People to People International (PTPI) Global Youth Forum Leader
“Cultural Detective helped the students learn not only how to understand others’ cultures but their own. Students demonstrated a tremendous amount of growth in just a couple days!”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“To ensure that the lessons learned in the classroom stick and continue to grow, our coaching team (who participated in both beta sessions and live training) are now making connections back to the Cultural Detective method, concepts, and terminology as they guide learners through the initial relationship-building process with our customers. And the anecdotal evidence of the overwhelming effectiveness of this coaching is pouring in already.”
Staff, one of the world’s largest companies in their industry
“It taught me that when you are communicating across cultures, you need to give time for people to grasp what is being talked about, and time for everyone to establish a common structure of understanding about cultural backgrounds and assumptions.”
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.”
Maartje Goodeve, Nascence Coaching, BC, Canada
“The emphasis on values and ‘lenses’ or interpretations is smack-on and invaluable insight for every personal and business relationship. The website and packages are easy to navigate, information is easy to find, and the visuals are supportive and integral to the product.”
Holly Frohlick, Office of International Education-Study Abroad, Portland Community College
“I wanted to share that, after taking a few hours to explore CD Online, I am so excited and simply thrilled to finally have had a change to access the collective resources of Cultural Detective! I AM SOLD! I just want to express the excitement I am feeling at this very moment. Whoo Hoo!”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“In my search for training that we could purchase and customize to our specific needs, I came across Cultural Detective and discovered that we could, using your materials and methodology, offer our learners much more than the basics. In fact, what I found in Cultural Detective was an approach to cross-cultural communication that would leverage and greatly enhance the communication skills that our team already puts to use every day to achieve shared understanding with our U.S. business-to-business customers.”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“First, let me tell you again how excited we all are about how well the training went; my team is thoroughly convinced Cultural Detective is an excellent choice of cross-cultural communication methodology. The training we conducted is already proving to be very effective in helping our Customer Services team to engage with our new Australian customers.”
People to People International, Global Youth Forum Leader
“The students enjoyed the topic and connected with the Cultural Detective materials. I think they learned a great deal by digging in to themselves and others. When I first read the lessons I thought they were simple and did not appreciate how deeply you could delve into them. I felt like I was peeling an onion and finally got to the sweet heart of it. I learned a lot, too!”
People to People International (PTPI) Global Youth Forum Leader
“Cultural Detective helped the students learn not only how to understand others’ cultures but their own. Students demonstrated a tremendous amount of growth in just a couple days!”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“To ensure that the lessons learned in the classroom stick and continue to grow, our coaching team (who participated in both beta sessions and live training) are now making connections back to the Cultural Detective method, concepts, and terminology as they guide learners through the initial relationship-building process with our customers. And the anecdotal evidence of the overwhelming effectiveness of this coaching is pouring in already.”
Staff, one of the world’s largest companies in their industry
“It taught me that when you are communicating across cultures, you need to give time for people to grasp what is being talked about, and time for everyone to establish a common structure of understanding about cultural backgrounds and assumptions.”
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.”
Maartje Goodeve, Nascence Coaching, BC, Canada
“The emphasis on values and ‘lenses’ or interpretations is smack-on and invaluable insight for every personal and business relationship. The website and packages are easy to navigate, information is easy to find, and the visuals are supportive and integral to the product.”
Holly Frohlick, Office of International Education-Study Abroad, Portland Community College
“I wanted to share that, after taking a few hours to explore CD Online, I am so excited and simply thrilled to finally have had a change to access the collective resources of Cultural Detective! I AM SOLD! I just want to express the excitement I am feeling at this very moment. Whoo Hoo!”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“In my search for training that we could purchase and customize to our specific needs, I came across Cultural Detective and discovered that we could, using your materials and methodology, offer our learners much more than the basics. In fact, what I found in Cultural Detective was an approach to cross-cultural communication that would leverage and greatly enhance the communication skills that our team already puts to use every day to achieve shared understanding with our U.S. business-to-business customers.”
Senior Instructional Designer, Major Payroll Services Organization
“First, let me tell you again how excited we all are about how well the training went; my team is thoroughly convinced Cultural Detective is an excellent choice of cross-cultural communication methodology. The training we conducted is already proving to be very effective in helping our Customer Services team to engage with our new Australian customers.”
People to People International, Global Youth Forum Leader
“The students enjoyed the topic and connected with the Cultural Detective materials. I think they learned a great deal by digging in to themselves and others. When I first read the lessons I thought they were simple and did not appreciate how deeply you could delve into them. I felt like I was peeling an onion and finally got to the sweet heart of it. I learned a lot, too!”