Argonaut's content is built on the expertise of a global team of contributors.
The Cultural Correspondents (pictured) make regular additions to Argonaut's
bank of country information, while other contributors are involved in
short-term projects on specialised subjects.
The range and depth of our available expertise makes Argonaut highly
responsive to customer requests for new e-learning content in specific
areas of cultural interaction.
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Caroline
Beery is one of the originators of ArgonautOnline project. She is
co-founder of an intercultural management consulting firm that provides
online training, consulting and coaching for global companies. She
also teaches university courses on managing in multicultural environments.
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Richard
Farkas is a designer on the ArgonautOnline team and another originator
of the Argonaut service.
He runs an e-learning company specialising in content design for
trainers and educators.
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Dealla Goodings has a background in art history and has worked
extensively in the management and delivery of cultural research based
projects. She is especially interested in the study cross-cultural
fertilization and historical points of intersection. Currently she
administers the Association of Art Historians, which promotes the study
of art history and material culture.
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Irene Hotz
Glanzmann has a background in modern languages and in human resource
management, much of which in the engineering sector. She specialises
in international HR and intercultural management. She also teaches
university courses in both her main areas of expertise.
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Andrey Jichev worked for 20 years in the Bulgarian diplomatic service including postings in Finland and the UK. He was a member of the team that prepared Bulgaria’s accession negotiations to the EU, and he has been an Advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London since 2003.
Andrey is a Senior Lecturer in international marketing, advertising from a cross-cultural perspective, and international business at three American universities in London. He earned his MA and Ph.D from the Moscow University of International Relations (MGIMO); a postgraduate diploma in EC Law from King’s College, London, and an MBA from Richmond, the American International University in London.
He has published several research papers on contemporary issues of international relations and European integration, has presented at various European Forums on the EU Enlargement, and is currently working on a book: The Challenges of Post-Accession: Lessons Learned from the Eastern Enlargement of the EU. |
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Anja Krüger
is an e-learning consultant and trainer. She helps her clients achieve
better online collaboration, especially when they face the added
complexity of cultural difference. The core of her work is to develop
processes which make online working and learning environments more
efficient, successful and cooperative. |
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Alex Ma is
a researcher, consultant and teacher in the field of globalisation,
economics and culture. His work with China’s Research Center for Economic
Transition (Beijing University of Technology) makes him deeply involved
with solving the challenges of cultural adaptation and international
operations for a number of multinational organisations. He also advises
individuals on cultural transition. |
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Ildikó
Polyák was among the pioneers of the new waze of intercultural
communication teaching the 1990s. She has since worked with undergraduate
business students, written and compiled books, designed and delivered
corporate training courses.
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Sreemathi
Ramnath has over 20 years experience in the field of international
skills. Not only does she run major intercultural training programmes
for global corporations, but she explores cultural change through
her work as a television journalist too. She is a graduate of University
of Madras and a trained German Language Teacher by the Goethe Institut.
She was India's first SIETAR president when the Society for Intercultural
Training and Research established its Indian chapter in 2006. |
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Jacquelyn
Reeves has trained in the field of intercultural and language learning
for over ten years. She is especially committed to teaching adults.
She was the creator and founder of the first long-term English language
program at the BMW motorcycle factory in Berlin, Germany. She has
created and delivered training programs in Germany and the US at Schering
Pharmaceuticals, Fort Dodge Animal Health, Siemens, IBM and Dekra
Akademie. Jacquelyn has an M.S. in Adult and Occupational Education
and a B.A. in German Literature, Language and History. She is fluent
in English and German. She is a certified user of various intercultural
assessment tools and a graduate leading professional development programs
for interculturalists. Her current focus is on destination consultancy,
international recruitment and research into the subjective experience
of cultural re-entry. |
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Regina Reinhardt
is an intercultural practitioner from childhood. Born in Switzerland
with a German mother and Swiss father, raised in Greece by her mother
and Greek stepfather she today lives back in Switzerland. She runs
her own organisation both in Switzerland and Greece, offering intercultural
trainings, intercultural conciliation in the health area as well as
country trainings for expats in Switzerland and Greece. Her clients,
groups as well as individuals are executives, managers and privates
with national and international background from the area of service,
IT, finance, food, non-profit, education as well as automotive industry.
She delivers trainings and coachings in English, German, Swiss German
and Greek language. Her awareness and intuition combined with strategic
business orientation offers clients new perspectives and enable them
to gain a holistic view.
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Nannette Ripmeester
is managing director of a consultancy specialised in customising solutions
for international labour mobility. She has written extensively on
international job-hunting practices and living and working conditions
abroad. She has published a series of 32 guides on “Looking for work
in …” focusing on cultural management issues and job hunting differences
in over 40 countries. |
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Adrienne Rubatos
is a qualified engineer and management scientist with specialisation
in intercultural management. She has worked in project management
and marketing roles and developed training programmes for leading
global corporations. Her current work is as a trainer and consultant
for individuals, teams and organisations seeking strategies for excellent
performance across cultures. |
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Dr. Liudmila Sheremeteva is the founder and lead consultant for Financial Services for Eastern Europe (FSEE). She advises on emerging market projects, especially in the area of fund raising from western sources and the corresponding investment opportunities for western investors.
She has developed a unique understanding of dealing successfully across different business cultures from her extensive work in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the UK, where she currently resides.
She completed her Ph.D. in Kharkov (Ukraine) and her MBA in Finance in London.
