Every day we interact with people who are different from ourselves—whether due to nationality, ethnicity, generation, or family subcultures. These differences often create communication challenges, but by developing cultural intelligence you can learn how to harness differences into strengths, understand people without stereotyping, and strategize how to relate effectively with others.

The Developing CQ Workshop uses proven strategies to improve your ability to work and relate with people from different backgrounds. In this interactive program you get to build on your real-life experiences, learn concrete steps to improve and apply cultural intelligence, and walk away with a personal development plan for using CQ to make a difference in your work and relationships with others.

To equip people to improve their cultural intelligence and to provide them with tools for working more effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds.

Self-awareness of how culture influences your interactions with others

Understanding how to develop and apply CQ in yourself and others

Effectiveness working with multicultural colleagues and customers

Live training sessions (in-person, virtual or hybrid)

CQ® Assessment and Personal Feedback Report

Personal CQ Assessment Debrief option

What's Your CQ? Participant Guide

Expand Your Borders digital book (Livermore, 2013) 


The Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ®) Workshop is a personal and professional development course for people who want to work and relate effectively with others who are different from themselves. In our increasingly globalized world, this training is especially relevant for leaders, teachers, expatriates, managers, and anyone who works on a diverse team or serves clients from various backgrounds—whether across nationality, ethnicity, race, generation, or job function.