Marius Ketels
Marius Ketels is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads much of our work with companies and organisations, designing and facilitating programmes around leadership, teams and human performance.
Read more →Leading Global Teams
How do you build the judgement, trust and shared ways of working that let an international team perform well?
When people work across cultures, countries and time zones, assumptions about communication, decisions and responsibility can slow everything down. This course helps leaders and teams develop the practical cultural intelligence needed to work with more clarity and less friction.
- Price
- SEK 9,820per participant, excluding VAT
- Next date
- Starts 20 April 2027
- Duration
- 1 day + online follow-up
More details
- Format
- In person
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Venue
- Details to follow
- Language
- Svenska
- Designed by
- Marius Ketels and Nick Praulins
What you’ll be better able to do
- Adapt how you communicate, give feedback, and make decisions across cultures, based on Erin Meyer's work.
- Spot your own cultural defaults and how others may read them, so you can name differences without stereotyping.
- Build trust in teams and make it safe for people to speak up, based on Amy Edmondson's research on psychological safety.
Participants leave with a practical model of what trust and psychological safety are built on and how to build both without relying on physical presence. They also leave with a sharper understanding of how to operate across cultural differences in day-to-day work.
Dates
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20 April 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed09:00–16:00SvenskaSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT - Choose this date →
5 May 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed09:00–16:00EnglishSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT - Choose this date →
1 June 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed09:00–16:00EnglishSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT
Price and what’s included
SEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT
Live online meet-up, 45-minute 1:1 coaching and a certificate of participation from The Nordic Learning Company.
For organisations
How does your international team build trust and shared ways of working?
We can run Leading Global Teams privately for your organisation, using the cross-cultural situations your teams actually meet.
Tell us who the course is for, roughly how many people, and what you would like to be different afterwards. We will come back with a proposal.
Course details
Programme & method
- Day 1
- Session 1
- Identify cultural defaults that shape how you read trust, silence and everyday working relationships.
- Session 2
- Adapt clarity and feedback so colleagues across cultures can check understanding with confidence.
- Post course follow-ups
- Virtual meet-up
- Reconnect with the group to reflect on how you have applied the learning at work and to work through live cross-cultural challenges.
- Individual coaching session
- A 45-minute individual session to work through one cross-cultural challenge and identify your next steps.
How you’ll learn
Short inputs are followed quickly by structured practice: experiencing practical tools for building trust and psychological safety, mapping your unwritten rules through cases, and exploring differences in cultural expectations to build shared understanding.
Evidence & methodology
Facilitated input, cultural-profile reflection, applied scenarios, peer discussion and structured reflection on real international working situations.
The course draws primarily on Erin Meyer's cross-cultural management research, particularly her framework for understanding how communication, feedback, persuasion, decision-making, and trust vary across cultures, used here as a lens for reflection rather than a set of national stereotypes to apply mechanically. It also draws on research into virtual and distributed team dynamics, including how trust forms differently at a distance and how to establish Amy Edmondson's model of psychological safety in global teams.
Practicalities
Who it’s for
- Managers and team leads with colleagues in several countries or a diverse team in one location.
- Project leads working with international clients or partners.
- Professionals whose role depends on clear communication across cultures.
What you need
- No particular professional background is required.
Designed by
Nick Praulins
Nick Praulins is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads our work with schools and educators, shaping the learning philosophy, pedagogy and programme design behind its education practice.
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Before you book
When is the course confirmed?
A course is confirmed once six people have joined. We confirm your place separately, and ask you not to book travel until you have our confirmation.
What if someone cannot come after all?
Open sessions can be transferred to another date free of charge up to fourteen days before. Inside fourteen days, send a colleague in their place. Private programmes follow the terms agreed in the contract.
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