by Allan Bird | Mar 22, 2022 | ICI, Leadership
For more than twenty years the Kozai Group has been helping people around the world work and lead across differences more effectively, and in one form or another the five partners have worked on these issues for far, far longer. Seven or eight years ago we started...
by Kozai Group | Feb 23, 2022 | ICI, Uncategorized
Dr. Janet Bennett, Executive Director of the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) passed away January 27, 2022. Janet advanced the field of intercultural communication in numerous ways from building theory, writing well-cited articles and books, developing...
by Joanne Barnes | Feb 22, 2022 | Education, ICI, Leadership
Black women, young, old, and in between, search for other Black women who model the tenets of leadership they admire. As they search the pages of history books, positive role models are nowhere to be found – or they are limited to a one-line footnote. Often...
by Gary Oddou | Jun 19, 2021 | ICI, Leadership
Change your thoughts and you change your world.— Norman Vincent Peale We live in a time where many people are seeking societal change, particularly in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. One way to create such change is to change or eliminate old...
by Mark Mendenhall | May 21, 2021 | GCI, Global Skills, ICI, IES
As trainers, coaches, and educators, knowing which “tool” (theory, training method,teaching technique) to use requires we first being willing to use – and having a workingknowledge of – a variety of theories, methods, and practices that can be applied to...
by Joyce Osland | Jul 4, 2019 | ICI, Leadership
How weird can you be in a major corporation and still keep your job? Kathleen McDonald, a former organization development team leader who was responsible for a project on managing diversity at Exxon, devised an eccentricity model to help employees answer that very...