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24th Mar 2024

CQ Unlocked: Navigating Cultures with Ritika Wadhwa

Ritika Wadhwa discusses the importance of cultural intelligence for leaders in today's globalized business landscape. Cultural intelligence is defined as the capability to work effectively with people from different cultures. It is essential for leaders to be adaptable and flexible in order to navigate diverse teams and changing environments. Building cultural intelligence involves understanding cultural values, adapting communication styles, and challenging unconscious biases. Prabhaav Global, Ritika's company, focuses on developing cultural intelligence in individuals, teams, and organizations to create impactful behavior change. The vision is to make the world a better place by fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Takeaways

  • Cultural intelligence is crucial for leaders in a globalized business landscape.
  • Building cultural intelligence involves understanding cultural values, adapting communication styles, and challenging unconscious biases.
  • Prabhaav Global focuses on developing cultural intelligence in individuals, teams, and organizations.
  • The vision is to make the world a better place by fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Diversity Matters
The show where every voice is welcome, and every story is celebrated.
In this podcast series, Mike moves away from the traditional DE&I rhetoric, to get a better understanding of what diversity, equity and inclusion actually means for us as individuals. Are we seeing real change? Do you feel a greater sense of belonging in your workplace and community? Each week Mike and his guest open an honest dialogue on a specific DE&I topic, some discussions will be inspirational, others might be a little uncomfortable but hopefully all will be interesting and thought provoking.

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Mike Sealy

Mike is currently the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director with a world leading exhibition and event organiser, he leads, coordinates, and champions the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging efforts across the business to ensure the long-term sustainability of the D&I strategy in relation to the company’s colleagues, customers, content and communities.
Through his own lived experiences, he is deeply passionate about fairness, equity, and inclusion for all. He is a dedicated coach, mentor, motivator, and podcaster who regularly speaks at events and on discussion panels both to corporate colleagues and students in education. He speaks candidly on his work and social experiences to create awareness of the issues and opportunities within diversity and inclusion as well as to help build confidence, freedom, and motivation in others.
Mike is British with Afro-Caribbean heritage. He is thought leader with a strong client centric and customer experience mindset and has demonstrable experience of leading teams across complex international matrixed organizations possessing a strong track record of delivering results. He has held senior leadership positions at Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and the BBC, leading and setting up businesses and organizations and has won awards for management and execution excellence in the process.