Building Healthier, Cohesive, and Culturally Competent Teams

At Ọdúnìfẹ́ Global, we help organisations build healthier, more cohesive, and culturally competent teams.

We deliver wellbeing strategy and cultural competency programs because how people feel, connect, and collaborate directly impacts performance.

Wellbeing Strategy

We provide strategy guidance, training, and support to help teams reduce stress, prevent burnout, boost engagement, and embed wellness into workplace culture.

Cultural Competency

We provide cultural competency solutions, including culture mapping and awareness training, to help teams navigate differences, build empathy, and collaborate effectively across diverse groups.

Why It Matters

  • Cross-cultural training can improve team performance by 50–70%, directly boosting collaboration, communication, and overall productivity.

  • Teams with wellbeing and cultural programs see up to 60% higher engagement and lower attrition, supporting long-term organisational success.

  • Employees develop psychological safety, belonging, creativity, and resilience under pressure, which strengthens both individual and team performance over time.

Meet the Trainer

Research shows that effective cross-cultural training can increase team performance by 50–70%, and integrated wellbeing programs can boost engagement by up to 60%, reduce burnout, and strengthen collaboration and resilience across teams.

Tamkara Adun Irimagha, a Global HR Consultant with over 21 years of international experience, helps organisations build cohesive, resilient, and high-performing teams through cultural awareness, cross-cultural competency, and corporate wellbeing strategy. She supports teams to navigate differences, foster empathy, reduce conflict, and thrive under pressure, while strengthening engagement, collaboration, and overall productivity.

She has partnered with leading global brands including Shell, Booking.com, Total, Schlumberger, Kinross Gold, KPMG, and Heineken.

By combining cultural awareness initiatives with wellbeing strategy programs, teams develop the skills and support to perform confidently, connect meaningfully, and thrive across diverse workplaces and challenges.

Book an exploratory call here

Empower Your Team with Culturally Intelligent Workshops

Our custom workshops equip teams to thrive in diverse environments and can be tailored to your organization’s needs.

Offerings include:

Culture Mapping and Competence
Understand cultural behaviors, identify commonalities, and pinpoint potential conflict areas to enhance collaboration across borders.

Cultural Awareness in Teams
Foster empathy, stronger team bonds, and collaboration through real-life stories and shared experiences.

Navigating Difficult Conversations
Gain tools to build rapport, improve understanding, and reduce conflict across diverse teams.

Communicating and Building Trust Across Cultures
Learn strategies for navigating low- and high-context communication to enhance clarity, connection, and collaboration.

Let’s build stronger, more cohesive, and culturally fluent teams together.

Corporate Wellbeing Strategy

Boost team well-being, focus, and resilience

Through our wellbeing audits, we identify organisational gaps and opportunities, designing targeted strategies that reduce stress, prevent burnout, boost engagement, and integrate wellness into core business operations.

Our corporate solutions include:

  • Wellbeing Audits

  • Wellbeing policy and program design

  • Wellbeing-focused leadership training programs

  • Wellbeing internal Communications

  • Corporate breathwork and team mindfulness sessions

  • Embedding wellness into meetings, workplace culture, and daily work practices

These initiatives help organisations strengthen performance, enhance employee engagement, and foster a sustainable, healthy workplace culture.

Wellbeing Strategy Session

Book a Discovery call

With 90% of Dutch employees experiencing burnout symptoms, proactive wellness programs aren’t optional, they’re essential.

Our approach helps reduce stress, absenteeism, and friction, creating workplaces where everyone can thrive.

During a 30-minute discovery call, we’ll review your organisation’s current challenges and explore how collective wellbeing can be integrated into daily work practices while enhancing cultural awareness and team cohesion.

We’ll also discuss how our solutions can support your goals, including:

🌱 Cultural Mapping & Awareness Training
🌱 Corporate Wellbeing Strategy & Wellness Advocacy

Let’s strengthen your organisational wellbeing strategy and build more cohesive, culturally competent teams.

