Cultural Translation℠ Training: A Revolution of the Heart

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Building Inclusion Skills In The Workplace

Diversity is a reality, but inclusion is a skill—a skill that is rarely taught yet makes all the difference in effective leadership today.

Our workplaces and communities are increasingly divided, with individuals often fearful of sharing diverse viewpoints. This time of complexity calls for a new kind of leadership—one rooted in empathy and inclusion. How do we start depolarizing difficult conversations to create win-win-win solutions in our personal, professional, and civic lives?

Join us at Public Squared in the revolution of the heart and be part of the change we can believe in. Our Cultural Translation Training equips senior executives with the tools to navigate high-conflict challenges and foster an environment where diverse perspectives are not just welcomed but valued.

The Training Model

This program goes beyond lecture format and walks participants through a hands-on experience designed to help mitigate polarizing, high-conflict challenges in the workplace.

The program offers a hands-on, 7-step framework that helps leaders gain greater self-awareness, clarify their values, and build bridges with those they disagree with—using the language of shared values. Divided into three key sections—ME, THEM, and US—the training starts with deepening self-awareness of personal worldviews, moves into understanding and engaging with differing perspectives, and concludes with building bridges through a Cultural Translation Statement.

Proven Success

This program is built on case studies spanning over thirty years and has been implemented across high-level government settings, including the U.S. Navy, the Senior Leader Program for federal employees, and even on an international stage with the Israeli Constituent Assembly. Most recently, it was featured at the Society of Human Resource Managers’ annual INCLUSION Conference, highlighting its profound impact on fostering inclusive leadership.

Join us and become a catalyst for change. This is more than just training—it’s a movement to create leaders who embody empathy, champion diversity, and lead the revolution of the heart in today’s world.

Our Approach

  • We work with a talented team of executive coaches and leadership development experts, policy and business advisors, as well as community change makers to bring this learning experience to the public. As such our curriculum brings both the academic rigour as well as practical experience into the classroom to help the participants understand how they can apply the learned concepts to their own real life situations immediately.
  • We partner with public, private, non-profit and faith-based organizations to customize the program experience, including program delivery methods, specific case studies and wrap-around services to their unique leadership and organizational challenges. Don’t hesitate to reach out to our team for a conversation on how this program experience can be translated into your own professional and community culture.

Testimonials

By providing training to today’s leaders, Rich is addressing toxic polarization head on. His message of transformative change will leave [us] ready to get to work building better workplaces for a better world.

Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.President and Chief Executive Officer, SHRM-SCP

After 35 years, Rich Tafel still helps me see the world in new and better ways. He recently told me about a book he's writing, which explores... [read full testimonial].

Abner MasonFounder & CEO, SameSky Health

Rich's work is truly inspiring. [He is] a professional bridge builder who aims to solve seemingly insurmountable problems. From tackling bias head-on to fostering connections between corporations, he has incredible stories to share. He shared that when we strip away ‌surface-level differences, we find that our core values remain the same worldwide.

Emily M. DickensSHRM C-Suite Executive | Board Member | Speaker

Rich has been an incredible coach to rising social entrepreneurs. I was so fortunate to have him as a coach during this summer. He has clear insights, expectations and suggestions to planning, scaling and running a social enterprise. The opportunities he provides to connect to impact investors are other invaluable parts of his coaching.

Prakash BistaSocial Entrepreneur and an Educator

Rich's message strongly encourages us to see past the surface and realize that, despite our differences, we all share basic, important values at our core.

Jim LinkCHRO at SHRM I Human Capital Strategy I Talent Acquisition I Leadership Development

Rich's message strongly resonates and is a powerful statement that we are stronger together. Thanks for sharing this and reminding us of the core values.👏

Jay PriceCorporate HR Director @ Diverse Facility Solutions | MBA, Compliance

The Cultural Translation Program © was a powerful framework for understanding the prevailing world views in in America and how to approach each view with understanding and compassion – and to move from contempt and gridlock to empathy and progress in solving problems we all care about.

Sheri SmithCEO of the Indigo Education Company

This was one of the more effective short trainings I've been to as a professional peacebuilder. Rich and his team gave me a completely new frame of looking at people's interests and perspectives, and how to speak of those as I try to shape a more peaceful and understanding world.

Maxine RichProgram Manager, Common Ground USA/Search for Common Ground

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