WHO ARE WE?

An independent consultant, Sunita Nichani, has been deeply committed to intercultural training, team building and consulting. Fluent in French, English, Hindi and Tamil, Sunita is based in Chennai. Her core areas of expertise lie in building foreign language competency and intercultural competence in large multinationals and in higher education. She has served Sietar India from its inception as Treasurer, Secretary, conference chair and now President.

Mala Malkani is a Mumbai based independent cross cultural training consultant with 15 years experience in supporting global clients to effectively manage cultural differences for successful living and working across cultures. She also has 15 years business experience in managing teams and diverse clients across India.

Dr. Lakshmi Kumar’s expertise spans from establishing quality schools, building teams, developing educational processes, and initiating best practices – for both school and higher education. She is the Founder Director of The Orchid School, Pune. She also specializes in training culture workers mainly from Sweden – teachers, social workers, lawyers, nurses – to work with multicultural communities. She has been a coordinator and academic supervisor for Sweden-India Project based in Orebro University.

Communication Consultant and Coach specializing in Business Communication, Intercultural Management and Soft Skills, she works with start-ups, multinationals and educational institutes. She serves on Governing Committees of professional bodies and on the Board of Studies of Universities. Writing fiction and translating poetry are her passion.

A seasoned Consultant and Trainer in the field of Business and Intercultural Communication and Design Thinking. She has formerly worked at Tata Consultancy Services and affiliated colleges of the Delhi University, India where she has developed learning content, designed curriculum and strategy and conceptualized end-to-end learning programs. Now an independent consultant, she collaborates with corporate and educational institutions across the globe to design curriculum and conduct faculty development programs.

Pratha Shetty is an intercultural practitioner based between India and France. She has eight years of experience facilitating workshops that help in narrowing intercultural differences for teams in multinational corporations, startups and expatriates. Her goal is to make intercultural education and tools accessible to people through her work as a trainer, author and show host.

Divya Amarnath is a Talent & Leadership Development professional and Executive Coach with over 20 years of diverse global corporate exposure.

Her experience ranges from crafting organization-wide learning ecosystems for over 200,000 employees, representing 129 nationalities to custom-designed visioning; offering in-person learning to online synchronous and asynchronous experiences. She has had the joy of leading competent teams and jointly executing the organizations’ people enablement strategies.

An intercultural practitioner with nearly two decades of professional experience. Jill joined SIETAR India as a volunteer in 2011 and has been contributing to the intercultural community ever since. She had the privilege of presenting her work for the SIETAR USA Conference in 2020. Her certifications include: Global DISC™ from ICQ Global (2021) GlobeSmart® facilitator (2012), Inclusive Behaviors Inventory (2016) from Aperian Global, Cultural Detective (2018) and the Virtual Performance Assessment from Intercultures (2018)

Interested in studying the threads that make our society, my work focuses on visual Culture and its interaction with our social environment.