Motivate, energize and inspire your cross-cultural events with a guest speaker!
The theme of cross-culture is ideal for your international events.
We can adapt it to support your strategic messages and to motivate your audience.
Our conference speakers are theme-specific with a wide range of subjects from management, innovation to technology, education, healthcare, life sciences and environment. They will explain the impact that culture has on the specific subject and how the subject is changing cultures.
Guest speakers are a great addition to spice up any meeting or event program!
Aim of the conference
Stimulate, raise awareness, and energize your event or audience.
Duration
1 – 3 hours face to face with audience
Audience
10 – 300 participants
Language
English or French
Case study
Theme: Dealing with cultural differences and challenges of collaborating with Brazilians during the roll-out phase of a vaccine.
During the final phase of the dengue virus vaccine development program, Sanofi asked Birdwell to provide a speaker for an audience of more than 200 persons made up of doctors, biologists, quality control experts, and supply chain specialists coming from Sanofi laboratories and production sites. The organizers of the event wanted a speaker who had experience in the healthcare or life sciences industry and who was Brazilian or French person who had lived and worked for an extended period in the life science sector in Brazil. The theme of the intervention was dealing with cultural differences and challenges of collaborating with Brazilians during the roll-out phase of the vaccine.
The conference speaker
Birdwell provided a Brazilian speaker who had lived and worked in Brazil, the US, and France in the life sciences industry for 17 years. Her intervention was programmed the morning of the last day of the 4 day conference. Her intervention lasted for almost 2 hours. She was able to highlight not only the cultural differences and friction points but also give tips and tools for improving their relationships and leveraging cultural differences in order to get work done faster and in better conditions.
The intervention was a great success.
The expert was later called in to train 2 Franco-Brazilian project teams dedicated to the roll-out phase of the vaccine in Brazil.
“Everything I needed for my work was covered during the training. The one-day format was also very effective, as it kept the focus on the key points without getting sidetracked. The training was clear and practical, especially in explaining some of the implicit aspects of Chinese culture. It provided useful communication tools for working effectively with Chinese teams while taking cultural differences into account.”
Training: “Working with Chinese Colleagues” — September 2026
Very good trainer, very American: he goes straight to the point, but he’s always ready to listen to the participants, which I’m sure is his “French” side! He used interesting slides that I’ll be able to draw on in the future. No negative comments, it was very interesting! The trainer was good, and as I just found out, an American would have said “Amazing”! I’m going to encourage my colleagues and my team to take this “Working with Americans” course. June 2025
What I appreciated most about this course: the exchanges, the 360° vision of interculturality, the different elements of culture, the examples, the trainer and asking questions before meeting people from other cultures. This training perfectly met my expectations. Training course “Developing intercultural competence”, June 2025.
This training opened my eyes to what I had not perceived. I now have a better understanding of how my American colleagues perceive us and what their expectations and needs are. The training was practical. I came away with tools and ideas. There is nothing complicated; you just have to know it 😊. Today, I communicate differently with my American colleagues which facilitates my exchanges and allows me to gain in efficiency.
This program was essential for me and my colleagues to develop an understanding and appreciation of the French way of work…
