Session one is at 6 pm CEST / 9 am PDT on Sept 9th, 2026
Building Stakeholder Relationships:
Map Your Influence Before You Lose It
A practical guide for localization leaders building a central function globally
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No budget gets approved without buy-in from people who trust the function first. No scope holds up without the context stakeholders already have: roadmaps, campaign calendars, legal constraints. And no amount of linguistic quality survives an engineer shipping broken strings or a marketer overwriting transcreated copy. Relationships aren't a soft skill here. They're the infrastructure everything else depends on.
Who Should Attend
Localization and globalization leaders building or scaling a central function
Program and vendor managers who need buy-in from teams outside localization
Anyone tired of being treated as a translation vendor instead of a strategic partner
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What You'll Walk Away With
Your Stakeholder Universe - Who actually needs localization, including the teams that don't know it yet.
Your Sphere of Influence - A map for building influence upward and outward, from team lead to the C-suite.
A Shared Language With Every Team - The metrics that matter to Product, Marketing, Sales, Support, and Finance, so you can speak to each in terms they already track.
The Influence Map - A four-quadrant diagnostic to sort every stakeholder relationship: who to protect, who to educate, and who to fix now.
A 90-Day Priority Plan - Where to spend your first conversations for the biggest return.
Your Hosts
Antoine Rey
SVP, Customer Development
Argos Multilingual
Antoine Rey helps enterprise clients build localization into a strategic business function, not just a service line. He designs Globalization Program Office (GPO) structures, including the cross-functional communication that connects a central localization team to the business units and acquisitions it supports.
He also guides technology and automation strategy — across proprietary, commercial, and open-source tools — with measurable gains in quality, speed to market, and cost for clients, suppliers, and translators alike.
Kevin O'Donnell
International Expansion & Growth Advisor
Global10x
Kevin O'Donnell is an international expansion and growth advisor with extensive experience in B2B product and growth leadership.
He leads Global10x, a specialized consultancy that helps B2B companies create successful international growth strategies, increase global revenue, and optimize their go-to-market and localization processes.
Kevin has held senior roles at companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, and Nitro, where he was responsible for scaling products globally and modernizing localization systems.
