Our company history and our founder…

Andree Intercultural Training, Inc., was formally incorporated in 1998, but its beginnings happened long before that.

Our founder, Carolyn Andree, Ph.D., had always been fascinated by culture—and the impact of cultural differences—and integrated them into the formal education she received, into her own life experiences and into the teaching she delivered.

Dr. Andree received her Ph.D. in the field of human ecology, with studies in international adult education, anthropology, psychology, sociology, women’s studies and family studies. Through it all, her focus was on what happens when people live between two cultures or in rapidly changing cultures.

For 20 years she taught in universities in the U.S. and Africa, and spent 10 years consulting, coaching and training career- and organizational-development in all types of organizations—large and small. As part of international, intercultural teams, she examined dozens of actual case studies on the role of training in international development projects, and wrote international publications on what worked and what didn’t. Later she designed training for an income-generating project for Zulu women in rural South Africa…working with and through her Zulu university students.

She worked with thousands of people in all types of occupations and industries…heard firsthand their challenges and their successes…and what held them back. As she saw how often culture played an unrecognized part, she increasingly integrated intercultural components into all her work. She also saw that too often intercultural skills were made unnecessarily complicated.

To make interculturalism easier, …to help individuals and organizations maximize their potential for creativity, for quality of life and for their ability to contribute….she founded Andree Intercultural Training, Inc., and developed the Culture-Code Framework™ and How to Bridge Cultural Differences Successfully™ .

After all, people are the individual building blocks of our global world.