Hey, thanks for taking some time to get to know me.
Here’s who I am.
Jerry the Culture Vulture
I am truly fascinated by all things culture and I love watching when cultures blend. My time as a bumbling foreigner has been exactly that. A blend of cultures. Family. Business. Community. Life. My journey has led me abroad and “home” and then back abroad again.
My life is a wonderfully awkward mix of people who see the exact same world from completely different perspectives.
I love this world.
Jerry the Professional
I am a cross-cultural trainer and coach who offers support and develops resources for global people.
I go deep with expats and repats and locals who are wading through the mess of cross-cultural challenges and help them move forward. I work with great people all over the world who want to understand how to do global life better. It’s a great job if you can get it and that is never, ever lost on me.
I love the people in this world.
Jerry the Writer
I write about what I see and how I see it. I love to share the nuggets that I have picked up from my successes and failures with international business. I love to share about my family because I am uber-proud of them and I think the whole world should be too. I love to share about culture because I like people and where there are people . . . there is culture. And when cultures bump into each other, the blend is never, ever boring.
I love to write about the people that I love in this world.
Jerry the Family Man
I have been married to the love of my life since 1996. Our story is confusing for normal people. We have two beautiful children. A daughter, adopted from China (while we lived in the States) and a son, adopted from the States (while we lived in China). We obviously, we don’t do things the easy way but we are richly blessed to have a multi-cultural family to share this wonderful adventure with. Together we have realized that wherever we live . . . we are home.
What is the Culture Blend? Yeah, that’s us.
And I love that.