We highly recommend Julien Bourrelle’s keynote on culture in the workplace. Julien has an impressive ability to engage the audience through strong presentation skills and humorous delivery. His message is further strengthened by creative illustrations that capture his points in a striking and effective way.

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For a global consulting company like ours, where cultural understanding and awareness of behaviour are central, Julien provides unique and valuable insights. His presentation is both educational and entertaining — a clear recommendation

We loved to work with you Julien in planning the event and the participants really enjoyed your keynote 👏 Here are a couple of examples of the received feedback:

”I loved the energy in the event.”

”Keynote was extremely dynamic and brought a lot of good examples! I would spend hours listening to him!”

Thank you again for sharing your passion for cultural awareness!

The Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics through its diversity project, “Understanding – Collaboration Across Difference”, had the honour of welcoming Julien Bourrelle as our guest. His work fits perfectly with the core of this initiative, and his presentation was a great success. As an expert in intercultural communication and understanding, Julien brought a wealth of experience, knowledge, and charisma to the stage, making the lecture an engaging and enriching event for all participants.

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Throughout the talk, Julien guided us through the subtleties of culture, from surface-level greetings and rituals to the deeper values that shape our interactions. He inspired us to reflect on the importance of empathy, curiosity, and collaboration in bridging differences. What made his presentation stand out was his interactive style, which continually invited the audience to take part and reflect on their own cultural experiences. Julien’s blend of humour and insight made the talk not only informative, but also highly entertaining. His ability to approach complex topics in a light-hearted way ensured that everyone left the lecture hall with a deeper understanding and a smile.

It was a great privilege to have Julien Bourrelle contribute to our diversity initiative, and we look forward to future opportunities to collaborate with him.

We had a very successful conference and are extremely pleased with Julien and his contribution. It created many great conversations about our cultural differences - both at lunch and during the evening event.

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Julien is an enormously charismatic and energetic person who describes our differences in a very appealing and entertaining way, making us think. The fact that he also speaks from personal experience makes it all the more credible. The blend of statistics and examples is excellent. Throughout the day, the evening, and even at breakfast the following day I received many positive comments about Julien, his talk and his wonderful personality.

We all recognised ourselves in his examples, yet reflected on how easy it is in everyday life to forget the differences that not infrequently can create frictions. We felt that Julien's talk was as good as we had hoped, if not better.

We would like to express our sincere thanks for the conference you delivered in Paris yesterday for our managers on the topic of interculturality.

Your presentation was particularly appreciated: your lively approach, illustrated with concrete situations, captured the attention of the whole group and sparked rich discussions. Your insights into cultural dynamics have, I am sure, given our managers new glasses through which to collaborate more effectively in their everyday work.

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Thank you also to Elise for her very useful illustrations.

A thousand thanks for what you delivered, Julien! This was 11 out of 10! Absolutely fantastic! This segment was informative and fun, and created tremendous enthusiasm right across the company.

We invited Julien to speak in connection with a visit from colleagues from Germany and the UK. Julien struck a fine balance in discussing cultural differences in a respectful way, with touches of humour. I am particularly impressed by how well Julien tailored the talk to our wishes, and how well he understood what we were looking for even though he was given only a brief introduction to our organisation and the data-centre industry.

We also gave his books to the audience, which went down especially well. We will absolutely book Julien again on another occasion.

Incredibly pleasant collaboration in the lead-up, and an outstanding delivery. I have received messages and held debriefs with the leadership groups, and the feedback is exclusively positive — everyone loved your talk, the energy, the expertise, and above all everyone felt that the topic hit exactly right for the situation our area is in.

I believe most of us, especially in the south of Europe, have pre-conceived ideas on how the nordic countries are and once we get here it's so much different and harder than we had imagined. If we are aware from the beginning about all the points you mentioned it becomes easier to integrate and embrace this culture. I wish I would have seen your presentation when I moved to Norway. It would have saved me a lot of frustration.  It was the first session that we organized that had so many reactions from people who are usually more reserved. I'm very happy. Thank you!

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We would gladly have set aside more time, as there was so much useful material here for learning about ourselves. :) Julien has excellent communication skills and a pleasant stage presence, which make both the lecture and the topic easy for everyone to appreciate.

We had an inspiring and engaging lecture with Julien for around 55 leaders at DNB from Norway and Latvia. The lecture included a good dose of theory, combined with humour. Julien is excellent at involving the audience and provides strong, concrete examples. We are extremely pleased with the lecture!

Julien was a great fit for our event. We had customers from all over the world who both enjoyed themselves and learned something about cultures in general, and Norwegian culture in particular.

I strongly recommend Julien’s cultural lectures. Highly informative and humorous.

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Julien hits the subtle points in our Norwegianness and make them interesting. The atmosphere he manages to create is fantastic and I recommend him strongly as a speaker both for the content and for the atmosphere!

We found it incredibly fun — as well as educational and engaging — to listen to you. We received a lot of positive feedback; you are truly inspiring to listen to!

Julien S. Bourrelle held a lecture on cultural awareness which gave us important knowledge of how to deal with a multinational workforce.

