Dr. B.J. Prashantham
Consultant, Pacific Consulting Services

B.J. Prashantham is a coach for the Training Management Corporation (TMC). He works collaboratively with others at TMC to integrate coaching with TMC’s learning solutions and consulting solutions, which give TMC’s client organizations an advantage in the global work place.

BJ brings a unique combination of skills and abilities and intercultural experience to each of TMC’s clients in terms of cross-cultural awareness, sensitivity and competence. To do this, he draws on his over three decades of professional experience of cross-cultural psychology and communication working with international leaders as a consultant counselor and trainer and researcher. He has conducted cross- cultural communication training for Corporations like Microsoft Corporation in Seattle and India besides others. He has worked in his native India as also in the UK, Germany, USA, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other places with business corporations as well as humanitarian agencies. Training people for post-Tsunami and Katrina work was one of his recent activities. Clients and participants in his workshops say that he is a gifted communicator, effective trainer, coach and culturally insightful counselor. His colleagues see him as a person of vision, hard work, dynamism and a source of inspiration.

BJ is a published author of books, professional articles on intercultural communication, consulting and counseling in Industry. In these days of natural and man made disasters, he has contributed a chapter on culture and disaster to a forthcoming book in the USA. A book of his is translated in to Korean and another to Tamil.

His credentials include a doctoral degree in Counseling and Visiting Fellowship in Counseling Psychology from Ohio State University. He is certified in the use of The Cultural Orientation Indicator© and the Cultural Orientations Model. He is President of the Association for Psychological Counseling in India and Editor of the Indian Journal of Psychological Counseling. He has been invited to lecture at University of Washington, Hoffstra University among others.

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