CEE = Caracal Executive Education

Caracal works with clients to develop executive education lectures, workshops, and conference to help demystify Globalization and American politics.

Caracal can work with entrepreneurial start-ups, multinational companies, trade associations, and government agencies.

The Caracal Executive Education program organizes half-day, one-day or three-day sessions to help your team better understand and excel in connecting global politics, policy, and profit.

Utilizing a global network of senior business executives, innovative university professors, and former government officials, Caracal can develop a highly curated education environment which is informative and accessible.

CEE = Caracal Executive Education

Possible topics:

• The Battle of Ideas: Keynes vs. Hayek
• Deregulation: How Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took on the USSR and the Warsaw Pact
• The G-20: America's Role in the International Economic Order 
• Comms: How the Media, Journalists, Bloggers, and Social Media are Covering Globalization
• The Bear and The Eagle: US-Russia Relations
• The Dragon and The Eagle: US-China Relations
• Black Ships, Commodore Perry, and the South China Sea
• Disruption vs. Innovation || Core vs. Gap
• Why America Imports Asparagus
• Being Rich and Democratic Isn’t Easy
• Transistor Radios, Fast Fashion, and Supply Chains
• Detroit is More Important Than Davos
• Fostering a Globally Competitive City: Detroit
• The Evolution of Employment - From Cash to Career to Calling

Contact Marc A. Ross at marc@caracal.global or +1 (202) 596-5270 to learn how we can help you create an executive education program that will make the world of global business and global politics more manageable and understandable for your colleagues, staff, board members, and stakeholders.

CAP = Caracal Audit Process

Caracal works with clients to develop a macro approach to communications that utilizes a mix of communications tools, amplifies content across platforms, and seeks to engage audiences online and offline.

Caracal can with entrepreneurial start-ups, multinational companies, trade associations, and government agencies.

The Caracal Audit Process is a five-step process that is efficient and accessible for employees, stakeholders, and audiences.

CAP = Caracal Audit Process

1. Audit current communications tools being used to engage your audiences

2. Get feedback from internal audiences on usefulness of existing communications tools be used

3. Collect data and interview how external audiences perceive your organization - perception mapping

4. Do a SWOT analysis

5. Provide consultation on how to develop an enhanced communications plan based on all data collected and analyzed

Contact Marc A. Ross at marc@caracal.global or +1 (202) 596-5270 to learn how we can help you achieve your business objectives with better communications.

US companies flee China, but Starbucks marches in

The company is now opening more than a store a day in China. The secret to success there, according to the coffee seller’s chairman? Mutual trust.

Read the full article from DealBook here.

"Starbucks is opening more than 500 stores a year there (China) — which amounts to more than one new store a day. Starbucks is creating some 10,000 jobs in China annually."

"In Shanghai alone, there are already 600 Starbucks. To put that in perspective, New York City has about half as many stores as Shanghai."

"The story of Starbucks in China is a nearly 20-year journey that may be a case study for American companies that have struggled to do business there."