I work with professionals, organizations, expatriates, and families who need to communicate, work, and live effectively across cultures. My goal is to make intercultural learning practical, human, and immediately useful.
That’s the heart of my work. Awareness helps us notice the cultural lens we bring. Curiosity gives us alternatives to quick judgment. Connection is what becomes possible when we understand each other more fully.
Every engagement starts with your actual situation—who is involved, what cultures are in the room, what isn’t working, and what a better outcome would look like.
Interactive training for professionals and groups who want to communicate more effectively across cultural differences.
Personalized cultural preparation for individuals and families before, during, or after an international move.
When useful, I can also connect clients with trusted local experts and guides who can offer practical, on-the-ground insight.
Focused preparation for professionals doing business in, working with, or relocating to a specific cultural context.
I often invite local experts to join selected briefings, share lived perspective, and answer participants’ questions directly.
I didn’t discover intercultural communication only in a classroom. I lived it.
I grew up in Spain and later spent sixteen years living and working in Japan and China. Across those experiences, I learned firsthand how easily good intentions can be misread when people are operating from different assumptions about communication, hierarchy, time, trust, politeness, relationships, and work.
Professionally, my career has moved across education, global mobility, language services, training, and cross-cultural facilitation. I’ve trained international educators, supported expatriates and families through relocation, worked across multicultural teams, and facilitated communication in medical, immigration, business, education, public-sector, and international event settings.
Today, through Curious Context, I bring those worlds together: structured intercultural frameworks, real-life experience, and practical conversations that help people see situations differently and choose more effective ways to respond.
I don’t teach culture as a list of rules. I help people build the habits that make them more effective when the cultural context changes.
We start by noticing our own cultural lens—our preferences, assumptions, and automatic interpretations.
Instead of deciding too quickly what someone’s behavior means, we explore context and ask better questions.
We turn that awareness into practical communication choices that make trust, clarity, and collaboration more likely.
My CCwC credential adds a structured intercultural methodology to decades of international experience and cross-cultural communication work.
You may be preparing for an international assignment, leading across cultures, working with global clients, or simply trying to understand why communication that works in one context falls flat in another.
I write about the questions that come up in intercultural work, international moves, and everyday cross-cultural communication.
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Read article →If you’re planning a training, preparing for a move, working through a communication challenge, or exploring what intercultural support might look like, send me a note. I’d be happy to hear what you’re working on.
Tell me who the program is for, the cultures or countries involved, and what you’d like participants to walk away with.