- A cross-cultural consulting and training firm dedicated to promoting the opportunities presented by the diversity of our global and multicultural society. We design and facilitate organizational, community and team processes; develop programs and materials; train trainers; and publish tools and materials to aid in leveraging differences.
We are proud to announce our award as "Top Diversity Business" for 2003 and 2004! Nipporica's principal has been active in the intercultural field since 1979, has worked with people from over 70 nations, and has been certified as an Advanced Intercultural Trainer by SIETAR International (International Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research).
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More than 70 acclaimed intercultural experts from 35 countries have collaborated to author Cultural Detective, a series of dynamic, situation- and values-based training tools that encourages participants to develop intercultural competence in themselves and their organizations. Bob Kohls calls it a "BENCHMARK in the intercultural field," and Royal Dutch Shell calls it "the most popular element of the intercultural programs we deliver globally." Check it out! |
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JUST RELEASED!
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A practical book full of stories and reproducible activities grounded in theory for leveraging differences at work, in communities, or at home. Click on the cover to read more. Pre-publication endorsements from managers at CIGNA, Intel, and Texas Instruments, and educators at Arizona State, University of Minnesota, and the Intercultural Communications Institute.
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Shinrai:
Trusting Relationships with Japanese Colleagues, an
audio CD and booklet. You can order this and our
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hope that some good can come from the awful
destruction and the killing of people by
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