She is a member of the International Financial Services, London and has presented at international conferences and seminars, most recently in Bulgaria and UK.
A native Russian speaker, Liudmila is fluent in English and Bulgarian and is studying Arabic. |
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Claire’s extensive background in the retail clothing industry has taken her around the world, with professional assignments in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Israel, Portugal, and the UK, her home country.
She has held strategic positions with Liz Claiborne, successfully planning and supporting a business model change and increasing efficiency of delivery of global brands. Additionally, she was responsible for the training, placement and support of cross functional technical staff in Madagascar/Swaziland/Pakistan/Indonesia/Jordan/Egypt.
She integrates her international living and work experience in her current business: Expat Know How, which provides relocation and repatriation training and support for anyone intending to work overseas, or planning to return home after an extended time abroad.
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Rolando Stein is a specialist in Latin American countries, focusing on Brazil and Chile. A native of Chile, he has lived and worked in 12 countries. He brings this first-hand international living and work experience to the cultural trainings he provides for business people on international assignment in South America.
With a professional background in international sales and marketing, Rolando has experienced the impact of culture on customer service and customer relations in a variety of countries. As an international events organiser, he has managed cross-cultural teams in sponsorship events, conventions and trade shows. He is the founder and Director of Mira Design, providing bespoke Italian made merchandise for high end interior design companies and well-known museums.
In addition to his native Spanish, Rolando is fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Italian. |
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Grant
Douglas runs the language and international relations departments
of several engineering schools in France, where intercultural communication
has been made an integral part of the study programmes. His work
is now exclusively in the fields of international relations and
intercultural communications. Apart from research and teaching in
this field, he prepares individuals for overseas missions and is
an active member of SIETAR-France, the Society for Education, Training
and Research. Grant studied at the Universities of Leeds (UK) and
British Columbia (Canada). |
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Eva-Gordon Smith brings academic and business experience to
the field of intercultural competence. Her work with cultural synergy
in cross-border acquisitions and general intercultural competence
have benefited organisations across Europe and America. |
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Anne Rupp
is an intercultural trainer from Germany who has been living and
working in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) for seven years. She specializes
in raising intercultural awareness, Spanish and German business
culture and negotiation styles, communication tools and offshore
projects. Anne gives trainings both in the private sector (e.g.
SONY Spain or Giesecke&Devrient Group) and in the public sector.
Anne also has specialist knowledge of international collaboration
through her work as the project manager of a public-private partnership
project involving Indonesian, German and Spanish companies. As an
interpreter in international negotiations, she has been at the heart
of many negotiation scenarios. She is an active member of SIETAR
Spain.
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Zsuzsanna
Tungli professional interests are in international transactions,
multinational teams, intercultural competency assessment, and knowledge
transfer within companies. She has worked in management consultancy
and taught at universities across Europe. She has played an active
part in developing SIETAR Europa and SIETAR International (the Society
for Intercultural Research and Training).
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Yvonne Verhoeff
taught the Dutch language to foreign people for 25
years before specialising in the field of intercultural communication.
She designs and delivers intercultural trainings for clients in various
sectors including schools and universities, international sales and
migration. Being from the same country as Geert Hofstede (one of the
founders of the field of modern intercultural studies), Yvonne enjoys
sharing the insights of Hofstede's cultural dimensions. |
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David Walsh
is a consultant and trainer in the field of diversity. He has published
guidance to public bodies on responding to diversity and helps individuals
and organisations put new approaches into practice through innovative
training programmes. He is a licensed practitioner of Neuro Linguistic
Programming and a creative force in his clients' successes in diversity
management. |
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Birgit
Weiss is an intercultural coach, consultant and trainer for clients
of all sizes. In her current work she is focussing on intercultural
practices and communication and has conducted extensive research
in the field of cultural diversity. Birgit holds a Magister degree
in Political Science and International Relations from the University
of Vienna, Austria. She has lived, worked and studied in Austria,
Sweden, Australia and Spain. Her PhD research is on Transit, Translocation,
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- Marilyn Aarup-Gellner
- Tamine Adeebfar
- Yumi Akito
- Ferhan Alesi
- Abdulhamied Alromaithy
- Nancy Barbosa
- Jeffrey Beeson
- Kate Berardo
- Alma Botcharova
- Ian Brown
- Ginger Chih
- Carey Coghill
- Avner Cohen
- Yvonne Colin-Jones
- Lucinda Edselius
- Þórir Einarsson
- David Gabbitas
- Sharmila Ghosh
- Birgit Gottas
- Alison Haill
- Jane Hayman
- Jürgen Henze
- Jane Howe
- Andrey Jichev
- Denny Jicheva
- Maria Jicheva
- Ejaz Khan
- Aniko Kiss
- Elizabeth Kruempelmann
- Gesa Krämer
- Elizabeth Kuhnke
- Mirka Lachka
- Terry Lacy
- Ana Lehrhaupt-Arango
- Laura Mancini-Chan
- Natalia Martamo
- Susan Mead
- Isabelle Mori
- Lori Muse
- Anne Niesen
- Chioma Nwobi
- Margarita Ozerova
- Meg Pocock
- Mitsuyo Rikuhashi
- Cherian Santosh
- Marilyn Sato
- Heike Saxer-taylor
- Holly Stuhr
- Kelly Sylvia
- Katerina Tepla
- Patrick Tropp
- Mary Anne Walsh
Thanks to all Intercultural Time Machine contributors, including:
- Nico Zwaneveld
- Heidi Nielsen
- Andrea Deák
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