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September 12, 2024 What does Intercultural Agility Have to do With Counseling? Beginning to emerge in the late 1800s in response to the Industrial Revolution and social reform movements, the Read More -
August 26, 2024 Building a Thriving Family Culture with Andrew Doust How do you create a thriving family culture amidst family tension and succession planning? Join us as we explore Read More -
August 19, 2024 Killer Meetings | How to Have Productive Life-Giving Meetings Though there is an amusing pun in the title, we are not always on the right side of it. We Read More -
July 23, 2024 The Three Colors of Worldview (Part 2): Applying the Cultural Drivers This is the second part of a two-part episode, if you haven’t yet, we recommend you Read More -
July 22, 2024 How to Increase Your Effectiveness as a Global Leader “Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.” – John C. Maxwell If leadership is influence, then global Read More -
June 26, 2024 Unlocking the Three Colors of Worldview What if understanding three simple colors could transform your perspective on intercultural connection? Join us as Shelley Reinhart welcomes Marco, Read More
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May 27, 2024 Applying Cultural Agility to DEIB Culture is all around us. It is the lens through which we see the world. This means more often than not, Read More -
April 26, 2024 Higher International Human Resources Becomes a KnowledgeWorkx Partner We are all thrilled to announce that Higher International Human Resources is joining KnowledgeWorkx as a KnowledgeWorkx Partner. Read More -
April 16, 2024 The Secret to Culture Change in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging This article was adapted from a panel webinar. Sign up to receive the webinar here. Read More -
April 8, 2024 Unlocking the World of HR Through Cultural Agility with Erika Butler In a world that’s rapidly shrinking due to globalization, the role of human resources (HR) Read More -
April 8, 2024 The New Three Colors of Worldview Questionnaire and Report As we endeavor to keep our products current and relevant, KnowledgeWorkx is excited to announce the release of our Read More -
Feb 29, 2024 Coaching Beyond Borders to Unlock Global Potential with Sarah Anthony and Matt Trenchard When cultures collide within the coaching arena, the game changes entirely. That’s why Read More -
Feb 19, 2024 Flint Culture and KnowledgeWorkx Enter Partnership to Empower Organizations with Intercultural Agility KnowledgeWorkx and Flint Culture are entering a new partnership to empower organizations with cross-cultural Read More -
Jan 23, 2024 Counseling Across Cultures with Nancy Wolf Nancy Wolf captivates us with her experiences of moving from America to Africa, a decision that propelled her family into Read More -
Dec 11, 2023 Bridging the Gap: Navigating Generational Culture in Family Dynamics The world our children are growing up in is vastly different from the one we grew up Read More -
Dec 07, 2023 Arjen Brussé Joins the KnowledgeWorkx Team We are all thrilled to announce that Arjen Brussé is joining KnowledgeWorkx as a Global Partner. Arjen’s wealth of experience Read More -
Nov 30, 2023 Navigating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging with David Myles We had the privilege of engaging in a thought-provoking conversation with our esteemed guest, David Myles, on Read More -
Nov 1, 2023 Killer Meetings with Marco Blankenburgh Are you ready to turn the intricacies of intercultural meetings from minefields into gold mines? Let’s embark on this journey Read More -
Oct 13, 2023 The New Three Colors of Worldview Group Report We are excited to announce the release of a new group report for our Three Colors of Worldview assessment. Read More -
Aug 14, 2023 The Beauty of Power Let’s begin by making plain the goal of this article. I want to convince you that power is an ever-present & omnipresent reality Read More -
May 30, 2023 Interculturally Agile Consulting Organizational and strategic consulting are powerful approaches that can move organizations from failure to success. It is said that: “Prescription without diagnosis is considered Read More -
April 27, 2023 Building Trust in Your Intercultural Workplace Consistent words and actions are the building blocks of trust in intercultural workplaces. Building trust in intercultural teams is crucial for Read More -
March 29, 2023 What is a ‘Cultural Learner’ and ‘Cultural Critic’? As our world becomes more global, it is becoming more and more important to find ways to break down Read More -
January 11, 2023 Thriving Intercultural Relationships with Bart and Julie Heiligenberg and Bryce and Thelma Dzirbik How do you create a thriving intercultural marriage or relationship? The challenges of Read More -
December 11, 2022 Exploring the Depths of Trust on Teams What is trust? What causes it to erode? How can a team build a resilient culture of trust? In Read More
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September 15, 2022 Ming-Jinn Tong Joins the KnowledgeWorkx Team We are all thrilled to announce that Ming-Jinn Tong is joining KnowledgeWorkx as a Global Partner. Ming-Jinn is a seasoned communicator Read More -
