Kate Berardo, Culturosity® Creator

Kate founded Culturosity in 2003 to help individuals create lifestyles that support their global skills development and intercultural growth and experience. Kate believes that the ability to work across cultures is an already important asset that will become a prerequisite for future generations working in our increasingly global world.

As a trainer and consultant, Kate specializes in global skill building, leadership development, and diverse teams. She helps individuals to work effectively internationally and organizations to solve complex cultural challenges. Her training experience spans ten countries and has involved working at all levels, from staff to senior executives, with individuals from over thirty-five nations. Her work has been the subject of media worldwide, including CNN's Business Traveler and the Dubai daily Gulf News.

Aside from consulting and training, Kate also teaches university international business management courses and develops educational curriculum. She sits on multiple advisory boards and is involved in research and development of effective training methods and tools. She is a frequent writer, workshop presenter and speaker at international conferences.

Kate holds a distinguished Masters in Intercultural Communication from the University of Bedfordshire, UK and is a summa cum laude graduate of Northwestern University in the US. She is the co-author of Putting Diversity to Work: How to Successfully Lead a Diverse Workforce and Cultural Detective® Self-Discovery. She is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Argonaut Online™ and is an active committee member of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research in Europe.

Kate has lived in Japan, Spain, the UK and France and is now based in California. Her extensive travel and work in three continents have given her a deep understanding of the intricacies of working across boundaries and barriers.

Recent Projects

·         Leading a multi-site, multi-country cultural skill building roll-out for a pharmaceutical multinational

·         Helping international high potential leaders in manufacturing to develop effective working practices

·         Conducting assessments to determine how to integrate global competency throughout organizations

·         Designing and developing a year-long curriculum for London managers to develop their global skills

·         Training and development using Argonaut™ to promote on-line and on-going learning for executives

·         Delivering Management Courses on Doing Business in the USA for international undergraduates

 

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