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The Forgotten Piece of DEI: Cultural Intelligence

By Jane Howard-Martin, Connie Almond, Olesja Cormney, Jennifer N. Jones, Meyling "Mey" Ly Ortiz

CQ Spotlight: December 2021

By Cultural Intelligence Center

A Recovering Racist: The Power of Apology and Moving Forward with Cultural Intelligence

By Quinton Pretorius

My CQ Journey: When Cultural Intelligence Meets Leadership Development

By Tina Merry

A Warm Farewell to Dr. Sandra Upton

By Cultural Intelligence Center

CQ Spotlight: October 2021

By Cultural Intelligence Center

CQ in Times of Crisis: Afghan Refugee Settlement

By Cultural Intelligence Center

How does it feel to be part of a culturally intelligent team?

By David Livermore, PhD

Why It’s Time to Drop “Belonging” From The Diversity Conversation

By Marsha Ramroop, Director of Inclusion, Royal Institute of British Architects

CQ Spotlight: June 2021

By Cultural Intelligence Center

Making Room: Maintaining Diversity In Leadership Teams

By Dr. Sandra Upton

The Cultural Intelligence Centre — New Director of Operations in the United Kingdom

By Cultural Intelligence Center

How RIBA’s First-Ever Director of Inclusion & Diversity Is Using CQ To Tackle Discrimination

By Cultural Intelligence Center

Cultural Intelligence In The Real World: How Organizations Bring CQ To Life

By David Livermore, PhD 

Professional Presence or Covering? Threats to Creating an Inclusive Organization

By Dr. Sandra Upton

CQ Spotlight: April 2021

By Cultural Intelligence Center

Using Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to Compete with Robots

By David Livermore, PhD

Black History vs. Black Present: Addressing Racial Equity In The Workplace

By Dr. Sandra Upton

What I’ve Learned From 10 Years Leading The CQ Center

By David Livermore, Ph.D

What Makes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Efforts Last?

By Dr. Sandra Upton

The Group Excluded from Diversity Programs

By David Livermore, Ph.D

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Is CQ Enough?

By Sandra Upton & David Livermore

Creating Culturally Intelligent Virtual Learning

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Podcast: Understanding Cultural Intelligence in the Hospitality Industry

By Sandra Upton

CQ Center creates brand new role – VP, Global Diversity Practice

We’re In A Crisis! Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

By David Livermore, PhD

Introducing CQ Talent™

By CQC Team

New Virtual Workshops

By CQC Team

Is the “Race Conversation” Over?

By David Livermore, Ph.D. Interviews Dr. Sandra Upton

Who’s Flying This Plane?!

By CQC Team

Using Cultural Intelligence to Create An Anti-Racist Organization

By Dr. Sandra Upton

School Districts Invest in CQ® Trainings Amid Covid-19

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Together We Can Make It Happen

By Helga Evelyn Samuel, CQ Certified Professional

A Message To Our Partners During Covid-19

By David Livermore, PhD

Health Care Needs CQ Now More Than Ever | What St. Catherine University Is Doing About It

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Coronavirus Insight: “I’m More American Than I Thought!”

By David Livermore, PhD

We’re Partnering With The Leading K-12 Online Tele-Therapy Provider

By Dr. Sandra Upton

AACSB Hosts Q&A With Dr. Sandra Upton: Combating Cultural Bias In Times Of Global Crisis

The Coronavirus Pandemic: CQ Amid Crisis

By Dr. Sandra Upton

The Atomic Object CQ® Journey

By Mary DeYoung, People Development Consultant 

CQ Joins Grand Valley State For Lunch & Learn

By Dr. Sandra Upton

A Guide To Asking Culturally Intelligent Questions As You Travel

By Emily Livermore, Content Developer

New Custom Reporting Feature: How Does It Benefit Our Partners?

By CQC Team

Book Release: The Curious Traveler By David Livermore

Unconscious Bias Training Without CQ Makes Things Worse

By By Sabrina Renée Kinckle Executive Vice President, North America

Tiffin University Expands CQ Campus-Wide

By Dr. Sandra Upton

We’re Hiring!

By CQC Team

When Is It Appropriate To Yell At Someone? Depends On Where You’re From!

