She also had a professional background working as a consultant, seminar leader, and public speaker.
[citation needed] Platt graduated from Wellesley College and was a journalist with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the New York Post before moving to Paris in 1967 with her Serbian husband, Alexander Grchich, a UNESCO official, and their five children.
[2] Financial Times refers to this book as the "Bible for Anglo-Saxon executives doing business in France.
"[3] She was profiled in newspapers including The International Herald Tribune, The Independent, Le Figaro, L'Express, Paris Match, Irish Times, and on television programs such as the Nightly Business Report and Europe 2000.
She was featured twice on the Today Show, interviewed by Bryant Gumbel in Cannes and by Matt Lauer halfway up the Eiffel Tower.