On Being a Third Cultured Kid with Nikki Muller

Nikki Muller is a Swiss-Filipina Presenter, LIVE events host and Third Culture Advocate.

At 20 she was nominated as “Best Entertainment Presenter” at the Asian Television Awards. She’s covered tennis and motor sports on Fox Sports Asia, talked food science on National Geographic and cycled 6 countries along the Mekong Delta for Channel News Asia. Nikki adores the theater and was a recent Straights Times Life! “Best Actress” nominee for Pangdemonium’s one-woman production Girls and Boys.

Nikki has since focused her area of study on the Third Culture Kid experience and the unique gifts that come from having lived a highly mobile and multi-cultural childhood. Nikki’s research on Third Culture Kids (TCKs) through the lens of identity, culture competence and resilience has led her to see the immense value and impact that they bring to workplace dynamics and organizational leadership. For TCKs, globalization is in their DNA. Global experience builds cultural awareness, a broader world-view, inspires flexibility and open-mindedness, and develops highly impactful global leaders.

Nikki’s research interest is to help other TCKs become more aware of the instrumental
opportunities they’ve been given and to encourage them to leverage these superpowers within their teams and in positions of leadership.

I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with fellow TCK gal pal, Nikki!

The book on which she shared a part of her essay towards the end of the conversation is called, RESTART. Her essay starts on page 234.

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