About Maria

Maria is an international trainer and consultant in intercultural competence based in Moscow, and a developer of intercultural intelligence games and exercises. She has served as a guest trainer for a number of Russia's prominent  business schools and consulting companies.

Maria has been developing intercultural intelligence games since 2010. She conducts trainings and workshops on Edutainment and Gamification for Teaching Intercultural Intelligence in Belgium and France, as well as virtual sessions for interculturalists and educators from all over the world. The most popular of her games are “Culture Shock”, “Save Face”, and "Intercultural Minefield” that got highly praised by an international professional community of interculturalists at the IACCM 2019 Conference in Paris, SIETAR Europa 2019 Congress in Leuven, Belgium, and SIETAR Russia 2018 Conference in St. Petersburg. They are bought by trainers and training companies from different countries.

Maria's international experience includes intercultural intelligence and intercultural gamification trainings for international groups in Russia and in Europe. The cumulative multicultural audience is represented by participants from Germany, France, Austria, Guinea, Syria, Mexico, India, Argentine, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Albania, Africa, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Japan, China, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, USA, Turkey, UK, Mongolia, Belorussia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Brazil,

Maria is a SIETAR Russia member, Richard Lewis Communications Licensed Partner, international conferences presenter and author of numerous articles on intercultural competence.