Who We Are

The Intercultural Relations Institute is a non-profit organization that facilitates collaboration across business, education, and nonprofit sectors.

We provide inclusive leadership education, host conferences, facilitate intercultural conversations, and support youth collaborative efforts. We empower local leadership with its impact extending beyond.

Since 2016, the Thought Leadership Conference has grown from a small local event to a large, diverse, global one focused on breaking down intercultural silos in business, education and community organizations. Founded in 2023, the Institute provides additional tools and training to create deep and lasting organizational change and glocal impact.

Community is the shared physical, social, and emotional place where we live, work, play, and learn. In the best case, individuals’ unique interests, talents, and worldviews thrive and enhance the whole. Life for a member of the collective offers a shared safety and a sense of productivity enhanced by similar educational and occupational opportunities to pursue individual passions and interests.

Frequently, though, communities move away from this ideal by addressing the common good individually and fail to recognize the importance of organizational collaboration to
understand and create the shared experience. Only when business, education, and
community organizations partner can they make an interconnected culture and find
creative ways to integrate differences, solve problems, and improve their communities.

By working together, organizations can generate more significant change with greater impact than when operating from their siloed sector. Everyone wins when business, education, and community organizations take on social challenges as a shared responsibility.