EngageBetween is a people-centered service provider that partners with organizations to advance the power of shared purpose.
Clients, Partnerships & Recommendations for EngageBetween
Select clients- current and past- in the U.S. * See testimonial below.
Select clients- current and past- internationally. * See testimonial below.
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Recommendations for EngageBetween
Courtney Durham | Development Manager, mRelief | Apr. 2025
"I look forward to every coaching session with Malii because no matter how scattered I feel when I show up, I know I will leave with practical takeaways and action plans that genuinely help me to re-engage with my work and (when possible) take the extra steps to improve it. I leave sessions with Malii with so much clarity and direction because she meets me where I'm at and helps me draw my own roadmap to where I want to be. I am so grateful for her guidance and empathy, especially as I face the uncertainty of working in the social impact space right now. Malii has helped me prioritize what is achievable and ground myself in the powerful impact I can make right now. She is one of the greatest resources our organization has!"
Belinda Rodriguez | Product Manager, mRelief | Mar. 2025
"I feel so grateful to have Malii available to me as a coach. She has a knack for finding the thread between individual and organizational well-being and success, and has been an invaluable resource to help me and my organization build resilience through challenges. I always look forward for our sessions and consistently walk away feeling refocused and energized around the things that matter most."
Kaori Freda | Operations Manager | Feb. 2025
"Malii offered my team and I invaluable and strategic guidance. Malii brought her wisdom, curiosity, and care on board during a tumultuous time at the company - the company was going through a merger, leadership was assessing mid-pandemic budget cuts, and rebooting the customer success department. Malii has a masterful grasp of relationship dynamics and offered her advice & executive coaching as I navigated collaboration and conflict with other department leads. She also came in with her wealth of DEI experience to change the company culture for the better. Malii worked hand in hand with members of the consulting services team to deliver solutions to our customers in higher education and media spaces. I very much appreciate her democratic approach to finding solutions to root problems, her sensitivity to who has a seat at the table and looping in those that are missing from the table, and the way she exercises her empathy in every interaction. I would highly recommend working with her and would be delighted to work with her again in the future."
Kavya Sukumar | Principal & CTO - India, Lightrock India | Feb. 2025
"Malii possesses an exceptional ability to create inclusive spaces. As a coach, she brings out the best in people.
I was fortunate to participate in quite a few workshops and sessions facilitated by Malii. What I appreciated the most about her approach is that she doesn't shy away from complex and thorny topics around DEI, and identities. She handles it with sensitivity and gets her mentees and session participants to introspect and contemplate perspectives very different from their own.
Her passion for her work, her wealth of experience, and her deep expertise shine through in every interaction you have with her.
Above all, she is a warm and fun person who is a joy to work with."
Ashley Anthony | Product Design Manager, mRelief | Feb. 2025
"Since working with Malii, I've experienced tremendous professional growth and gained invaluable insights that have shaped my management and leadership journeys. She is remarkably intentional in her approach, focusing on practical solutions while maintaining a deep understanding of each person's unique challenges and aspirations. What truly sets Malii apart is her ability to challenge and encourage in ways that strike the perfect balance—helping you discover your full potential while providing practical solutions to complex challenges. Her guidance has been instrumental in my development as both a manager and leader."
Bridget Thoreson | Chief Project Officer, Hearken | Feb. 2025
"Malii is an incredible facilitator and brings insight, curiosity and support to any space she designs. I worked with her on several training cohorts and was always delighted by her excellence in creating facilitation experiences that are centered on the learners' needs. She has a wealth of expertise that anyone looking to create meaningful and long-lasting learning experiences would do well to employ!"
Summer Fields Hayda | Senior Account Executive, Movable Inc. | May 2022
"Malii is one of the most impactful coaches I have had in my career. She brings such a holistic understanding of systems and people and our motivations. She helped me navigate pivotal moments and decision points in my career and to introspect. And she was a critical thought leader and partner in DEI to my organization. I also collaborated with her on client-facing work in engagement innovation and change management. She is very multi-faceted!"
Tatyana Fertelmeyster | Founder and Principal, Connecting Differences | Apr. 2018
"Life and work brought Malii and me together multiple times. I have had a privilege of witnessing her professional and personal growth. Malii is very thoughtful, passionate, knowledgeable, and capable professional. Her grasp of intercultural and diversity issues is superb and her facilitation skills are outstanding. I will be happy to work with Malii on any challenging project. I know it will be rewarding and participants will benefit greatly."
Maria Krasinski | Managing Director, News Decoder | Apr. 2018
"Malii and I collaborated on several cross-cultural communication workshops for Department of State-sponsored exchange programs for youth and emerging leaders from around the world. She is an insightful, engaged facilitator who truly invests in the growth and success of her participants. The time she takes to customize her curriculum to the specific needs of each group is immediately apparent. Working with her was a true pleasure — and a lot of fun!"
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 | Senior Consultant, Human Factors, AS (Developer of Trialogue®/ 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 and Founder, 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."
Rachel Marr | Office Manager, Seattle/King County on Homelessness | Mar. 2012
While open to different ideas, Malii remains faithful to her core ideals. She is an intelligible communicator, and a self-motivated, and enthusiastic student. Malii brings practical experience and insights to the classroom that enrich discussion. I appreciate Malii's passion, and her refreshingly direct- yet diplomatic- style in conversation."
Tsiry Endor Rakoto | Chief Operating Officer, WRLD Foundation | 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 | Principal, Annie Viets, Ed.D. & Associates | 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 | Owner, Mi Lora Tours | 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 | Global Head, Contracts, Eurofins | 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.”
