Craig Storti is the director of Communicating Across Cultures, specializing in the design and delivery of seminars in intercultural communications, cross-cultural business dynamics, expatriation and repatriation, cultural diversity, and managing the multicultural/global workforce - for clients from government, business, military, and the education sectors.

Craig Storti is a nationally known figure in the field of intercultural communications and cross-cultural adaptation and the author of several standard works, including Culture Matters, a cross-cultural workbook used by the U. S. government in over 90 countries, as well as:

Americans At Work: A Guide to the Can-Do People
Speaking of India
The Art of Crossing Cultures
The Art of Coming Home
Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Figuring Foreigners Out
Old World/New World: Americans and Europeans

Craig Storti has over twenty-five years of experience training businessmen and women, diplomats, civil servants, and foreign aid workers in understanding and working effectively with people from other cultures and diverse backgrounds. As a trainer and consultant, Mr. Storti has advised Fortune 500 companies on international joint ventures and expat/repat issues, led cross-cultural workshops for international agencies and organizations on four continents, and assisted numerous corporations and government agencies to better manage global teams and a culturally diverse workforce.

A popular speaker, Craig Storti is represented by the European Speakers Bureau, and he has also written for a number of national magazines and major newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He has lived nearly a quarter of his life abroad - with extended stays in Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures - and speaks French, Arabic, and Nepali.

From Publisher

How much culture lurks in common conversation? According to Craig Storti, so much that many of our most common, seemingly innocent exchanges - in social settings, on the job, in the world of business - are cultural minefields waiting to explode. These explosions - cultural misunderstandings - can cause confusion, irritation, even alienation. At the workplace and in the world of business these explosions undermine communications, threaten important relationships, and cost a great deal of time and money; away from work, they strain, even endanger, personal relations.

Cross-Cultural Dialogues is a collection of brief conversations (4-8 lines) between an American and someone from another country and culture. Short as each dialogue is, it has buried within it at least one, and usually several breaches of cultural norms which the reader is challenged to figure out. And a challenge it is: the exchanges are so brief and innocuous that even the wariest among us are sandbagged by the dialogue's hidden subtleties.

Ten cultures are represented by the non-Americans in the dialogues: Arab/Middle Eastern, British, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Indian, Japanese, Mediterranean/European, and Russian, and the dialogues are grouped according to the sitting in which they occur: social, workplace, and business.

Whether you're a learner, trainer, educator, or an armchair interculturalist, you'll enjoy solving these cultural riddles - and increase your cultural awareness in the bargain.