Intercultural Consultancy – Relational – Progressive – Cohesive
Intercultural Consultancy & Training operates as the applied arm of Intercultural Counselling & Competence Development Ltd, a Malta-based company founded in 2019 and working across Europe and beyond. Our work draws on over 30 years of lived and professional experience in intercultural contexts, spanning corporate consultancy, counselling, mediation, education, and social impact initiatives.
At the core of our practice is intercultural counselling. From this foundation, we develop consultancy, training, and analytical services that support individuals, teams, and organisations in navigating cultural complexity with clarity, responsibility, and purpose.
We exist to help organisations transform cultural complexity into coherent understanding, inclusive practice, and sustainable long-term outcomes.
Our purpose is to:
- support the development of reflective, context-appropriate strategies aligned with contemporary professional and organisational realities
- help individuals and organisations make sense of complex personal, relational, and workplace dynamics
- strengthen engagement with people and situations across unfamiliar socio-cultural contexts
- support organisations and professionals navigating periods of transition, change, and uncertainty
Conceptual anchor – how we understand intercultural
Our work is informed by a counselling-based understanding of intercultural dynamics, drawing on schema-informed principles and an Adlerian intercultural perspective. This means we attend not only to observable behaviour or technical skills, but to the underlying patterns of meaning, expectation, belonging, and responsibility that shape how individuals and organisations interpret situations, relate to others, and act within cultural contexts. Working at this level allows for insight and adjustment that is both ethically grounded and practically sustainable.
Intercultural competence extends far beyond avoiding stereotyping or addressing isolated instances of bias. In practice, intercultural competence is a core organisational capability. In the corporate environment, it functions as a foundational framework for decision-making, collaboration, leadership, and adaptation because wherever there are people, there are differences that influence outcomes.
The purpose of the services offered through this site is therefore twofold:
- to raise awareness of the social and cultural embeddedness of work and everyday interaction,
- and to provide professional, reflective support that enables effective human engagement in today’s highly fluid and economically demanding environments.
Our commitment
We stand for quality and aim to strengthen our clients’ capacity for thoughtful action by offering:
- strategic and reflective engagement
- individual, institutional, and corporate intercultural counselling services
- intercultural and inter-functional consultancy and analytical services
- targeted skill-set development, as well as the design and implementation of CSR-based and socially responsive projects
All services are delivered within clearly defined ethical and professional standards.
The work presented on this site is grounded in over three decades of professional and lived experience across the Middle East, South America, West Africa, and Europe, combined with academic and professional frameworks addressing intercultural, organisational, and contextual complexity.
We work with:
- Businesses & HR Leaders building resilient, diverse teams
- Public sector institutions & educators navigating multicultural realities
- NGOs & EU-funded project partners who need inclusive communication and impact strategies
- Leaders & frontline professionals facing cultural misunderstanding, burnout, or community tension
Our clients come to us when they face:
- Miscommunication or conflict in diverse or hybrid teams
- Leadership blind spots around inclusion or unconscious bias
- Pressure to meet DEI, ESG, or integration goals — but unsure how
- A need to go beyond box-ticking toward real culture change
- Exclusion of neurodiverse or marginalised staff
We operate through a core team of three contract-based collaborators and a fast-growing network of local and international professionals. This agile model allows us to scale flexibly, forming the right expert team for every client — whether local, regional, or international.
Our work is not one-size-fits-all. We listen first, then co-create solutions that fit your context.
- People-first, systems-aware: We work at both the human and structural level — building individual awareness while also guiding change in policy, leadership, and team dynamics.
- Empathetic and non-judgmental: We create psychologically safe spaces for real reflection, learning, and transformation — not blame, shame, or quick fixes.
- Rooted in lived experience and evidence: We bring practical, cross-sector experience combined with cutting-edge intercultural and psychological research.
- Sustainable, not superficial: We support real change — moving you from awareness to action, from checkbox training to lasting cultural evolution.