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Clients, Partnerships & Testimonials
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Partnerships
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Testimonials
Dr. Thomas Kochman | COO, Kochman Mavrelis Associates, Inc. (KMA); Author, Black and White Styles in Conflict; Co-Author with Jean Mavrelis, Corporate Tribalism: White Men/ White Women and Cultural Diversity at Work | Mar. 2018
"Malii Watts Witten is an esteemed colleague and expert practitioner in the field of diversity and inclusion training, and strong advocate for equality and social justice. I commend and recommend her most highly."
Jennifer Brandel | CEO & Co-Founder, Hearken | Mar. 2018
"I recommend Malii's genius design skills for human interaction and improvement for any occasion, but especially the complex kind. My employees had nothing but great things to say about their work with her, and only wish they had more time to learn from and with her expert guidance. Malii is a master architect of human interaction. She creates structures for information, emotion and energy to flow between varying personalities that leaves everyone feeling better equipped to be their best. Her authenticity, humor and heart shine through, disarming and winning over even the fiercest of skeptics. Malii listens closely. She does everything with clear intention and integrity, making sure that she understands what's needed at every level, and responds and delivers accordingly. She generates a warm, welcoming and exciting environment that allows people to be vulnerable and challenge their ways of being. In a mere 8 hours, she had our team laughing, coming to profound realizations, and even shedding tears (the good kind)."
Piotr Pluta | Managing Director, Human Factors, AS (Developer of Diversity Icebreaker®) | Mar. 2018
"It's a pure pleasure to work with Malii. She's really professional. Always delivers; always on time; and always high quality. At the same time, she shows initiative and is creative. Working with Malii, be prepared for thorough discussions about the project-- and to have fun!"
Stefan Meister | Managing Director, intercultures | Sept. 2015
"I’ve had (and still have) the immense pleasure to work with Malii Watts Witten in four different professional areas. In every single one she excelled.
Rita Wuebbeler | President, Interglobe Cross-Cultural Business Services, Inc. | May 2015
"Malii is a highly competent, extremely creative and very conscientious facilitator of cross-cultural training programs. I have the pleasure of working with her on a regular basis and I always learn from her. I also admire and appreciate her spirit of generosity and care for her participant."
Line Jehle | Owner, Perform-Globally GmbH | Apr. 2015
"For the past couple of years I have the pleasure to work together with Malii. Malii is very professional and an expert in online Marketing and intercultural subjects. She captures topics very quickly and I can highly recommend her as she is reliable, structured and results-driven. It`s a pleasure to work with her, she is very service- and customer oriented, professional and organized. Her dealing with people and technic is great."
Tsiritsimihena Rakoto | Graduate Candidate, School for International Training, World Learning | Feb. 2012
"Malii is a hard-working self-starter who invariably understands the value of having set goals and objectives and consistently produces high quality work in a timely fashion. She is flexible, proactive and responsive to feedback."
Dr. Annie Viets | Assoc. Professor & Mgmnt. Chair, School for International Training, World Learning | Jan. 2012
“This lady is destined for great things! As a student in a Human Resource Management course I taught, Malii helped raise the level and depth of intellectual inquiry. Her perceptive observations further challenged all of us to think about the topics at hand in new and different ways. Her intelligence, strong work ethic, team spirit and kind heart glowed in everything she did."
Ken Miller | The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | Nov. 2011
"Malii's ability to listen empathetically and care genuinely are the integral foundation from which she leads in developing smart, creative, fair and viable solutions in the workplace. Her positive creative energy is a key to team successes."
Angels Mukando | The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | 2011
“It was my privilege to work with Malii in my support functions while at Rotary International...As a result of the outstanding leadership, hard work, and knowledge she displayed during her tenure, The Rotary Foundation awarded her the prestigious ADE Award named after the late wife of Past President Jonathan Magiyagbe.”
Michael Wolven | RefugeeOne | June 2011
"Malii and I worked together on projects supporting resettled refugees in Chicago. Her ability to conceptualize, develop, and manage successful collaborative projects made her an extremely valuable and productive team member. Besides being very competent professionally, Malii is also one of the most interesting and sincere people I've met. It was an honor to work with her."