By David Livermore, PhD

Dallas Independent School District Uses CQ to Address Racial Equity

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Unconscious Bias: When Making People Too Comfortable Backfires

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Releasing Two New Online Courses

By CQC Team

Harvard Expands CQ and Unconscious Bias Work

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Final Certifications Of The Year!

By CQC Team

When I Look In The Mirror: How Exploring Cultural Intelligence Helped Me Understand Myself

By Shahana Ramsden, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, NHS England and NHS Improvement

QUT Expands CQ Initiatives in Business and Education Programs

By Dr. Sandra Upton

New E-Learning For International Students

By CQC

You Might Be “Mansplaining” If…

By David Livermore Interviews Amy Heaton, PhD in Conversational Analysis

CQ Center Partners with AACSB for Unconscious Bias Training

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Calling all Cultural Intelligence Professionals

By Gonzalo Ramirez | Manager of Corporate Partnerships

Diversity Trends: Noise or Innovative Strategies?

By Dr. Sandra Upton

The CQ Collective 2019, it wasn’t all fun and games, but some of it was!

By Gonzalo Ramirez | Manager of Corporate Partnerships

Queen’s University Students See Results from Learning About CQ

By Dr. Sandra Upton

New CQ Learning Portal Features

By CQC

How to Scale Cultural Intelligence in Your Organization

By Gonzalo Ramirez | Manager of Corporate Partnerships

CQ is Not a Band-Aid

By Kristin Ekkens | Director Corporate Partnerships

New Dates For CQ MOOC

By Dr. Sandra Upton

New Research Supports The Need For CQ To Get Diverse Teams to Speak Up

Are All White People Privileged?

By David Livermore, PhD

UM Ross School of Business Certifies Staff in Unconscious Bias

By Dr. Sandra Upton

Diversity Fatigue: Four CQ Strategies for Staying the Course

By Dr. Sandra Upton

CQ Center presents at Harvard’s Diversity Series Conference

By Dr. Sandra Upton

HR Teams Discover the Benefits of Cultural Intelligence

By CQC

Why I Answer Most Questions with “It Depends”

By David Livermore, PhD

Curious to learn how K-12 and Secondary Schools are using CQ?

By Dr. Sandra Upton

CQ Around the World

By CQC

The Biggest Mistake I Almost Made as a Study Abroad Student

By Emily Livermore

How Teams Use CQ To Get Stronger

By CQC

Fact or Myth: We Can’t Find Diverse Candidates For Our Team

By Dr. Sandra Upton

CQ MOOC Attracts Over 2,000 Learners

By CQC

Dare to Lead with Cultural Intelligence

By Kristin Ekkens

Check out the NEW CQ Portal updates!

Why You Need to Stop Teaching Cultural Differences

By David Livermore, PhD

Culture Matters at Talent 2025

By CQC

CQC partners with one of the largest K-12 School districts in Texas

By CQC

Does Your Multicultural Fair Make Any Difference? How to Measure Progress in Becoming a Culturally Intelligent Institution

By Dr. Sandra Upton

October Corporate Client Team Updates

By Kristin Ekkens

Just Released: Developing CQ Workshop 2.0

By CQC

Five Growing Pains of Global Businesses

By Gonzalo Ramirez, Manager of Corporate Partnerships

CQ Summit 2019

CQ Center Partners with GIBS in South Africa

CQ Center Partners with Purdue University to offer First-Ever Free MOOC

EQ Does Not Equal CQ

Cornell University Makes the Business Case For CQ

September Webinar: Enhance the Study Abroad Experience

Partner Spotlight: Constellation Brands

When “Culture Fit” is Code Word for Affinity Bias

How do you build a Culturally Intelligent Organization? Part 2: Champions Drive Change

Client Spotlight: Qatar Airways

CQ Center continues to expand work in K-12 Space

CQC at SHRM 2018

Culture Fit vs. Authenticity: When Being Yourself Collides with Organizational Values

culturalQ.com has been updated!

CQC at Indeed Interactive

CQ Corporate Partners Brainstorm at Harvard

The Case for Diversity: Social Justice or the Bottom Line?

CQ Center at 2018 NAFSA

CQ Highlighted at top U.S. university conference

A Collection of Master Minds

Cultural Bloopers & Misgivings from an Indian Visiting the U.S.

