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.