Corporate Wellness days

Enhance team wellbeing, focus, and cohesion with mindful breathwork sessions

We also offer year-round wellness workshops, aligned with global awareness days such as World Health Day and Mental Health Day. Each session combines inclusive breathwork with intentional self-care practices, helping teams:

  • Reduce burnout

  • Learn self-soothing techniques

  • Strengthen communication

  • Foster team cohesion

  • Improve focus and productivity

Whether your team is navigating change or simply needs to recharge, our on-site and virtual sessions help employees stay centered, creative, and connected—supporting a healthier, more engaged, and high-performing workforce.

Our Key Services Include:

Cultural Mapping and Awareness Workshops:

A practical methodology to understand cultural behaviors, identify commonalities, and pinpoint potential conflict areas, helping teams collaborate effectively across borders.

Expat Partner Coaching

Personalized guidance for partners of international assignees, helping them navigate relocation, career planning, further education, or passion projects. By supporting partners’ goals and integration, organizations increase assignment success, reduce stress, and improve overall employee satisfaction.

African Language/ Cultural Immersion Training:

Through the Ọdúnìfẹ́ African Language School, we offer immersive courses in key African languages. Our specialized coaching and virtual immersion sessions provide internationals and their families with practical insights into local customs, business etiquette, and effective communication strategies, fostering stronger connections and smoother transitions.

Transformational Retreats

Immersive experiences for team-building, bonding, and leadership development. Our corporate retreats blend wellness, strategy, cultural exploration, and team-building to strengthen collaboration, trust, and leadership. Tailored to your organization’s goals, they enhance problem-solving, deepen connections, and foster resilience for lasting impact.

Testimonials

Ms. D. Malone | Programs & Facilities Manager, Purdue Black Cultural Center West Lafayette, IN 47907

Odunife was a tremendous resource as we unearthed our connection to an Indigenous tongue. The workshops and sessions were incredibly engaging, thoughtful, and compatible with real life.

We loved that the facilitators were from different African countries - enriching us who are in the US with more cultural awareness and understanding.

The founder Tamkara, was present and delightful, every step of the way and made the experience one to remember always.

We truly appreciated partnering with you.
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Alessandra Giacometti

Shell, Netherlands

Tamkara is a very energetic, professional and innovative person. I have known Tamkara from her work at Shell Outpost The Hague for her excellent Career and Development support to Shell Globally Mobile employees and partners. She is very proficient in one-to-one career consultations, as well as very knowledgeable about job market trends and specific insights in the NL. 
I attended job search workshops and cultural awareness workshops that she designed and facilitated and was amazed by her communication skills. I cannot forget her extraordinary “The 2-Hour Job Search” seminar! 
Tamkara’s interest in community building resulted in the establishment of the Outpost The Hague Careers community group, having in mind a safe networking platform for Shell partners to develop themself. I wish to continue to collaborate with Tamkara in more projects to come. 
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Martin Sherwood

Thank you so much Tamkara. That was my first session doing breathwork.

I said in the chat that i suffer from chronic neck and shoulder pain and have for a few years now and i can tell that your session helped relax them for the first time in years!

And also your metaphor of our thoughts being clouds and just letting them float on helped a lot too. 
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S.G- Booking.com, Amsterdam

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I had the pleasure to work with Tamkara while working at Booking.com. Really appreciate her practical approach in managing transfers, always balancing between company policy but also taking into account individual employee situations and needs. 
She had a great impact working on our branding campaign. 
Working closely with her, I particularly found her to be highly motivated and solutions-oriented. She is a true professional and strong communicator.
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Samuel Acheampong

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"I've had the pleasure of working with Tamkara during my relocation from Ghana and working in the USA in 2018-2019. She offered a great deal of help with respect to Human Resource and Global Mobility during my time at Kinross.
She is very dedicated to her Job, Resourceful and Altruistic. She will go beyond and above outside her normal job duties to offer extra help to me and my family to enable us have a good stay whiles in the USA.
I would consider her an asset to any team."

Samuel Acheampong

Kinross Gold Corporation
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Jeroen Brakenhoff

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Tamkara is a routined Global Mobility Advisor with a lot of knowledge about policies and assignment types. She also has great empathy for her expat customers. It was a pleasure for me to work with her.
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