As a Global Digital Nomad, your greatest currency is visibility. In 2022, for International Women’s Day, I started the Red Couch Talks as a simple experiment to showcase women in Global Mobility. Today, 100 episodes later, the Red Couch is a global brand and we invite a diverse set of guests from Expat Spouses to nomadic researchers and international authors. The secret? I didn’t wait for a film crew or a perfect script. I forced myself into a rhythm. If you want to make a successful career as a nomad, you must stop “preparing” and start “publishing.” The “Red Couch” Philosophy: Quantity Leads to Quality Many experts get paralyzed by YouTube’s “Top of the digital food chain” status. They worry […]

Dr. Jens Schmidt, A German Executive in Shanghai Dr. Jens Schmidt is an expat. The company’s corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, assigned him  to improve efficiency at the company’s manufacturing plant in Shangai, China. During his first 90 days he came up with a list of quality issues and he shared this list with three of his direct reports (Mr. Zhu, Mr. Cao and Mrs. Ping).  He asked them for input on how to mitigate the issues within the next 90 days and what the “low hanging fruit” were. He emailed them on Friday evening and asked them to respond by Monday morning, enough time to review over the weekend. While Dr. Jens Schmidt was sorting out his moving goods […]

Daniel Zinner is a global workforce consultant, entrepreneur and business angel. His passion for more than 20 years has been cultural diversity and international collaboration. He has worked in Global Mobility for various corporations in many different countries, but is currently based in Berlin, where he enjoys the city’s creativity, diversity and open mindset. Born in Saxony, he experienced firsthand the intense impact reunification had on East Germany. It shaped his understanding of euphoric change, courage and experimentation on the one hand and the fear of disenfranchisement and endless comparison on the other. These experiences still drive him today to confront and improve everything that comes his way.  With the People Mobility Alliance, he is on a mission to transform […]