International Software Development Outsourcing Conference

Marian Stetson-Rodriguez, M.S.O.D., is President and founder of Charis Intercultural Training Corporation, an intercultural communication and management consulting firm based in Pleasanton, California. Her work in successfully building global communication solutions includes cross-cultural business training programs for 30 countries, multicultural diversity training, and international relocation and management development. She manages a staff of intercultural associates in the U.S., Brazil, Costa Rica, Israel, France, U.K., Singapore, China and India. Since 1999 she has been adjunct faculty at Santa Clara University, Graduate School of Engineering, in the heart of Silicon Valley, where she teaches engineering managers how to attract, retain and develop the engineers who are from many different countries and cultural backgrounds.

She holds a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business and Management, a B.A. in Linguistics from University of California at Berkeley, has attended La Sorbonne Paris IV, the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication. Her work includes over eighteen years of training and consulting for Fortune 500 company software designers, engineers, customer service centers, semiconductor fabs and assembly/test, clothing manufacturers, oil refineries, and universities in the United States, France, Ireland, Israel, Costa Rica and Venezuela plus managing projects in Japan, India, Philippines, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Brazil and Taiwan. Her areas of expertise are executive coaching for effectiveness overseas, building multicultural teams, and cross-cultural training program design.

A native of California, USA, she lived and worked in France 1974-75 and in Venezuela 1980-82 and has lived, worked in, and traveled to over 30 countries. Clients include Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung Semiconductor, Fujitsu Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Space Systems/Loral, Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Levi Strauss and over 25 other firms. She has spoken at international conferences in Vienna, Washington D.C., Manila, and Chicago. She is fluent in Spanish, and conversant in French and Italian and, with her husband, is raising three bilingual children.