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MILTON
J. BENNETT ADDRESSES HIGH-POTENTIAL MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES
OF GLOBAL CORPORATIONS IN THE U.S., ASIA, AND EUROPE ON TOPICS
OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE.
HE ALSO CONDUCTS SEMINARS FOR CORPORATE TRAINERS AND UNIVERSITY
FACULTY IN JAPAN, MEXICO, FINLAND, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, AND
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| Dr.
Bennett has been active in the intercultural field since 1967.
He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia from 1968–1970.
He holds a PhD in intercultural communication and sociology
from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; an MA in psycholinguistics
from San Francisco State University; and a BA from Stanford
University. As president
of Communication Perspectives, Dr. Bennett develops and conducts
programs in domestic and international diversity for corporations
and other organizations.
Dr. Bennett is well known for his
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and the Intercultural
Development Inventory, which are used internationally to guide
intercultural training design and to assess intercultural
competence. He has received the highest awards for excellence
from the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and
Research (SIETAR) and from NAFSA: Association of International
Educators. Earlier in his life, he was a Westinghouse Talent
Search winner for his work in science.
For 15 years, Dr. Bennett was
a faculty member at Portland State University, where he created
a graduate program in intercultural communication.
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He
coauthored (with Edward Stewart) the revised edition of American
Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Intercultural
Press, 1991), is a reviewer for the International Journal
of Intercultural Relations, and most recently published
Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected
Readings (Intercultural Press, 1998), which contains
a number of his chapters and articles.
In 1986, Dr. Bennett co-founded
The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI), a private,
nonprofit educational foundation designed to foster an awareness
and appreciation of cultural difference in both the international
and domestic arenas. ICI offers an MA in intercultural relations
(in conjunction with the University of the Pacific in Stockton,
California), and it conducts the annual Summer Institute for
Intercultural Communication, which draws more than 800 faculty
and participants from the U.S. and abroad to three weeks of
intensive professional development workshops.
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