Having lived and worked within many European and multinational cultures, having spent 24 years as a British soldier, I thought settling in Norway would be a breeze. After all I have lived in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium as well as most parts of the UK. How wrong was I! Having lived here 4 years, both within the NATO environment and more recently as a foreigner working in Oil and Gas and trying to integrate fully with our Norwegian hosts, I was still struggling to break the code. A few hours with Julien at a joint event of INN and the British Norwegian Chamber of Commerce has opened my eyes to some of the more subtle differences in this very unique but wonderful culture. Thanks to Julien’s humour and enthusiasm for living in Norway and how to connect with our hosts, I feel re-invigorated to try some new approaches!

You have listen to one of Julien's lecture and you would like to leave a feedback? Please send it directly to him at julien@monda.no

More than 200 of our colleagues took part in an inspiring keynote by Julien S. Bourrelle. Julien lived up to his international reputation and, through personal and humorous anecdotes as well as academic references, helped us become more aware of the impact our culture has on the way we observe the world. Our “cultural glasses” do indeed influence our interpretations and can lead to misunderstandings. Elise’s illustrations were carefully thought through and beautifully created: they served as complementary visual support to Julien’s anecdotes.

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Thank you to Julien for his availability, approachability, and for adapting the materials into French and to our somewhat particular context. Thank you also for facilitating a workshop with our managers, which helped open up the conversation and raise participants’ awareness of the importance of intercultural aspects.

Julien har en fantastisk förmåga att förmedla sitt budskap om kultur och kulturella skillnader med humor och illustrationer. Tekniska Högskolan i Jönköping har bjudit in Julien att föreläsa för våra nya studenter och vår personal vid flera tillfällen. Han engagerar, inspirerar och ger praktiska verktyg för att möta nya kulturer, och förklarar på ett underhållande sätt hur kulturella skillnader visar sig. Föreläsningarna får mycket goda omdömen från både studenter och personal. Jag rekommenderar verkligen Julien!

We received a lot of positive feedback for your session and several people mentioned it as one of the things they liked most!

Julien, the way you carried out the event was very well received by our Japanese friends and invited customers. You were well prepared, attentive, and showed great respect for Asian culture. The content was relevant, thought-provoking, and entertaining, and together it made for a very enjoyable evening. Excellent use of time and smooth transitions.

Really great! Many people came up to me during the day to say they wished you had kept going much longer than you did. That is a sign that this was valuable!! We are very pleased, and many say they had an "eye-opener."

It was an absolute pleasure to have Julien and Elise join us first year as a speaker and second year as the host for the Nordic Growth Summit. Julien truly made a significant impact and was a major part of our success, rated both years as one of the highlights and top performers of the event. Thank you so much for your energy, passion and the way you engage the audience! You truly contributed our event being one worth attending. I'm really hoping we get to collaborate again soon - somehow, some way! I definitely recommend Julien to anyone who needs a fantastic speaker on culture or for hosting opportunities.

Impressive presentation! Julien is an exceptionally skilled, engaging, and entertaining speaker. He communicates his message very effectively and truly engages the audience. Highly recommended!

Julien delivered a lecture that really resonated with us. The theme of culture and collaboration felt “spot on” in relation to our everyday work, and sparked both reflection and valuable conversations afterwards. We are left with both inspiration and concrete perspectives that we will take with us going forward.

Julien’s lecture was very well received by everyone in our organisation. He does an excellent job of presenting the material. The content was something we could all relate to. It was an entertaining lecture that got people talking about it afterwards.

An inspiring, educational and humorous talk that gave us energy and knowledge we can use. A superb speaker who kept us engaged for 90 minutes. A rare ability to communicate and involve the audience. Truly, truly brilliant!

Julien delivered a very exciting, interesting and enriching talk on cultural differences in the Nordics. He brought tremendous energy and commitment; exactly what we needed after two hours of technical presentations. I have received feedback from several people saying that Julien was the highlight of our digital conference.

We got an interactive and humorous talk full of relevant, concrete examples of cultural differences: what kinds of challenges they can create, and, most importantly, how they can be handled to improve collaboration and results. This can truly be recommended to all organisations with a diversity of cultures!

This was incredibly good. I am receiving a lot of positive feedback from the audience, and the balance between humour and a serious, important topic was perfect. Entertainment and learning at the same time is a great combination.

The evening was a complete success as I see it. Your role as a toastmaster was even better than anticipated - and my expectations were high - Thanks! 

Thank you for a pleasant and interesting talk. I have received many positive responses. I will suggest that you come back for an all-staff meeting and/or an extended leadership forum.

I have to say that it is really a good presentation, which gives a thorough overview of Norwegian culture, how Norwegian people behave differently, and how we, as foreigners here, can approach Norwegian. He also gave a lot of vivid examples together with very illustrative pictures through the whole presentation. This made the whole presentation more interesting and easily understood. I think it is very useful for not just us foreigners, but also Norwegian themselves.

The key is to understand the cultural differences, once you understand these differences, life gets a lot easier. This is exactly what Julien does very uniquely with his presentation, illustrations and charm. Normally, it can take years to understand these behaviours, but Julien explains them in matter of hours. I highly recommend a workshop with Julien.

A thousand thanks for your contribution on Monday! We were all very pleased, and we felt we had a great time together!

Many people continued talking about it on Tuesday and yesterday at the conference 😊 I hope we will have the opportunity to meet again in the future!