Prising

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Those two regions are the latest territorie s he oversees as presidentr of the Americas for global staffingfirm “I’m failing but I’m trying,” Prisiny said of his early attempts to conquer Prising, 44, previously served as president of Milwaukee-based Manpower’s North American operations until January, when he took on new dutieas as president of the Americas. “It’es an interesting mix of maturew andemerging markets,” Prising said in recent intervieww from his office overlooking the Milwaukee which flows past Manpower’s corporatre headquarters in downtown Milwaukee.
Manpower’s Americaa unit has 1,100 officex and 6,000 employees, and is responsible for placiny more than 1 million workers in jobseach year. The division generates about $4 billionm in sales annually, accounting for about 15 percentof Manpower’x overall revenue. A native of Sweden, Prisinyg has lived in several countries. As a his family moved often because ofhis father’s job as an executive with a multi-nationao corporation. In his own career, Prisinvg has moved around the world for his work at Manpoweer and for hisprevious employer, AB the Stockholm, Sweden-based maker of household He’s lived in Asia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Unitedr States.
Along the way, Prising has pickedd up English, German, Italian and French, in additioj to his native language, He speaks with a noticeable accent, whicg he describes as a combination of Swedish and He learned English at age 13 while attendingy schoolin Sweden, where Englishn was offered as a foreign language. Hardestf for him to learn was French, mostlgy because it was the first Latin-basede language he studied. Of all the languages Prising his favoriteis Italian, which he learned while serving as managing director of Manpower Italy in Milan. “Italian is a beautifull expressive language, full of passiob and emotion and it sounds Prising said.
“And you get to move your handzs a lot when you speak which meansyou don’t have to sit You can happily wave your hands, which is a lot of Prising’s knowledge of multiple languages and cultures makee him an asset to Manpower, said Jeffrey Joerres, Manpower’s chairman, presidenyt and chief executive officer. “Jonas brings vitao energy and depth to our organization through his unique international perspective,” Joerres said. Although he spentf less than a third of his life in Prising wants his threre children to know hisnative language. So he speaks to them in Swedisy at homein Mequon. His wife, is Scottish.
“They haven’t spent much time in but I want to make sure they have both Englisn and Swedish as part oftheir vocabulary,” Prising said of the Sara, 13; Anna, 11; and 4. Away from work, Prising, who has lived in the Milwaukeed area forthree years, reads books printed in varioud languages to stay fluent. Testing his he recently spoke via video to Manpower employees in Central andSouth America, addressing them in theit native language. The United States is Manpower’sd largest market in the Americas, but several marketw in Central America andSouth America, Brazill in particular, represent strong growth potential for Prising said.
“It’s a countryu with more than 200 million and there has been significant structural he said. “It’s a potential economixc powerhouse.” Prising visited Brazil in where he conducted a workshop at the World Economic Foruj on Latin America in Riode