Biography
of Polly Platt
Polly
Platt
Consultant, seminar leader, author and public speaker, Polly Platt
established her company, Culture Crossings, in 1986. Her seminars
and workshops on intercultural management issues and living in France
have been enthusiastically attended by over 2,000 corporate executives
and, often, their spouses from companies such as Accenture, Air
Liquide, Coca Cola, Dassault Falcon Jets, J. P. Morgan, Microsoft,
3M, General Motors, etc. Polly Platt has been profiled in dozens
of newspapers such as The International Herald Tribune, the Independent,
Le Figaro, L'Express, Paris Match, the Irish Times, and on television
programs such as the Nightly Business Report and Europe 2000.
Platt's perennial bestseller, French
or Foe?, now in its third edition and 12th printing
and translated into French and Japanese, is the reference for executives
of Franco-American companies, travelers, and students of French
at U.S. universities. Full of real-life anecdotes from executives
at Platt's seminars, it had rave reviews across the U.S., the U.K..
and France, plus various television and radio interviews, including
one live from Cannes by Bryant Gumble for the TODAY SHOW.
Her latest book, Savoir-Flair, 211
Tips for Enjoying France and the French, was published
in August 2000 as a companion to French or Foe? It
has been reprinted and firmly established Platt as the American
cultural guru for France, as Matt Lauer recognized in May 2001 when
he interviewed her live for the TODAY SHOW half way up the
Eiffel Tower in Paris, on one of his whirlwind foreign visits.
Platt is an experienced and entertaining speaker
at company conventions. She has given the keynote speech at conventions
for Andersen Consulting, European Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
in Barcelona, Parisbas in Amsterdam, Dassault Falcon Jets in Florida,
the American Association of Teachers of French in Saint Louis and
others. (See public speaking client
list and public speaking
testimonials.)
A native Philadelphian descended from a French Huguenot who escaped
from France to Charleston, S.C., in 1685, she graduated from Wellesley
College and was a journalist with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
and the New York Post before moving to Paris in 1967 with her Serbian
husband, Alexander Grchich, a high UNESCO official, and their five
children.
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