Richard Cook
Key Competencies for Intercultural Training in a Business training & Development Context

Richard Cook is the founder and Director of Global Excellence Ltd, a UK based global provider of intercultural and diversity training and consultancy services for corporate clients. An international OD cultural management consultant, specialising in helping clients achieve success in global business environments, Richard has worked with international clients for the last twenty-two years and has lived and worked in North and South America, Japan, Africa, the Middle East and Europe for extended periods on international assignments.

Dave Burnapp
Developing mindfulness amongst university academics of the adaptation required of international students concerning differences in cultural and ideological approaches to knowledge

David Burnapp of Northampton Business School has been an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher since 1975, and has worked in Algeria, China, Zambia, Vanuatu, and the Maldives. He is leader of EAP courses at University College Northampton in England, and his research interest is the use acculturation techniques on EAP courses

Simone Gretler Heusser
How do we teach culture?

Simone Gretler Heusser works for the Lucerne School of Social Work, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. His biography: 1964, Social anthropologist, Master of Public Health. Work experience in Health Promotion in School Setting, Immigration Policy on the federal administration level and teaching on University and University of Applied Sciences and Arts level. Director of a Master of Advanced Studies Program in Managing Diversity, in cooperation with Caritas Switzerland (NGO).

Bjørn Ekelund
Introducing Diversity Management as a metaphor

Bjørn Zakarias Ekelund is a Norwegian business consultant. Psychologist (1983), Univ. of Oslo, Norway, MBA (1997), Henley Management College, London, UK. He has been managing director of small consultant organisations since 1987, at the same time doing extensively consultative work around team analysis, OD, cultural change and strategic coaching. Since 1993 he has been prime owner and managing director of Human Factors AS in Norway. He has in all years worked close with academic and professional institutions in order to leverage quality of own consultancy and increase practical relevance of academic knowledge. In his consultation business he has used lots of academic measurements/concepts and in that way created a shared platform for academics and practitioners to create knowledge. He has published articles, books and presented his work and views of the field in different international conferences, worked with cross-cultural issues since early 90-ies and certified more than 600 consultants in use of different psychological tests used for analysis and development. He is a board member of Academy of Management Management Consultation Division, and in the leading group of ION; International Organization Network.

Leah Davcheva
Mutuality in action: stories and experience

Dr Leah Davcheva graduated from the University of Sofia with a degree in English Studies. She then became a teacher of English in the English medium secondary school in Sofia and also taught English language teaching methodology courses at the University of Sofia. Her doctoral research, defended in 1990, was rooted in her experience as a teacher and teacher educator. It resulted in the development of approaches enabling the autonomy of young language learners. Most recently, Leah has conducted research into the concept of mutuality as understood and practiced by individual British Council project designers and managers. The outcome of her research is a publication entitled Mutuality in Action: Stories and Experience (British Council, 2006).

Adina Luca
The Power of ‘I don’t know’
An introduction to Balkan management tools

Student Year 2, School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s College, London

Adina graduated University of Bucharest Language and Literature studies, with a major in Romanian and English language and literature in 1996. She also holds a Certificate of Management from Open University and has attended three years of Human Resources Management studies with Seneca College in Canada before she embarked on a seemingly new profession, psychotherapy, at Regent’s College, in 2005. The new field of study is proving yet another rich source for understanding management as a human relationship better.

Hua Zhu
I write, therefore I am:
Construction and presentation of 'Self' in second language users' application letters

Zhu Hua works for School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Zhu Hua, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication and Degree Programme Director of MA in Cross-Cultural Communication at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She has published extensively on child language development and cross-cultural pragmatics. She is the author of Phonological Development in Specific Contexts; Phonological development and disorders in children: A multilingual perspective. She is currently leading a project on Children’s Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence funded by ESRC.

Magda Telus
The Distance Learning Module
‘Intercultural Communication Eastern Europe’
Beyond the Culture Difference Ideology

Magdalena Telus studied Polish Studies at the Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Poland, and Slavonic and German Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, were she obtained her M. A. and Dr. Phil. She was academic collaborator at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany (1995-2000) and teaching assistant at the University of Applied Sciences in Chemnitz, Germany (2000) in the field Interkulturelle Kommunikation, and is presently working as a freelance author and tutor at the Freie Universität Berin in the distance learning programme Eastern European Studies. Her focuses are: stereotypes, identity and Critical Discourse Analysis.

Jaroslav Svetlik
Communist Ideology and Teachers

Jaroslav Svetlik – Born and raised in the Czech Republic. PhD in Management and Business, Technical University Ostrava (2003), Associate Professor Tomas Bata University in Zlin (2005), Publications: eleven books, twenty articles, ten conference papers. Teaching experience also Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria and Algarve University, Portugal. At present Dean of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University Zlin, Czech Republic

Frank Vonk & Toine Sterk
Motivation, Culture & Ethics

Toine studied Dutch Language and Literature, Musicology and Philology in Utrecht and has an MA. He has done research in the field of Medieval literature and of popularising results of scientific research. He has extensive experience in lecturing Dutch as a Foreign Language and training of Personal and Intercultural Management and Communication Skills in the professional field. He has been working for Arnhem Business School since 1991 and has been one of the forerunners in the international field in the education in Arnhem Business School and has many different positions in the department of International Business and Management in this school. He is originally Dutch and a father of two daughters.

Frank studied Germanic Languages, General Linguistics, Historiography and Philosophy in Utrecht and Nijmegen. He finished his Ph.D. research in 1992 on sign theory (semiotics) from a historical and historiographical perspective. He is an experienced (senior) lecturer on different levels in the Netherlands (from secondary school to university level). Since 1994 he has worked as a business school lecturer in German, (Business) Ethics, Cross-cultural Management and he participates in two business school research groups doing research in the field of education en professional activities and of human communication development. Furthermore, he is a student counselor in the Department. of Logistics. He published extensively on linguistics, semiotics, the history of philosophy and is now specializing on cultural matters in business and ethics. With Joop Vinke and Toine Sterk he will publish on this in the near future. Arnhem Business School, Faculty of Economics and Management

Julian Genov
Some findings on applicability of Hofstede's questionnaires in the post-communist countries

Julian Genov is a leading Bulgarian entrepreneur and manager, with innovative ideas and 20 years of executive practice. He has strong research and academic interest in the field of human resources development, cross-cultural issues of organizational behavior, and numerous publications on the subject, extensive teaching and leadership experience.

Natalie Lutz
French and American perceptions of arrogance

Natalie Lutz has 12 years of training experience, working in French companies as an English trainer and France-US specialist. In 2004, after a two year move back to the US, she received an MA in Intercultural Communication from UMBC (University of Maryland at Baltimore County). Natalie is a corporate intercultural trainer/consultant in the Paris area. Since 2005, she has also been teaching a Master's course on Intercultural negotiating skills at Marne La Vallée University.

Barbara Czarnecka
Attitudes of Polish women towards British culture and people - a short netnography of an online community

Tricia Coverdale-Jones
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Daphne Laing
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Judie Gannon
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Sasho Ognenovski
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James Bruton
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Wei Liao
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Vladimir Zegarac
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Milena Katsarska
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Nathalie Cazaux
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