about ubuntu

Our Story

UBUNTU is a U.S.- based workforce performance development, communication, and organizational culture change training and facilitation consulting firm. We specialize in three core areas:

1. Critical (soft) skills strengthening and capacity building

2. Diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), cultural competence and communication

3. Team building and employee engagement

UBUNTU dedicates itself to building the critical and practical skills, capacities, and competencies of career professionals. We use evidence-based, cross-cutting, hands-on workforce performance development training strategies using adult learning principles, which successfully lead to:

 

  • Increased job satisfaction and morale among employees
  • Increased employee motivation and employee engagement
  • Increased efficiencies in processes, resulting in financial gain
  • Increased understanding of how people from different cultures communicate, engage and perceive the world around them
  • Increased innovation in strategies and products
  • Achievement of positive work performance outcomes
  • Reduced employee turnover

Our Vision

uBuntu’s vision is to foster a healthier, nurturing, and productive global workforce empowered to effectively find satisfaction, motivation, and personal and organizational success in their jobs and careers. Every career professional should have the confidence, self-efficacy, and empowered to successfully provide products and services to their clients and global communities.

Our Story

UBUNTU is a U.S.- based workforce performance and communication development training consulting firm. We specialize in three core areas: 1. soft skills strengthening and capacity building, 2. cultural competence and communication, and 3. team building and employee engagement.

UBUNTU dedicates itself to building the soft and practical skills, capacities, and competencies of career professionals. We use evidence-based, cross-cutting, hands-on workforce performance development training strategies using adult learning principles, which successfully lead to:

 

  • Increased job satisfaction and morale among employees
  • Increased employee motivation and employee engagement
  • Increased efficiencies in processes, resulting in financial gain
  • Increased understanding of how people from different cultures communicate, engage and perceive the world around them
  • Increased innovation in strategies and products
  • Achievement of positive work performance outcomes
  • Reduced employee turnover

Our Vision

uBuntu’s vision is to foster a healthier, nurturing, and productive global workforce empowered to effectively find satisfaction, motivation, and personal and organizational success in their jobs and careers. Every career professional should have the confidence, self-efficacy, and empowered to successfully provide products and services to their clients and global communities.

Our Mission

uBuntu’s mission is to optimize the performance of our evolving global workforce by providing soft and practical skills strengthening and capacity development, and cultural competence and communication, and team building and employee engagement development services. We are committed to working with healthcare service providers, federal agencies, multinational corporations, higher educational institutions, and international development organizations in their desire to build and retain high-performing teams consisting of generational, diverse, and multicultural career professionals.

Our Core Values

UBUNTU’s core values originate from the UBUNTU South African philosophy of human interconnectedness, which holds three principles.

  • I am who I am because we all are
  • My humanity is caught up is inextricably bound up, in what is yours
  • Respect for others, helpfulness, kindness, community, sharing, caring, trust, and unselfishness

uBuntuSpeaks has a strong passion for “human-potential resource” optimization. We strongly believe in the South African philosophy of human interconnectedness — “I am who I am because of who we all are. We encourage our forward-thinking and thought-leading clients adopt the UBUNTU’s core philosophy and values to maximize the performance of their workforce.

 

Who we work with

UBUNTU works directly with executives, human resource, and workforce performance management development teams and their workforce in the following 5 sectors:

1. Multinational Corporations
2. State & Federal Agencies/Departments
3. Nonprofit Organizations & Healthcare Service Providers
4. Global Health & International Development Organizations
5. Higher Educational Institutions

Our consulting firm helps to optimize and transform your workforce performance, productivity, cultural communication competencies, team building, and employee engagement. Our solution-focused approach leads to a reduction of “people problems, strengthening of soft and technical skills performance and development, and practice of effective and authentic communication.

Together, we create customized, result-oriented solutions to: Optimize your organization’s workforce performance, reduce “people” problems, build powerful, successful work teams, and increase employee engagement and productivity.

Successfully provide cross and intercultural communication competencies that prevent embarrassing mistakes that can affect your overall mission, stance in the world, bottom line, and brand.

Ensure that you are ethically meeting the needs of your diverse, multicultural and linguistic global workforce and client base.

We Work With

UBUNTU works directly with executives, human resource, and workforce performance management development teams and their workforce in the following 5 sectors:

  1. Multinational Corporations
  2. State & Federal Agencies/Departments
  3. Nonprofit Organizations & Healthcare Service   Providers
  4. Global Health & International Development Organizations
  5. Higher Educational Institutions

Our consulting firm helps to optimize and transform your workforce performance, productivity, cultural communication competencies, team building, and employee engagement. Our solution-focused approach leads to a reduction of “people problems, strengthening of soft and technical skills performance and development, and practice of effective and authentic communication.

Together, we create customized, result-oriented solutions to: Optimize your organization’s workforce performance, reduce “people” problems, build powerful, successful work teams, and increase employee engagement and productivity.

Successfully provide cross and intercultural communication competencies that prevent embarrassing mistakes that can affect your overall mission, stance in the world, bottom line, and brand.

Ensure that you are ethically meeting the needs of your diverse, multicultural and linguistic global workforce and client base.

Our Specialities

Soft Skills Strengthening and Capacity Development
Cultural Competence and Communication
Team Building and Employee Engagement

Professional Career Development

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