Meet Victoria &
Culture Cuppa
Your speaking clarity, confidence and
cultural skills matter to me
Why I founded Culture Cuppa
I am Victoria Rennoldson, cultural intelligence and communication coach, and the founder of Culture Cuppa. I was born in and now live with my family in London, one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, with over 300 languages spoken.
In my previous career working in international teams in global multinational organisations, I saw talented professionals who didn’t always contribute their full valuable expertise to the team and the business, because they didn’t always feel able to speak up confidently and share their voice. The result was that they didn’t fully shine, they became less visible than their colleagues, and the team didn’t get the benefit of their knowledge and skills.
In my view, this communication and cultural gap is a huge waste of talent and valuable ideas for your team and organisation. This is why I am passionate about achieving an equal share of voice for everybody in multicultural and multilingual teams.
I am now excited to work with talented and ambitious individuals and teams all over the world, who need help with leadership communication skills, communicating confidently and with the cultural challenges of collaborating successfully and building trust with global teams, international customers and partners.
Personally experiencing the communication and cultural gap
Communication and culture were always my path. Studying languages took me to different parts of the UK to experience the diverse cultures of our country, and to living, studying and working in Russia and Germany.
I very much enjoyed working in diverse global teams in my marketing career, and regularly communicated with and travelled to Germany, France, Italy, the US and Greece, where I experienced many of the communication and cultural challenges my clients experience today.
Every day I feel grateful to work as a cultural intelligence and communication coach with clients from many different cultures, and we have worked with people from over 40 countries.
How to increase your impact and fast-track your business and career
Step 1
Let's talk
Set up a time to discuss your challenges
Step 2
Choose your programme
We customise our programmes to your needs
Step 3
Fast-track your success
Progress your performance & career goals
My Mission
My mission is to help 100,000 ambitious global leaders and teams to speak up confidently, connect and grow globally in 100 countries, achieving their career dreams and ambitions.
I want people to feel able to share their voice, speak up, and show up in their talent and become more visible.
I help people to talk clearly and share their valuable insights and knowledge.
I support people to understand, connect and engage with their multicultural teams with cultural intelligence.
I help global leaders to grow their teams, build empathy and trust across borders and cultures.
I want them to communicate to build their influence and impact in their team and externally.
So they can step forward and up on their global career journey and fulfil their potential to become the global leaders they are destined to be.
Every day I connect with talented professionals from all over the world, and in the last few years, this has included from France, Brazil, China, Italy, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Russia, Israel, Spain and Egypt.
They work in industries as diverse as luxury, retail, tech, consulting, financial services, music, education, agency and energy.
They are at different levels in their career from middle management up to C-suite senior leaders.
But what unites them is their intelligence, passion for their teams, determination to grow, and commitment to their global career trajectory.
I love working with such diverse, talented people, and I feel such joy when I hear from a client who finds their voice to finally speak up and show up, without feeling held back.
When they share their wins and whom they influenced to say ‘yes’.
When they finally consistently believe that they communicate like a leader.
When we celebrate together that their teams notice the change and difference, and they finally achieve the promotion.
When career dreams become reality.
This makes my heart sing.
Our values lie at the heart of Culture Cuppa
Connection
Enabling you to speak and show up to fully connect with people, build trust and collaboration with cultural intelligence. We are passionate about connecting with you so we understand what you truly need to reach your ambitious goals.
Growth
Developing your leadership communication and confidence enables you to step into speaking like a leader, enhancing team trust, your career and performance acceleration. Growth for us is about continually improving our ways of working, bringing the latest approaches, new areas of expertise, and giving you our best.
Boldness
Fast-track your confidence when you express yourself clearly, influence with impact your senior managers and stakeholders, and accelerate towards your ambitious personal and career goals. We show up boldly to share our ideas, vision and insights.
Potential
Helping you to recognise your unique value and foster positive self-belief as you take each step on your journey and stretch beyond your comfort zone. We encourage you, bringing energy and joy to you with our optimistic approach.
How we work
I am the lead culture and communication coach, and your key contact for all Culture Cuppa programmes, and you also have the benefit of working with my select team of trainers, who bring their complementary skills in communication coaching and cross cultural training.
This allows us to help more people, offer our programmes to both individuals and large organisations, and bring the value of our programmes globally.
Because you and your people are individuals, we work with you to personalise and design bespoke solutions for your communication skills training and intercultural skills development.
Virtual training globally
Our individual and team programmes can be delivered virtually, on your preferred platform, at a time which suits you. Our team are very experienced in creating engaging, energising and interactive sessions virtually, and we work to support you, wherever you are based around the world.
In-person workshops
Team workshops and training are also available in person. Let’s talk about your requirements and how we can create the best training solution for your team.
How Culture Cuppa can support you
These bespoke programmes combine a framework designed for results with specific tailoring to your needs and circumstances
For individuals
Global Leader Communication
For global managers and leaders who want to step up into senior leadership roles
Improve, elevate and amplify your communication skills to leadership levels
Communication Confidence
For international managers, mid-career and on their way to promotion
Improve your communication confidence in English, communicate at a higher level, whatever comes up in your meetings
For leaders and managers
Global Team Communication
Enhance your team’s communication, connection and rapport
Build more effective communication in your team and with your customers to accelerate business growth.
Cross-cultural
Success
Develop cultural intelligence for successful global projects
Improve your team’s cultural intelligence capabilities for working successfully across borders.
The value of communication on coaching and cross-cultural training
These are the benefits our clients experience after working with us in our programmes
Improve your communication and cultural confidence
Increase your impact and performance
Accelerate your performance and career growth
What clients say
What clients think and say is very important to us and we love to share their feedback, results and the value our programmes bring to them, their team and organisation.
“Victoria’s professionalism and thorough understanding of how to speak and communicate effectively has helped me hugely on a day-to-day basis. What makes Victoria stand out is her great understanding of how to speak effectively and confidently for women in the workplace. I highly recommend her to anyone who would like to excel in their communication and find their voice in the workplace with confidence. She supports you as a mentor and teacher.”
Edith Yiu
Director, Finance & Global Operations
Marketing Organisation
“Victoria’s tailor-made coaching helped me to not only reach my next level in English but also to better perform in my new career step. I feel more confident and spontaneous, I better understand and navigate British culture and feel more relaxed while having more impact in meetings, presentations and conversations. We always start from what I experience in my daily and professional life, and Victoria helps me to identify the solutions by myself, bringing her perspective, experience and valuable advice to push me to go further.”
Aurelie MARAIS MACHURAT
Digital & Innovation Director
Bouygues Construction UK
“We at FOCUS have been working with Victoria for a few years already on different matters such as cross cultural and communication training. She can engage with a full room thanks to her various skills. Victoria’s workshops are fun and clever which makes them very attractive and always a huge success.”
Gael Panhelleux
Executive Director
FOCUS Info UK
Why did we call our business Culture Cuppa?
A cuppa is a British word for a cup of tea, and I believe how we say and do things is driven by our cultural contexts. I want people to really understand each other well, communicate at a more nuanced level, and interact in culturally diverse situations. I want to support global leaders and managers to communicate confidently, and develop great rapport with their global teams and customers. A cuppa is a great way to connect and build conversations. And I love a cuppa of course!
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Victoria Rennoldson is qualified in:
CQ certification from the Cultural Intelligence Center.
Train-the-Trainer programmes from the Cultural Intelligence Center
Practitioner in Applied Neuroscience for People Development with MyBrain International
