Culture Works provides consultation and training in all areas of intercultural communication. Culture Works is also heavily involved in research and has three recent books.
Released in March 2007: "G'day Boss! Australian Culture and the Workplace", published by Tribus Lingua.
Released in late 2008: a two-volume encyclopedia on the peoples of Asia and Oceania, published by Facts On File, Inc.
Due for release in 2010: "A Brief History of Australia", published by Facts On File, Inc.
Culture Works has worked with BASF, 7-Eleven Corporate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The GPT Group, National Australia Bank, University
of Melbourne, Deakin University, RMIT University, Victoria University, Diversity@Work, Australian Volunteers International, VET Assess, TAFE Development Centre, Department of Community Services NSW, Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services Board, Centre for Multicultural Youth,
Darebin City Council, among many others.
Barbara West received her Ph.D. in cultural
anthropology in 1995 and has spent more than 15 years lecturing, writing
and consulting in the areas of culture, international relations and
intercultural communications. She is a founding partner at Culture Works,
an intercultural training firm that provides trainings to business professionals
from all sectors of the economy to facilitate cultural adaptability. Prior to
co-founding Culture Works, Barbara was an Associate Professor of
international relations at the University of the Pacific and primary trainer
for the Pacific Institute of Cross Cultural Training. During her ten years at
Pacific she received nine different awards for teaching excellence, concern for
student learning and public speaking.Barbara has published three books and a fourth is in production.The
Danger is Everywhere!, about life in Hungary after the fall of
communism, was published by Waveland Press in 2002.Her next book, co-authored
with Frances Murphy, G’day Boss!
Australian Culture and the Workplace, is based on the training they do with
Culture Works and was released in Australia in 2007 by Tribus Lingua
Media.A third book, The Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and
Oceania, was completed at the end of 2007 and released to very positive reviews in the United States
from Facts On File, Inc.In late-2009
Barbara completed work with Frances Murphy on her fourth book, A Brief History of Australia, which will also be published in the United States
from Facts On File, Inc.She has also
published 20 articles in academic and trade journals and presented her research
at over forty different academic and trade conferences, symposia and invited
lectures.
Frances
Murphy, M.A. is an Australian citizen but has spent more than a quarter of her
life living and working abroad in Germany,
Africa, the U.K., Turkey and the U.S. She received her M.A. in
psychology in 1999 and spent ten years working in various settings in the United States
providing psychological, cultural and educational consulting services.
Additionally, she has three hundred hours of training through the Intercultural
Communication Institute in Portland,
Oregon, and is a qualified
administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), Intercultural
Conflict Styles Inventory (ICSI), and Cultural Detective®.In 2005 she co-founded Culture Works in order
to use her international and intercultural experience to help facilitate
culture learning Australia
wide. Her training work with Culture Works has led to the publication of
several books, including G’Day Boss!
Australian Culture and the Workplace in2007and the forthcoming A Brief History of Australia, both co-authored
with Barbara West; she was also a major contributor to the 2009 publication, The Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and
Oceania. Her extensive and varied experiences as an expatriate, her
academic work and her counselling experience have given Frances a unique understanding of
intercultural competencies and outstanding skills in teaching them to others.
