Webinar: Cultural Intelligence - A Critical Capability

Wednesday 20 November; 11am-12pm;

Free for members, $59+GST for non members

Do you lead a diverse multicultural team, interact with people from different organisations either locally or globally or engage with others from different parts of your organisation's hierarchy who are different from you?


This webinar will explore a pathway to enable you to be more effective when engaging in multicultural situations. We will also provide an overview of the latest research into Cultural Intelligence, including an overview of the difference between Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Intelligence.


Who should attend

People Leaders, communication professionals, health and safety or HR professionals, operations managers and supervisors, anyone with an interest in engaging across cultures.


What will you get from this webinar

  • An understanding of the drivers that lead to your motivation to participate effectively in a diverse setting.
  • Explore cultural influences that you can expand on to enhance your cultural knowledge.
  • Learn the components to develop a strategy to better plan for, engage in and reflect on your experiences in a multi-cultural engagement.
  • Explore how to adapt your style to improve how you lead and communicate in a diverse setting.
  • Dig into the 10 cultural dimensions that contribute to people's decision making, communication and conflict resolution.

Speakers

Greg Dearsly is a Certified Cultural Intelligence Facilitator with US based CQ Centre. He is exploring the world of cultural intelligence, curating content, and hosting a podcast. In 2025 Greg will join the CQ Centre’s Fellows Programme where he will work with a cohort to further develop the cultural intelligence body of knowledge. He also has a Masters of Advanced Leadership Practices from Massey where his dissertation focussed on cultural intelligence as an indicator of trust between workers and health and safety professionals. 

This is backed up with an extensive range of experiences related to influencing behaviours around health and safety. His career as a health and safety practitioner spans more than 20 years in both corporate roles and as a consultant working across a range of industries including waste and recycling, civil construction and local & central government. This is further supported by a Graduate Diploma in OHS and the National Certificate in Adult Education. 

Greg has held roles as President of the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management (NZISM) and the International Network of Safety and Health Professional Organisations (INSHPO) along with serving on the inaugural Governance Group of the Health and Safety Association of New Zealand (HASANZ). He currently is Chair of Manawatū Samaritans and Deputy Chair of Samaritans NZ.