Cari Caldwell

Cari is a consultant, facilitator and coach who has worked in the areas of cultural diversity, leadership development, and human resources consulting for over 10 years. Cari has in-depth experience of diversity and intercultural issues in organisations and has audited, reviewed, designed and trained in all areas of diversity in organisations including: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, thinking styles, value orientations, functions, and issues of sexual harassment.  Frustrated with the low results produced from standard ½ - 1 day diversity training courses, Cari draws on action learning, somatics, theatre, and creative approaches to causing breakthroughs in the area of diversity. She coaches individuals and facilitates team and learning experiences that make a difference.

Cari joined Future Considerations as a Director in 2001 and since then has worked extensively in local government, developing and implementing schemes and programmes relating to the Race Relations Amendment Act for several local and central governments. She has worked on innovative projects in the area of global diversity and international assessment centres for Cadbury Schweppes, and has coached NHS chief executives.  Cari has also led Future Considerations’ work consulting to KPMG Europe on setting a vision for diversity, conducting research in the area of cross-cultural working and facilitating on the UK partner programme for diversity.  She is project director for an innovative leadership development programme for a multinational bank innovating from the ‘Ulysses’ model she developed while at PwC.

Cari began her career with Coopers & Lybrand in the US and spent 4 years consulting and facilitating on diversity issues to clients such as Ford Motor Company, Time-Warner, Bayer AG, Korn Ferry International, Capital One, Societe Generale and First Maryland Bank.  In 1999, she moved to London to evaluate and address issues of global cultural diversity internally for PricewaterhouseCoopers.  A year later, she went back into client facing human resources consulting where she worked on benefits issues for the Glaxosmithkline merger, and managed HR due diligence for a US/Slovakian construction company merger. She designed, coached and facilitated what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers’ premier executive development programme, Ulysses, combining leadership development with cultural diversity and corporate social responsibility through a field-based programme that partnered PwC senior staff with non-governmental organisations such as UNDP, Childline India, and UNOPS. 

Cari holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, International Studies and History and has completed coursework toward an MA in Intercultural Communication. She holds certification in the Intercultural Development Inventory© and Level 1 Certification in Spiral Dynamics cultural values methodology. She is a graduate of VISIONS Intensive Racism Workshop; of the Strozzi Institute Personal Mastery programme, Somatic Bodywork and the Newfield Ontological Coaching Programme.

The birth of Cari’s son Conor has inspired her to become active in parenting issues and she is currently producing a childbirth education DVD to empower women and their partners to have a positive experience of childbirth.   Cari coaches new mothers and fathers and works with women making the transition to motherhood.  She loves to travel, write poetry, and practice Bikram yoga.