Global-eze Incorporated is a global management consulting company and e-learning portal that offers solutions for professionals who need practical, global business skills to stay competitive.

Patricia A. Warner, founder and president, launched Global-eze Inc. in 1999 specializing in Global English Audits and Visual Strategic Planning - a process with a 20-year record of success. Managing director, Tod Russell, formed Global-eze UK Ltd. in 2006. Our combined business experience in over 50 countries, and network of experts and technology partners has allowed us to integrate on-line services with best business practices to meet the needs of today’s busy global managers.

Due to a steady demand for solutions to the challenges of managing worldwide, Global-eze now offers a range of how-to products, training modules and consulting services delivered both on line and in person.

Today Global-eze is known for transforming “local” managers into “global” managers – fast.

Our mission is to help managers become independent global-savvy managers as quickly as possible. We show our clients how to successfully integrate a global mindset and cross-cultural communications skills with effective business strategies. Global-eze respects your culture, your time and your budget to deliver training and expertise that is practical and relevant.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Patricia is the Founder and President of Global-eze Incorporated. As a business strategist and turnaround specialist, she uses her expertise in global operations, strategic planning, world cultures and on-line technologies to help top mangers close the productivity gap that become amplified by distance and cultures. A management executive for over twenty-five years, Patricia has been responsible for many successful start-up, turnaround, and reorganization plans that increased market share, revenues and profits time after time.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Patricia has steered Global-eze from a start-up consulting company to one with a growing line of how-to products, online services and a network of experts and affiliates. Her two powerful assessment tools, Visual Strategic Planning and Global English Audits drove the early success of Global-eze. Her ten-year management career with Corning Incorporated led to the position of Diretor of International Sales and Marketing. Based in Tokyo, she was responsible for staff in eleven global offices and product sales into fifty countries. Prior to Corning, Patricia worked as a turnaround specialist in the US and Canada in the fields of health care, communications and retail.

A popular speaker, lecturer and author on the topic of global-savvy management skills, she has written the soon-to-be published books, The Global English Handbook, Travel Smart – Pack and Go Like a Global Pro, numerous management e-books, and the on-line program for students and new hires—How to Have Value in the Global Workplace.

EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND
Patricia earned her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University. Her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Japanese was achieved at the University of Connecticut with three semesters spent abroad at Sophia University, Tokyo. An early Rotary Club scholarship to Nobeoka, Japan started her on the path to a global career. She is an officer and member of Zonta International. Patricia has made her home in Vancouver, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; Tokyo, Japan; all major regions of the USA, and has on-the-ground experience in over forty countries.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Tod is Managing Director of Global-eze UK Ltd. He has demonstrated international finance and management leadership for over thirty years and brings to Global-eze a broad knowledge of multi-national business practices and a talented network of experts from over ten countries. Tod Russell is an innovative and accomplished business leader with a wide knowledge of both corporate and small enterprise. Tod has led teams as a general manager, director and as a successful consultant in laboratory and biotech businesses in the UK, USA and Australia.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Prior to his work with Global-eze, Tod had extensive business experience in many parts of the globe. He was a director with Corning Europe, responsible for sales and marketing in European countries. He spearheaded a programme to develop a unique B-to-B relationship with all of Corning’s globally operating customer organisations. His early career was with the Millipore Corporation across the USA and he subsequently pioneered and developed a new business for that company in Australia. Tod Russell has worked in business development for over three decades in three continents. Major achievements have been in the identification of opportunities in technology markets, wherever they are and building talented and motivated management teams to exploit them. In all cases, people with the appropriate personal strengths and life experience were identified and then developed and motivated to fulfill their own ambitions and to achieve the goals of the business, a defining skill in building successful enterprises in different cultures.

EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND
Tod is a graduate of the University of London and has the following affiliations: M.I.Biol. (Member of The Institute of Biology, London) F.A.I.M. (Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management) Member of the New York Academy of Sciences Member of the Institute of Directors (London)

CITATIONS:
“Who’s Who in the World” (Marquis Publications, Chicago, USA; 1987/88) “International Leaders in Achievement” (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England; 1987)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Paul is a highly motivated and adaptable business change manager. He has worked at the Managing Director level within domestic (and previously international) commercial markets, where tolerance to cross-cultural divergence is crucial to success. Paul has successfully combined creative problem-solving skills from an early design career with understanding of business processes. This is exemplified by his track record in formulation/fulfillment of business strategies, business risk analysis, and profitability initiatives in the IT and service supply sectors. His extensive knowledge in cross-cultural employment comes from a decade working as an expatriate in Africa, the Middle East, and Far East.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Paul is currently working as a business mentor for South East England Development Agency, a part of the DTI that is strongly linked with the Innovation Hubs and the University Of Southampton Institute for Entrepreneurship. He is also working within the SME and Local Authority markets to deliver a series of change motivation workshops. He is promoting the embracing of change as a work style within larger organizations as being more effective than increasing tolerance levels to change.

For the first manufacturing company in Dubai, Paul led the setup from original concept to £5m turnover within 3 years. This established the client as a leading dealer of high-quality handmade carpets for the lucrative palace refurbishment market with over 150 employees and full budgetary control. He also developed a strategy and business plan for restructuring a group of Ethiopian manufacturers, funded by the World Bank to break into world markets with local products.

Paul established a new company division for interior design contracts for high-profile organisations in the City of London. He also advised and supported an innovation company in their successful design and launch of an innovative low-cost reusable flood barrier system. And he successfully restructured and refocused an IT company to enter new markets with impressive increases in ROI and profitability.

EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND
Paul achieved his MBA with merits from one of the UK’s top-ten business schools (the University of Southampton, School of Management). He also holds a diploma from Newcastle College in Coaching and Mentoring. He recently presented workshops on business, cross-cultural conflicts, and organisational issues on the MBA course at the University of Southampton. Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Sales and Marketing Management, and Institute of Leadership and Management. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, Chartered Society of Designers, and Strategic Planning Society.