This week, Trisha, talks to Brian Johnson—a former professional baseball player who played in the US Major League. Some major life shifts saw Brian evolve into a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Executive Consultant. Trisha and Brian discuss his experiences growing up in culturally diverse Oakland, his sports career, and key experiences that fostered his cultural intelligence. They unpack the athlete's metacognition and how the thinking processes of instant responses are developed. Brian also s...
Aug 22, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 33
This week, Trisha interviews Shaikh Fadilah Ahmad, a former diplomat from Brunei, Darussalam. Shaikh Fadilah shares his rich career experiences spanning 30 years and his seamless transition to 'coffee diplomacy' after retirement -at least from the Diplomatic Service. The conversation dives into the importance of cultural intelligence (CQ) and how Fadilah applied his early learnings of respect and cultural adaptability in his diplomatic career. They also discuss his successful pivot to owning a c...
Aug 15, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this episode, Trisha reviews key themes from the last five interviews, highlighting common moments of cultural shifts experienced by guests Mikkel Orlovski, Kristin Ekkens, Sharon Gray, Bridget Romanes, and Cheryl Doig. Through anecdotes and discussions, she emphasizes the importance of creating safe learning spaces, recognizing social value, and forming personal relationships. Trisha also hints at what's happening in series two of The Shift.
Aug 08, 2024•12 min•Season 1Ep. 31
This week, host Trisha interviews Cheryl Doig, a futures and foresight practitioner with a deep background in education. They discuss the importance of cultural intelligence (CQ) and CQ Strategy for the future. Cheryl shares her journey to becoming known as a 'Futures Aunty' and emphasizes the significance of understanding different perspectives and histories as we think about both the future and the past. The conversation delves into the impact of random and cataclysmic events on communities, p...
Aug 01, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This week, Trisha interviews Bridget Romanes, founder of New Zealand business, Mobile Relocation Limited. They discuss Bridget's experiences living in India and Singapore as a diplomat, her insights into cultural intelligence, and how her company supports people relocating to New Zealand. Bridget shares personal stories of adapting to new cultures, the importance of accepting and understanding local ways, and strategies to help expats thrive, including recognising the relocation cycle and buildi...
Jul 18, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 29
This week, Trisha interviews Sharon Gray, a longtime colleague and friend, known for her extensive work enhancing inclusion and increasing Indigenous employment. Sharon shares insights from her career in the Australian government, non-profit organisations, big corporations, and her consultancy. They discuss the importance of cultural competency, walking alongside people to help them learn; effective community engagement, and creating social and economic opportunities for Indigenous communities. ...
Jul 11, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 28
In this episode, Trisha interviews Kristin Joy Ekkens, an award-winning cultural strategist and CEO of Exponential Inclusion. They discuss Kristin's journey into cultural intelligence (CQ), her experiences with Latino culture, and her transformative work with organizations. They delve into the metacognitive aspect of CQ, thinking about thinking, and how strategies can help individuals and organizations manage diversity effectively. Kristin shares insights from her work with Edgewalkers, network ...
Jul 04, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
In this episode, Trisha interviews Mikkel Olovsky, a diversity and inclusion professional, with extensive experience as an HR consultant working within organisational cultures. They discuss the significance of metacognitive aspects of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and explore how Mikkel uses games and engaging activities to help organisations understand and apply CQ strategies. Mikkel shares personal experiences and methods that highlight the emotional and cognitive shifts required for cultural ada...
Jun 27, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 26
In this episode, Trisha reviews key themes emerging across the last five episodes. This makes the practice of reflection real. It is a key metacognitive skill that can build cultural intelligence. It is interesting to see that somewhat different themes emerge in these episodes from some of the earlier summaries. This quote is from Lucy Butters, Shifts for Cultural Intelligence Facilitators, episode 24; "Learning happens when we feel something, especially something like this - you have to be moti...
