Duane Lefevre
Duane Lefevre owns and operates the educational seminar company A Global Career, offering employees and college students worldwide advanced strategies for working across cultures. Duane Lefevre's current position draws on more than two decades of executive experience in marketing and business development. He focuses on assisting entry-level workers and students preparing to join the workforce in adapting to the internationalized aspects of modern corporations and economies.
Mr. Lefevre held faculty affiliation with the Boston University School of Management from 2008 to 2011, teaching undergraduate courses including Marketing Management, Product and Brand Management, and the cross-functional course Management as a System. He also taught a graduate course on Internet marketing.
Duane Lefevre currently holds responsibilities as a senior faculty member at Wigan & Leigh College in India. He has taught hundreds of graduate students at the school's Bangalore center over the past seven years, focusing on marketing and management skill development. Mr. Lefevre has additionally served as Senior Consultant with Boston-based Aperian Global since 2006, providing consulting and training to technical and executive staff of multinational firms. A certified cultural generalist with specific knowledge of India, he focuses on raising productivity when working with and in other cultures. He has notably offered "Working with India," "Working with the U.S.," and "Working Globally" trainings and workshops to high-profile corporate clients including Wal-Mart, Bank of America, and John Deere.
From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Lefevre held responsibilities as Director of Consumer Sales at Dancing Deer Baking Company in Boston. Duane Lefevre helped grow consumer sales by a factor of 18 during this period, guiding effective website expansion and e-commerce initiatives.