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Thank you. I'm Alison Beard.

And I'm Audie Ignatius, and this is the HPR Ideacast.

Thank you. And I'm Adi Ignatius, and this is the HPR Idea cast. Adi, there's a lot of fear and anxiety among corporate leaders right now over changing geopolitical dynamics and economic policies, particularly when it comes to trade and immigration. We see lots of

opinions about how much it's going to affect different types of businesses and what executives

should be doing about it. So today we're going to talk to a researcher who has lived all over the

world and studied these issues and believes that the best way to navigate is with what she calls corporate diplomacy.

I like that. You know, we've written pieces in the past about how every company needs a foreign

policy. And, you know, with all the uncertainty around trade, around supply chains, the market

for talent, various policies, this level of uncertainty is making it tougher to lead.

So if you've got somebody who understands this, who can identify high-level trends and tell us what to do about it, I am all ears.

Our guest today is Shrividio Jantiala, an associate professor at ESEC business school,

whose life and career have taken her from India to the U.S. and UK and now Singapore.

She'll explain how geopolitics have gone

from being a tailwind to a headwind for most companies, why even small and mid-sized businesses

are affected, and how organizations should rethink their structures and talent strategies in this context.

She's the author of the book The Great Disruption, How Geopolitics is Changing Companies, Managers, and Work.

Politics and Geopolitics have always had a really big impact on how businesses decide to invest and operate.

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