DL&A has provided organizational consulting since the early 1990’s in the areas of global diversity, multicultural and global teamwork, global sales & customer support and workplace communication effectiveness across cultures. DL&A includes approximately fifteen associates who have a breadth of global cross-cultural and organizational development expertise. DL&A associates provide consulting and training, contributing to organizational climates of communication effectiveness, cross-cultural integration and inclusion.

Deena Levine, San Francisco Bay Area consultant, has been contributing to her clients’ cross-cultural and global success since the early 1990’s. Her focus is on communication effectiveness, international business communication and “cultural bridging” in assignments related to multicultural and global issues. Her consulting services include training, coaching, curriculum design, corporate communications, survey development, interview work and global training project management.

After teaching for four years at San Diego State University, Deena transitioned to a training career in both the public and private sectors. She joined the Intercultural Relations Institute (formerly at Stanford University) and, with a small group of consultants, contributed to a new genre of training in the late 1980’s that addressed the needs of the multicultural workforce in the high-tech industry. Since then, and as principal of her own firm, Deena Levine & Associates (DL&A), she has designed, conducted and managed training projects for a variety of industries, and across multiple organizational functions such as engineering, sales and customer support.

For the past three years, Deena has been involved in large-scale global management projects that draw upon her ability to work across cultures and time zones, and that utilize her management, writing and training skills. For a Fortune 100 corporation, she headed a Global Diversity Initiative with the objective of shifting the organization’s diversity focus from domestic to global. Additionally, Deena has been supporting a Fortune 500 client’s retail training department since 2003 as her client continues its global expansion of operations. She is managing logistics and trainers in Asia for one project, and will be doing the same in Europe as the company continues its growth.

Deena’s publications include Beyond Language: Cross-Cultural Communication (Regents-Prentice-Hall, 1993) and Multicultural Law Enforcement Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society (Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2005, 2002, 1995). Her graduate work is in Applied Linguistics and Organizational Psychology.

Deena’s volunteer work also reflects her interest in global affairs. For several years, she headed a major community initiative for the resettlement of émigrés from the former Soviet Union. In early 2005, she led a successful community-wide fund-raising effort for Tsunami victims in South Asia. She is currently involved with the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, raising public awareness about genocide and the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.