Culture and Cultural Codes
How Culture shapes Behaviours
Through his entertaining stories and illustrations, Julien will make you reflect on how your culture influences you more than you think. Julien explains in simple terms what culture is, how differences play out, and how they affect us. He talks about behaviours, rituals, norms, role models and values. The audience learns to be more aware of their own perceptions and expectations, and the perceptions, expectations and intentions of others.
Julien S. Bourrelle is an international keynote speaker and intercultural communication expert who helps organisations operating across cultures, whether integrating international teams, expanding into new markets, managing post-merger integration, or strengthening global leadership. His lecture improves cross-cultural communication and provides practical tools to build trust, align expectations, reduce cultural misunderstandings, create stronger collaboration and lead across borders in multinational teams.
The audience learns to communicate more effectively within multicultural environments and to be more aware of how their behaviours may be (mis)interpreted and how values are interpreted differently across cultures. Participants leave with concrete tools that can be applied immediately in everyday professional situations. Julien customises his lectures for HR leaders, People & Culture departments, senior executives, middle managers and broader employee audiences — from small leadership groups to large international conferences and company-wide events.
Julien uses real-life stories from his international life together with his well-known series of illustrations drawn by Elise H. Kollerud, making his lectures and courses easy to understand, engaging to listen to, and easy to remember. He speaks across Europe and internationally and is trusted by global organisations working across borders.
While most of Julien's work focuses on cultural concepts linked to national culture and cultural differences in business, he can also connect cultural dynamics to socio-economic groups, age groups and gender perspectives.
Julien delivers engaging keynotes (45–60 minutes), extended lectures, half-day sessions and full-day courses with workshops.You can book directly with Julien without the need to go through an agency. Simply send an email to Elise at: elise@monda.no
