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InterCulturaling™:
expanding your vision
Created by interculturalist Elda Acevedo, The InterCulturaling Pause™ helps leaders and organizations turn cultural differences into trust, collaboration, and measurable results.
Our world is more interconnected than ever.
And yet, cultural misunderstandings still divide us.
We live, work, and learn alongside people from different backgrounds: coworkers, clients, classmates, neighbors, even family members.
We share spaces, but not always the same unspoken rules, expectations, or ways of communicating.
InterCulturaling™ helps organizations build stronger relationships across cultures
by naming what often goes unnamed, and bridging what often goes unspoken.
Whether you’re in a workplace, community group, healthcare setting, or classroom,
you deserve tools that make cross-cultural communication clearer, more human, and more effective.
The belief…
Most people are trying to do the right thing. They’re just seeing the world through different lenses.
When those lenses go unnoticed, misunderstandings quietly damage trust, morale, and relationships. When we learn to notice them (our own and others’) misunderstanding becomes something we can work with: at work, in families, and in our world.
A Closer Look
Culture Isn’t About Where You’re From. It’s About What You Expect.
A short authority essay that reframes cultural misunderstandings at work as clashes of unspoken expectations rather than intention or identity.
Read the essay →
Mission:
To build a movement and a framework that delivers the necessary tools to help people recognize cultural misunderstandings in their communities, their families and friend groups, their schools and their workplaces, creating a more understanding world.
Vision:
A world where people recognize the culture within every interaction — turning misunderstanding into understanding, and awareness into connection.
The InterCulturaling Pause™
InterCulturaling™ is more than a concept. It’s a verb — a deliberate action we can practice in real time.
Created by interculturalist Elda Acevedo, who has spent over a decade helping people navigate cultural complexity across education, travel, and business, InterCulturaling offers a clear, repeatable framework:
P.A.U.S.E.™
- P – Pause: Notice when culture might be shaping meaning.
- A – Ask: Seek clarification without judgment.
- U – Understand: Wonder before assuming.
- S – Shift: Reframe through a cultural lens.
- E – Engage: Respond with intention, not reflex.
This is how leaders unlock the full potential of diverse teams and turn perspectives into performance.
Why Organizations Invest in InterCulturaling™
Executives today face new realities:
- Global teams are the norm. Hiring only people who “look like us” is no longer an option — the best talent comes from everywhere.
- Diversity without skills isn’t enough. Without tools for cultural awareness and trust-building, diverse teams can struggle, stall, or even lose effectiveness.
- Leaders are under pressure to deliver results. The new Learning & Development (L&D) mandate is clear: training must go beyond awareness and deliver measurable improvements in collaboration, innovation, and performance.
- Customer expectations are shifting. In a global marketplace, strong customer experience (CX) depends on culturally aware communication at every touchpoint.
InterCulturaling™ meets these needs by equipping leaders with a practical, memorable skill they can apply immediately.
What Leaders Are Saying
“The framework helped me approach situations with more empathy. It made me think more deeply about how to view behavior through a cultural lens. Loved this session!”
— R. Bass
“It highlighted the diversity that exists within each culture and the impact of differences that often go unseen. Excellent presentation — I would love a copy of the slides.”
— A. Nichols