The Most Embarrassing, Horrible, Cultural Faux Pas I Ever Made.

Dean Foster
10 min readMar 15, 2023

Sooner or later, it happens. Accept it. It’s How You Recover that Matters.

The auditorium was packed. From where I was standing backstage, it looked like about 500+ people had been invited by my client to attend my keynote presentation on managing global teams, and I was pumped and ready to go. I remember feeling thrilled to be in Mexico City again, one of…

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Dean Foster

Culture trekker (100+ countries), intercultural business expert, author, keynote speaker, founder of DFA Intercultural Global Solutions, Deanfosterglobal.com