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CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

Learn why CI is the key to unlocking leadership and DEIB strategy that is psychologically safe

Trauma-Informed CI Approach

OUR CULTURALLY INTELLIGENT APPROACH

CI is the ability to understand how we feel, think, and act when engaging across cultural settings, in multicultural situations, and with people of diverse ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, and backgrounds

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Cultivating Cultural Intelligence (or CI) in individuals and across organizations is critical for achieving outcomes related to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).

CITC's Culturally Intelligent model is an original, research-based and data-driven framework. Culture, broadly defined, incorporates not just race, ethnic heritage, and nationality, but also age, ability, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, and background.

 

CI captures capabilities contained within emotional intelligence (EI) for behavioral adaptation across cultures. Because EI often is culturally bound, CI becomes essential in helping diverse teams succeed.

 

CITC facilitators guide participants in increasing Cultural Openness, Awareness, and Responsiveness, or The Three Cultural Capabilities. Through our multifaceted facilitations, individuals receive a holistic approach to understanding themselves so they can respond insightfully to people from new and diverse cultures with socio-emotional intelligence. These capabilities are guided by our values of curiosity, empathy, and compassion

Most importantly, we embed a trauma-informed approach in every facilitation—from CI trainings to community-specific workshops, and Enneagram facilitation to Design Conversations—to ensure all aspects of our work are based in culturally responsive, human-centered design.

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