You Need Cross-Cultural Agility: A New Paradigm to Take Charge of Your High Tech Career Success

 

Cross-Cultural Agility takes you beyond simply learning about cultural differences. Yes, you discover the unwritten rules that govern the high tech workplace in America. And this robust paradigm helps you to actually adjust your behavior so it matches what’s expected in challenging work situations.  At the same time, you yourself calibrate the degree of adjustment so you stay within your comfort zone.

 

With Cross-Cultural Agility, you bridge cross cultural differences without losing yourself in the process. You learn to blend your own cultural style with the American style, so you act in a manner that feels authentic to you. 

 

You maintain your cultural integrity as you strategically manage challenging situations such as asserting yourself, defending your ideas, taking full credit for your achievements, and stopping others from interrupting you at meetings.

 

We help you practice new behavior so it feels natural, fluid, and integrated with your normal style.

 

Based on the rich intersection of cross-cultural training, high tech dynamics, organizational psychology, career development, and communications, Cross-Cultural Agility is a robust paradigm that advances your career in the constantly changing, extremely interactive, noisy high tech environment. 

 

 

We Are Dedicated to Your Professional Success and Personal Well-Being

 

We know first-hand how to succeed in a different culture, and we understand the importance of ensuring that actions and values are in harmony.

 

Octave V. Baker, Ph.D., a psychologist, successfully straddled cultures as a

Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa. He conducted the first project in Silicon Valley that studied the career path of foreign-born engineers at Intel, and he teaches Career Strategies for Foreign-born at Santa Clara University.

 

Susan Almazol, M.A., a communications expert born in the Philippines, teaches writing and public speaking to American companies.  Susan was the first Filipina reporter at the San Francisco Examiner. She uses her journalistic expertise to teach fast and effective technical and business writing strategies and best practices in presenting yourself and your ideas.

 

Since 1981 in the heart of Silicon Valley, we have consulted with major high tech corporations, and we have taught their engineers in the Engineering Management and Leadership Program at Santa Clara University.

 

In the last three decades, we have helped hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign-born engineers, scientists, and other technical professionals to be more effective in the high tech workplace.