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Cultural competence development to leverage cultural diversity and boost creativity, inclusion and performance 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 the cultural competence to leverage cultural differences, to work more productively and to enjoy greater success in our multicultural and globalised world.

  • Training Services cultural training programs for professionals and teams tailored to your needs and delivered at your preferred venue or virtually. LEARN MORE
  • Business Coaching Grow people to develop cultural competence to achieve goals in multicultural and/or international businesses. LEARN MORE
  • Virtual Open Courses Open Course virtual workshops addressing awareness, know-how and competence development. Open to individuals and small groups. LEARN MORE
  • Tools & Assessment Tools & Assessments to facilitate the development needs to enhance intercultural competence of your professionals, leaders and teams. Learn more
  • Webinars & Presenters Public speakers for your face-to-face presentations and webinars. LEARN MORE

What do our Clients say?

"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. Hitachi Rail 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 HITACHI RAIL

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Our Project Portfolio

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

  • Preparing an Australian Team for Successful PoC delivery in Malaysia

    Preparing an Australian Team for Successful PoC delivery in Malaysia

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  • Effective intercultural communication within a French corporation operating in Australia 

    Effective intercultural communication within a French corporation operating in Australia 

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  • Effective Intercultural Interactions for a German Corporation in Australia

    Effective Intercultural Interactions for a German Corporation in Australia

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  • Hit the Ground Running - Preparing Expats (and Spouses) to move to a new Country

    Hit the Ground Running - Preparing Expats (and Spouses) to move to a new Country

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  • Virtual Open Course Calendar 2026 - 3 different training workshops

    Virtual Open Course Calendar 2026 - 3 different training workshops

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  • Cultural Competence Program: Culturally Diverse Business Unit

    Cultural Competence Program: Culturally Diverse Business Unit

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Meet the Team

Let us Introduce our Team and our Local and International Networks

  • JOOST THISSEN Founder & Partner (since 1999)

    Joost her areas of expertise include cross-cultural management, developing intercultural competence, and organisational behaviour. She develops and facilitates training, coaching, and lecturing in these areas.

  • KEES HOEFSLOOT Partner (since 2002)

    During Kees 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 teams. Kees develops and facilitates training and coaching.

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

    During local projects we team up with people who have know-how in specific fields such as e.g., country experts, industry and topic specific experts. We team up with professionals from within our network(s) when we need capacity for our larger clients projects.

  • GLOBAL 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). IBInet (based in The Netherlands) with the IRC Global Network, IDEAS4CULTURE (Europe/Asia), and SIETAR Global Network.

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Culture Resource Centre Stats

Some amazing things about us you should know.

  • 69543 People Trained
  • 95% 95% of clients rated us 'very good' or 'excellent'
  • 45 Countries Worked With
  • 26 Years in Business

Let's get started - Contact us

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

Headquarters

SYDNEY OFFICE

Office: 0409714261

Partners:
- Joost Thissen +61 (0)409 714 261
- Kees Hoefsloot +61 (0)408 423 063

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