Programs for Spouses, Couples, Families

Personal Leadership_sm Across Cultures:
The Non-Salaried Spouse as Organizational Partner

The purpose of this program is to maximize the capacity of the expatriate spouse to successfully engage geographic and cultural transitions. It is designed in recognition of the crucial role played by the non-salaried spouse on the productivity of the global leader, on that leader's international assignment success, and ultimately on the accomplishment of the organization's business strategy.

Personal Leadership_sm Across Cultures is targeted to the spouse's needs in the moment while addressing the roles and responsibilities she/he necessarily undertakes when accompanying a global leader on international assignment. The relationship between the coach and the spouse provides the foundation for learning and success.

Expected benefits to the spouse:

• A leadership orientation towards life as an expatriate spouse
• Personal competency in an intercultural context
• Increased sense of personal safety despite the culturally unfamiliar
• Greater effectiveness communicating with host nationals
• Strategic targeting of career/professional development
• Enhanced role fulfillment and life satisfaction
• Strengthened capacity to engage the process of transition
• Increased ability to coach family members to transition success
• Appreciation for organizational influences on expatriate family life
• Immediate application of learning

• Increased employee/family willingness to relocate internationally
• Self-sufficient spouses and families demanding less of HR managers
• Higher spouse and family satisfaction
• Higher employee productivity
• An alliance with a partner influential to assignment success

• Intercultural Development Inventory
• Personal and professional goal setting
• Personal Leadership_sm: principles and practices
• Expatriate spouse coaching
• “Just in time” learning opportunities
• Midpoint review
• Final review