Dr. Jessie Ritchey

Dr. Jessie Ritchey is a seasoned intercultural consultant and facilitator who is passionate about helping others develop understanding and skills for connecting and leading within our culturally complex reality. Her interactive teaching, assessment, and coaching skills knit together theory, broad intercultural experience, and attention to the local realities and needs of the individual or organization. One of the motivations that propels her work is the belief that strong intercultural skills provide us all with an understanding of our own biases and offer us tangible tools for walking in greater empathy within our communities.

Having lived 85% of her life in settings as a non-citizen and worked for extended periods in seven countries on four continents, she brings broad first-hand experience in multiple settings. This unique vantage point developed an early intercultural lens through which to observe the world. The addition of academic studies became the means by which to analyze, organize and explain to others these fascinating threads that link us as sojourners on this earth. This also allows her to deliver training in both English and Spanish.

She has directed intercultural studies programs as well as served as an adjunct professor for both Intercultural Communication and Working on Multicultural Teams at graduate and undergraduate levels in over 10 countries. She also continues to work as a cultural adaptation coach and international deployment consultant. She has trained, spoken, and consulted in over 25 countries.

Her formal studies include a Doctorate of Intercultural Studies, and certification as an Advanced CQ Facilitator, an Unconscious Bias Trainer, and an Administrator of the IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory).

Jessie is an artist who loves to paint and exhibit when she has time. She had the privilege of being mentored by a Russian artist and participating in a Guinean art guild. Her most recent discovery is a love of gardening and turning her backyard into a wildlife sanctuary.