PATHWAYS TO IMPACT
Leadership & Professional Development
Cultural Intelligence STRATEGY & systems TRANSFORMATION
Leadership & Professional Development
Engaging, evidence-based programs and personalised CQ® Assessments grounded in research across 100+ countries. We build practical cultural agility - not just awareness - so your people can start collaborating confidently across cultures from day one.
FACILITATION & SPEAKING
Cultural Intelligence STRATEGY & systems TRANSFORMATION
Leadership & Professional Development
Culturally agile leaders don't just manage difference - they harness it. Through facilitation and keynote speaking grounded in the CQ® framework, we help leaders and communities navigate complexity, foster belonging, and hold the hardest conversations with confidence and care. This work increasingly extends to writing on democracy and belonging.
Cultural Intelligence STRATEGY & systems TRANSFORMATION
Cultural Intelligence STRATEGY & systems TRANSFORMATION
Cultural Intelligence STRATEGY & systems TRANSFORMATION
Real change doesn't happen in a single workshop. We work alongside leaders and organisations to co-create culturally intelligent strategies that address root causes - embedding lasting transformation into systems, structures, and culture.
MEET SERAFINA
Founder
Serafina Maiorano is a globally experienced leader, board director, and strategic advisor with over 20 years working across government, business, education, and for-purpose sectors.
A speaker, moderator and trusted advisor, she is known for bringing clarity, warmth, and courage to the most complex conversations.
Born into a non-English-speaking background family and shaped by a career spanning Australia, the US, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, Serafina brings both lived experience and rigorous, evidence-based practice to her cultural intelligence programs, inclusive leadership coaching, and cultural agility advisory.
A Certified Cultural Intelligence (CQ®) and Unconscious Bias facilitator, Serafina has designed and delivered transformational programs for schools, government departments, and organisations across sectors. She is also an Australian Ambassador for Lunch for Democracy, convenes The Longest Table gatherings in Australia, and writes on democracy and belonging.
She currently holds the following roles:
- Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University's FORWARD Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation
- Board Director of the US-based Tingari-Silverton Foundation
- Board Member of the History Trust of South Australia
- Australian Ambassador, Lunch for Democracy
WE WORK WITH
SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR
Great schools and universities reflect the world their students are growing into. We partner with leaders and educators to co-design culturally safe learning environments, build staff capability, and equip every student with the confidence to lead in a complex, interconnected global world.
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR
When government workplaces embrace the diversity of the communities they serve, better decisions follow - for everyone. We partner with departments and agencies to build cultural intelligence into how they lead, decide, and communicate - strengthening social cohesion and institutional trust from the inside out. This includes facilitating the difficult, polarised conversations that erode trust when they're avoided and build it when they're held with care.
BUSINESS & START UPS
FOR PURPOSE ORGANISATIONS
FOR PURPOSE ORGANISATIONS
Whether it's a start-up crossing its first border or an established business leading diverse global teams - growth across cultures demands more than ambition. We partner with business leaders, HR teams, and founders to build the cultural agility that opens doors, strengthens relationships across cultures, and turns the diversity of the team into its greatest competitive advantage.
FOR PURPOSE ORGANISATIONS
FOR PURPOSE ORGANISATIONS
FOR PURPOSE ORGANISATIONS
For-purpose organisations working with diverse communities need cultural intelligence embedded into everything - from governance to programs to partnerships. We partner with NFPs, foundations, and social enterprises to build the cultural agility that makes impact deeper, partnerships stronger, and the work more just.
IN THE PUBLIC CONVERSATION
This work doesn't stay in the board room or classroom. It shows up in the conversations shaping our communities right now.
When fear finds a face: why our politicians are using immigrants as a weapon
The New Daily, June 2026 — Read the piece here
This piece sits alongside Serafina's ongoing work as Australian Ambassador for Lunch for Democracy and convenor of The Longest Table gatherings in Australia - different rooms, the same question: how do we stay in relationship with each other and people we disagree with?
ABOUT OUR GLOBAL TABLE
OUR VISION
OUR APPROACH
OUR VISION
Inspired by the act of breaking bread together, we exist to create spaces of trust, curiosity, and genuine connection - where shared humanity is the foundation of culturally intelligent leadership and lasting systems transformation.
OUR VALUES
OUR APPROACH
OUR VISION
Come to the table with curiosity.
Share your story.
Listen and learn from others.
Grow with purpose and heart.
Find joy in the journey.
OUR APPROACH
OUR APPROACH
OUR APPROACH
We don't parachute in with a generic program. Every engagement starts with listening - to the people who'll live with the outcome, not just the leaders who commissioned it. From there, we co-design what actually fits: a workshop, a strategy, a system - sometimes all three. And we stay long enough to see it land, because a workshop without a system to land in is just a good day out.