Polly Platt

Background

Platt, Polly was born on January 9, 1927 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of John O. and Mary Cox (Page) Platt.

Education

Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1948.

Career

She also had a professional background working as a consultant, seminar leader, and public speaker. In 1986, Platt established a training company in France, called "Culture Crossings", which offered seminars and workshops on living in France and intercultural management issues. Participants included corporate executives and spouses from companies doing business in France.

Real-life anecdotes of cultural confusion, anger and disorientation culled from the seminars became the centerpiece of Platt's bestselling book on French culture, French or Foe? (1994). Financial Times refers to this book as the "Bible for Anglo-Saxon executives doing business in France."

She was profiled in newspapers including The International Herald Tribune, Independent, Le Figaro, L'Express, Paris Match, Irish Times, and on television programs such as the Nightly Business Report and Europe 2000. She was featured twice on the Today Show, interviewed by Bryant Gumble in Cannes and by Matt Lauer halfway up the Eiffel Tower.

She died on December 26, 2008, in Vienna, Austria.

Membership

Member American Chamber of Commerce, American Organisation in Paris, Colonial Dames American, American Club, Wellesley Club, University Club.

Connections

Married Fritz Molden, 1954 (divorced 1960);children: Gabriella, Alexandra, Andrea. Married Alexander Grchich von Cvetkovacz, 1966.

Father:

John O. Platt

Mother:

Mary Cox (Page) Platt

Spouse:

Alexander Grchich von Cvetkovacz

Spouse:

Fritz Molden

child:

Andrea Platt

child:

Gabriella Platt

child:

Alexandra Platt