Dr. Michael Wolven | Systems Manager, Welcome Corps | 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 | Project Manager, Interpro Translation Solutions, Inc. | 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 | Deputy Resident Country Director, Sierra Leone for Millennium Challenge Corporation | 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 | Vice President, Development at Alliance for a Healthier Generation | 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."
"I look forward to every coaching session with Malii because no matter how scattered I feel when I show up, I know I will leave with practical takeaways and action plans that genuinely help me to re-engage with my work and (when possible) take the extra steps to improve it. I leave sessions with Malii with so much clarity and direction because she meets me where I'm at and helps me draw my own roadmap to where I want to be. I am so grateful for her guidance and empathy, especially as I face the uncertainty of working in the social impact space right now. Malii has helped me prioritize what is achievable and ground myself in the powerful impact I can make right now. She is one of the greatest resources our organization has!"
Belinda Rodriguez | Product Manager, mRelief | Mar. 2025
"I feel so grateful to have Malii available to me as a coach. She has a knack for finding the thread between individual and organizational well-being and success, and has been an invaluable resource to help me and my organization build resilience through challenges. I always look forward for our sessions and consistently walk away feeling refocused and energized around the things that matter most."
Kaori Freda | Operations Manager | Feb. 2025
"Malii offered my team and I invaluable and strategic guidance. Malii brought her wisdom, curiosity, and care on board during a tumultuous time at the company - the company was going through a merger, leadership was assessing mid-pandemic budget cuts, and rebooting the customer success department. Malii has a masterful grasp of relationship dynamics and offered her advice & executive coaching as I navigated collaboration and conflict with other department leads. She also came in with her wealth of DEI experience to change the company culture for the better. Malii worked hand in hand with members of the consulting services team to deliver solutions to our customers in higher education and media spaces. I very much appreciate her democratic approach to finding solutions to root problems, her sensitivity to who has a seat at the table and looping in those that are missing from the table, and the way she exercises her empathy in every interaction. I would highly recommend working with her and would be delighted to work with her again in the future."
Kavya Sukumar | Principal & CTO - India, Lightrock India | Feb. 2025
"Malii possesses an exceptional ability to create inclusive spaces. As a coach, she brings out the best in people.
I was fortunate to participate in quite a few workshops and sessions facilitated by Malii. What I appreciated the most about her approach is that she doesn't shy away from complex and thorny topics around DEI, and identities. She handles it with sensitivity and gets her mentees and session participants to introspect and contemplate perspectives very different from their own.
Her passion for her work, her wealth of experience, and her deep expertise shine through in every interaction you have with her.
Above all, she is a warm and fun person who is a joy to work with."
Ashley Anthony | Product Design Manager, mRelief | Feb. 2025
"Since working with Malii, I've experienced tremendous professional growth and gained invaluable insights that have shaped my management and leadership journeys. She is remarkably intentional in her approach, focusing on practical solutions while maintaining a deep understanding of each person's unique challenges and aspirations. What truly sets Malii apart is her ability to challenge and encourage in ways that strike the perfect balance—helping you discover your full potential while providing practical solutions to complex challenges. Her guidance has been instrumental in my development as both a manager and leader."
Bridget Thoreson | Chief Project Officer, Hearken | Feb. 2025
"Malii is an incredible facilitator and brings insight, curiosity and support to any space she designs. I worked with her on several training cohorts and was always delighted by her excellence in creating facilitation experiences that are centered on the learners' needs. She has a wealth of expertise that anyone looking to create meaningful and long-lasting learning experiences would do well to employ!"
Summer Fields Hayda | Senior Account Executive, Movable Inc. | May 2022
"Malii is one of the most impactful coaches I have had in my career. She brings such a holistic understanding of systems and people and our motivations. She helped me navigate pivotal moments and decision points in my career and to introspect. And she was a critical thought leader and partner in DEI to my organization. I also collaborated with her on client-facing work in engagement innovation and change management. She is very multi-faceted!"
Tatyana Fertelmeyster | Founder and Principal, Connecting Differences | Apr. 2018
"Life and work brought Malii and me together multiple times. I have had a privilege of witnessing her professional and personal growth. Malii is very thoughtful, passionate, knowledgeable, and capable professional. Her grasp of intercultural and diversity issues is superb and her facilitation skills are outstanding. I will be happy to work with Malii on any challenging project. I know it will be rewarding and participants will benefit greatly."
Maria Krasinski | Managing Director, News Decoder | Apr. 2018
"Malii and I collaborated on several cross-cultural communication workshops for Department of State-sponsored exchange programs for youth and emerging leaders from around the world. She is an insightful, engaged facilitator who truly invests in the growth and success of her participants. The time she takes to customize her curriculum to the specific needs of each group is immediately apparent. Working with her was a true pleasure — and a lot of fun!"
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 | Senior Consultant, Human Factors, AS (Developer of Trialogue®/ 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 and Founder, 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."
Rachel Marr | Office Manager, Seattle/King County on Homelessness | Mar. 2012
While open to different ideas, Malii remains faithful to her core ideals. She is an intelligible communicator, and a self-motivated, and enthusiastic student. Malii brings practical experience and insights to the classroom that enrich discussion. I appreciate Malii's passion, and her refreshingly direct- yet diplomatic- style in conversation."
Tsiry Endor Rakoto | Chief Operating Officer, WRLD Foundation | 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 | Principal, Annie Viets, Ed.D. & Associates | 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 | Owner, Mi Lora Tours | 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 | Global Head, Contracts, Eurofins | 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.”
Dr. Michael Wolven | Systems Manager, Welcome Corps | 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 | Project Manager, Interpro Translation Solutions, Inc. | 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 | Deputy Resident Country Director, Sierra Leone for Millennium Challenge Corporation | 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 | Vice President, Development at Alliance for a Healthier Generation | 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."