Work and life are global. Your employees need to understand cultural differences, both abroad and at home. That understanding will be the difference between success or failure for your organization.

Cultural competence is a journey. We’ll help you plan every step so that you succeed—wherever you are.

Work with an experienced consultant

You’ll consult with one of our cultural competence experts who works with businesses across the world. They’ll recommend a customized, blended solution of talent development strategies, scalable web-based resources, and face-to-face learning programs adapted for employees around the world.

Review your customized plan

After recommending strategies, our consulting team develops a robust, actionable program that includes virtual, in-person, and online modules. We focus on mission-critical skills and knowledge for your teams, leaders, and employees.

Set a cultural competence benchmark

How do you know you’re improving if you can’t measure your growth? We use a suite of proprietary assessments, such as the Global Team Assessment, to quantify your team’s cultural competence. These assessments turn gut feelings into measurable, reportable metrics.

Create collaborative global teams

Through customized cultural competence training, we teach your employees how to be more self-aware and overcome barriers that arise from differences in geography, culture, and language.

Modules include:

• Collaborating Across Distance
• Virtual Collaboration
• Engaging Virtual Meetings

Make your leaders global leaders

Empower your leaders to bring the best out of their teams, no matter where they are. Leading a global team takes insight, agility, and steady application of best practices.

We guide your leaders towards these skills with solutions like:

• Executive Coaching
• Customized Programs for High Potential Future Leaders
• Leading a Global Team

Build empathy for people in other cultures

Whether you work globally with clients or colleagues, trust and respect comes from shared understanding. We support your team with knowledge about different working styles and cultural assumptions and traditions, including:

• India Immersion
• Virtual Country Briefing

Maintain and grow

After we finish your initial cultural awareness training program, we’ll assess where your team’s cultural competence level is and look for opportunities to continue to grow.

Inclusion and diversity aren’t boxes to check. They’re necessary components for global organizations to thrive in today’s world.

We use an evidence-based approach to consult with some of the world’s largest global organizations. Our original research can be found in our industry-leading publications and in the solutions we provide for clients.

Learn inclusion and diversity best practices

Our experienced senior consultants can explain what corporate inclusion trends look like today and how to build and maintain inclusion best practices over time.

We specialize in creating and customizing global D&I initiatives that can also be adapted for local cultures.

Find your benchmark

We’ll help quantify your organization’s current levels of inclusion using our proprietary assessment, The Inclusive Behaviors Inventory (IBI). The IBI also provides individuals with a picture of where they are on their own inclusion journey, along with practical steps they can take to become more inclusive.

Challenge unconscious biases at home and abroad

Our team will guide you through the difficult but worthwhile work of challenging unconscious biases, using our concise and memorable CIAO model. We’ll help you explore identity in the workplace and consult on how to build conscious inclusion between employees from different backgrounds, cultures, locations, sexual orientations, and more.

Align your champions

Create lasting impact by leveraging the strengths of your people. We align with your senior leaders and tap into your organizational successes and best practices.

Develop everyday inclusive behaviors

We help your employees transform harmful micro-aggressions into encouraging micro-affirmations that foster trust and respect. Through customized, hands-on learning experiences, we’ll build everyday inclusion skills for meetings, feedback, assessments, problem-solving, and decision-making. These skills can be readily applied on the job—at home and abroad.

Build inclusion into your hiring practices

Inclusion and diversity start with your talent cycle. Learn how to build stronger teams from the ground up by attracting and retaining diverse talent. We teach you inclusion best practices that keep biases out of the recruitment process.

Drive inclusion from within

We’ll empower your leaders to build or co-author an overall inclusion strategy. They’ll have the insight needed to support and measure inclusion throughout the talent cycle as they recruit, develop, coach, assess performance, and ultimately plan for their own successors.

We’re uniquely prepared to help.

Cultural training is not one size fits all. We highly customize our solutions to meet the specific needs of each expatriate and their families, and are packaged with important, locally relevant DEI expertise. Our facilitators and program management team span the globe, and are ready to support from start to finish.

This means not only assignment preparation and on-assignment coaching—we also help with the selection and repatriation phases. We can support any number of employees, as well as their families and partners, and we bill only for the hours they use.

With our Flex Model, assignees get to choose when and how they want their training: virtual or in-person? Two hours or eight? All at once or over a couple days?

Bridge boundaries in the global workplace.

Culture influences how we work and communicate. Gaining insight into other cultures helps bridge gaps and build stronger relationships. With the GlobeSmart Profile and Culture Guides, you can help promote a more inclusive, successful workplace culture.

Valuable insights into how you work

The GlobeSmart Profile is a powerful, statistically validated instrument that allows you to discover your preferred work style and see how you compare to other cultures, colleagues, and team members.

Dynamic, Real-Time Advice

GlobeSmart’s proprietary algorithm gives you custom advice for working with specific colleagues and cultures on topics like building trust, giving feedback, and obtaining information.

In-depth information on 100 cultures

With GlobeSmart Culture Guides, you'll get the critical insights you need on the cultures you're working with. With 50 business topics in each culture, you can learn the essentials of interacting effectively with people worldwide.

Unparalleled Simplicity.

The GlobeSmart work-style Profile is quick to take and easy to understand. After the analysis of your “five cultural dimensions,” you can share the Profile with colleagues to help build stronger working relationships around the world.

Achieve your organizational goals.

With GlobeSmart’s actionable advice and curated information from around the world, we can help you:

• Build stronger relationships with your global clients and colleagues
• Learn strategies for persuading and presenting
• Deliver feedback more effectively
• Create an inclusive environment
• And much more

Take the first step towards an inclusive workplace, globally.

Everyone deserves to feel like they belong at work. That’s why we created the Inclusive Behaviors Inventory℠ (IBI), an easy-to-use assessment that identifies inclusion gaps and provides practical strategies to work more inclusively.

Inclusion starts within.

We bring a different perspective when measuring inclusion by enabling self-reflection. When everyone is responsible for creating an inclusive environment, you start to see real change.

Data based on science.

The IBI has undergone rigorous psychometric analysis, including reliability, validity, and ongoing testing. Join over 22,000 people who have taken the survey and put inclusion into action.

Scalable learning across the globe.

Designed with a global lens, the IBI offers a seamless rollout to employees at all levels in multiple languages. With an intuitive user experience and concepts that are easy to grasp, learners will quickly begin modeling inclusive behaviors at work.

Discover where you are on your inclusion journey.

How can you know where to go if you don’t know where you are? The IBI provides employees with a self-reflection score ranking across five Inclusive Behaviors. Using this framework provides five clear paths for growth and development.

Gain insight into cutting-edge inclusion indicators.

Version 3.0 of the IBI released a host of major upgrades, including key inclusion indicators for psychological safety, empathy and perspective-taking, and leadership. The IBI provides dynamic, smart advice and a deeper learning experience for becoming more inclusive.

Get inspired to take action.

Unlock a personal action plan to receive clear strategies for strengthening inclusive behaviors. The IBI journey then provides additional learning prompts and resources to spark change and foster champions of inclusion at your organization.

Experience the power of IBI 360.

All leaders have inclusion gaps. We help you find them. With the 360 feature, leaders have the ability to see if their intent matches the impact of their inclusive actions. They get a complete picture of where to focus with anonymous ratings from peers, managers, or direct reports.

Promote skill-building with self-guided learning modules