Leading an international team with Emilia Simonin

05/15/24 • 26 min

In 2010 podcast host Kate Peardon met fellow Australian Emilia Simonin in an MBA classroom in Paris. Throughout the years they've shared their journey across a number of countries and through corporate leadership, and today Emilia is the Global Market and Business Intelligence Director at L'Oreal, in Paris.
Today's episode interviews Emilia on her three key leadership lessons on her experience leading cross-cultural teams, and how each has shaped her journey from an Australian working in marketing in Sydney, to international director in Paris. Her lessons include:

It's all about people, no matter who or where you're leading
Communication styles in different cultures
How authenticity has helped Emilia overcome cultural barriers

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It's all about people, no matter who or where you're leading
Communication styles in different cultures
How authenticity has helped Emilia overcome cultural barriers

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It's all about people, no matter who or where you're leading
Communication styles in different cultures
How authenticity has helped Emilia overcome cultural barriers

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Transcript

Emilia Simonin00:00:00.080

If leadership is about people and people interact and communicate through relationships , then how do you form these relationships and these connections ? And for me , it's been very much around open-hearted being the Australian you're in , and that's been a bit of a journey as well with the French environment , where it takes a little while . When I mentioned leadership , I feel