Past and Present Clients

  • The Statue of Humanity – Port of Los Angeles
  • The Great Photo Shoot-China – a PBS Project
  • Guangzhou, China Public Relations Association
  • Dalian, China – Business Protocol for Professional Success
  • UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, David Geffen Medical School at UCLA
  • Breitburn Energy Company, Los Angeles
  • Futures For Children ( non-profit for Native American Indian Children)
  • National Committee For U.S.-China Relations-Visit of Premier Zhang Zemin
  • Real Abilities Celebrity Golf Tournament for Madentec Lmtd. Of Canada
  • Teddy’s Star Foundation
  • BBC and the Open University series "Tales of the New Pacific" – a 13 week TV series
  • Harry S. Truman Library Institute, Independence, Missouri. Served as California liaison for fund raising dinners in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles for the 50th anniversary of the United Nations recognition of Israel as a nation.
  • Christie’s Fine Arts Auction House – Beverly Hills Opening
  • China Southern Airlines-Inaugural Flight
  • Guangdong Province, China, Trade Fair, Los Angeles, 2001
  • Guangzhou China Foreign Affairs Office seminars on "Doing Business in the U.S."
  • Hubei Province, China –Trade Mission and Investment Conference
  • Zhuhai, China, International Chamber of Economy and Commerce–MOFTEC
  • Programa Nacional de Competitividad, El Salvador Govt. Primer Encuentro Empresarial
  • World Trade Center Association – “Trade With the Americas.”
  • Talon Executive Services
  • Saudi Arabia Consulate General
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    PUBLISHED ARTICLES
    [Los Angeles Business Journal] Your corporate sales team has just learned that a delegation is arriving from an Asian country to negotiate a business deal. One of your employees is chosen to meet the delegation at the airport. In his American exuberance, he greets the leader with a handshake, and then puts his arm around his shoulders, patting him on the back as he walks him to the awaiting car. As he rides with him to the hotel, your salesman. begins talking about aspects of the "deal."

    The Asian guest does not respond. He may nod and be polite, but there is a good chance that your salesperson has already blown the deal.

    As Southern California becomes the global marketplace to the world, corporations are realizing that good manners make good business, according to BCL International Executive Protocol, a business protocol and cross-cultural consulting firm.

    Bee Canterbury Lavery is a former United States Department of State Official and Chief of Protocol for Los Angeles for nearly 20 years.

    "One untrained, unsavvy person sent abroad on a business trip can destroy any good business relations that may have been established between two countries' business partners - just as the person who met the Asian business prospect at the airport became too familiar and immediately jumped into the business discussion without first establishing a friendly relationship," according to Bee Canterbury Lavery.

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