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Developing intercultural competence to navigate cultural differences: enhancing attitude, know-how, and skills to facilitate intercultural negotiated practices for effective intercultural interactions in a multicultural and globalised world.

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Culture Resource Centre

How Can We Help You and Your Organisation?

Our expert interventions support developing cultural competence to overcome cultural differences, to work more productively and to enjoy greater success in our multicultural and globalised world.

  • In-House Training Intercultural training programs for professionals and teams tailored to your needs and delivered at your preferred venue. LEARN MORE
  • Coaching Face-to-face or virtual sessions to support individuals with specific intercultural learning and development needs. LEARN MORE
  • Open Courses 2019 Courses tailored to business or government. Open to individuals and small groups. Also available via virtual delivery. LEARN MORE
  • Assessment Centre Assessments and tools to assist in identifying the needs and enhancing the intercultural competence of your professionals, leaders and teams. Learn more
  • Public Speaking Public speakers and presenters for your corporate events, strategic forums or upcoming conferences. LEARN MORE

What our Clients say

Many thanks for your session/workshop. It was very well received by all and feedback has been extremely positive. We were trying to use some of learning in the following day session(s). I will recommend you to other teams in Cisco and they can leverage this or similar session for their leadership/ team building activities. Cisco Services APJC Cisco Services APJC

Culture Resource Centre doesn’t just do cultural awareness but provides pathways to build cultural competence and cultural intelligence that improves and develops our teams’ communication, productivity and efficiency. Ansaldo STS is a culturally diverse and dynamic organisation with global coverage, the Culture Resource Centre has been a valuable provider of training to my resources. I am happy to recommend the work of Culture Resource Centre. Training Manager, Asia Pacific ANSALDO STS

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Our Recent Projects and Case Studies

Our approach, expertise and results are best represented by our work.

  • Developing Intercultural Capabilities and Inclusiveness within the University

    Developing Intercultural Capabilities and Inclusiveness within the University

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  • Executive Coaching for Managing a Culturally Diverse Local Subsidiary

    Executive Coaching for Managing a Culturally Diverse Local Subsidiary

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  • Management Practices for Leading Culturally Diverse IT Professionals

    Management Practices for Leading Culturally Diverse IT Professionals

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  • Cultural Awareness within Australian Defence Force

    Cultural Awareness within Australian Defence Force

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  • Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ)

    Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ)

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  • Managing Remote and Diverse Teams

    Managing Remote and Diverse Teams

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Meet the Team

Let us Introduce our Team and our Local and International Networks

  • JOOST THISSEN Founder & Partner

    Joost Thissen is founder and partner of Culture Resource Centre. Her areas of expertise include cross-cultural management, developing intercultural competence, behavioural and organisational change. Joost has a Master’s Degree in Business Sociology (A'dam, The Netherlands) and a Professional Development Certificate "Executive Coaching” by the Institute of Coaching and Consulting Psychology (Sydney). She is accredited in the Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), the IRC Train-the-trainer, and holds Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. Joost is adjunct lecturer for the University of Wollongong, and lectures international students at the Sydney Business School (MBA).

  • KEES HOEFSLOOT Partner

    Kees Hoefsloot is partner of the Culture Resource Centre. During his international career he developed a keen interest and in-depth expertise in global business, partnerships, outsourcing/ off-shoring, and remote and multicultural teams and projects. Kees holds a Bachelor Degree in International Business and participated in the executive MBA “International Client Account Sales” program with INSEAD. He holds a Professional Development Certificate "Executive coaching” by the Institute of Coaching and Consulting Psychology (Sydney), is accredited in Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), and Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change (and its Train-the-Trainer program).

  • LOCAL PROFESSIONALS We work with professionals, practitioners, and academics to offer the best service to our clients.

    During our recent Australian local projects we worked with the following people:Nick Stone, Lorraine White, Tine Kohler, Erik de Jong, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou, Robin Miller, Michael Odur, Lynda Ben-Menashe, Ali Reza Yunespour, Salmon Jan and Sajjad Yunespour.

  • INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS To expand our global reach we partner with International organisations, networks and institutes.

    During our recent projects for our international clients we partnered with: CULTURE LEARNING GROUP (based in the USA). IBI NET (based in NL). IRC Global Network. IDEAS4CULTURE (NL/ ASIA), RW3 CultureWizard (US) and SIETAR Global Network.

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Culture Resource Centre Stats

Some amazing things about us you should know.

  • 53465 People Trained
  • 95% 95% of clients rated us 'very good' or 'excellent'
  • 44 Countries Worked With
  • 20 Years in Business

Contact us

Please let us know how we can help. Call us to discuss or use the form below.

Headquarters

OFFICE: lvl 57, MLC Centre
19-29 Martin place, NSW 2000 SYDNEY

PHONE
Office Sydney: 1300 017 418
Partners:
Kees Hoefsloot +61 (0)408 423 063
Joost Thissen +61 (0)409 714 261

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