Maria Fagrelis | Director of Translation Services, Language and Culture Worldwide, LLC | May 2010
"Malii is a detail-oriented, knowledgeable professional in the intercultural field. Recently we worked together on our translation on-site training design and the final outcome was superb. We later, created an on-line version of this training which is a real asset to the translation department. Thank you Malii!"
Hannah Hoover | RefugeeOne | May 2010
"Malli was a dedicated and resourceful manager of the Women's Empowerment Program at IRIM. She brought creative new ideas to the program and offered exciting learning opportunities to participants. Malii has strong cross-cultural communication skills which served her well in this role. She is a talented and motivated professional."
Director, Graduate Services, Indiana University Kelley School of Business | 2009
“Malii Watts Witten worked with our MBA program office to design a new cultural orientation program for our incoming students…Malii has very creative ideas; is quite knowledgeable about the subject matter; is very receptive to feedback… She is an outstanding project manager and is excellent at ensuring that all aspects of the project move forward on schedule. I have greatly appreciated her follow-through and follow-up every step of the way. Finally, she is a delightful person to work with—caring, cheerful, pleasant, and good-humored. I have very much enjoyed working with her!”
Soudary Kittivong-Greenbaum | RefugeeOne | June 2007
"In her role as the women's empowerment program coordinator at IRIM, Malii has helped countless refugee and immigrant women and their families rebuild new lives in Chicago. Her energy, creativity and dedication feed the program's growth. Her strong management ability ensures a program that is stable and able to expand. Most of all, Malii's unique trait is her amazing ability to connect with people of all ages, from all backgrounds, in the most genuine manner."
"Malii Watts Witten is an esteemed colleague and expert practitioner in the field of diversity and inclusion training, and strong advocate for equality and social justice. I commend and recommend her most highly."
Jennifer Brandel | CEO & Co-Founder, Hearken | Mar. 2018
"I recommend Malii's genius design skills for human interaction and improvement for any occasion, but especially the complex kind. My employees had nothing but great things to say about their work with her, and only wish they had more time to learn from and with her expert guidance. Malii is a master architect of human interaction. She creates structures for information, emotion and energy to flow between varying personalities that leaves everyone feeling better equipped to be their best. Her authenticity, humor and heart shine through, disarming and winning over even the fiercest of skeptics. Malii listens closely. She does everything with clear intention and integrity, making sure that she understands what's needed at every level, and responds and delivers accordingly. She generates a warm, welcoming and exciting environment that allows people to be vulnerable and challenge their ways of being. In a mere 8 hours, she had our team laughing, coming to profound realizations, and even shedding tears (the good kind)."
Piotr Pluta | Managing Director, Human Factors, AS (Developer of Diversity Icebreaker®) | Mar. 2018
"It's a pure pleasure to work with Malii. She's really professional. Always delivers; always on time; and always high quality. At the same time, she shows initiative and is creative. Working with Malii, be prepared for thorough discussions about the project-- and to have fun!"
Stefan Meister | Managing Director, intercultures | Sept. 2015
"I’ve had (and still have) the immense pleasure to work with Malii Watts Witten in four different professional areas. In every single one she excelled.
- Trainer: Malii has worked as a trainer with our company intercultures on a variety of occasions and settings, both face-to-face and online. For one of our large global customers she designed and delivered custom-made online modules on general intercultural competence to more than 500 participants. As a trainer in face-to-face settings, she worked with different target groups for a range of clients, both in the US and in Mexico.
- Project Manager: For one year, Malii acted as a project manager for two major research and development project with intercultures and Learning.de. One was on inte"rnational feedback practices, one on developing organizational culture through meetings. In both projects, she managed to be both supportive and organized, but in the right moments also challenging and leading progress.
- Online Community Manager: Malii has served as one of four community managers in the LinkedIn online community “Closeness at a Distance”, a community for global professionals interested in or working with the topic of virtual management, for three years. In this function, she very much helped to bring the community forward and keep it alive.
