Cross-Cultural Competence & Inter-Cultural Business Practices Certificate Program

Academic Coordinator
and Instructor

   Denise Pirrotti Hummel, Esq. is the Founder and Director of Universal Consensus, a company specializing in providing consulting and training services to multi-national companies in conjunction with an alliance of strategic partners from across the globe.  These services include executive coaching, communications, corporate training and leadership consulting related to any individual or corporation doing business or seeking to do business internationally; mediation  of any dispute which involves multi-cultural or international issues; and conflict resolution training to equip leaders and others to deal with conflict in the workplace and across borders.  Ms. Hummel was accepted to The U.S. State Department Worldwide Speaker and Specialist Program, a program which consists of traveling and electronic events which allow American experts to engage with foreign audiences globally.  Hummel was chosen, in part, due to the model she developed which is an adaptation of the Western Facilitative Mediation Model for Non-Western cultures.  Hummel has also spoken at the Pentagon, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, where she conducted a presentation called, “Beyond Multi-Lingual: The Future of DoD” to the Director, Associate Director and Deputy Director of Culture under the Obama Administration.  She is also the developer and instructor for a series of global trainings which USD (the University of San Diego) will offer as a Certification in Cross-Cultural Core Competence & Global Emergence Strategy.  In addition to her responsibilities as Director of Universal Consensus, Hummel is the Executive Director of a non-profit organization called Global Peace Solutions and is the Co-Chair for Membership if the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the San Diego Bar Association.  Hummel is described by clients and colleagues as a compassionate, but driven, "can do" connector of people and ideas.