Nonnative English speakers need to be heard within multinationals

Nobuko Kobayashi co-leads the Japan consumer practice of global strategy consulting group EY-Parthenon.

The embrace of diversity -- from demographic basics such as gender and race to less obvious axes such as neurodiversity -- is widely supported in the modern workplace, at least in theory. But the monopoly of English as the default global language of business seems uncontested and irreversible.