About Us

Michael S. Schell is CEO and co-founder of RW3 CultureWizard. For over 30 years, he has pioneered practical tools and approaches to build cross-cultural intelligence and work effectively across cultures and different working styles.

In his previous company, Windham International (sold to GMAC), he created the Windham Intercultural Model, now known as the RW3 Cultural Model, used to strengthen intercultural communication and collaboration.

Michael also co-authored Capitalizing on the Global Workforce: A Strategic Guide to Expatriate Management (McGraw-Hill, 1997) and Managing Across Cultures: The Seven Keys to Doing Business with a Global Mindset (McGraw-Hill, 2009) with Charlene Solomon.

At RW3 CultureWizard, Michael and Charlene have developed a digital learning platform along with a suite of courses, assessments, and tools that strengthen global business skills and organizational performance.

Charlene Marmer Solomon is President and co-founder of RW3 CultureWizard. She leads content, product development, and operations, including Client Service and the in-house technology team.

Throughout her career, she has focused on cross-cultural communication and global workforce effectiveness, helping organizations navigate how people collaborate across cultures, distances, and working styles. She is co-author of Managing Across Cultures: The Seven Keys to Doing Business with a Global Mindset (McGraw-Hill, 2009), widely recognized as a definitive guide in the field.

An award-winning author of eight books, Charlene has also contributed extensively to cross-cultural communication and global workforce topics through hundreds of articles and as a lecturer at UCLA. She is a frequent speaker on global business and workforce trends and has been featured across leading media and industry forums. She also lived and worked in Japan, where she studied the language and culture and developed curriculum for Japanese professionals.

Joshua Sturtevant is the Chief Technology Officer & Vice President of Business Strategy at RW3. Since 2006, Joshua has played a foundational role in building RW3’s products and services, as well as fostering the company’s growth through strategic partnerships and category expansion.

In addition to leading the product and technology teams, Joshua has guided RW3’s marketing technology strategy and played a key role in developing distribution and content partnerships. As a member of the executive team he has helped shape RW3’s workplace culture and business strategy throughout his 17 years with the company.

Since 2020, Joshua has also led RW3’s Advisory Practice, developed in response to an increasing market demand for policy, strategy and talent engagement consultation. Through Advisory Services, RW3’s clients can use the rich data gleaned from aggregated, anonymous results of CultureWizard’s assessments to gain insights into their workplace’s culture and capacities for inclusion. Working with RW3’s expert learning and content teams, Joshua helps consult with clients on training and policy interventions that can help them create a more inclusive workplace.

Sean Dubberke is Chief Learning Officer at RW3, based in New York City. He leads strategy, content development and delivery for the company's digital and facilitated learning practice areas. He leads a team of learning operations directors, instructional designers, and a global network of facilitators, consultants and speakers with whom his team partners to design and deliver learning worldwide. His role also entails responsibility for the company's culture transformation offering, which provides clients with the tools to measure and align workforce behavior with vital corporate cultural values and guiding principles that drive growth and support the mission of the organization.

Throughout his career, Sean has spoken at hundreds of conferences and internal corporate learning events in North America, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also serves as a facilitator of learning for groups and individuals at all levels of the organization.

Sean's experience and subject matter expertise spans global & inclusive leadership development, organizational culture transformation, executive coaching, global / virtual / hybrid team building, global mindset development, intercultural communication, global inclusion, inclusive collaboration, broad D&I learning, LGBTQ inclusion, implicit bias, difficult conversations, feedback, country-specific cultural consulting, intercultural assessment, train-the-trainer, onboarding, stakeholder needs analysis and reporting, facilitator performance management, and beyond.

Sean specializes in collaborative, interactive, and social learning that engages participants to take new perspectives and develop cultural agility. Leveraging his expertise in the CultureWizard Intercultural Model©, Sean’s approach is practical, enlightening, and passionate. His sensitivity to diverse learning styles allows him to tailor his style to support client objectives in the most effective way.

Sean holds a Master of Science in Economic History from the London School of Economics, a Master of Arts in Global Studies from the University of Leipzig, Germany, and a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies with a focus on Socioeconomics and Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He speaks Spanish fluently and has studied Arabic, German, French, and Japanese. Sean has traveled to over 65 countries and has lived and worked abroad for 3 years in Germany, Spain, and the UK.

Annette Messler brings over 25 years of experience in accounting and human resources to her position as Chief Financial Officer for RW3. Her previous positions at Windham International and ECA International provided her with the opportunity to work in a global arena, as did her most recent position as VP of Operations and CFO for an expatriate and international payroll firm.

