Craig Storti

Craig Storti

I am an author and also a trainer/consultant in the field of intercultural communications and cross-cultural adaptation. Eight of my books are on intercultural topics, while the two most recent—Why Travel Matters and especially The Hunt for Mount Everest—are for general audiences.

As an intercultural trainer/consultant and director of Communicating Across Cultures, I design and deliver seminars on working effectively across cultures for business, government, military, and academic clients, as well as international organizations and a variety NGOs. For details click on the links provided.

What people are saying about Craig Storti’s workshops

  • The best and most knowledgeable instructor-led class I have ever attended at Microsoft.

  • This class is a must for anyone at Texas Instruments who works internationally.

  • Wow! Every engineer should have this learning. I look back now on so many lost opportunities to connect and understand.

And about Craig’s books

“A great read and tremendous resource for business leaders and students alike. Craig Storti not only describes cultural differences in fascinating and exciting ways, he also provides straightforward, practical ways on how to navigate them.”

The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures

— Sarah Miller, Asst. Dean and Director of Graduate
Business Students Affairs, Washington University, St. Louis

 

“The strength of this book is in its clarity of writing and in highlighting ‘a fix’ for moving forward in working through cultural differences.”

Cross-Cultural Dialogues

— Darla Deardorff, Duke University, Editor of The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence

 

“This is a must read! It provides rich insight into why routine interactions are often misconstrued, and offers practical advice on how to present material so both the East and West can relate.”

Speaking of India

— Nikki Webster, Learning and Development Director,
CNA Insurance Companies

 

“Craig Storti has done it again! He has produced another absolutely indispensable book [for] the intercultural field.”

— L. Robert Kohls, professor, Institute for Intercultural Leadership, University of San Francisco

 

“I’ve not read anything like it before. Like the act of traveling itself, Why Travel Matters shifted my perspective on the world and helped me see familiar terrain in unfamiliar ways.”

— Nick Hunt, author of Where the Wild Winds Are,
a 2017 Spectator Book of the Year

 

“This history of Mount Everest’s early years in the public imagination is nonfiction at its finest!”

The Hunt for Mount Everest

— Alisha Trenalone, reviewer for NetGalley