- Global Communications Manager: This has been Malii’s main professional role over the last three years and hopefully continues to be in the next years. For intercultures, she manages our global consultant pool of 150 world-class trainers, coaches, consultants, facilitators. Her function includes the search for and onboarding of new consultants, standardizing selection processes, creating a joint culture of professional caring and sharing across a distance, create a knowledge network, and to communicate our professional topics to the world through our bi-monthly newsletter. From August on, she will also create regular webinars.
Rita Wuebbeler | President, Interglobe Cross-Cultural Business Services, Inc. | May 2015
"Malii is a highly competent, extremely creative and very conscientious facilitator of cross-cultural training programs. I have the pleasure of working with her on a regular basis and I always learn from her. I also admire and appreciate her spirit of generosity and care for her participant."
Line Jehle | Owner, Perform-Globally GmbH | Apr. 2015
"For the past couple of years I have the pleasure to work together with Malii. Malii is very professional and an expert in online Marketing and intercultural subjects. She captures topics very quickly and I can highly recommend her as she is reliable, structured and results-driven. It`s a pleasure to work with her, she is very service- and customer oriented, professional and organized. Her dealing with people and technic is great."
Tsiritsimihena Rakoto | Graduate Candidate, School for International Training, World Learning | Feb. 2012
"Malii is a hard-working self-starter who invariably understands the value of having set goals and objectives and consistently produces high quality work in a timely fashion. She is flexible, proactive and responsive to feedback."
Dr. Annie Viets | Assoc. Professor & Mgmnt. Chair, School for International Training, World Learning | Jan. 2012
“This lady is destined for great things! As a student in a Human Resource Management course I taught, Malii helped raise the level and depth of intellectual inquiry. Her perceptive observations further challenged all of us to think about the topics at hand in new and different ways. Her intelligence, strong work ethic, team spirit and kind heart glowed in everything she did."
Ken Miller | The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | Nov. 2011
"Malii's ability to listen empathetically and care genuinely are the integral foundation from which she leads in developing smart, creative, fair and viable solutions in the workplace. Her positive creative energy is a key to team successes."
Angels Mukando | The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International | 2011
“It was my privilege to work with Malii in my support functions while at Rotary International...As a result of the outstanding leadership, hard work, and knowledge she displayed during her tenure, The Rotary Foundation awarded her the prestigious ADE Award named after the late wife of Past President Jonathan Magiyagbe.”
Michael Wolven | RefugeeOne | June 2011
"Malii and I worked together on projects supporting resettled refugees in Chicago. Her ability to conceptualize, develop, and manage successful collaborative projects made her an extremely valuable and productive team member. Besides being very competent professionally, Malii is also one of the most interesting and sincere people I've met. It was an honor to work with her."
Maria Fagrelis | Director of Translation Services, Language and Culture Worldwide, LLC | May 2010
"Malii is a detail-oriented, knowledgeable professional in the intercultural field. Recently we worked together on our translation on-site training design and the final outcome was superb. We later, created an on-line version of this training which is a real asset to the translation department. Thank you Malii!"
Hannah Hoover | RefugeeOne | May 2010
"Malli was a dedicated and resourceful manager of the Women's Empowerment Program at IRIM. She brought creative new ideas to the program and offered exciting learning opportunities to participants. Malii has strong cross-cultural communication skills which served her well in this role. She is a talented and motivated professional."
Director, Graduate Services, Indiana University Kelley School of Business | 2009
“Malii Watts Witten worked with our MBA program office to design a new cultural orientation program for our incoming students…Malii has very creative ideas; is quite knowledgeable about the subject matter; is very receptive to feedback… She is an outstanding project manager and is excellent at ensuring that all aspects of the project move forward on schedule. I have greatly appreciated her follow-through and follow-up every step of the way. Finally, she is a delightful person to work with—caring, cheerful, pleasant, and good-humored. I have very much enjoyed working with her!”
Soudary Kittivong-Greenbaum | RefugeeOne | June 2007
"In her role as the women's empowerment program coordinator at IRIM, Malii has helped countless refugee and immigrant women and their families rebuild new lives in Chicago. Her energy, creativity and dedication feed the program's growth. Her strong management ability ensures a program that is stable and able to expand. Most of all, Malii's unique trait is her amazing ability to connect with people of all ages, from all backgrounds, in the most genuine manner."