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Barry Penney is an Australian teacher, trainer, and management
executive. A graduate of the University of Adelaide and the
Australian Administrative Staff College, Victoria, he has lived and
worked in the United States, Britain, and Turkey. On returning to
Australia he became a Fellow of the Australian Institute of
Management.
Gina Teague is a trainer and writer on cross-cultural management,
international relocation, and global career development. A native
of the United Kingdom, she has lived and worked in France, Spain,
Brazil, the U.S.A., and Australia. During her sixteen years in
America she developed a successful intercultural consultancy
serving the corporate, academic, and non-profit sectors. She also
gained an M.A. in Organizational Psychology and an EdM in
Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, and produced two
native New Yorker children.
Gina has written extensively on expatriate adjustment and career
management issues for industry journals and Web sites. A cofounder
of Isis Group International, an intercultural training company, she
has recently relocated to Sydney, Australia.
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' offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world.' New York
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