Dr. Ingrid Brand has worked as a senior administrator, in higher education, in Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait. Her seven years of international experience has afforded a view into higher education management through different cultural lenses and these have fortified her commitment to building bridges between cultures by fostering cultural and intercultural awareness, understanding, and intercultural empathy. Toward this end, she earned a doctorate in organizational leadership, policy, and development, with a specialization in comparative international development education, from the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral program focused on internationalization and Intercultural Effectiveness Programming. Her dissertation is entitled: Toward Global Leadership: Factors Influencing the Development of Intercultural Competence Among Business Students at a Canadian University.
Ingrid is a sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph-Humber where she teaches a course she developed, entitled: Intercultural Communication and Understanding. She is also an adjunct professor at Yorkville University where she teaches a course at the graduate level. She is truly passionate about her work and finds it immensely rewarding to work with learners to raise cultural and intercultural awareness, and assist them in developing the knowledge, skills, and abilities they require to communicate effectively in culturally diverse settings.
Ingrid has recently started her own consulting business, Brand Consulting, to foster the development of intercultural competence at the individual, group, or organizational levels.