many years in international corporate assignments. Marshall received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University in 1982.

D. Yvonne Rivers - CEO at Phoebe Global. D. Yvonne Rivers has been the Principal of Phoebe Marketing Group since 1997, a business development, marketing and training company serving globally and headquartered in Washington, DC. Yvonne is a graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and studied graduate marketing at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Yvonne has over thirty years of business experience and is the creator and producer of ‘American Dream Business Pitch’ established as ‘DC Shark Tank’, now Phoebe Pitch Tank which is a business pitch competition established in 2015 that has developed tremendous accolades and exposure for Yvonne in ‘Black Enterprise Magazine and other outlets. Yvonne also serves as a 'Pitch Coach' across the U.S. and globally in entrepreneurship programs. Yvonne aka ‘Phoebe’ has been an entrepreneur since 1988 in business development including business plans, marketing plans and sponsorship marketing. Yvonne is a busy speaker on global business issues across the globe. Her digital videocast platform of “Phoebe Business Report LIVE” is syndicated on business platforms internationally. Yvonne is also a Business Coach at virtual platform for entrepreneurs www.ureeka.biz since 2019. Yvonne has expanded with micro-enterprise and entrepreneurial training programs in Africa in the countries of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and also in Belgium, Canada, Germany, London, Paris , Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. Phoebe recently launched African Dream Business Institute as a ‘Sister” cohort to American Dream Business Institute operating virtually since 2013.

Elizabeth Glynn - Speaker/Advisor at EMG Global Business Solutions. Elizabeth Glynn is a global operations and export development professional. With 25+ years’ experience in export operations, trade finance, and global transportation, she works with manufacturers to build exporting into their business planning so that they access and maximize sales opportunities in global markets.

Early in her career Glynn worked for two (2) global logistics companies. Glynn then transitioned to International Manager for a company that nearly tripled its global sales in two (2) years. She reorganized the global transportation infrastructure; managed export, import, foreign-based transactions; facilitated multi-country shipments, free trade zone projects; negotiated letters of credit. As Consultant to a medical device manufacturer, Glynn developed and implemented an export plan that positioned the company to export with greater ease and expand its sales outreach to multiple global markets. As Export Advisor for an aerospace & defense company, Elizabeth worked with business units to facilitate the export process to enhance delivery to its foreign buyers. She helped a business unit coordinate real-time coordination of shipments from California, Florida, and Europe for shipping to a destination in Africa. Glynn has facilitated export management programs for Manufacturing Executive Teams to create, and then implement, export strategies. Of 67 companies eight (8) were recognized with export awards, including three (3) that received the President’s ‘E’ Award (2015, 2018, 2019).

Glynn has taught global business management, global transportation, export, operations, and managing culture in business at various universities and companies. Active in the Southern California global trade network, she serves on the World Trade Week Committee (LA Chamber of Commerce), the California Inland Empire District Export Council, and the U.S.- Mexico Chamber of Commerce. In partnership with key organizations Glynn has supported multiple Baja California (Mexico) Trade Tours for manufacturers.

Glynn received her Management of International Management (MIM) degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management (ASU) and her B.A. from the University of California, Irvine. She holds the Certified Global Business Professional (CBGP) designation.

Moderator: Doug Bruhnke - Founder/CEO of Global Chamber®. Doug is a global entrepreneur dedicated to helping members of Global Chamber® successfully reach new markets across 525 metros - everywhere! He is a two-time ex-pat with Dupont in Tokyo and Singapore with 35 years of global business experience in nearly all countries and segments. Doug is a regional advisor for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and a member of the Arizona District Export Council. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University and is co-inventor on 5 patents. Doug was born in Mt. Kisco, New York, and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Palo Alto, California.

Hear the Global Chamber® story here.

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world, connecting member businesses to new opportunities for advancing growth and success. It's the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that helps exporting, importing and investing for members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources.