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Language and business culture training for all levels and backgrounds, with a focus on personal-level skills. 

More information upcoming - new culture training packages for  innovation teams! 

Core Value - Embrace Difference, Embrace Innovation! 

Simplicity is of essence, when navigating complexity. For example a simple book club can provide groundbreaking insights - for example, we warmly recommend financial journalist Dr. Gillian Tett's 2001 book Anthrovision -  How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life.

Innovation requires embracing difference - be it between different national or company cultures, startups and corporates, or even, for example, academic fields of study - understanding variations in thinking matters! We believe that alongside empathy, respecting differences and resilience in uncertainty are key skills of the future - and at the forefront of navigating the green transition. 

Understanding, navigating and managing differences requires a high degree of awareness - awareness of self and the other.  Achieving this is a task that takes time and reflection. Experiencing the difference, via a simulation, creates steps towards understanding.

Simulations and Action-based Learning - for both transition between cultures as well as on behalf of green transformation

We create action-based experience learning environments, where personal intercultural communication and interaction skill can be practiced. Together with us, international talent from China , for example, can practice what it feels like to begin work in a Finnish startup where there is very low hierarchy and expectation of high initiative (entrepreneur-style independence). Or, the other way around! What does it feel like to transition from a quiet data-, and task-based environment (Finland) to a more social, relationship-based Chinese environment? We create a setting, and bring in live actors playing different roles for you to interact with - in a psychologically safe setting, with expert guidance. Some examples of training settings in Finland are: Startup Office, Forest Trek, Corporate boardroom.

The picture below is from Slush Shanghai 2017, where a key theme was "Embrace the Different."