Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“The other discovery came when I was working with another trainer on my team whose focus was on our new client company’s marketing strategy and how it evolved over many years in Australia. When he shared his extensive research on that strategy, it was immediately clear that the Australian core values I was covering were at the heart of our client’s branding. Based on that finding, we were able to weave our courses together into a powerful and cohesive curriculum.”
Senior Diversity Consultant, global energy company with employees in over 100 countries
“From my perspective, the simplicity of the tool is what makes it so useful.”
Turner White, Executive Professor of Management, Helzberg School of Management
“Cultural Detective is a beautiful illustration of the effect of the quality of cultural response in an executive's decision process. The interactive example was instructive and memorable—not a person in the room hadn't been in situations precisely like those we experienced in the practical exercise. Yet, we had in this case an opportunity to ‘unpack’ the experience and follow its likely conclusion. You fulfilled every expectation that I had for the seminar—my only regret is that we didn't have more time!”
Sharon Pitterson-Ogaldez (blog post in response to “Diversity Training Doesn’t Work")
“For a long time I have observed a two-fold paralysis that occurs in diversity training sessions in the US; paralysis from guilt of the dominant groups (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.) and paralysis from anger within the oppressed groups. This led me to seek another way of helping people learn about their differences and to see the major role culture plays in how we shape and view our world. The Cultural Detective is a very valuable tool for teaching people how to navigate these differences by assuming positive intent.”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“Learners were able to engage with the Critical Incidents deeply, perceptively, and energetically. We were able to pull out and analyze many ‘clues’ from the incidents, while having a lot of fun doing so!”
Cultural Detective Facilitator Certification Attendee
“Cultural Detective is the practical experiential tool that translates theory in to real learning.”
Carolyn Rehn, Sr. Organizational Development and Learning Specialist, AFS-USA Intercultural Programs
“Cultural Detective is a wonderful resource that we use to help us bring to light and deal with the differences and adjustment issues that happen in a cross-cultural exchange.”
Nadine LeGros, Language & Communication Instructor, The University of Western Ontario
“Using Cultural Detective is a wonderful way to inform ourselves of cultural tendencies and to try to anticipate how our behaviour and messages might be perceived or misperceived by members of other cultures.”
Maartje Goodeve, Nascence Coaching, BC, Canada
“The Cultural Detective Online is a sound investment for my work as an intercultural and relocation coach. I will also suggest to my clients to get a subscription for themselves.”
Dr. Michael Vande Berg, former VP Academic Affairs, CIEE (Council on Int'l Educational Exchange)
”Cultural Detective is contributing very significantly to CIEE’s efforts to help students abroad understand core cultural concepts, and develop key intercultural perspectives and skills—and is doing all of this in cost-effective ways.”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“The other discovery came when I was working with another trainer on my team whose focus was on our new client company’s marketing strategy and how it evolved over many years in Australia. When he shared his extensive research on that strategy, it was immediately clear that the Australian core values I was covering were at the heart of our client’s branding. Based on that finding, we were able to weave our courses together into a powerful and cohesive curriculum.”
Senior Diversity Consultant, global energy company with employees in over 100 countries
“From my perspective, the simplicity of the tool is what makes it so useful.”
Turner White, Executive Professor of Management, Helzberg School of Management
“Cultural Detective is a beautiful illustration of the effect of the quality of cultural response in an executive's decision process. The interactive example was instructive and memorable—not a person in the room hadn't been in situations precisely like those we experienced in the practical exercise. Yet, we had in this case an opportunity to ‘unpack’ the experience and follow its likely conclusion. You fulfilled every expectation that I had for the seminar—my only regret is that we didn't have more time!”
Sharon Pitterson-Ogaldez (blog post in response to “Diversity Training Doesn’t Work")
“For a long time I have observed a two-fold paralysis that occurs in diversity training sessions in the US; paralysis from guilt of the dominant groups (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.) and paralysis from anger within the oppressed groups. This led me to seek another way of helping people learn about their differences and to see the major role culture plays in how we shape and view our world. The Cultural Detective is a very valuable tool for teaching people how to navigate these differences by assuming positive intent.”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“Learners were able to engage with the Critical Incidents deeply, perceptively, and energetically. We were able to pull out and analyze many ‘clues’ from the incidents, while having a lot of fun doing so!”
Cultural Detective Facilitator Certification Attendee
“Cultural Detective is the practical experiential tool that translates theory in to real learning.”
Carolyn Rehn, Sr. Organizational Development and Learning Specialist, AFS-USA Intercultural Programs
“Cultural Detective is a wonderful resource that we use to help us bring to light and deal with the differences and adjustment issues that happen in a cross-cultural exchange.”
Nadine LeGros, Language & Communication Instructor, The University of Western Ontario
“Using Cultural Detective is a wonderful way to inform ourselves of cultural tendencies and to try to anticipate how our behaviour and messages might be perceived or misperceived by members of other cultures.”
Maartje Goodeve, Nascence Coaching, BC, Canada
“The Cultural Detective Online is a sound investment for my work as an intercultural and relocation coach. I will also suggest to my clients to get a subscription for themselves.”
Dr. Michael Vande Berg, former VP Academic Affairs, CIEE (Council on Int'l Educational Exchange)
”Cultural Detective is contributing very significantly to CIEE’s efforts to help students abroad understand core cultural concepts, and develop key intercultural perspectives and skills—and is doing all of this in cost-effective ways.”