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Consultants
As a British company based based in London and with a British Director, we are invited frequently to run sessions introducing British culture.
However, for intercultural programmes for destinations beyond the UK, we have established a network of highly professional and qualified country consultants from around the globe. This wider international team ensures that you have the local/national's perspective to operate effectively within the new culture. Where we do not have the country specialist you require, we can often source and brief a suitable person for you. |
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Here are a few of our country-specialist consultants: |
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David Cant (Russia)
David has worked in Russia for his entire career, starting in the late 1980's, as the USSR representative of a USA trading company. Based in Moscow, he rose to the position of CIS Director and ran their office through some of the most turbulent times in Russia's recent past. In the mid-nineties, he returned to the UK and became an Export Promoter, seconded to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). There followed a period of seven years as Managing Director of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce (RBCC), where among other things, he opened their Moscow office. Since then, David has gone on to found and manage Albion (Overseas) Ltd - a trading company, but also heavily involved in helping other UK businesses to establish themselves in Russia. A fluent Russian speaker, David is a frequent business traveller to Russia and commentator in the media. He is also author of the business digest "Russia: Market Approaches", which is a best-seller and is now in its fifth edition. |
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Dr Moustafa Kamel El-Ghamrawy (Egypt)
Dr El-Ghamrawy lives in Cairo, Egypt, and travels extensively with his private engineering consultancy, established in 1979. Dr El-Ghamrawy has also been the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Al-Azhar university in Cairo, where he has taught for many years. He is currently the Head of the Structural Engineering Department. Dr El-Ghamrawy is also an active and eminent member of several committees. To name just a few, he is on the Board of Directors of the National Egyptian Heritage Association (NEHRA), he has belonged to the Giza Metropolitan Rotary Club since 1989 (including a spell as President), he is a consultant and a member in the Permanent Committee of Egyptian Antiquities of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and he is the Secretary General of the Egyptian Geotechnical society, acting as Vice-President of their 17th international conference held in Alexandria in 2009. Dr El-Ghamrawy has a B.Sc. Civil Engineering & M.Sc. Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering from Cairo university. He also lived in the UK and obtained his Ph.D. and D.I.C. from Imperial College, London. |
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Claude Forbes (Caribbean)
Claude is a business consultant in the areas of infrastructure development, tourism and energy. He specialises in customer service training, nurturing business relationships and introduction services. His international focus includes companies and governments in North America, the Caribbean and West Africa. Claude contributes his Trinidadian perspective to cross-cultural programmes covering Caribbean countries. He has spent 25 years in the academic arena as a senior lecturer in marketing and project management and has delivered business development training to staff in Blue chip companies such as ICI, BP, FIAT and Royal Mail. Claude has also been actively involved in a number of business initiatives by the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in London, including film making and tourism development.
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Other UK Consultants |
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Mark Fritz
Born in the USA, with a Japanese wife, now living and working in Europe after a successful 25-year international career with Eastman Kodak Company, where he worked across a number of teams from Finance and IT to Customer Services and Supply Chain Management. He has delivered projects in numerous locations around the globe and has lived in Egypt, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, America and the UK. Mark is an expert in Leading People at a Distance and is a visiting professor at business schools in the UK, France, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands. |
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Chris Hadfield
Chris has been coaching and counselling senior executives, managers and professionals for more than fifteen years. He regularly runs career and management development programmes in multi-cultural environments and for client companies with an increasingly global presence. He is also frequently invited to facilitate away days, discussions or training. Chris is able to bring a wide range of understanding and skills a project. He has been an MBA tutor in Creativity, Innovation and Change. He is also a UKCP registered psychotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer and has advanced diplomas in business and life coaching. After a first career as a lawyer and partner in the City and the corporate world, Chris trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Having appeared in the theatre and on screen, he has a wide insight into the ways people present themselves and their impact on others. |
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Shazia Khan
Shazia is an experienced and accomplished journalist. She has eight years experience of radio and television reporting, specialising in faith and culture. She currently reports for the BBC and has previously worked at Sky News and Reuters. Shazia also acts as a consultant to the British Council and recently worked on a global project entitled "Intercultural Dialogue", which explored ways of improving trust and understanding between communities. She travelled to Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and all over the UK. Shazia contributes to intercultural programmes and trains others in reporting on faith/culture issues and how to conduct interviews appropriately. Prior to becoming a journalist, Shazia gained a Masters in Law from the University of Cambridge and was a practicing Barrister. |
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Tim Kidd
Tim was raised on the south coast of England and studied English Literature at Keble College, Oxford, before joining the Bank of England in 1973. He worked in the Bank's London Head Office for over thirty years and his tasks included banking supervision, running the graduate training programme and analysing the success of London as an international financial centre. While at the Bank, Tim obtained an MBA degree from the Open University, qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and studied economics at the London School of Economics Summer School. In 1994, Kogan Page published Tim's book Managing Business Networks. Tim retired from the Bank of England in 2006 and has since completed the well-respected courses to become a qualified City of London and London Blue Badge tourist guide. Tim contributes his expertise to UK-focus intercultural programmes and leads bespoke tours/walks in and around London. |
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Julie Sabin
Julie is a School Search Consultant and Expatriate Adviser. She worked for over 15 years in the Automotive Industry in various marketing and communication roles in Europe, Africa and South East Asia. She has relocated herself abroad 4 times to France, Switzerland, South Africa and Thailand, and also crewed on a Round the World Yacht Race between 1996 and 1997. Julie works with many expatriate families and is particularly familiar with the issues facing expatriate parents and accompanying partners when they relocate here. She now spends her time between London and the Home Counties, helping international families settle into these areas and finding the best available schools for them. |
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