Meta-Culture Consulting is the first consulting firm in South Asia dedicated exclusively to enhancing relationships and managing conflict. We transform how people think about, talk about, and respond to differences.

Meta-Culture equips corporate, government, and social sector entities to leverage the opportunities inherent in conflict. We offer best practice consulting and education services based on world-class research and methodologies. We draw from theories and practices in Conflict Resolution, Organizational Development, Management, Sociology, Cultural, and Psychology, and on our own extensive experience working with a range of private and social sector groups worldwide.

Our clients include large multi-national and national corporations; medium-size growth companies; government institutions and state-run corporations; International Finance Institutions (IFIs); and the non-profit sector, including faith-based and academic institutions, as well as local, national, and international NGOs.

Meta-Culture in the Private Sector

The corporate world typically shies away from the word conflict. Meta-Culture’s approach empowers companies to use conflict as an opportunity to catalyze creativity, improve relationships, and take advantage of a dynamic market place. Our cutting-edge consulting and education services equip companies to capitalize on diversity and enhance collaboration, while strengthening their capacity to manage organizational differences more effectively, proactively, and creatively.

Companies call on Meta-Culture to help them address a range of internal and external conflicts, including interpersonal employee disputes, inter-departmental communication breakdowns, post-merger misalignments, and public PR crises. We also help corporations improve and maximize their relationships with strategic partners such as vendors, suppliers, government entities, customers, host communities, and other external stakeholders who may be impacted by company operations. Designed to enhance work culture and systems, our services produce tangible outcomes such as more satisfied employees and customers, reduced attrition, improved collaboration and effective change and conflict management.

Large multi-national corporations

Through its innovative training and consulting services Meta-Culture works to create high performing work environments in large multi-national corporations across industries. Our services are designed to meet corporations’ dispute management and negotiation needs and address a range of issues, including lack of internal collaboration, cross functional disputes, contractual disputes, Intellectual Property (IP) disputes, and cross-cultural conflicts. Meta-Culture also assists corporations and corporate partnerships to manage conflict associated with large infrastructure and development projects, which are often politically charged and involve the interests of multiple stakeholders whose interests are rarely aligned.

Medium-size companies

Particularly in software, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, media, and other high-growth industries, Meta-Culture’s training and consulting services have assisted SME's in building vital skills to address complex conflict and relationship management issues and optimize resources.

Meta-Culture in the Social Sector

Society’s most pressing problems – locally, nationally, and internationally – require a radical shift in discourse. Instead of polarization and debate, which reward only the loudest voices, today’s problems require conversation and collaboration across constituencies, sectors, and special interest groups.

Meta-Culture is applying the best methodologies in the field of Conflict Resolution to change the culture of discourse in society. We transform unproductive and destructive debate into a productive exchange of information, ideologies, and ideas. Our aim is to help conflicting stakeholders first understand and respect each other’s attitudes and perspectives, and then apply their diverse thinking to joint problem solving. The result is better decision-making, smarter policies, and stronger more peaceable communities.

In the social space, Meta-Culture works with communities and NGOs, governments, academic and faith-based institutions, and other local, national, and international organizations. We work across divides to build understanding and collaborative partnerships, tackling issues ranging from organizational board disputes, to inter-communal and cultural tensions, to larger multi-stakeholder debates around rural and urban development issues.

Only a holistic and inclusive approach can successfully navigate swiftly changing and unpredictable social environments. Meta-Culture is unique in that, instead of applying a single strategy to all situations, we use a variety of Conflict Resolution methodologies, including Mediation, Dialogue, and Consensus-Building. Such a flexible and integrated approach, we believe, is critical for the resolution of dynamic and changing social issues.

Large and medium-size NGOs and I-NGOs

Meta-Culture is equipped to serve national and international NGOs by 1) catering to their internal conflict and relationship management needs; 2) partnering with them to address conflicts involving their own target constituencies; and 3) helping them to build relationships and enhance communication with other issue-area stakeholders such as governments and corporations.

Government institutions and state-run corporations

Because of entrenched hierarchies and interests, government institutions and state-run corporations sometimes require the assistance of a third party to effectively address complex relationship and conflict management issues. Meta-Culture’s training and consulting services – and particularly intervention strategies such as Dialogue facilitation and Consensus Building – help government bodies function effectively as part of public-private partnerships, as well as enhance the quality of communication with special interest groups and the general public.

International Financial Institutions

Particularly in the developing world, competing stakeholder interests often lead to conflicts that end up stalling or even derailing IFI-funded development projects. As the only Relationship and Conflict Management company in South Asia, Meta-Culture is in a unique position to convene competing development stakeholders, engage them in constructive dialogue, and help them build consensus.

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