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Join Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) and Women in Occupational Health and Safety Society (WOHSS) to discover how to enhance intercultural awareness and skills, develop a multicultural workforce and overcome barriers to finding and keeping talent.
Intercultural competence is a vital skill in today’s global workplace. Supervisors and employees are increasingly likely to find themselves working with colleagues, co-workers, vendors, and customers from a range of cultures and countries. Success comes with working productively with people who have been shaped by different values, beliefs, and experiences. Finding and keeping talent from anywhere in the world is key, as is developing a welcoming workplace for all to be productive!
Speaker: Paul Pickering, Workplace Culture Coordinator at ISANS
The Workplace Culture Program at Immigrant Services of Nova Scotia (ISANS) is an employer-focused service dedicated to increasing organizational success with hiring and retention practices and through organizational cultural change. Services include livestream webinars, workshops, organizational assessments and HR support. All services are funded with no charge to employers.
Paul Pickering has been delivering diversity and intercultural-related learning since 1995. He is in his 8th year as the Coordinator of the Workplace Culture Program at ISANS. Prior to ISANS, Paul worked at the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) in England as a diversity specialist; in development training, the national policing train the trainer program, Hydra immersive learning program and within HR. He has developed and delivered diversity, communication and management courses for urban community programs, taught English as a Foreign Language in South Korea and Czechia, and taught a variety of Liberal Arts courses at Concordia International University, Estonia. He holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Communication Studies, both from the University of Maine, and a Diploma in Lifelong Learning from London, England. He Immigrated with his family to Canada in 2011.