Intercultural Consulting with George Kesselaar

08/23/22 • 62 min

Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh

Join George Kesselaar and Marco as they explore the complexities of intercultural consulting and how to successfully facilitate positive behavior change in people in this global world.
George Kesselaar is a seasoned corporate transformation specialist with 25 years of executive level experience in Big 4 consulting firms and deep experience in managing strategic change, human resources transformation, high-performance learning journeys, and executive compensation in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southern Africa.
Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town, investigating antecedents to change supportive behavior during large-scale organizational change interventions through worldviews.
You can get in touch with George Kesselaar at: [email protected].
In this episode you will learn --

How to build a community where people 'can find one another'
How to use culturally agile consulting to frame solutions in a way that allows those solutions to succeed in different environments
How deep worldview structures impact change management processes and how an inter-cultural intelligence framework gives a neutral language to deepen conversations about cultural landscapes

| Articles:

-- Culture Made Practical: Self-Cultural Analysis (http://kwx.fyi/self-cultural-analysis)
-- Creating Messaging that Resonates Across Cultures (http://kwx.fyi/messaging-across-cultures)
-- Better Conversations, Smarter Questions, and More Listening (http://kwx.fyi/better-conversations)
Psst... Listen all the way to the end for a special easter egg.

-- Looking for a book to take your cultural agility to the next step, check out the Ultimate Intercultural Question Book brought to you by KnowledgeWorkx.com

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How to build a community where people 'can find one another'
How to use culturally agile consulting to frame solutions in a way that allows those solutions to succeed in different environments
How deep worldview structures impact change management processes and how an inter-cultural intelligence framework gives a neutral language to deepen conversations about cultural landscapes

| Articles:

-- Looking for a book to take your cultural agility to the next step, check out the Ultimate Intercultural Question Book brought to you by KnowledgeWorkx.com

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Creating Belonging in Organizational Culture with Hasan Rafiq

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Hasan Rafiq has worked as a senior Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) leader at some of the world's largest companies, including EY (Ernst and Young) and Facebook.
Join Hasan and Marco as they explore how to create a culture of belonging in organizations both large and small.
Currently, Hasan Rafiq is the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging of Newsela, where he drives the company's strategies for the integration of diverse perspectives and experiences into the building of an inclusive culture, and development of equitable policies.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to build a listening organization where people feel seen, heard, and valued.
- How to be a culturally agile leader and build a global DEIB strategy for your organization.
- How belonging and the language around it look different around the world.
If you would like to start a conversation with Hasan about the incredible work that he does reach out at: [email protected]
Articles:
- Defining values and value behaviors that resonate across cultures (http://kwx.fyi/values)
- The 10 Most Common Organizational Values, An Intercultural Examination (http://kwx.fyi/10-most-common-values)
- Four Keys for Building Trust on Teams (http://kwx.fyi/building-trust-teams)

-- Looking for a book to take your cultural agility to the next step, check out the Ultimate Intercultural Question Book brought to you by KnowledgeWorkx.com

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Managing our Biases - Special Interview from "Cup of Tea Podcast" by European Commission (Bonus Episode)

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We'll be back with more episodes of the Cultural Agility Podcast in November. In the meantime, I got to sit down with my good friend and host of the "Cup of Tea" podcast Chris O'Shaughnessy.
We explored all sorts of helpful topics to help you develop your own cultural agility. You can listen to this episode and more here.
The Cup of Tea Podcast is organized within the InterCultural Approach program of the Directorate General International Partnership of the European Commission.
Listen to the whole Cup of Tea podcast "Bringing you a moment of intercultural empowerment" on Soundcloud at: Capacity4dev's INCA Podcast Series "Cup of Tea"!
The InterCultural Approach program is leading some exciting initiatives especially the Intercultural Cities Programme. It supports cities and regions in reviewing and adapting their policies through an intercultural lens, and developing comprehensive intercultural strategies to manage diversity as an advantage for the whole society. Intercultural Cities is also a platform to connect cities and leaders globally into a community where initiatives and practice from one city are analysed and shared to inspire the other

-- Looking for a book to take your cultural agility to the next step, check out the Ultimate Intercultural Question Book brought to you by KnowledgeWorkx.com

Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh - Intercultural Consulting with George Kesselaar

Transcript

George Kesselaar00:00:00.298

Sometimes the differences that we have what we often refer to as you know, as intercultural differences are often just misunderstandings. These are a layers that we've placed over ourselves in our understanding of one another, that are often incorrect, that are often misunderstood. And if we can peel off those layers, and really get to what is at the bottom of who we really are, we start discovering that we all very similar

Marco