“Diversity” has become something of a dirty word in the USA due to tokenism, quotas and some dubious training practices. This workshop will help both enthusiastic and skeptical participants to understand what Cultural Competence is all about and why it is so important for their organization, their team and themselves. They will then learn why and how different people work and communicate in different ways and begin practicing how to interact with them more effectively in future.

Course Objectives:

Participants will:

1.     Learn what it means to be culturally competent in the non-profit and other environments

2.     Understand how their and others’ linguistic expression and communication styles are influenced by a mixture of national, organizational, professional and individual cultural values

3.     Appreciate the different ways in which people prefer to communicate across cultures, with particular reference to face-to-face. phone and e-mail communication

4.     Begin practicing how to communicate with people from other countries and cultures more effectively in future

Comments from Previous Workshop Participants:

“[A] chance to bring out into (the) open some issues w/in our organization.”

“This is a wonderful class! I would highly recommend, esp to management/leaders of orgs.”

 “Jeremy Solomons is a terrific facilitator – a person of integrity who brings honesty and a commitment to change…I very much enjoyed working with and learning from him.”

Jeremy Solomons is the UK-born founder/president of Jeremy Solomons & Associates. He provides customized coaching, facilitation and training in Alliances & Partnering, Career Development, Conflict Resolution, Diversity & Inclusion (both Global and Domestic), Global Leadership, Globalizing Organizations, Interactive Presentations, International Meetings, Multicultural Teambuilding and Strategic Planning to current and future leaders around the world from his base in Austin.

In the areas of Diversity, Inclusion and Cultural Competence, he has consulted on strategy and co-designed and -facilitated many interactive training sessions, most recently for 3M, American Cancer Society, Association of Chinese-American Professionals, Association of Texas Professional Educators, Austin Community College, Austin Energy, Austin Police Dept., Capital Area Food Bank, Caritas, City of Austin, Communities in Schools, Dell, Farm Credit Bank of Texas, The Leader's Board, Leadership Austin, Leadership Texas, Native American Prep School, Prejudice Awareness Summit, Semiconductor Research Corp., Seton Family of Hospitals, Shell Oil, Sodexho, Texas Heart, Texas Historical Commission, Texas State University, Texas Workforce Commission and the University of Texas.

For ACC, he has designed and delivered a series of periodical, open enrollment workshops for the CCBNO since 2002. Topics have covered: Communicating Effectively across Cultures; Cultural Competence; Dealing with Difficult People and Situations; Embracing Diversity and Creating Inclusion; Managing your Manager and Planning a Meaningful Career. He also led a workshop on Embracing Diversity and Creating Inclusion for the Adult Education Program.

In the past, Jeremy managed a diverse staff and worked with clients and colleagues from all over the globe, while employed as a full-time Banker, Educator and Journalist in six multinational institutions: Citibank, JP Morgan, Lloyds Bank International, Reuters News Agency, United Press International and the World Bank.

He has lived, studied and worked for extended periods in eight countries: France, Germany, Hong Kong (and China), Israel, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

Born in Manchester, England - home of the Industrial Revolution and Manchester United - Jeremy holds MA and BA Honors degrees in French from the University of Oxford (Brasenose College). As well as speaking mother-tongue English, he has been fluent in French, German, Italian and US American, and proficient in Spanish and Texan.

Jeremy is adjunct faculty at the University of Texas’ Professional Development Center in Austin, TX; the Intercultural Management Institute at American University in Washington, DC; and the Centre for Intercultural Communication at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.

Jeremy lives in Barton Hills with his US wife, Lily; UK-US daughter, Emma; and a bevy of cats and dogs from New Mexico and Texas.

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