7 Questions to Assess Your Perspective Taking

Education Partners: Looking to Scale CQ across your Campus or School District?

New Tools Available for Corporate Partners!

Unconscious Bias: Not Just An Adult Problem

CQ University Webinar: Unconscious Bias on Campus | February 21 @ 2pm EST

First Unconscious Bias Certification of 2018: Miami | 13-14 March

“Aha” Moments for a New Year: A Personal Reflection

Join us for the first Certification of 2018 in North America!

Is 2017 Done Yet? Brace yourself…there’s more to come!

In the Spotlight: Sidra Medicine

What’s the #1 Conflict on Diverse Teams?

Next CQ Certification: Kuala Lumpur | 22-25 January 2018

OSU Takes Commitment to CQ and Unconscious Bias to Next Level

University of Michigan Ross School of Business’ Efforts to Develop Students’ CQ Reaches Milestone

The Benefits of a CQ Audit™

Featured Client: Kent County

Just Released! 2018 Certification Offerings

How do you build a Culturally Intelligent Organization?

Harvard In-House Unconscious Bias Certification Program a Huge Success!

August Corporate News Updates

Charlottesville, Google, and why some need CQ more than others

CQ Assessment Used in Fulbright Scholars Pilot Program

Featured Client: Republic National Distributing Company

Next Public CQ Certification – Dubai, Sept. 25-28

My Top 10 Experiences in Cuba

A Black Woman’s Advice to White Professionals

Next Public Unconscious Bias Certification – Chicago, Oct. 16-17

A White Guy’s Humble Advice to Black Professionals…

CQC at NAFSA

Wait, What? What Smart Phones do to our CQ

David Livermore interviews Lynnette Collins, Diversity Leader at Amway

How to Facilitate Productive CQ Conversations

CQ Center Expands Work in Secondary Education

CQ Assessment Now Available in Japanese and Spanish

2017: A Year Made for CQ

We’re All Scared of the Same Things…or Are We? Emotional Differences Across Cultures

Starbucks adds CQ Certification to Diversity Program

CQ Certification & New Unconscious Bias Certification Announced for 2017

US Department of Defense adopts CQ to evaluate cultural training programs

Weird, Rude, or Different?! Awkward Cross-Cultural Moments

Diversity Fatigue

Watch TV and Improve Your CQ? 5 Reasons Why This Can be True for You!

Higher Learning Commission approves CQ as a Quality Initiative for Accreditation

How Stress Can Lower Your Cultural Intelligence

Unconscious Bias on Campus: Yes, it’s Real

Assessing Special Forces’ CQ

Cultural Intelligence 2.0: New Insights for Measuring and Improving CQ

Have Lunch with Your Other and See What You Learn!

Driven by Difference, featured in The Economist

Coca-Cola equips another group of high potentials with CQ

Academic Review of 10 Cultural Competency Assessments

CQ Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology

Adapt but Don’t Overdo It

When Does Cultural Immersion Go Too Far?

Book Launch Party–April 14, Grand Rapids

Why do all the Chinese students sit together?

Oscars So White? Welcome to the Film Industry!

New Book on Culturally Intelligent Innovation

The Power of Attention for Culturally Intelligent Innovation

Dealing with a Different Sense of Urgency Across Cultures

The Dilemmas of a Traveling White Guy

What Diversity Matters Most?

How to respond to low CQ, racist comments, and Facebook rants

Top Two Reasons Organizations are Building CQ

Growing Up Between Smalltown USA and Singapore

10 Questions to Consider When Negotiating Across Cultures

Cultural Intelligence and the Afro-centric Worldview

Four Myths of Global Leadership

Culturally Intelligent Leaders Know When it’s “Cultural” … and when it isn’t.

Cultural Intelligence in an Age of Terrorism

High CQ Prepares Youth to Compete with Robots for Jobs

Teaching English with Cultural Intelligence

Respect Is Not Enough

I get it. I’m biased. So now what?

