Learning Sustainably
Navigating through the VUCA world with ease
The environment for organizations today change every minute. Be it a global value chain, complex problem solutions or trouble spots such as the COVID-19 virus – the challenges and requirements are volatile (V = volatile), uncertain (U = uncertain), complex (C = complex) and ambiguous (A = ambigous). Employees and managers of today and tomorrow work in this field of tension. Our tailor-made (virtual) trainings & coachings offer effective levers for the development of relevant future competencies.
We are intercultural experts
We are digital

International Collaboration and Projects
The ICUNET SOLUTION
- Cultural Agility
- Collaboration with culturally diverse teams and partners in your target culture/region
- International Project Management
- Feedback and Creating an Innovative Culture
- Teambuilding
- Remote Teamwork
- Successful Negoation in Your Target Culture
- International Conflict Management
- Intercultural Competence for Agile Coaches and Teams
- Sucessful Sales Strategies in Your Target Culture
- Design Thinking in an International Context
- Change Management in International Collaboration
- Culture Change – Reflecing Your Organizational Values Internationally
- Nudge Management in Successful Cultural Change
- Moderating and Presenting Around The Globe
Companies are increasingly working globally and in many areas in virtual teams. Our experience shows that this cooperation must be consciously lived and competently managed in order to generate the desired output.
Your rational and emotional benefit:
- Intercultural competence as the basis for successful team work
- Action competence of your employees and managers on global collaboration challenges including effective toolboxes
- Transfer of the learned knowledge into the individual context of your employees and teams
- We build up resilience in your team. We enable you to achieve ownership and commitment
The demands on managers are growing immensely – and with them the need for competencies and skills. From digital transformation and change management to internationalisation. Together with you, we design a tailor-made development journey with milestones for your management development. Our three core components: We evaluate, we empower, we ensure the transfer of what has been learned into the individual context.
Your rational and emotional benefit:
- Development of professional and intercultural leadership competence
- Security for your managers in dealing with complex (virtual) leadership situations
- Securing business and project success
- Increase employee commitment and satisfaction
- Reduction of fluctuation and strengthening of employer branding
Leadership Development
The ICUNET SOLUTION
- International Leadership
- Leading and Self-Management in VUCA
- Leading Egalitarian
- Self-Leadership
- Challenges in VUCA
- Break Habits and Try Something New
- Living Your Values
- Mental Agility
- Energy Management and Self-Regulation
- Self Organization Under Pressure
- Inclusive Leadership
- Neuro-Leadership
- Resilience
- Moderating and Presenting Around The Globe
- Virtual Leadership
- Work-Life Balance
Diversity & Inclusion.
The ICUNET SOLUTION
- Unconscious Bias
- Successful Inclusion in Your Team
- Inclusive Leadership
- Inclusion Nudgets
- Leading Egalitarian
- Teambuilding Across Generations
We understand the impact of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) in a higher resilience, innovative strength and problem-solving ability of teams and organizations. D&I is not a means to an end in itself but an essential part of the future viability of every company and organisation. From gender to nationality, cross-functionality to inclusive culture: we design a tailor-made & inclusion journey for you.
Your rational and emotional benefit:
- Making visible and using diversity potential through a change of perspective
- D&I sensitive management
- Strengthening teamwork and eliminating prejudices
- At organisational and team level: increase resilience and accelerate innovation
Training & Coaching
Our Team

Debora Guierrero
Senior Business Trainer

Gurdatar Singh Bal
Senior Business Trainer

Katharina M. Kempf
Senior Business Trainer

Kerstin Grönlund
Senior Business Trainer

Matthias Liehr
Senior Business Trainer

Yue Pan Donath
Senior Business Trainer
We advise, facilitate and accompany. Globally and virtually.
Competence development with the ICUnet Learnhub
Personnel selection and development
ICUnet works with psychologically-based online testing procedures for personnel selection and development.
- With IGP (Inventory for Global Potential), we use 13 factors to test whether your employees have the necessary skills to perform in the “VUCA” working world
- With the TIS® (Test of Intercultural Sensivity), we determine the individual personality traits of your employees for you
- With the IPT® (Intercultural Preference Tool) we record the individual cultural preferences of your employees
- The I4ID® (Inventory for Intercultural Development) shows you the intercultural competence of your employees and how a targeted and practice-oriented development can look like”
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