Clients and events

 

Diversity Icebreaker has been presented outside Norway:

  • SIETAR conference in London september 2006 (SIETAR; Sociey for International Education, Training and Research)

  • Academy of Management annual meeting in Philadelphia august 2007

  • Academy of International Business annual meeting in Milan July 2008 (paper on use of Diversity Icebreaker in different cultural contexts, written by Ekelund, Shneor and Gehrke)

  • Academy of Management annual meeting in Anaheim, California in august 2008 (paper on diversity training, written by Ekelund and Maznevski, another paper comparing MBTI and Diversity Icebreaker, written by Rothausen-Vange and Ekelund)

  • SIETAR Global conference in Grenada, a workshop has been suggested on Diversity Icebreaker as a pre-conference activity, october 2008.
  • The 11th European Congress of Psychology, Norway 2009. Symposium: Diversity Icebreaker. Post post-modern applications of a classical test model of personality.
     
  • Bulgaria, Sofia.  Diversity Icebreaker workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria
    Date: 1th November 2009. Seminar leaders: Leah Davcheva and Bjørn Z. Ekelund

Clients using Diversity Icebreaker

Human Factors'  clients represent major private and public organisations in Norway as well as large international and multicultural organisations. Also small groups and individual consultants worldwide use the Diversity Icebreaker.

We have experienced an explosive growing interest for the tool the last years from all parts of the world.

Many institutions and businesses apply Diversity Icebreaker regularly as a part of systematic teambuilding, kick-off processes, starting of seminars and executive programs.

Some examples:

International clients

  • North Eastern University, (USA)

  • IMD "International Institute for Management Development" (Lausanne, Switzerland)

  • University of Arkansas (USA)

  • Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)

  • Bocconi School of Management (Milan, Italy)

  • KMP & Partners (Denmark)

  • ING Group (Netherlands)

  • Marubeni Corporation (Japan)

  • Insituto Tecnologico y de Estudios, (Mexico)