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Developing intercultural competence to navigate cultural differences: attitude, know-how, and skills for effective intercultural interactions in a multicultural and globalised world.
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.
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In-House Training Intercultural training programs for professionals and teams tailored to your needs and delivered at your preferred venue. LEARN MORE -
Cross-cultural Coaching Help grow people to accelerate cultural competence development to achieve goals in multicultural and/or international businesses. 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
Our Recent Projects and Case Studies
Our approach, expertise and results are best represented by our work.
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Case StudiesDeveloping Intercultural Capabilities and Inclusiveness within the University
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Case StudiesExecutive Coaching for Managing a Culturally Diverse Local Subsidiary
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Case StudiesManagement Practices for Leading Culturally Diverse IT Professionals
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Case StudiesCultural Awareness within Australian Defence Force
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Case StudiesDeveloping Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
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Case StudiesManaging Remote and Diverse Teams
Meet the Team
Let us Introduce our Team and our Local and International Networks
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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, and organisational behaviour.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 at the Sydney Business School (MBA). -
KEES HOEFSLOOT Partner
Kees Hoefsloot is partner of the Culture Resource Centre.During his international corporate career he developed a keen interest and in-depth expertise in global business, partnerships, outsourcing/off-shoring, and working with multicultural virtual project team.Kees holds a Bachelor Degree in International Business and followed the executive MBA “International Client Account Sales” program with INSEAD; a Professional Development Certificate "Executive Coaching” by the Institute of Coaching and Consulting Psychology (Sydney), 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 Australian local projects we work 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 projects for international clients we partnered with: Culture Learning Group (USA). IBI NET (based in The Netherlands) and the IRC Global Network. IDEAS4CULTURE (Europe/Asia), RW3 CultureWizard (USA) 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
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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