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Marina Ibrahim
Marina Ibrahim helps global and multicultural organisations build trust, strengthen collaboration and boost performance through cultural intelligence. A bilingual keynote speaker, executive coach and cultural agility expert, she has been called a culture guru by clients.
Marina Ibrahim is a bilingual keynote speaker, executive coach and cultural agility expert who helps organisations succeed across cultures, countries and organisational boundaries, from global and multicultural workplaces to newly merged teams and organisations.
For more than 25 years, Marina has worked with leaders, teams and organisations navigating cultural differences in global workplaces, multicultural teams, and periods of organisational change. She created the GLOBE+ Framework, which builds three critical capabilities: self-awareness, cultural awareness and adaptability. Her corporate experience extends to global organisations including BMW, Caterpillar, AstraZeneca, FedEx, and Nike, with clients describing her as nothing short of a culture guru.
Marina's own path, as the daughter of an Egyptian father and a German mother who moved her career from Germany to the UK, shapes how she helps leaders read behaviour that is often misread. Whether differences stem from nationality, professional background, team norms, or organisational culture, silence can be mistaken for agreement, directness read as aggression, and consensus seen as indecision. She shows organisations how these misunderstandings erode trust, and where they hold back collaboration and performance.
Audiences leave able to build trust and strengthen relationships across cultures, recognise the behaviours that either strengthen or undermine cross-cultural collaboration, and apply practical tools to improve communication, inclusion and decision-making within their own teams, while gaining confidence to lead in ways that work across cultures rather than just their own.
Book Marina Ibrahim to help your leaders and teams turn cultural difference into a source of trust, collaboration and performance.
Topics, sessions and talks
In today's interconnected world, cultural differences can either become an organisation's greatest competitive advantage or its most expensive blind spot. Through compelling stories and practical insights, Marina Ibrahim shows leaders how to build trust across cultures, strengthen collaboration, reduce costly misunderstandings and create high-performing teams that leverage diversity as a driver of innovation and business success. Gain practical strategies to transform cultural differences into stronger relationships, better decision-making and improved business performance.
Why are some voices heard while others remain unheard? Drawing on her own Egyptian-German-British journey and decades of international business experience, Marina Ibrahim explores how accents, assumptions and cultural norms shape communication, influence and belonging in the workplace. Audiences leave with practical strategies to transform cultural differences into stronger relationships, better decision-making and improved business performance.
International growth depends on far more than market strategy. Organisations succeed when their people are equipped to collaborate, lead and build trust across borders. Marina Ibrahim reveals the hidden human factors behind successful international expansion and shares practical approaches to strengthening global leadership and collaboration. Audiences leave with practical strategies to transform cultural differences into stronger relationships, better decision-making and improved business performance.
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