DAVID SOLOMONS

Director

David Solomons, Director of Memnosyne UK, was formerly co-founder and chief executive of Culture-Smart Consulting. An independent cross cultural specialist, he has been appointed cultural consultant to a number of leading management consultancies in Europe and the US. His expertise is in delivering a uniquely holistic approach to all aspects of cross cultural orientation and international management training for corporates, public bodies, NGO’s and charitable institutions globally. Whilst living in Israel he created and ran an initiative called Numbers 2000 which delivered a one year course to 12 year olds to research their family roots, which has been a part of the Israeli curriculum for over 30 years. He has recently been appointed CEO of Loving Classroom Worldwide, an international initiative bringing Emotional Intelligence into the classroom. Born and raised in England, David’s background is in behavioural psychology as well as training and business. Having lived, worked and run organizations in the U.S., The Middle East, Spain, France and the U.K., he is fluent in four languages. He is also trained as a psychotherapist. As one of the world’s leading experts on Cultural Intelligence, David delivers papers, lectures and speeches on cross cultural and human understanding throughout the world, and has been a regular speaker at the world renowned Conference for World Affairs in Boulder, Colorado. He was on the steering committee of a British cross-party parliamentary initiative working for the establishment of a Ministry for Peace. He has worked for over ten years for UK Trade & Investment on all aspects of exporting and international trade. He was in addition one of the four judges of the 2011 International Trade Awards. He has also created and delivers courses on Cultural Intelligence as a visiting lecturer at a number of International Business Schools, including being on the faculty of Bologna University’s School of Political Science & International Affairs as visiting Professor.  He has worked for a number of NGO’s in Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Lithuania and Israel/Palestine and in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He was the official Cultural Intelligence trainer to the British Olympic Committee for the Beijing Olympics. David is also a member of Be Earth Foundation, a UN approved IGO of 70 of the world’s top influencers working to create a planet-friendly paradigm shift in the world’s Social, Economic, Environmental, Technological and Educational environments, as well as being on the Network Distribution Team of CONNECT-U. Work In the media included co-writing and presenting the ‘Crossing Cultures’ feature in BBC World TV’s weekly travel programme ‘FastTrack’. Regularly writes columns for publications (including a monthly article in UK International Trade) and broadcasts throughout the world. He has recently published a book – ‘The ‘I’ Factor’, a simple solution to harmonious cross cultural relationships.