Intercultural or cultural intelligence is becoming an essential skill in today’s globalised world. From diverse markets to diverse teams, negotiating across different cultures is critical to the success of any international business development or managing a multicultural team.
How we see the world shapes what we value and this drives our everyday behaviour and actions. On a practical day-to-day level, how we understand each other is critical to the success of the relationship, project or business venture. With the increasing superdiversity of our workplaces, intercultural intelligence can help organisations increase not only their business bottom lines but increase employee engagement and wellbeing, innovation and effectiveness in their teams.
We specialise in facilitating intercultural intelligence learning journeys. We co-create and coach leaders, staff teams, managersand individuals in organisations to grow their intercultural agility.
We use the terms “global” and “inter-culturally” because they represent the two aspects of the challenges we all face: the geographic aspect and the interpersonal aspect. Increasingly, people and organizations truly do work in multiple geographies – they must, in order to survive and grow. Their organizations also are becoming culturally diverse.
Third Culture Solutions are a strong team of proactive facilitators, trainers and coaches, keen to deliver customised and integrated solutions that have a long-term benefit and achieve the organisation’s business and growth objectives.
“Shireen brings a lifetime of personal and work experience interacting across cultures. We’re thrilled to have her as one of our Advanced CQ Certified Professionals and I highly commend her to you as a coach and trainer who will help you improve the ways you work across the growing diversity in New Zealand and beyond.”
Dr. David Livermore
President, The Cultural Intelligence Centre
“Shireen is absolutely the subject matter expert in CQ. Having lived here in NZ since she was young, yet has cultural connections back to her ethnicity, gives her an unrivaled appreciation on CQ and how that can be applied in a NZ context. I would recommend Third Culture Solutions for any company who is looking to harness the maximum potential in a very diverse workforce that is clearly growing rapidly in NZ.”
Eric Chuah
Cultural Connections
Shireen makes no secret about the relevance of Cultural Intelligence in today’s world. An engaging presenter who speaks with passion & conviction, she delivers a timely assurance that perceived differences can be transformed into opportunities to leverage diversity.
Siak Chung
Asset Tree