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What Filipino Storytelling Can Teach Us About Safety and Cultural Intelligence

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In conversation with safety professional Greg Dearsly, I explored how cultural intelligence shapes not only storytelling, but also how people experience work, authority, risk, responsibility, and care.

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Greg Dearsly’s podcast, The Culturally Intelligent Safety Professional, examines what health and safety practice requires in multicultural organizations. In this episode, our conversation connected the CIS Bamboo Framework with the everyday realities of leadership, communication, and workplace safety.

We began with the question that shaped my work in culturally intelligent storytelling: Can stories truly resonate across cultures? From there, we moved into another question with immediate consequences for organizations: Can safety systems work if they do not account for the cultural meanings behind people’s behavior?

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