In an increasingly globalised world where designers are coming together from all backgrounds and cultures to work towards shared missions, it is important to not only recognise how behaviours differ across cultural contexts, celebrate differences but also understand how to effectively work together across borders.In this talk, Zoey Nguyen, a Vietnamese Product Design Lead based in Singapore, will reflect on her experiences living and working in her two “home countries” in South East Asia as well as in international environments with culturally diverse teams and her journey in making mistakes, relearning her own heritage and the mindsets that she’s come to (and is still learning to) adopt to build teams that work better together across cultures.