In every engagement—from facilitations and trainings to coaching sessions and leadership programs—we help people put the Culturally Intelligent (CI) skills of curiosity, empathy, and compassion into practice.
Curiosity
Ask before assuming. Stay open to what we learn about the people we lead.
Empathy
Listen for what people need, and let it shape how we show up.
Compassion
Act on what we understand in service of the whole team.
We're committed to your growth.
We are educators, storytellers, and travelers of the world—women who believe curiosity is a discipline, empathy is a practice, and compassion is a commitment.
We laugh easily, ask honestly, and hold high standards because we hold high hopes.
The way we work is the way we live: wholeheartedly.
Dr. Renee Bhatti-Klug (l), founder, and Dr. Alene Terzian-Zeitounian (r), senior advisor, deliver a Leading as Fearless Women facilitation
We partner with leaders who want to live in their integrity, knowing that the person they are becoming at work is the same person they are becoming everywhere else.
We serve corporate, nonprofit, education, and small business leaders navigating growth, change, and cultural difference, reaching for fair systems, kind communication, and cultures of accountability where people thrive.
We believe that organizational values matter only when people can witness them in how leaders act.
We help people at every level of an organization (because everyone is a leader) integrate how they feel, think, and act, so the organization becomes integrated too—shared values showing up as everyday behavior.
This is Culturally Intelligent Leadership in action.
We accomplish this through executive facilitation, organizational-wide training, coaching, and collaborative consulting.
Participants at every level of an organization strategize during an IDI facilitation on integrating different workstyles and honoring competing priorities.
01
Assess
See where your culture, values, systems, and behaviors stand today.
02
Develop
Practice the behaviors that turn values into daily action and systems into fair practices.
03
Evaluate
Measure what changes in how people lead and work. Sustain accountability and trust.
Our founder Renee developed and validated CI Leadership because she is guided by the conviction that we have to understand ourselves before we can understand each other; this mutual understanding is what transforms an organization.
Through CI, we teach curiosity toward ourselves and others, empathy that deepens our understanding of one another, and compassion that sets honest boundaries with ourselves and puts real care into action for the people we lead.
For decades, Renee watched leaders increase knowledge yet stay stuck, so she built the bridge from awareness to responsive action. People have always been her why, and she cares deeply about humanity's collective well-being, particularly in the workplace.
Her latest project, The Culturally Intelligent Enneagram, blends the CI Leadership approach with her passion for the Enneagram to help individuals deepen their integrative wholeness by examining culture and personality.
Renee builds instant rapport and credibility, and models cultural intelligence through her every action. We cannot recommend CITC enough.
—GIRL SCOUTS
Co-create a culture of belonging with us
And meet some of the clients who have already partnered with us to demonstrate their values in action.
View full client list here.
Our clients value the services we provide
97%
leave facilitations understanding the work, ready to use it
92%
report meaningful growth in their CI
9.2/10
would send a friend or colleague to us
What partnership makes possible
CITC made the organizational change process tangible and concrete.
—TASH M. | CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER | METRO CARING
What set CITC apart was their ability to truly meet our business where we were—practical, aligned to our global context, and relevant across geographies and leadership levels.
—GRETA S. | GLOBAL REAL ESTATE
CITC helped Aireon build and reinforce a strong culture in a time when a lot of the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion were in question. We came out of that time a stronger team."
—DON THOMA | CEO | AIREON
The CI Enneagram
A leadership program that turns self-awareness into changed behavior—individuals learn their pattern and practice new ways of showing up across difference.
In-person cohorts in Tempe, AZ. Online cohort launching soon.
Dr. Renee Bhatti-Klug facilitates Cohort 1 of the CI Enneagram