The Global Cosmopolitan Mindset

Linda Brimm is Emeritus Professor at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools, where she has been teaching in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.  For over thirty years, Dr. Brimm has studied, counseled and taught a talented population of educated, multilingual individuals who have lived, worked and studied for extensive periods in different cultures. She has coined the label ‘Global Cosmopolitans’ for this group, which she described in her groundbreaking book, Global Cosmopolitans: The Creative Edge of Difference.Her work on Global Cosmopolitans and on embracing complex change has attracted significant attention, appearing in the Harvard Business Review and several publications across the globe.While the previous book considered the opportunities affecting identity relatively early in Global Cosmopolitans’ careers and lives, her current writing examines Global Cosmopolitan senior executives and entrepreneurs at different stages of their journeys. In this book, drawing on the stories of people from various corners of the world, she has articulated the Global Cosmopolitan Mindset and has described how people use their lessons from living globally to become effective leaders.Dr. Brimm is the founding director of the Psychological Services at INSEAD. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she also continues to work actively at a center she co-founded in Paris in 1979, where she provides assistance and therapeutic interventions when needed for global cosmopolitan individuals and families arriving or living in France.