Nigel Ewington specialises in helping organisations and their people optimise the success factors when working across cultures.  Nigel has lived and worked abroad in such diverse cultures as China, Bulgaria, Finland and Congo. In the last 10 years he has led executive education and consulting projects with over 75 organisations both in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. These solutions have included change programmes in major Multi-National Corporations, facilitation for international teams and coaching for Senior Managers. He has recently led a consulting project (involving research, tool development and facilitator training) for a consortium of six of the world’s largest charities on the issue of building a culture of trust in diverse Emergency Response Teams. He has also been involved in managing the cultural integration aspects of a leadership programme for all Senior Managers of BoCom (Bank of Communication) in China following the purchase of a shareholding by HSBC.

Nigel is co-founder of TCO, his training and consulting company, and co-founder and Course Director for Cambridge University’s Diploma in Inter-Cultural Management. He is a regular visiting professor at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai providing an elective on Cross-Cultural Management for the MBA programme. Here his key interest is linking theory to practice, and grounding the study of intercultural issues in concrete business reality.

He is also co-designer of an International Competency Set and online psychometric questionnaire The International Profiler which are together used by organisations such as General Motors, Continental, FIAT Iveco and BP as their main tool for coaching managers involved in international mobility.

In addition to English, Nigel also speaks Chinese, French and Italian.

Core Capabilities

• Getting the maximum learning potential out of the cultural diversity of participants on cross-cultural management workshops
• Measuring and building trust in international team-building contexts
• Supporting individuals in building the skills they bring to working in unfamiliar cultural locations