About Us

Cornelius Görres, PhD

Trainer, Consultant, Coach, Speaker

Founder / proprietor of CULTURE OPTIONS since 1995.
Clients, participants, partners from over 50 countries.

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Intro

Cornelius is into intercultural learning – as a professional, as a volunteer, as a practitioner.

He has worked with participants, clients, co-trainers, and other dedicated volunteers from over 50 countries on all continents: with (and in) international projects, to support virtual cooperation, to give orientation to expats and their families relocating abroad or immigrating in Germany, or in writing policy for the leading international non-profit provider in educational exchanges, Youth For Understanding, with its 50 national organizations.

His clients are organizations form many branches of business, public institutions, and NGOs (often pro bono). Since the year 2000 and to date, Cornelius is an associate lecturer at Applied Sciences and Technical Universities throughout Germany (Augsburg, Chemnitz, Heilbronn, Mannheim, Offenburg, Pforzheim). 

As trainer, consultant, coach, and speaker, Cornelius works with executive officers and specialists, with students and youths, with seniors and families. Thanks to his clients’ global presence, Cornelius has had the opportunity to expand his professional perspective. His original focus on the United States (where he has spent 3 years) has broadened to include Canada, Asia and Europe (including Germany of course) as well as Africa, in particular South Africa. He has been consulting specialists and executives on cooperating with African countries since 1993.

Cornelius and his cooperation partners have acquired excellent references since 1995 – in industry and services, from banks and insurances, in government and non-government organizations, from consulting to education.

Cornelius is founder and owner of CULTURE OPTIONS.

Culture is our profession. Choose your options. 

Volunteering

Cornelius' volunteer engagement for intercultural learning and international exchange spans more than 35 years.

German Youth For Understanding Committee:
1993-2003, member of the Executive Board (vice chairperson);
1982 to date, member of the Enlarged Board/Council of the Association.

Bavarian-American Center in the America House Munich: member of the Board, 1998-2003. 

SIETAR Europa (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research):
member of the Board of Directors, 1998-2001;
member of SIETAR Deutschland since 1995

Background

To his assignments with clients, participants, and partners from around the world Cornelius brings a sound background in theory. After Communication Sciences, Modern German History, and American Cultural Studies at the universities of Munich and Hamburg, he acquired his Ph. D. in 1996 with a dissertation on intercultural communication.

From 1987 through 1995, Cornelius was head of the Training and Seminars department of one of Germany’s largest exchange organizations, Youth For Understanding (YFU). He wrote seminar and training materials, organized and supervised implementation, and developed and ran two Training of Trainers series, first for YFU Germany, later for EEE-YFU (European Educational Exchanges).