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Nov 2024
46m 49s

Shant Oknayan on cultural intelligence, ...

Strategy& Middle East
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Shant Oknayan, VP of Global Business, Asia, Oceania, and Africa at TikTok/ByteDance and a Strategy Middle East alum, shares insights from his journey working across multiple continents. Hear his thoughts on the power of cultural intelligence and how taking risks and calculated leaps of faith shaped his career.

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