Laurence Sicot, a native of France, has 25 years of experience
in international communication and market research. This
includes 20 years experience both as a Communication,
Management and Intercultural Relationships Trainer and
Consultant, and as a Project
Manager.
Brought up in a Franco-American environment and
having relocated multiple times internationally, she
has practical experience moving across borders and
understands first hand the complexities that
arise in multi-cultural environments.
Since 1995 she has been carrying out
communication and management intercultural projects,
conceiving, designing, and conducting group and individual
training with corporations. Projects deal with international
mobility - expatriation & repatriation of executives
and family - personal leadership development and cultural
adaptation for foreign executives and their families, change
and transition, multicultural team building, diversity
& conflict resolution in the
workplace.
She has led numerous projects in France, Brazil,
USA, Western Africa (Ivory Coast, Senegal,
Cameroun, Burkina Faso, and Angola), South Africa, Europe
(Belgium, England, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal,
Romania Spain, and Switzerland), Mexico, Thailand,
China, India and others.
Ms. Sicot holds a Diploma in International
Commercial Studies by Negocia from the Chamber of
Commerce & Industry in Paris), a DEA in Social
Anthropology and Compared Sociology from the
University Sorbonne-René Descartes (with High
Honors) and Certification from the Intercultural Communication
Institute - Pacific University (Portland, Oregon). She also
studied at the University of Cambridge, in the UK and
at the University Estácio de Sá (NLP and Human
Resources) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also attended an
advanced Active Listening training course at the
Psychosynthesis School in Paris. She qualified for “Administration and
Interpretation of Intercultural Development
Inventory”, an assessment tool for transition issues (IDI),
for the “Cultural Detective”, a training tool that
develops global business competence in individuals and
organizations and for The
International Profiler tool by Worldworks.
She is, presently, the President of SIETAR-France
(SIETAR is a worldwide Society for Intercultural Education,
Training and Research), the associate manager and owner of
Find The Link, co-founder of Ithaka Connexions Interculturelles
(Paris, France), a partner with Novas Tendências
Assessoria (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Santa Vitoria (Milan,
Italy), a member of the International Academy of Management
and of Open Source Intercultural (peer based professional
training group).
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