I’m Claudia Espinel
Intercultural Coach and Facilitator
Strengthen your capacity to work across cultures
Individual Coaching
Want to improve your ability to engage with people from different cultures? From office interactions to social situations, Individual Coaching will help you develop a personalized plan for your personal growth and professional success
Group facilitation
Are you and your colleagues aiming to interact, work, and live successfully in a culturally diverse society? Through facilitated workshops, you can develop skills, mindsets, and habits that lead to appropriate engagement in multicultural environments.
Align your intentions with your impact
Build meaningful relationships across cultures
We find ourselves in personal and professional environments in which multiple cultures intersect. We enter these spaces with hopes, dreams, and objectives that are informed by our intentions. However, the outcome of our interactions is not always what we expect. An intercultural approach can help you address this gap.
Understand why your intentions and the impact of your actions don't align
Explore the role of intercultural competencies in your personal and professional purpose
Identify steps you can take to more effectively engage in multicultural environments
Develop your ability to embrace cultural differences and similarities, and build shared meaning
Living interculturally
Build meaningful relationships in your work place and neighborhood, when you travel, with your friends and family, and in any place you call community.
Inclusive Leadership
Enhance your leadership with the tools to create a diverse and inclusive team where everyone’s perspectives are respected and make a difference.
Learning Community
Engage with others who are also on the journey of engaging across cultures in a way that is honors humanity and cultivate well-being for all
Team Well-Being
Enhancing team dynamics by embracing and leveraging cultural differences and similarities in projects and interactions, fostering a cohesive and caring environment
Why Intercultural Development?
Intercultural development offers a path to effectively navigate conflict, create an environment in which a variety of perspectives can show up, mindfully engage uncertainty, and adapt behaviors to create well-being for all. This approach helps to build a shared purpose and use differences as a source of transformation
About Me
I dream of a world where differences are a source of energy that drives connection and care. That is why I work with people and groups committed to developing the capacities and creating the conditions to engage in multicultural communities with the purpose of building a world where everyone can thrive the way they want to thrive. In the last 14 years, I have used systems change, network collaboration, and the development of learning communities to drive transformation in corporate, educational, and non-profit settings in areas such as global learning and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion).
Testimonials
“Across the arc of my own career, I cannot recall working with anyone with a greater clarity and fluency in systems thinking. Nor have I worked with anyone with a greater ability to bring people with power to systems change that results in the redistribution of that power. This, in my experience, is a very rare skill. “
Eric Schneider
“Claudia stands out as a healing force who brings people together through her genuine care and positive energy, and as a wise counsel whose years of experience in the DEI field encouraged a radical imagination of solutions that transcend current, ineffective paradigms of racial and economic justice interventions. “
Hialy Gutierrez
“Claudia’s careful observation of organizational structures, her ability to help others collaborate effectively, and the clarity she brings from her assessments, make her an invaluable asset for addressing the right problems, effecting meaningful change and making innovation happen.“
Jeff Blanchard
Tools that Claudia uses
Intercultural Development Inventory
The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) is the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes
Human Systems Dynamics
Our Vision: People everywhere thrive because we see patterns clearly, seek to understand, and act with courage to transform turbulence and uncertainty into possibility for all.
Intercultural Competencies
Consultants, academics, DEI practitioners, and more professionals have used the intercultural development continuum to drive change with social justice groups, organizations, universities, communities, and leaders around the world.