A Culturally Intelligent Way of Handling the Elephant in the Room

By David Livermore Ph.D

5 Things Culturally Intelligent Universities Do

10 Things Culturally Intelligent Travelers Do

Sit Still and Improve Your CQ: The Power of Reflection

New Study Reveals International Travelers Receive More Job Offers

Don’t Treat Your Customers the Way You Want to be Treated

How CQ could have kept a British expat from getting chased out of Singapore

Culturally Intelligent Chit-Chat

10 tips for Effective Communication in English with Non-Natives

Why You Shouldn’t Adapt to Other Cultures

How Facebook Develops its Global Leaders

Four Myths of Global Leadership

What’s Indian Culture? A dive into domestic diversity

Assessing CQ by how people talk

Using “What If” Questions to Prepare International Travelers

Why You Need an Empty Chair at Important Meetings

Why do Chinese businessmen insist on getting you drunk?

How to Create a Culturally Intelligent Organization

How Smart Phones Lower CQ

Cultural Intelligence is NOT the Point

2nd Edition of Serving with Eyes Wide Open Releases Today

Tips for Overcoming Jet Lag

An Irishman Learns to Save Face in Asia

Stress Tests your Cultural Intelligence

Getting a Culturally Diverse Group to “Speak Up”

Good Job: Culturally Intelligent Compliments

Impatience Undermines Your Cultural Intelligence

Here’s how Millennials Think. Or is it?

Cultural Protocol for Runners

What living in Saudi Arabia and Grand Rapids have in common

What CQ Scores Matter in an Economic Recession?

Overcoming Delays: Managing Follow-Through Across Cultures

How do you meet deadlines when working cross-culturally? Seriously—how do you do it?

Presidential hopefuls are reviving the Ugly American Reputation

China Through the Eyes of a German Expat Spouse [guest post]

One Noun. One Verb: Speaking to Non-Native English Speakers

Why have a meeting? Depends where you’re from!

Why thinking too much can get in the way of Cultural Intelligence

Learning and Training Development Survey

The Amazing Race to Study Abroad

When Niche Marketers Go Too Far

The Spirit of Cultural Intelligence

Why We Need Stereotypes!

Can you really be a “Global” Leader?

In a Global Economy, Can you Trust your Gut?

Spicy food in the Tropics

This is your Brain on Culture

Now Available: THE CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE DIFFERENCE

Sex, Spicy Food, and Parenting: Behavior Modification Gets a Bum Rap

Using Cultural Intelligence to Grow Business in Emerging Markets

Cultural Intelligence: The New Link to Creativity

Faulty Assumptions About the Japanese Response to the Tsunami

CEO Survey Supports need for CQ

Why Cross-Cultural Training Could Be a Waste of Money

WHAT CAN I DO?! Making a Global Difference Right Where You Are

Moving Beyond the Fluff in Intercultural Training

Observations from a Sunday afternoon walk around Accra, Ghana.

Cultural Intelligence: A better way to fly!

Chinese poet asks, What Do You Really Want From Us?

My 1 hour interrogation at U.S. Customs

Politics of China Bashing

Same Calling. New Platform.

CQ: The new IQ for American students competing in a global marketplace

Lessons from India: Social Profitability

Prop 8. Immigrants. Ground Zero Mosque.

Contest: Come up with the title for the next CQ book and win $50!

Does political correctness promote or hinder CQ?

Is it a Bribe or a Tip?

Is the “Ugly Chinese” replacing the “Ugly American”?

Push or you won’t get a seat

5 strategies to avoid being arrested when you volunteer internationally

Executives Cite 5 Reasons they Need CQ

Why Google Shouldn’t Bully China

CQ Train-the-Trainer | May 12-13

Cross-Cultural Trends for the Tens

Cultural Intelligence: Nice Lofty Ideal or a Key to Survival?

5 Global Questions for CEO’s

No Worries Mate! (Maybe)

The Changing Face of U.S. Government

Book tour continues

The desperate need for religious freedom

Cultural Intelligence and Negotiation

Implications of CQ for HR professionals

2016 Olympic Blues

Religion and international business

Good intentions go ratty

The cost of bartering

What’s your CQ and why should you care?

CQ for Public Speaking

Reading Recommendations

Why the U.S. health care debate could kill your international work

Reading Recommendations for Europe??

Online CQ Assessment

The Big Mac Index

Coming Soon