Tom Morgan Intercultural Consulting

Tom Morgan Intercultural Consulting Tom Morgan Intercultural Consulting provides a wide range of customized intercultural training, coaching and consulting services.

Tom Morgan Intercultural Consulting is a leading provider of state-of-the-art intercultural training, coaching and consulting. Tom, as principal consultant, together with a global network of intercultural professionals, provides a wide range of training, coaching and consulting solutions to meet clients' business needs. As an intercultural trainer, coach and consultant, Tom has worked with hundred

s of Fortune 1000 companies and other leading companies in defense, automotive, oil, agriculture, food, insurance, financial services, media and entertainment, information technology, telecommunications and other industries. Our primary sense of mission is to work with clients to increase their overall level of intercultural competence—the ability to perform confidently and effectively in other countries or with people from other cultures. Tom has lived, worked and studied in 12 countries outside the U.S. in Europe, Scandinavia, Central America, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. He specializes particularly in training and consulting for companies doing business in India, and also for Indian companies doing business in the West. Tom has conducted training for more than fifty other countries as well. Clients Tom Morgan Intercultural Associates has worked with include the Canadian Special Ops Forces, ADM, AREVA, Bayer, Boeing, Bosch Tools, Cargill, Chevron, CF Industries, Cirque du Soleil, Dannon, The Walt Disney Company, DuPont, Emerson, Ericsson, Ernst & Young, Gap, General Mills, General Motors, GMAC, Harley-Davidson, IKEA, Honeywell Aerospace, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Monsanto, Nestle Purina, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Proctor & Gamble, Principal Financial Group, Prudential Financial, Satyam Computer Services, Scotiabank, Siemens, Sikorsky Aerospace, Solutia, U.S.-India Business Council, the U.S. Marine Corps (for Afghanistan), Verizon-Vodafone, Walmart, Weyerhaeuser, Whirlpool and Wrigley.

With intercultural consultant colleagues a few years back—Kyoung-Ah Nam (Korea expert); Sue Shinomiya (Japan expert), an...
01/18/2024

With intercultural consultant colleagues a few years back—Kyoung-Ah Nam (Korea expert); Sue Shinomiya (Japan expert), and Gilles Asselin (France expert). We were doing a two-day intercultural training for a French company that was doing business in India, Japan and South Korea. I was the india expert for the program.

Thank you to Anjali Mahaldar for posting this excellent quote from Tolstoy, which encapsulates much of what we’re trying...
11/23/2022

Thank you to Anjali Mahaldar for posting this excellent quote from Tolstoy, which encapsulates much of what we’re trying to do as intercultural communication consultants with our clients.

When Tolstoy refers to “customs, privileges, or beliefs,” he’s coming quite close to the definition of culture we use in the intercultural communication field. The skills we help our clients to develop in intercultural training are very much what he’s saying—learning how to use one’s mind in ways that allow one to objectively see one’s own cultural lens that one is always looking through—normally unconscious to most people—and also to be able to clearly comprehend the cultural lens the other person is looking through—“without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.”

What Tolstoy is describing is what we call “intercultural competence”—as I define it, the ability to shift cultural perspectives, empathize, read culturally diverse situations accurately, and exhibit culturally appropriate behavior in different contexts. I love it that Tolstoy had this understanding, and of course he’s quite right that “this state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.”

MIU Alumni Director Paul Stokstad asked me to do a presentation on developing intercultural competence as part of a seri...
04/29/2022

MIU Alumni Director Paul Stokstad asked me to do a presentation on developing intercultural competence as part of a series of presentations by MIU alumni he’s organized. You’re welcome to watch it here:

https://tinyurl.com/tommorgan-miu

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An article about one of my intercultural teachers that some of my friends might enjoy.
08/03/2021

An article about one of my intercultural teachers that some of my friends might enjoy.

Robert Kohlsn Robert Kohls, a pioneer in the field of intercultural relations, died Aug. 9 at his home in San Francisco. He was 79. It was during a two-year military stint in South Korea, after he was drafted near the end of World War II, that Mr. Kohls would develop a fondness for Korea and a curio...

In recent years some people went overboard trying to stop everyone from borrowing various things from other cultures. Th...
05/02/2021

In recent years some people went overboard trying to stop everyone from borrowing various things from other cultures. This article from a few years ago strikes the right balance on this topic, in my opinion.

“...In the 21st century, cultural appropriation—like globalization—isn’t just inevitable; it’s potentially positive. We have to stop guarding cultures and subcultures in efforts to preserve them. It’s naïve, paternalistic, and counterproductive. Plus, it’s just not how culture or creativity work. The exchange of ideas, styles, and traditions is one of the tenets and joys of a modern, multicultural society...”

Borrowing from other cultures isn’t just inevitable, it’s potentially positive.

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