International Competence Course

Global Leadership and Diversity Excellence

Empower your leadership * Embrace diversity * Succeed in international business environments.

Welcome to a life-changing experience created especially for conscious leaders, expatriates, and employees who want to thrive in international business environments. This course on Global Leadership and Diversity Excellence, empowers you to navigate and succeed in today's diverse and dynamic global marketplace.

80% of Executives believe they communicate effectively across cultures.

Actual assessments show that only 30% demonstrate intercultural competence, according to British Council research.

Why this course?

Intercultural competence is the knowledge, attitudes, and skills we need to communicate effectively in intercultural situations. It is vital to effective engagement, productivity, and performance in the hybrid workplace.

As we overestimate our ability to communicate effectively, companies get exposed to setbacks, inefficiencies, and poor decisions. We also fail to recognize how frequently we cross cultural boundaries and remain unaware of the impact of the cultural lenses we wear, shaping how we perceive the world and communicate within it. This hampers the building of great business connections with our stakeholders.

This leads to feeling disconnected, excluded, lacking balance, having a false sense of comfort, being overwhelmed, and having no sense of belonging. It leads to misunderstandings, reduced collaboration, missing deadlines, and disengaged teams. Feelings of being a poor communicator and receiving a lack of respect lead to poor adaption and adjustment. We struggle to influence and make poor decisions, leading to inefficiencies in business. We take things personally and let feedback get under our skin till we cannot salvage situations anymore. As it is a blind spot, we tend not to recognize what is causing the disconnections that we might notice but prefer to ignore.

Neglecting cultural dimensions in business can result in a range of negative outcomes, including increased employee turnover, reputational damage in the ESG space, missed opportunities with potential clients, and heightened challenges in conflict resolution, especially in today's VUCA world.

It does not have to be like this.

Intercultural business competence is a field that individuals and companies leverage for competitive advantage. We can proactively improve our effectiveness in communication and connecting across cultures.

As this knowledge used to be reserved for an elite group, we are seldom shown the tactics and strategies that help us 'on the job'. These are subtle words, attitude shifts, perspective changes, perceptions of ourselves, and patterns in behavior. To improve our leadership presence, we must upskill and polish ourselves in these aspects.

According to HRB research, teams with inclusive leaders are 17% more likely to report being high-performing. These teams report behaving more collaboratively than other teams, with a whipping 29%.

Outstanding leadership unfolds if we put people first and invite them to develop into the best version of themselves.

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Because the global (business) landscape is constantly evolving, having a deep understanding of cultural diversity and the ability to lead with inclusivity is becoming essential. This course is carefully designed to give you the knowledge and skills you need to:

Empower your career: learn advanced techniques to excel in your role as a leader or as someone who wants to influence change;
Impact: Improve resiliency, raise confidence, understand how to build engaging connections with stakeholders, and success-focused adaptability while being your authentic self.
Enhance Diversity Competence: gain deep insights into managing and leveraging cultural diversity for a competitive edge;
Foster inclusive environments: develop strategies to create and sustain inclusive workplaces.

Experience the bespoke fusion of a blended business training program with personal coaching insights tailored to elevate your unique journey. The paradigm shifts you experience will elevate you to lead with excellence, improve your well-being, uncover blind spots and biases, allow for a refocus of your energy, and elevate you from conventional success to long-lasting, astounding Success.

Who should enroll?

This training program is perfect for:

Expatriates: who are daily navigating unfamiliar cultural enironments.
Conscious leaders: devoted to elevating their presence and creating a fair and inclusive (international) work environment.
High-achieving employees working in an international business setting: seeking to improve their communication effectiveness in a global workplace.

Sabrina Sardar

Online Business Manager,
relocated from The Netherlands to India

"The training has been very valuable to me. Through Sarah's guidance I now understand more why certain people/cultures communicate in certain ways and how I can play a positive role in those communications.

The program is also making me more aware of human interactions in general as well as my own behaviour in an intercultural setting. Sarah is an expert on this topic and knows what she is talking, as she answers my questions patiently."

Through this carefully crafted personalized program, you will elevate your inspirational leadership skills to communicate optimally in our global, hyperconnected world.

The awareness and acceptance gained through the 'Energy Leadership Index™ Assessment' will help you to be in your core energy, fostering confidence and authenticity. You will experience a shift from functioning effectively to using your energy optimally.

