ICPW FOUNDERS
	PHILIP O'CONNOR is a founding member of ICPW. Senior Training Consultant with LTS Training and Consulting, based in Bath, UK. Philip has many years of experience in helping professionals to communicate effectively across cultures. In his everyday work he is committed to bringing practical solutions to the complexity of intercultural challenges which business and professional people meet in their working lives. Formerly Chair of SIETAR UK and today a senior advisor to many, he has for many years run workshops for peer professionals at international conferences
	PETER PETZAL is a founding member of ICPW. Managing Director of 2ci, a UK based consultancy working with corporate management and international teams to ensure effective performance where working with other cultures. He has extensive experience at all levels of business from Government organisations, through major industrial companies to SMEs at both strategic and operations level. Much of his work involves designing and delivering training and facilitated workshops for international teams; global diversity projects and developing international leadership. In particular his work involves assessing and working with organisational differences, leveraging diversity and facilitating dispute resolution. Over the last few years he has developed an extensive practise on India within the 'outsourcing' field.
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FACILITATORS WHO WORK WITH ICPW
	CAROLINE BEERY is co-founder of Coghill & Beery International, an intercultural management consulting firm that provides training, consulting and executive coaching for global companies. Her current work focuses on coaching executives and international project teams in global organisations, alongside an extensive practice in international leadership development. Much of her own passion lies in individual and personal development and she remains much in demand as a personal coach by senior executives. Though consulting and training are her main focus, she continues to teach university courses on managing in a multicultural environment and regularly presents workshops at international conferences recently in the US, UK, Germany, France and Norway. With her Myers Briggs training and a background in 360-degree survey-feedback, she has been able to roll this out as an effective tool for use in a cross cultural setting and has recently launched the new 'Argonaut' tool.
	NIGEL EWINGTON is a founding partner of TCO, a consultancy specialising in helping organizations and their people to optimise the success factors of working across cultures. Since setting up TCO in 1989 he has worked on managing cultural differences where working internationally. In 1999, he set up a Diploma in Inter-cultural Management in partnership with Cambridge University and contributes to the MBA Programmes at the Judge Institute and the China-Europe International Business School, Shanghai.
	MARIA JICHEVA is a director at Coghill and Beery International, an intercultural management consultancy based in London. Maria combines her international business and teaching background with MBTI training to coach individuals and teams in developing intercultural leadership competencies. Alongside her work in developing multi-cultural teams, she continues teaching university courses in intercultural management. Over the last 2 years she designed and delivered an international leadership development programme for one of the largest management consultancies in the world. Last year she became President of the Board of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research (SIETAR) Europa. She received MA and BA degrees from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, her MBA from The American International University in London and her Diploma in Inter-Cultural Management from the University of Cambridge.
	Dr GEORGE RENWICK is President of Renwick and Associates, a consulting firm established in 1973 based in Arizona, USA. Dr Renwick's extensive practice has taken him to coaching and consulting assignments in 26 countries for 40 multinational corporations. Clients include: AT&T in China and New York; Exxon in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Houston; Motorola in France, Hong Kong, and Phoenix; Ford Motor Company in China and Detroit; Aetna in Chile, Korea and Hartford; Honeywell in Hong Kong and Phoenix; and Swiss Bank Corporation in New York, Chicago and Zurich.
	Today, Dr Renwick is considered one of the foremost practitioners in this fast expanding field and has earned a reputation not only as formidable analyst of corporate difficulty and providing effective coaching solutions but also has found the time in his hectic schedule to become a guide to countless trainee coaches and students who have learnt from him and befitted from his experience.
	VERONIKA ROLLE-GREEN is a highly experienced trainer, facilitator and coach, specialising in leadership development. She has built an extensive practise in personal, group, cultural and organisational development, focused on practical and business oriented outcomes. Veronika has been responsible for conceptualising, developing and delivering leadership development programmes for clients such as Airbus Industrie and Siemens Group where she continues to be much in demand. She has developed her own unique approach to leadership facilitation which will form part of this year's course work. Her work also takes her regularly to Asia, where her years of experience in China provides a sound platform to develop cross-national teams working throughout Asia. Working out of Munich in Germany and Toulouse in France, where she lives together with her husband and new born son, she is fluent in German, English and Chinese.