Schedule an Individual Intercultural Training
with Beyond Tourism.
You’ll begin by taking the CQ Pro Assessment, which evaluates your cultural preferences, behaviors, and current level of cultural competence across the four key dimensions of Cultural Intelligence. This serves as the foundation for a tailored, insightful session that will meet you exactly where you are—and help you grow from there.
(download a free sample CQ report here)
This is For You If:
You’ve ever felt lost, awkward, or misunderstood in a new culture.
You want to build better relationships across cultural lines.
You're tired of generic “sensitivity” talks and want depth, relevance, and transformation.
You believe understanding culture is a skill—and you’re ready to master it.
Prevent cultural misunderstandings and conflict. Equip yourself with the skills to connect, adapt, and thrive across cultures.
Ready to Make the World Feel Less Foreign?
Let’s build your intercultural muscles together—so you don’t just survive new cultural encounters, you thrive in them.
Questions? Email Renae at renae@goingbeyondtourism.com
What You’ll Get:
🧭 A Personalized 2-Hour One-on-One Training Session
Tailored to your goals, cultural context, and life situation. You’ll receive real-time guidance, real-world scenarios, and actionable tools.
🌍 Intercultural Self-Awareness
Discover how your own cultural lens affects your assumptions, communication, and decisions—and how to adjust with intention.
🧠 Practical Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Strategies
Learn to read between the lines, recognize cultural patterns, and flex your behavior to build trust and credibility across cultures.
✈️ Immediate Application
Whether you’re heading to Germany, Ghana, or your next Zoom call with a global team, walk away with clarity, confidence, and a custom plan.
Beyond Tourism uses the Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Model to assess your current abilities and help you learn to communicate cross-culturally better.
What is the assessment like?
There are two aspects that are measured during an assessment. First, the four dimensions of CQ will be measured. Those are CQ Drive (motivational CQ), CQ Knowledge (cognitive CQ), CQ Strategy (metacognitive CQ) and CQ Action (behavioral CQ). This is the actual measurement of your cultural intelligence that can grow with time and effort and predicts your intercultural effectiveness. Your results will be presented to you on a percentage scale, based on the hundreds of thousands of others who have taken the same assessment around the world. During our workshops and in debriefs we go into much more detail about these 4 dimensions of cultural intelligence, how they interplay and how to improve your scores.
Instead of confusion and miscommunication over unspoken cultural expectations, you’ll turn confusion into connection—so your international experience becomes an opportunity for real growth.
What customers say…
“Working with Renae and going through the initial CQ Workshopping is just the beginning of a new understanding for me as I continue to work closely with many people from other cultures. I was challenged to consider ALL the cultural backgrounds and cultural containers in which I live and interact with daily. Though it will be a deeply introspective process with much “mind-“ and “heart-work,” I’ve no doubt the journey will be richer and interactions with others more genuine than had I not embarked on this relationship with Beyond Tourism & CQ. Thank you, Renae, for sharing your passion with me and encouraging me!””
“I feel like I understand myself better by looking through a cultural lens.”
“Renae was a great facilitator and provided engaging content and conversation.”
Do you remember your last uncomfortable intercultural interaction? You were confused, didn’t understand what was happening, and had no idea what you did wrong. This is common when it comes to invisible cultural values, which lay beneath the surface and usually aren’t taught or explained.
These values are the “under the iceberg” aspects of culture. If you don’t understand them, they can prevent you from integrating into your host community the way you had dreamed of.
Second, your behavioral preferences are measured. Behavioral preferences can also be called cultural preferences. These are the ten cultural values that will be assessed:
Individualism/Collectivism
Power Distance
Uncertainty Avoidance
Cooperative/Competative
Time Orientation
Context (Direct/Indirect)
Being/Doing
Universalism/Particularism
Expressiveness (Neutral/Affective)
Focus (Monochromatic/Polychromatic)
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
Hi! I’m Renae and I own and operate Beyond Tourism. It’s my small business and I’m very passionate about helping you connect across cultures! I lived abroad in South Korea for a year after college teaching English to kids. That’s when I first started to understand the significance culture has on a person. It was a challenging and growth-filled year for me, not to mention when I came back and struggled to find the words to describe what I experienced. I know what it’s like to live and work abroad. You can read more of my story here, including about my passion for music from around the world and radio show I have every week. I love talking about, thinking about, and teaching about culture. It’s one of the most exciting things I’ve discovered, and has allowed me to meet and hear the stories some of the most phenomenal people on the planet. I am certified by the Cultural Intelligence Center and you can see my credentials below. I can’t wait to help you grow your cultural intelligence! Email me at renae@goingbeyondtourism.com with you questions.
If you are planning to move abroad and start over in a new country, you have a whole new cultural challenge ahead of you. Culture shock is real and it can make or break you. Being prepared with knowledge about how to engage with the new culture, why they do what they do, and how you can alter your software of the mind to better integrate will soften the blow of culture shock, not to mention give you a better chance at making new friends, gaining fluency in the language, and building a support network that will make you feel comfortable and connected. These skills can help you successfully live abroad in the long-term. Beyond Tourism can help you be prepared for this life-changing experience.