In small groups, our paths converge to focus on experiencing, integrating, and implementing the five key competencies of Elevated Leadership & Diversity Business Competence, leading to acceptance, adaptation, and belonging.

Join the community of like-minded, curious learners in an intercultural environment. The learnings are embedded through sharing experiences between sessions in an exclusive WhatsApp forum.

Course Highlights:

Interactive Modules: Engaging content designed to maximize learning and application. See details
Real-world Case studies: Practical examples to bridge theory and practice.
Collaborative learning: Network and learn with peers from diverse backgrounds.
2 Personalized assessments: the Energy Leadership Index™ assessment and the Intercultural Development Inventory®. These assessments hold the mirror to your world. You can read more about them
2 Bonus 1-on-1 coaching sessions.
Exclusive Whats App group with peers.

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Basic Course

5 group sessions of weekly 90-minutes live Zoom calls
2 personalized 1:1 coaching sessions
2 awareness-raising assessments: the 'Energy Leadership Index™ Assessment' and the 'Intercultural Development Inventory®.'

Advanced Business Add-on

3 additional group sessions of weekly 90-minutes live Zoom calls
1 additional personalized 1:1 coaching session with country-specific business insights

Patricia Olefs

Optimizing stakeholder management in a multinational work environment

"This is the information we all need to hear or be reminded off. Misunderstanding happens when you speak the same language, culture, are from the same background etc.

In an international context it is even more important that we are all humans and that our diversity is our strength if we are only willing to learn and be open to others and their experiences."

Leading with excellence

Transformational insights on behavior allow you to focus your core energy using the Power of Choice. Be authentic and increase your executive presence. Improve your decision-making, handle stress effectively , and increase your self-confidence.

Core Energy Focus

Transformational insights through aligning your deep values with mastery-oriented goals, leading to intrinsic self-push motivation and skilfully using your energy levels. Be in your core energy, focus, and respond through the 'Power of choice.'

Blended coaching & training approach

Coming together with a small group of like-minded individuals allows for a safe and non-judgmental environment where business acumen training can be combined with profound coaching moments, leading to clarity and vision.

Communicate with positive impact

Gain a profound understanding of diversity communication and develop the skills needed for engaging effectively in diverse environments. Infuence your stakeholders in the most optimal way, leading to long-lasting astounding success.

DEIB

Awareness and practice of inclusion in thought, feelings, and actions. Polishing your verbal and nonverbal communication results in creating and optimizing an environment of belonging, leading to enabling growth and organizational success.

Business deep-dive

The business add-on focuses, through 4 additional sessions, on team dynamics, optimal communication with key stakeholders, power dynamics, evaluating styles, conflict management, trusting and decision-making. Personalized insights enable growth and Leading with excellence.

Easier integration & adaptation

Understand your cultural sensitivity and the path towards successful communication to ensure ease of integration and adaptation. Discover your cultural worldview and dare to go offroad, without losing your identity.

Positive Intelligence

Interwoven with Positive Intelligence exercises, this allows you to activate sage powers that build a healthy mind that serves you in your vision, decision-making, and curiosity.

Eye-opening behavioral assessments

Transformational shifts that uncover the patterns blocking your success are obtained through the insights of the Energy Leadership Index™ assessment. Insights into your cultural sensitivity and development path are gained through the Intercultural Development Inventory®. These assessments hold the mirror that reflects your world.

"Nice program - well tailored. Got me thinking of what I had thought had mastered."

Rajan Verma

Chief Financial Officer,
relocated from India to Ireland

By embarking on this program, you will increase your ability to communicate effectively internationally and across cultures. You will elevate your leadership and gain a profound understanding of diversity communication, resulting in communicating and influencing with impact, stronger relationships, and better stakeholder management. The program will ignite your curiosity, reshape your worldview, and create sustained personal growth and success.

What will you gain?

Strategic Leadership skills: Acquire the know-how to lead and influence in multicultural and global contexts successfully.
Cultural intelligence: develop a more sensitive and conscious understanding of other cultures.
Improved communication: develop stronger teams and relationships by learning how to communicate effectively across diverse cultures.
Impact: Improve resiliency, raise confidence, understand how to build engaging connections with stakeholders, success-focused adaptability while being your authentic self.
Enhanced confidence: Gain the self-assurance to take the lead with compassion, wisdom and inclusivity.
Increased (self) awareness: Develop a deeper understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, and cultural biases.