Meet Mona Pearl

Mona Pearl, Founder & COO of BeyondAStrategy, Inc., is a Global Business Expansion Strategist

Author, Mona Pearl, shares success secrets of taking your business across borders.Mona Pearl’s experience in international strategic development and global entrepreneurship has been vital in helping companies design and execute their global strategies. Ms. Pearl is known for her out of the box thinking and developing creative solutions to tough challenges which produce bottom line results.

Ms. Pearl founded and operated 3 successful businesses.  From operations to organization to top line growth strategies, Ms. Pearl initiated and executed cost effective and creative opportunities for companies to make money. Since 1993, she helped companies increase global market share, enhance leadership and engage the stakeholders along the value chain. These activities led to companies growing their business across-borders, leveraging their global competitiveness and addressing diversity and cross-cultural issues in international markets.

Projects across industries and across borders include:  Deutsche Telekom, GM, Rover, Jaguar, Marriott, Hyatt Corp., IMF, Fermilab, The Export Institute, SES GmbH, A.B. Dick, Navistar, Accenture, Michelin, State of IL – DCEO, Philip Morris, Bacardi, the airline industry, and many more.

 

Ms. Pearl lived in three continents, and speaks six languages. She was quoted by Microsoft, Crain’s Chicago, Entrepreneur.com, Time, and interviewed by other media on global issues and strategies. She is a frequent speaker at global related conferences, has co-authored two published books, she is a contributing editor on global competitiveness in Manufacturing Today and US Business Review, as well as publishes in other business magazines.

 

Ms. Pearl will be presenting in the First Peter Drucker International Conference held in November in Vienna, Austria her paper on “Entrepreneurship & Innovation in a Global Economy”. Her paper was amongst 20 selected from a worldwide call for papers competition.

 



 

5 Top Reasons To Engage Mona Pearl

1) Expert

  •  Founder & COO – BeyondAStrategy, Inc.
  •  A global track record with leading companies
  •  Cross-industry experience across borders cultures

2) Entrepreneur

  •  Started and operated companies
  •  Hands on and practical experience with a pragmatic apporach
  •  Sits on the advisory boards of companies

3) Speaker

  •  Speaking engagements in four continents
  •  Business settings as well as academia
  •  The ability to combine real world experience with theoretical foundations

4) Thought Leader

  • The author of the book “Grow Globally:  Opportunities For Your Middle Market Company Around The World”
  • Featured with the top minds of global management and marketing
  • Publishes articles in industry magazines
  • Quoted in the international press

5) Results Oriented.  You will be able to:

  •  Create a competitive strategy
  •  Discover your actionable potential
  •  Apply your organization’s strength to global success
  •  Build a sustainable business that will pass the test of time

Education:

Mona holds a Master’s Degree in Global Business and Marketing from DePaul University in Chicago, and a BA from Northeastern University Illinois in Spanish and Communication.

 

Publications:

  • How to prepare for global growth: What’s your edge? Global Finance
  • A business primer on vertical integration: How to think strategically as value moves upstream and ‘clustering’ replaces acquisition as the path to innovation and collaboration, Nutrition Business Journal
  • Why Middle Market Companies Are the Driving Engine for Growth, US Daily Review
  • Cross-Border M&A: Managing the R&R (Risks & Rewards), Global Business Magazine
  • Global Markets Are Not Just for Large Companies Anymore: Mid-sized companies should craft a strategy for international markets, Modern Distribution Magazine
  • Business beyond borders – taking a global approach, ZDNet
  • Prep Domestically and Grow Globally, Allister Paine
  • 3 Keys to Successful Globalization, IndustryWeek
  • Business Beyond Borders: Global Skills for Today’s Boards to Secure Tomorrow’s Success, International Business Times
  • Achieving Global Growth by Letting Go of Fear, The Glass Hammer
  • What works here won’t work there: When local preparation meets global opportunity, Business Beyond Borders
  • Strategy: Globalization, Business Excellence
  • The Life, Death & Rebirth of America’s Global Leadership, The Cypress Times
  • Winning in Global Markets: New Players, New Rules, New Game, US Daily Review
  • Winning Global Markets: It’s what you don’t know that will land you in trouble, IndustryWeek
  • The G-20 and Obama’s National Export Initiative, International Business Times
  • Why Go Global?  Business Xpansion Journal
  • How Small  Businesses Can Win Globally, Crain’s Chicago
  • Going Global:  Improving Your Chances for Success:  Why are cross-border M&A so difficult to implement and what do you need to do to improve your chances for success?  UK
    • Innovation and Entrepreneurship in A Global Economy, Peter Drucker Forum, Austria
    • Columns in Management Today magazine:
      • Re-evaluating China
    • Columns on globalization issues for Manufacturing Today magazine :
      • Global Negotiations:  Don’t Leave Money on the Table
      • What’s your competitive edge?
      • Going Global – Don’t Underestimate the Data
      • Making the Decision to Go Global
      • Global Expansion – Get It Right the First Time
      • Successful Business Expansion: Don’t Discount the Data
    • “Globalization – The Key To Growth” – Association Forum, Expert Eye
    • “The Value of Cross-Industry Knowledge – Gaining A Competitive Edge” – The Handbook of Business Strategy
    • “Actionable market Research Reduces Business Uncertainties” – Marketing Times
    • “A New Order – How Entrepreneurial Companies Beat Large Corporations to the Punch” – US Business Review
    • “Breaking the Rules – Change Management” – Furniture & Interiors
    • “Much Ado About Nothing – Corporate Buzz” – US Business Review
    • “Bridging the Cultural Divide to Successful Global Business” – Bayer Global Conference

Books

The Handbook Of M&A, Wiley, 2012

Grow Globally:  Opportunities For Your Middle Market Around The World, Wiley, 2011

Straight Talk – ‘Aligning Corporate Strategy & Global Competitiveness for the 21st Century’.

“Mona Pearl, keynote speaker and author, has been selected from a nationwide search to be featured in Straight Talk. The book features 10 dynamic authors. Mona Pearl, discussing Aligning Corporate Strategy & Global Competitiveness for the 21st Century is joined by other authors and speakers, each offering time-tested strategies for success in frank and intimate interviews.”

Discover Your Inner Strength – Cutting Edge Strategies from Industry Leading Experts – ‘Leadership for Global Competitiveness’. Imagine sitting down with Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager), Stephen Covey (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), Mona Pearl and Brian Tracy (Million Dollar Habits), and picking their brains for their best advice on their challenges, triumphs, and how they weathered storms.