Leah Kaiser is a Director of Global Client Service and brings a passion for learning and problem-solving to her work. Before joining RW3, Leah worked in Global Mobility, serving as an Intercultural Specialist and a Mobility Consultant for expatriates across the globe. She also published an article on how mobility services transformed to meet the needs and expectations of Gen Z expats. As a US native, she has traveled extensively, including extended language immersion programs in both Spain and Costa Rica. As someone who believes that learning never ends, Leah regularly attends conferences and participates in educational opportunities within the DEI sphere to expand her knowledge base and better support her clients. She has put this knowledge to good use, helping new clients launch successful DEI training programs, providing webinars, and traveling to onsite client events to help promote the CultureWizard tools and initiatives. Leah earned an A.S. in Business Administration from Schenectady County Community College, a B.A. in International Relations from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and an M.A. in Intercultural Communications from Birkbeck College in London, England. 

Mallory's focus as Director of Global Client Service is to work with organisations committed to global learning and development, with an emphasis on inclusion for all. 

Mallory also worked within the Instructor Led Training team at RW3 CultureWizard, which included assessing the needs of international assignees relocating throughout the world. This was particularly personal because Mallory moved from New York, USA to London, UK in 2021.

In previous roles, Mallory earned her certification as an Inclusion Partner and Uncovering Bias facilitator, where she led discussions on diversity and inclusion discussions in the workplace.

Mallory comes from a multicultural and multilingual household where she speaks English, French, Cantonese, and Mandarin. She completed an executive certification in Chinese Language & Culture for Business at the London School of Economics, and an immersive study abroad programme in Beijing, China.

Paul Bailey is RW3′s General Manager for Europe. He has experience assisting companies in managing their learning, relocation and diversity programs for over 30 years. Initially, Paul managed ECA International’s European Client Services team based in London, moving on to assume overall responsibility for all Business Development activities. After a spell working in the advertising industry as an in-house HR practitioner, he relocated to New York for five years, taking on the role of VP for ECA Windham, in charge of all Business Development and Account Management functions across the Americas. Now repatriated in London, he has been responsible for managing relationships with our existing European clients, and establishing further business within the region, for the last 16 years.

Alex Weiss a Director of Global Client Development. Raised in New York with immigrant parents, Alex understands the necessity of being culturally aware in today's diverse and rapidly changing world. His previous careers have included Tech startups, real estate firms, and the hospitality industry. Fluent in Hebrew and having traveled the world, Alex enjoys immersing himself in the local cultures and exploring new cities.

As a Revenue Operations Lead, Alana works to create valuable content to close deals and benefit clients. She is a graduate from SUNY New Paltz with a B.S in Marketing and International Business and has experience working with companies in the travel and non-profit industries. During her time outside the office, Alana likes to read, take hikes, and explore new parts of the Big Apple.

As Head of eLearning Experience, Damien Pryor is responsible for developing and creating engaging eLearning content for CultureWizard.  He has 10+ years of experience building dynamic educational courses, interactive games, videos, and other content for CultureWizard's 250,000+ users. He's also led all CultureWizard's audience engagement initiatives since joining the company in 2011.

Damien graduated from Washington University in St. Louis studying Cultural Anthropology and Graphic Design, and has spent two years backpacking around the world visiting over 30 countries. Damien has managed over 750 instructor-led cultural training programs for international assignees and their families, ensuring a deeper understanding and appreciation of the new host culture and learning how to overcome cultural differences.

Louis brings 25+ years of experience leading a global network of facilitators and designing learning experiences for professionals across a wide array of industries. He strives to design learning experiences that can result in attitudinal and behavioral transformation, and takes immense joy in affecting people's lives around him in a meaningful way through each encounter.

Louis was born in New York to Hispanic parents and spent his formative years in Guatemala from ages 3 through 17. He worked and lived in Taiwan for five years, the USA for more than twenty, and Spain for the past five and a half years, where he currently resides. Louis is fluent in English and Spanish, with conversational Mandarin Chinese skills. He holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology with a specialization in Training & Development from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Sarah Britton is the Director of Operations, CultureWizard LIVE, focusing on our instructor-led training for groups and individuals. She has over two decades of experience in the Intercultural and Language Training field within the global mobility industry. She brings her passion for learning and intercultural communication into her work with international clients, participants, and our global trainer network. Sarah holds an MS in Organizational Management from Eastern Connecticut State University and a BA in Media, Society, and the Arts from the State University of New York. A US native, she studied Sociology at Middlesex University in the UK and worked in the finance industry in London. She speaks conversational French, and has studied Hebrew, Italian, and is currently learning Portuguese. 

At RW3, Ed Lam is responsible for front line support of CultureWizard sites and services. Ed has a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence from NYU/Polytech and is an accomplished Software Engineer/Project Manager with extensive experience in Fortune 500 companies, managing applications and overseas teams.

Ama is the Lead Solutions Engineer on RW3's Technical Team. She graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor's in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018. Before coming to RW3, she was working in the billing and payments technology industry.

Ama loves to travel and meet people around the world. Along with enjoying programming languages, she loves learning spoken languages as well. Right now she is studying Japanese and German. Her other hobbies include drinking good coffee, playing video games, and working on art.