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

“I can confidently say that 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. Thank you!”

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

“I have been struggling the last few years with how to be both a peacemaker and an activist. Relationships dear to me have been painfully damaged because of what have felt like insurmountable differences. Through the Cultural Translators Program ©, I gained insights, understandings, and processes I can utilize to connect, engage and collaborate with others in a healthy, productive, compassionate way in both my personal and professional life. I'm so grateful for the opportunity and glad I participated!”

- Alex GayheartChief of Administration, Renaissance Academy

“It's life-giving to engage in a community of diverse thinkers who are motivated to move past individual agendas of "rightness" and "wrongness", to lean into discomfort and into a namaste version of connection and open-hearted inquiry.”

- Susan BlackBlackTrack Consulting

“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. Most importantly how to speak the language of each world view to move from contempt and gridlock to empathy and forward progress around solving problems we all care about.”

- Sheri SmithCEO of the Indigo Education Company

“I can confidently say that 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. Thank you!”

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

“I have been struggling the last few years with how to be both a peacemaker and an activist. Relationships dear to me have been painfully damaged because of what have felt like insurmountable differences. Through the Cultural Translators Program ©, I gained insights, understandings, and processes I can utilize to connect, engage and collaborate with others in a healthy, productive, and compassionate way in both my personal and professional life. I'm so grateful for the opportunity and glad I participated!”

- Alex GayheartChief of Administration, Renaissance Academy

“This program allowed me to gain understanding for other perspectives and how to find common ground based on common values to create a space for meaningful, constructive dialogue with people who hold different perspectives than myself.”

- Shannon FischerTeacher

“Diversity doesn’t automatically confer advantages in decision-making. In fact, if diverse teams aren’t managed actively for inclusion, they can underperform homogenous ones. That’s because shared knowledge is key in decision-making, and diverse teams, by definition, start out with less of it. But if you create conditions of trust that allow diverse team members to bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the table, you can expand the amount of knowledge your team can access—and create an unbeatable advantage.”

- Frances X. Frei and Anne MorrissLeadership Consultants