Leadership Through Transparency with CEO Charles Lesperance | C-Suite HotSeat E27

Charles Lesperance is President and CEO of OXO Innovation and Communications Transcript. A lawyer by training and a member of the Quebec Bar, Charles discovered a passion for helping companies go global when he worked in international tax law at KPMG. Having co-founded OXO Translation in Montreal in 2013, he now channels this passion into helping clients communicate across borders and expanding OXO’s own frontiers.Charles plays an important role in decision-making for the company and is responsible for implementing its vision, overseeing operations, managing key accounts and developing new markets. Charles led OXO’s 2018 merger with the Brazilian company Ccaps and its 2019 acquisition of Communications Transcript and continues to seek opportunities for growth. He also sits on the board of the Language Industry Association of Canada (AILIA), an organization that promotes the competitiveness of Canadian language service companies.

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Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade

Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.

Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer

Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual

Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights

Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Charles Lesperance 00:39 What does your company do? 01:21 What was your dream career as a child? 01:56 How do you like to spend your free time? 02:46 3 destinations you'd like to visit 03:21 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:39 First breakthrough moment 05:23 What inspired you to start your company? 06:33 Biggest challenge 07:22 What is your leadership style? 08:30 Your biggest failure 10:29 What is your biggest weakness? 11:34 Advice for entrepreneurs 12:18 What does success mean to you?