Jun 20, 2024•10 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In this episode, Trisha interviews Lucy Butters, a Cultural Intelligence Master Facilitator. Lucy has been an academic and worked with the British Council in many locations with people from over 80 countries. Through training, coaching and speaking she has helped thousands of people develop their Cultural Intelligence (CQ) enabling leaders, teams and organisations to be more successful working across cultures. Lucy and Trisha discuss the tension between sharing the knowledge in a training sessio...
Jun 13, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In this episode Trisha speaks with Joanna Sell, an Intercultural trainer, author, academic, historian and expert in the art of story telling. There are many stories told in this episode from the story of Joanna's Grandma who gave hope in dark times, to the story of a shift Joanna experienced while facilitating a World Café. We discuss the power of story telling and story listening and how stories can be used to build empathy and understanding or to manipulate. Both outcomes are shifts but only o...
Jun 06, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this episode, Trisha interviews Emily Rogers - a Leadership and Transitions Coach based in New Zealand. Emily has experienced many location transitions - from small town country South Australia to some of the biggest cities in the world, India, China and Taiwan. She has learnt to thrive in each of these shifts and now shares the skills and strategies she developed in these experiences with individuals and organisations in transition. They discuss the power of questions to help people to refle...
May 30, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this episode, Trisha interviews Rick Petry, a former trial attorney who is now an Adjunct Professor and the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St Paul, Minnesota. They speak about the shifts lawyers need to make to be effective in their work in today's world and the role that Cultural Intelligence (CQ) can play in helping lawyers grow their capabilities in dealing with diversity. Rick speaks of the challenges he has been facing as the Director...
May 23, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this episode Trisha interviews Monique Toohey a Psychologist who is also a certified CQ Facilitator. Monique shares her story of shifting in her awareness of culture and in her beliefs and experiences from being a part of the dominant culture to being a part of both the dominant and a minority culture. These experiences prepared Monique to approach mental health with clients from many different backgrounds with curiosity and deep caring about the people she is working with. The challenges for...
May 16, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode Trisha reviews some of the key themes to emerge from the past five interviews identifying repeated themes in people's moments of shift. Her goal is to help us recall the key elements that people shared and suggest some aspects we can learn from, as we endeavour to help ourselves or others see things from different perspectives. The Thinking Routines that are referenced are available on the Project Zero website here....
May 09, 2024•13 min•Season 1Ep. 19
In this episode, Trisha interviews Loren Rosario-Maldonado who was part of Trisha’s mastermind group in CQ Fellows 2023. Loren is a Keynote speaker and the award-winning author of “Becoming The Change: The Power of Cultural Intelligence”. In the keynotes and her book, she shares her knowledge and experience drawing on years of global team leadership and HR knowledge and her research and current PhD studies. Trisha and Loren discuss the shifts that Loren went through in understanding her own cult...
May 02, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode Trisha interviews Dawn Bryan, a global leader with over 30 years of experience. Dawn speaks about her early experiences while working in Ethiopia, her experience of leading a global virtual volunteer Board of an award winning organisation, and her more recent work leading the Global Practice at the consulting firm, The Kaleidoscope Group. Global leaders face unique challenges. Dawn speaks about some of the ways Kaleidoscope Group works to develop empowered leaders to meet those c...
Apr 25, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode Trisha discusses recent tragic events in Sydney. She describes people’s reactions and the different perspectives people took. Looking through the lens of learnings from earlier episodes Trisha considers people’s responses. She reflects on the impact of such events on individuals, groups and society and the impact that has on people at work. She encourages all who are working with people, caring for others, to alsoe take care of ourselves in challenging times. If you want to reach...
Apr 18, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This week Trisha sits down (IN PERSON! - sorry for the sound quality) with Tim Barrett the head of Saint Andrews Institute of Learning in Noosa, Australia to discuss how he's helping students recognise those moments of Shift and expanding their knowledge of cultural intelligence. They discussed techniques teachers use to help students develop empathy and to think differently in the learning processes. Tim referenced Project Zero and visible thinking routines from Harvard University and spoke abo...