August 24, 2022 Intercultural Consulting with George Kesselaar Join George Kesselaar and Marco as they explore the complexities of intercultural consulting and how to successfully facilitate positive behavior change Read More -
August 3, 2022 Vision, Mission, Values: What about behaviors? Tactics to improve the impact of your value statement on corporate culture ‘Corporate Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast’ Too often, we Read More -
July 28, 2022 Knowing Yourself in Intercultural Negotiation; 4 Pillars of International Negotiation Plato included the phrase from the Oracle of Delphi “Know thyself” into his writings and it is Read More -
July 27, 2022 The Four Pillars of Successful International Negotiations: Best Practices When it comes to negotiation, there is a divide between what the experts claim is universally applicable ‘best Read More -
July 26, 2022 Creating Belonging in Organizational Culture with Hasan Rafiq Hasan Rafiq has worked as a senior Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) leader at some of the Read More -
July 11, 2022 The Inter-Cultural Critical Incident Analysis Report is Added to the ICI Certification Reflection is powerful tool to develop lasting change. So, at KnowledgeWorkx we have added a Read More -
June 27, 2022 The Story of a Culture Creator; A Special Interview with Marco Blankenburgh Our 10th episode features an authentic conversation with KnowledgeWorkx’s founder and International Director, Marco Read More -
June 22, 2022 The 10 Most Common Organizational Values, An Intercultural Examination; Part 2 Part 2 of 2 In our second article, we will unpack the remaining top 10 corporate Read More -
June 21, 2022 The 10 Most Common Organizational Values, An Intercultural Examination Part 1 of 2 Values and well-crafted definitions look good on paper but in too many cases don’t Read More -
June 20, 2022 Steve Bushill Joins the KnowledgeWorkx Team We are all thrilled to announce that Steve Bushill is joining us here at KnowledgeWorkx as a Senior Consultant. Steve Read More -
June 01, 2022 Building Bridges Across Racial Divides with Ming-Jinn Tong and Andy Gray Join Ming-Jinn Tong, Andy Gray, and Marco as they unpack how cultural agility is building Read More -
May 23, 2022 Better Conversations, Smarter Questions, and More Listening Part 2 of 2 This article is a continuation of part 1 of “Better Conversations, Smarter Questions, and More Listening” Read More -
May 12, 2022 Better Conversations, Smarter Questions, and More Listening Part 1 of 2 Following the news today is next to impossible. We are bombarded with political, societal, ecological, and Read More -
April 25, 2022 Building Deep Relationships that Cross Cultures Do you have a close relationship with someone that comes from a different cultural background to you? Relational connection with Read More -
April 7, 2022 Leveraging the “Z-Process” in Teams The four stages of teamwork and the right people for each stage. Have you ever been on a team where Read More -
April 05, 2022 Intercultural Communication and Strategy with Nic Labuschagne Join Nic Labuschagne and Marco as they explore how cultural agility helps you adapt communication to fit audiences from Read More -
March 08, 2022 Creating Culture through Learning and Development with Kerry Lee Join Learning and Development Professional and Certified Intercultural Coach Kerry Lee, as she and Marco explore how Read More -
February 25, 2022 Three Colors of Worldview in Traffic In the previous part, we discussed a few ways in which the 12 Dimensions of Culture play out in traffic. Read More -
February 15, 2022 Building Culturally Agile Schools with Michael Bartlett and Shelley Reinhart Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents: Building Culturally Agile Schools with Michael Bartlett and Shelley Read More -
February 4, 2022 Third Culture Kids with Inter-Cultural Intelligence as their Superpower — Bonus Episode Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents a Bonus Episode: Third Culture Kids with Read More -
January 26, 2022 12 Dimensions of Culture in Traffic Part 3 of 4 Thinking ahead is almost always a good idea, but in multicultural environments, thinking ahead can get us Read More -
January 24, 2022 Revolutionize Your Company Culture with Interculturally Validated Behavior Part 2 of 2 Historically, organizations have focused on carefully selected value words and articulated definitions, often using multi-day Read More -
January 18, 2022 Defining values and value behaviors that resonate across cultures Part 1 of 2 When we don’t interculturally validate our company values and associated behaviors, we are setting Read More -
January 17, 2022 Understanding Third Culture Kids with Chris O’Shaughnessy Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents Understanding Third Culture Kids with Chris O’Shaughnessy Join Chris and Marco as Read More -
December 22, 2021 Diminish the Impact of Unconscious Biases and Stereotypes Our Cultural Agility work takes us across twenty-two time-zones, facilitating, coaching and supporting our network of practitioners. Together we Read More -
