5.1.1 Dr. George Simons, facilitator

  
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Dr. George Simons is a richly experienced and creative trainer and presenter, with  extensive design and development experience across the globe. Born and educated in  the USA, he lives part time in France and travels the world.
Key activities include:
  • Providing intercultural design and training in communication, global teamwork  and negotiation for banking, energy, automotive, consumer goods,  telecommunications and pharmaceutical sector corporations as well as NGOs.  
  • Authoring and editing intercultural material: EuroDiversity: A Business Guide to  Managing Difference; Putting Diversity to Work; and, the new millennium  edition of Working Together: Succeeding in a Diverse Organization (over 100K in print). In the Cultural Detective series, co-authoring the USA, Netherlands,  Belarus, Turkey, Women & Men, Self Discovery, the Return, Global Teamwork. 
  • Serving on the Conseil d'Administration of SIETAR France (Society for  Intercultural Education, Training and Research) and on the Board of Directors of  SIETAR Europa 
  • A Danforth Fellow, he was honored with SIETAR's Lifetime Intercultural  Achievement Award in 2005 and named a Diversity Pioneer by Profiles in  Diversity in 2007.  
  • You can read about his game products at www.diversophy.com  and his publications and reviews at  www.georgesimons.com
  • His avatar in Second LIfe is Laksa Yifu.