Apr 11, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode, Trisha speaks with Greg Dearsly, an Occupational Health and Safety Consultant AND a certified Cultural Intelligence Facilitator. Greg lives and works in Aotearoa New Zealand. They speak about the impact of culture on safety at work and the need for Health and Safety Professionals to have a strong people focus and high cultural intelligence. Greg shares sobering statistics about the impact of poor workplace health and safety in New Zealand and his passion to respectfully reach ev...
Mar 14, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode Trisha interviews Tanya Crossman . Tanya is the Director of Research and International Education at TCK Training, and also offers intercultural consulting and coaching services. She has lived in four countries, and has nearly two decades of experience working with Third Culture Kids and international families. They discuss TCKs -Third Culture Kids -and their experience of living in other cultures and how their perspectives of that culture are often different to their parents. Tan...
Mar 07, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 13
This week's episode is one with giveaways so listen to learn how you can win! Now that's a Shift! 😃
Feb 29, 2024•6 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, Trisha practices the reflection that so many of our guests have spoken about. Reviewing the past three episodes and finding the repeated themes and outstanding ideas and highlighting them will enable us all to adopt these strategies and use them to help others. Despite real differences in their expertise and their experiences, there are similar lessons we can learn from these past three episodes in how to increase our CQ Strategy - our Cultural Awareness. If you have noticed rep...
Feb 22, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode, Trisha speaks with Grace Boker Mungkaje a Forensic Auditor from Papua New Guinea. Grace speaks about growing up as a Third Culture Kid (TCK) in the USA, returning to PNG and making cultural shifts as she was selected for opportunities and scholarships around the world. Her awareness of the need for cultural shifts began young as she was told not to climb the trees in her village in PNG after returning from the USA. We also speak about the need for Auditors to have cultural intel...
Feb 15, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Trisha speaks with Sarah Black, a global communications consultant, trainer and podcaster with over thirty years of communications experience - who has also recently completed her CQ Facilitator training. Sarah brings a Northern Irish perspective to Shifts, mixed with influences from Norway, the USA and the UK - all places where she has lived and worked for some years. We talk about how good Communications can create Shifts within people and why she believes all Communications professionals need...
Feb 08, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode, Trisha speaks with Dr Mark Williams, a neuroscientist with over 25 years of experience conducting behavioural and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills. What makes us form in-groups and out-groups? How can we shift out of those biases? Mark's knowledge, ability to put complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand language, and optimism and hope for us as people will inspire and encourage us. To learn more about his work check out his website , and his book and foll...
Feb 01, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode, Trisha is practising what each of her guests has suggested in different ways. She reflects on the learning so far, drawing threads from David Livermore's Episode 4 CQ Strategy Where Shifts Happen and taking those threads through Mariette Rups-Donnelley's Episode 5 An Actor's Perspective and then again seeing those threads show up in Cath's Episode 6 Can the Body Help us Shift? Despite real differences in their approaches, there are also similar lessons we can learn from these ep...
Jan 25, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this episode, Trisha speaks with Cath Brew, a global LGBTQ+ consultant and coach who also works as a shamanic practitioner to help people become more aware of pain points in their lives. They speak about shifts she has made and how she helps people to become aware of their emotional state through becoming more aware of their physical sensations. Is this another technique that we can use to help us make mental shifts? Connect with Cath on LinkedIn and ask her to send her free resource to help ...
Jan 18, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this episode, Trisha speaks with Mariette Rups Donnelly. Mariette is a 'triple threat' actor, singer and dancer who now works as a presentation coach helping clients in the corporate world to increase their presence and make their presentations more effective. As an actor, she had to constantly make shifts into the mindsets of different characters. As a coach of actors, she needed to help others do the same. This episode looks at supporting shifts in our thinking from a very different perspec...
Jan 11, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
If you haven't listened to Part 1 with David you may like to check it out. In this episode David and Trisha discuss how we can increase CQ Strategy by gaining metacognitive awareness. They discuss some ways of doing that touching on reflection and journaling. They talk about unhelpful dogmas and instead trying to find a way to reflect that suits you and your styles. Cultural interpreters, the importance of awareness of your own culture and how it shapes your gut responses, mindfulness – all ways...
Jan 04, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 4
