Dr. Zareen Karani Araoz, President of Managing Across Cultures, is known for being a pioneer in helping corporations gain critical insights and excel, as they work with people and teams from different cultures. She has been a pioneer in skillfully coaching Senior Global Leaders and their innovative HR partners help cross-border collaborations and teams succeed. She introduced cross-cultural management perspectives to Indian industry and leading business schools and universities in India, the USA and Sweden in the 80s. She has briefed many leaders to manage their cultural transitions effectively, and learn to motivate teams in India to give their best. She has in-depth experiences and insights in developing global executives and finding creative and productive solutions to people issues in organizations working across cultures. Managing Across Cultures was founded in India in 1982 and in Boston in 1985. Dr. Araoz is based in the US and India, and has consulted in 25+ countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Dr. Araoz has also been a leading management educator and visionary founder of many innovative programs in the US, India and Europe.

Dr. Araoz has coached leaders, consulted and facilitated trainings in corporations like DuPont, Dell, Tata Motors, United Technologies, HP, Bristol Myer Squibb, Lucent, SIEMENS, Novartis, Yahoo, Cummins, Proctor & Gamble, Cargotec, Polaroid, Becton Dickinson, Air India, AT&T, Lucent, EMC, Tatas, FMC, GE Capital, Dell, 3M, Fedex, Chubb Insurance, Cigna, Wyeth, Price Waterhouse, Glaxo, Becton Dickinson, Texas Instruments, TCS, Cognizant Technologies, Sovereign Bank, Cross-cultural Training Services (Japan), Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and SIDA (Sweden) and UNIDO (the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Austria) and the Universities in Sweden, Latin America, USA and India. She is on the Global Leadership Coaching Cadres for Dell, Intel, John Deere, Microsoft, American Express and other MNCs.

Dr. Araoz was an invited Delegate on President Obama’s Executive Mission to India. She was an invited columnist for the Times of India’s on-line Ascent as a Gyan Guru (Knowledge Guru) on Leadership. Dr. Araoz has been a very popular speaker in 22+ countries, including for industry organizations like NASSCOM, ASTD, SHRM, OD Network, Euro-India, TIE, PBD, CII and at the UN.

Dr. Araoz holds a Law Degree (LL.B.), two Master's Degrees (German, Literature and Comparative Education), a Ph.D. (in Cross-cultural Counseling Psychology), and a German Teacher's Diploma. Dr. Araoz was given the NRI Institute Award for outstanding contributions to the image of India abroad.