December 22, 2021 The Business Case against Polarization Have you noticed that in our global, connected, collaborative world we are getting more and more polarized? We seem to be caught Read More -
December 21, 2021 The Power of Stories How do we create stories that humanize rather than dispossess? Stories have the power to shape the way we see the world around Read More -
December 3, 2021 Building Cultural Bridges Through Sports with Apollo Perelini Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents Building Cultural Bridges Through Sports with Apollo Perelini Join Apollo Perelini Read More -
November 2, 2021 The Intersection of Personality and Culture with Corrinna Cross Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents The Intersection of Personality and Culture with Corrinna Cross Join Corrina Read More -
November 2, 2021 Intercultural Coaching, Marriages, and More with Paul William White and Matt Trenchard Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents Intercultural Coaching, Marriages, and More with Paul William Read More -
November 2, 2021 Intercultural Teams with Linda Berlot- A KnowledgeWorkx Podcast Unlocking Cultural Agility with Marco Blankenburgh presents Intercultural Teams with Linda Berlot: Dive in with Linda Berlot— Entrepreneur, Executive, Read More -
October 22, 2021 Creating Messaging that Resonates Across Cultures If you have ever felt like the marketing messages, you were putting into the world were falling on deaf ears your Read More -
September 2, 2021 Unity in Diversity in Your Organization How do we create and maintain a truly multicultural Organizational Culture? Creating and cultivating an organizational culture that capitalizes upon all Read More -
August 17, 2021 Better Conversations, Smarter Questions, and More Listening! Part 2 This article is a continuation of part 1 of “Anti-racism; are we having the wrong conversation?” In part 1 we Read More -
August 2, 2021 Better Conversations, Smarter Questions, and More Listening Part 1 Following the news today is next to impossible. Every day COVID-19 rules and policies are changing. We are Read More -
July 5, 2021 Introducing Certification Badges for Practitioners to Showcase their accomplishments Inter-Cultural Intelligence is not a fixed destination, it is a journey. At KnowledgeWorkx we want to celebrate Read More -
Jun 10, 2021 Unveiling the Cultural Mapping Inventory (CMi) Group Report The Cultural Mapping Inventory (CMi) is a powerful tool developed to assist people with a detailed framework that explains Read More -
May 27, 2021 A solution to Meaningless Corporate Values Redefining Organizational Culture and Values Can you name your company’s values? Do you think about them when you have to make Read More -
May 25, 2021 DiSC Certification –the KnowledgeWorkx Way… There are many Companies that offer Certifications, but we have our special ‘secret sauce’ that we believe makes a KnowledgeWorkx DiSC Read More -
May 13, 2021 Cultivating Resilience by Partnering with The Global Leadership Summit On Wednesday May 12, 2021, The Global Leadership Summit and KnowledgeWorkx kicked off a 6-week journey with 25 Read More -
April 18, 2021 KnowledgeWorkx Equips ICI Practitioners to Integrate Cultural Agility Intercultural Intelligence Practitioners from around the world came together to learn and grow together for KnowledgeWorkx’ 11th Deep Dive Read More -
April 5, 2021 How We Created an Inter-Culturally Intelligent Office Space The power of Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) is in its application. For us, that means embedding it into every aspect Read More -
March 31, 2021 Creating “the Multiplier Effect” on Your Team – Part 2 This is Part 2 of the “Creating the “The Multiplier Effect” on your team” article series. We Read More -
March 30, 2021 Creating the “Multiplier Effect” on your team – Part 1 The core pursuit of our team is an ever-present desire to create multipliers in everything we do. Read More -
March 18, 2021 The New KnowledgeWorkx Website At the start of 2021, KnowledgeWorkx completely renovated our old website to make our customer experience much more human-centered. The new website makes Read More -
March 7, 2021 From the Innate to the Intellectual: An Inter-Cultural Intelligence Practitioner’s Story From the first story we heard Chris tell, we knew that he fit with the work Read More -
February 25, 2021 Lessons We Have Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic… Who could have known at the beginning of 2020 that our world would be turned upside down by Read More -
February 21, 2021 Is the Inter-Cultural Intelligence Certification Worth It? After getting 6 of the top intercultural certifications available on the market today, Henri Bezuidenhout, a university professor from Read More -
January 31, 2021 Destiny in Intercultural Education Directed vs Directive Destiny is the fourth of 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the intercultural terrain. If Read More -
