Alexander Scheitza, managing director of RADIUS communication und intercultural cooperation. Alexander is a psychologist with a tertiary degree from Saarbrücken/Germany and Aberdeen/Scotland, where he specialised in Intercultural Psychology. He has designed and delivered training and coaching programmes in a range of settings since 1994, including private industry, public administration, social work and international project groups. The primary objective of this support is to enhance the success and enjoyment experienced by those involved in intercultural cooperation. He also facilitates train-the-trainer and train-the-coach workshops for fellow interculturalists and Open Space workshops for groups and organisations which wish to deal with complex situations in productive ways.

His services are not only based on the specific individual or organisational needs of his clients and on his own experience in intercultural project groups, but also on the academic research he has carried out on intercultural competence, diversity management and the value of intercultural training programmes.

He has maintained close contact with the academic world through his activities as a university lecturer and tutor in Intercultural Communication at Saarland University and in European Administrative Management (MA course for a network of German Universities of Applied Sciences for Administration). He also enjoys developing training materials and undertakes evaluation studies for international cooperation programmes.

Alexander is qualified in Systemic Consulting, "Metaplan" visualisation facilitation techniques and goal-oriented project planning (GOPP). He is a founding member of the Cologne Institute for Intercultural Competence (KIIK) and a member of SIETAR, the world's oldest and largest organization of intercultural professionals. He has served SIETAR Europa as president and is currently vice president of SIETAR Germany.

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Intercultural Glossary

Key elements of intercultural communication and cooperation

Matthias Otten, Alexander Scheitza und Andrea Cnyrim (Hg.):

SIETAR Deutschland - Beiträge zur interkulturellen Zusammenarbeit
Interkulturelle Kompetenz im Wandel

Band 1: Grundlegungen, Konzepte und Diskurse
2007, 328 Seiten, br., 24,00 Euro
ISBN 978-3-88939-899-4

Band 2: Ausbildung, Training und Beratung
2007, 366 Seiten, br., 24,00 Euro
ISBN 978-3-88939-900-7