Matt Cobb

Intercultural communication trainer, BSc (Hons)

Matt Cobb has had a very international life, growing up in Peru, the U.K. and Indonesia, and subsequently living and working in Portugal, Hungary, the U.K. and Finland.

Matt has developed a very interactive, hands-on training style over 25 years of working with clients and managing colleagues from every corner of the globe. As a result, he has a very deep understanding of intercultural communication and gets great satisfaction from raising awareness, developing understanding, improving competence and getting desired results! He has lived in Finland for 17 years.

Expertise

Matt’s key interest areas centre around effective communication across cultures.

This includes practical skills such as influencing and motivating across cultures, building & leading effective international teams, powerful presenting, effective meetings, negotiation skills and improving virtual communication.

Other core areas are relationship-building, developing trust (colleagues, teams, partners, suppliers, other stakeholders) and media coaching for senior executives. Recent work includes supporting a Change Management project, Marketing Communications coaching and training, and a Leading Distributed Multicultural Teams programme.