December 3, 2020 Inter-Cultural Intelligence in Australia, Asia and New Zealand: A Success Story Shireen Chua, Founder and Director of Third Culture Solutions, an intercultural consulting company in New Zealand Read More -
November 8, 2020 The Competencies & Behaviors that develop your Inter-Cultural Intelligence – Part 4 The Inter-Cultural Intelligence Competencies Explained This article is part of a series of four Read More -
November 8, 2020 The Competencies & Behaviors that develop your Inter-Cultural Intelligence – Part 3 The Inter-Cultural Intelligence Competencies Explained This article is part of a series of four Read More -
October 28, 2020 The Three Meta-Competencies of ICI The Inter-Cultural Intelligence Competencies Explained To develop Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) and learn how to be globally and relationally successful you Read More -
October 7, 2020 The Three Meta-Competencies of ICI What is Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) all about: “To nurture relational success and create new cultural spaces with the people around you!” Read More -
October 1, 2020 Wandering the World – A Hopeful Tale Ruby tells her story… As a kid growing up, I was enamored with the idea of sailors. I felt that Read More -
September 8, 2020 The Business Case for Intercultural Coaching North Point Academy and KnowledgeWorkx, want to make a suggestion – the world needs more “human” humans. As we are well Read More -
August 3, 2020 What does it mean to be a Third Culture Kid? Jonathan Raj tells his story… Being born an expat in Dubai shaped my formative years in Read More -
July 26, 2020 Status (12 Dimensions of Culture #12) How the mechanisms for success in Ascribed and Achieved status impact global talent management Status is the last of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that Read More -
July 14, 2020 The Inter-Cultural Manager: Developing Your People How can I unlock healthy dialogue about personal development on my team? Creating an environment where people feel encouraged to pursue Read More -
June 25, 2020 Planning (12 Dimensions of Culture #9) Time-Oriented or People-Oriented. Planning is the ninth of the 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to map out the Read More -
June 7, 2020 Accountability (12 Dimensions of Culture #11) Individual vs. Community accountability and its effect on work relationships and performance management. Accountability is the eleventh of the 12 Dimensions Read More -
May 17, 2020 The key to creating a healthy coaching environment (ICI Coaching) Unlocking motivation helps you create a 3rd Cultural Space in which a coaching relationship can thrive. There Read More -
May 3, 2020 Decision-Making (12 Dimensions of Culture #8) Rules-Based or Relationship-Based in terms of Decision Making Decision-Making is the eighth of 12 Dimensions of Culture that KnowledgeWorkx uses to Read More -
April 6, 2020 Motivating my team… “The Inter-Cultural Manager” I want to find the key to my diverse team members’ intrinsic motivations, but how can I figure those out? In Read More -
March 26, 2020 Three Principles of Communication for Virtual Teams Keeping a virtual team aligned is challenging. Part of the challenge is the relational distance that comes from people working Read More -
March 15, 2020 Let’s Rethink How We Engage Interculturally Our world is becoming increasingly more global; our businesses, educational institutions, hospitals and cities are drawing people and talent from all Read More -
February 27, 2020 Understanding Traffic from an Intercultural Perspective “Why in the world do people behave the way they do on the roads?” Some people are predictable, and some are Read More -
February 12, 2020 The Inter-Cultural Manager: Directing and Delegating “My boss doesn’t give sufficient details when I get delegated a task. But I think that asking clarifying questions is not Read More -
January 25, 2020 Are You Equipped for Relational Success in a Global World? Even if you haven’t left home, the world has very likely come to you. No matter where Read More -
January 6, 2020 The Key to Unlock Success in Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Initiatives Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging initiatives are more successful if participants are intercultural learners and have developed Read More -
December 20, 2019 How Global is Your Company’s DNA? Transform your organization’s international reach with Inter-Cultural Intelligence ‘Conquering the world’ must include ‘globalizing your company DNA’! I was talking to Read More -
December 9, 2019 Four Keys for Building Trust on Teams, part 2 Building trust and avoiding cultural pitfalls We have found that in different cultural settings behavioral traits can be Read More -
November 24, 2019 Four Keys for Building Trust on Teams, part 1 Building trust and avoiding cultural pitfalls Reliability, Openness, Respect, and Honesty. These are words we commonly use to Read More -
November 10, 2019 Three Principles of Communication for Geographically Dispersed Teams Keeping a virtual team aligned is challenging. Part of the challenge is the relational distance that comes from people Read More
