BRIDGE WORKS GLOBAL
Turn global collaboration into a strategic advantage you can measure.
BridgeWorks Global is a cross-geography collaboration lab that studies and systematically improves how the world’s most impactful companies collaborate across their global teams.
NEW YORK · HEADQUARTERS
SHANGHAI · REGION
NEW DELHI · REGION
SHARED WORKING WINDOW TODAY
07:30 — 08:00 ET
Only 30 minutes of your day is synchronous. The other 23.5 hrs run on hand-offs, docs, and assumptions. That async layer is where global collaboration is won or lost.
Turn global collaboration into a strategic advantage you can measure.
BridgeWorks Global is a cross-geography collaboration lab that studies and systematically improves how the world’s most impactful companies collaborate across their global teams.
NEW YORK · HEADQUARTERS
SHANGHAI · REGION
NEW DELHI · REGION
SHARED WORKING WINDOW TODAY
07:30 — 08:00 ET
Only 30 minutes of your day is synchronous. The other 23.5 hrs run on hand-offs, docs, and assumptions. That async layer is where global collaboration is won or lost.
THE CHALLENGE
Poor global collaboration is a tax on your business and your people.
You pay it three ways.
SPEED
61%
- Context switching
- Decision latency
- Coordination drag & rework
- Approval bottlenecks
- Slower product & crisis cycles
- Information silos
- Context switching
- Decision latency
- Coordination drag & rework
- Approval bottlenecks
- Slower product & crisis cycles
- Information silos
61% cite mismatched decision speed as their primary source of collaboration friction.
TALENT
2x
- Talent redeployment delays
- Higher attrition & burnout
- Can’t attract A-players
- Executive bandwidth tax
- Visibility & recognition gap
- Onboarding friction
- Talent redeployment delays
- Higher attrition & burnout
- Can’t attract A-players
- Executive bandwidth tax
- Visibility & recognition gap
- Onboarding friction
2x attrition risk for global-facing workers versus their co-located peers.
REVENUE
~⅓
- Pipeline visibility gaps
- Missed growth ambitions
- Failed opportunity capture
- Underleveraged regional innovation
- Client & account churn
- Price pressure
- Pipeline visibility gaps
- Missed growth ambitions
- Failed opportunity capture
- Underleveraged regional innovation
- Client & account churn
- Price pressure
~⅓ of collaborative growth capacity sits locked, not lost.
“I was running a second shift every night just to stay in sync with headquarters. Most of that work, no one ever saw.”
A regional executive · Fortune 50 client
WHERE THE FRICTION LIVES
Most leaders focus on what they can’t control. We help you design what you can.
Time Zones
Language
Country Culture
HQ–Regional
Power Dynamics
Company Culture
Market
Knowledge
Process
You manage what you can’t control. Time zones, language, and country culture are fixed realities of global work.
You design what you can control. Headquarters–region power dynamics, process, market knowledge, and company culture are where you have real leverage.
THE INSTRUMENT
You know there’s friction. The GCI™ turns it into a score you can act on.
The Global Collaboration Index™ turns collaboration into a measurable leadership KPI — showing where capacity is healthy, where it leaks, and where to intervene first.
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Every engagement delivers three things:
01 · Measure
Dashboard
Pinpoint capacity, leakage, and hotspots by team, region, and pillar.
02 · Explain
Executive Insights Report
Identify root causes, business implications, and leadership priorities.
03 · Act
Action Roadmap
Prioritize interventions, score movers, and progress tracking.
FROM THE FIELD
Friction between headquarters and regions isn’t personal — it’s structural. And we show you exactly where.
Ask the leaders themselves what slows collaboration down, and the “culture” explanations rank near the bottom.
“BridgeWorks provided language and clarity that allowed us to discuss this openly as a team.”
EX-CEO
WALMART INTERNATIONAL
“BridgeWorks helped us close the gap between Minneapolis and Shanghai in ways that have stuck.”
VICE PRESIDENT
MEDTRONIC
“We had so much collaborative load weighing down our team and our business. BridgeWorks helped surface it, so we could have a conversation as a global company, then we worked to remove it. Simple as that.”
REGIONAL PRESIDENT
FORTUNE 500 GLOBAL COMPANY
“
We believe global collaboration should be an operating capability, not a soft skill.
We kept seeing the same pattern: strategy breaks down at the border, in the execution layer. The cause was almost always invisible labor, the bridge work no one is hired, trained, or rewarded to do. Call it “culture,” and you excuse yourself from a system you could actually design.
Zak Dychtwald
Founder & CEO · BridgeWorks Global
WHAT WE STAND FOR
“Bridge People” make global work, work.
Most of their labor is invisible. Great organizations change that.
ACCOMMODATED
Global Ways of Working protects the most important asset of global work: its people.
RECOGNIZED
Too often bridge work is hidden labor — despite being essential to team success.
REWARDED
Bridge work drives business outcomes. It must show up in QBRs and annual reviews.
CORE TEAM
A U.S.–China–India lab working across the time zones, languages, and headquarters–region lines we help our clients engineer.
FOUNDER
Zak Dychtwald Founder & CEO
Author, researcher, and entrepreneur committed to bridging East and West. Frequent Harvard Business Review contributor. Has delivered keynotes on six continents to Fortune 500 executives, investors, and world leaders. Leads the research driving BridgeWorks Global.
Kanupriyha Singh
Client Account Lead
Diksha Sharma
Global Collaboration Solutions Lead
Jeremy Zhao
Data Analytics Lead
Shuting Wang
Global Collaboration Solutions Developer
Nicola Lindsay
Data Visualization Lead
Anne Liu
Accounting Manager
WHO WE PARTNER WITH
Our solutions live at the intersection of strategy and people.
Built for the leaders who carry global work.
HOW WE WORK
Three ways we work.
Diagnosis
Find the friction
For organizations that know there’s friction but not exactly where.
Friction Mapping Workshop
Global Collaboration Index™
Transformation
Change how you operate
For leadership teams ready to redesign the operating layer.
Cross-geo ownership mapping
Operating rhythms & escalation
Insight-to-decision pipelines
People
Build bridge capability
For organizations building cross-geo skills into their talent.
Bridge Leadership Accelerator
Global Ways of Working Toolkit
Scaling market knowledge
Proof, across Fortune 500 engagements
Client satisfaction · multiple Fortune 500 clients
Net Promoter Score · Fortune 50, 100+ leaders
0
Detractors · across all surveyed leaders
6 yrs
Applied research · 2.7M+ words analyzed
Markets · U.S. & Asia focus
START HERE
Three ways in — all give you clarity within ten weeks.
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FORMAT
OUTPUT
TIMING
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OUR MISSION
Turn global collaboration into a strategic advantage.
Let’s collaborate.
bridgeworksglobal.com
A CROSS-GEOGRAPHY COLLABORATION LAB
OFFICES IN U.S. · CHINA · INDIA
Shanghai office: 135 Yanping Road, Caojiadu Subdistrict, Jing’an District, Shanghai 200042, China