Anat Kedem M.A. Israel and Organization Development Consultant

Anat Kadem, M.A., Israel and Organization Development Consultant, holds an MA in Education and Training from Haifa University, is an ICF Certified Coach, and has over with over 15 years experience in cross-cultural training, coaching and mediation. She has provided training for Charis clients with engineering sites, customers and acquisitions in Israel, focusing on how to build cross-cultural communication skills, and create trust and collaboration in US-Israel teams. Her in-depth experience living, working and studying for over 10 years in each country gives her the perspective and credibility for both Israeli and American audiences, as she challenges their thinking and behaviors to achieve results.

As a consultant, facilitator and coach, Anat has worked with individuals, teams and executives in a variety of industries. Her work experience in Israel includes assisting corporate clients such as Intel, Motorola, Dialogic, Orbotech, Telrad, and Amdocs with managing global teams and projects and employee international relocation. She designed and facilitated seminars and authored resource materials and curricula for the Israeli government, the Israel Defense Forces and non-profit organizations focusing on diversity and interfaces with mainstream Israeli society for Israeli Arabs, new immigrants, and American groups. She is the co-author of Cultural Detective Israel.

Since 1998, Anat has provided relocation coaching services in the U.S. to Israeli expatriates and executives, alongside intercultural training, consulting and coaching to startup and established clients such as Intel, Rinchem Company, Diligent, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Mellanox, Zoran, SanDisk and VSI, in most cases training both the Israeli and US based teams and managers. As mediator, trainer and coach for the DRPS (Dispute Resolution Program Services) in Santa Clara County, California, Anat delivers basic mediation courses at various universities as part of the College Consortium Program, and serves as a community mediator and coach for new mediators.

Anat's background includes cross-cultural training, coaching, instructional design, and dispute resolution. She specialized in cross cultural communication at the Intercultural Communication Institute in Portland and at Tel Aviv Open University's Intercultural Communication Training for Trainers. Anat trained as a facilitator at TELEM's (Israel) Group Facilitation Program. Anat is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's IOSD - International Organization & Systems Development Program and of the Gestalt Center for Organization and System Development ICF accredited International Gestalt Coaching Program. Anat has lived in Israel, the US and South Africa, and is bilingual in English and Hebrew.