CultureBridge Partners, LLC

Bridging People. Empowering Leaders. Unlocking Potential.

CultureBridge = Enabling growth by centering people, culture, and the value of diverse perspectives in a world defined by complexity, interconnected systems, and constant change.

We help leaders and their organizations build culturally aware, deeply connected teams. Grounded in the lived experience and unique strengths of your people, we strengthen communication, trust, and creativity—cultivating healthier cultures, improving retention, and enabling outsized performance and impact today, while building collective intelligence to anticipate and seize tomorrow’s opportunities. Read about our service offerings HERE.

Who We Are

At CultureBridge Partners, we help leaders and organizations adapt, thrive, and grow by putting people and culture at the center of strategy, analysis, design, and delivery. Drawing on decades of experience across government, multinational organizations, national security, private sector, and global development, we bridge and harness differences, build intercultural competency, mediate differences, and build the capacities that teams need to collaborate, communicate, navigate change, learn and adapt to thrive and deliver sustained impact.

We provide targeted analysis, strategy design, facilitation, training, team development, and program support that strengthens cross-cultural intelligence, enhances organizational performance, and drives measurable, people-centered results. As seasoned strategies, diplomats and conflict-management practitioners, we are adept at advising quietly at senior levels and also at work hands-on with diverse teams to deliver complex initiatives in challenging environments.

Whether working locally or globally, CultureBridge Partners turns diverse perspectives into shared purpose and lasting impact - unlocking human and organizational potential in an interconnected world.

Founder and Principal Advisor

Endorsements

Founder Claire Sneed brings nearly three decades of international organizational and cross-cultural living, adapting, strategy, programming, and training experience. She has trained civilian and military audiences on a range of topics, including conflict analysis, gender analysis, systems-based approaches to understanding complex operating environments. She has built diverse teams and fostered team and community-based conflict resolution. She's worked in and supported organizational change in government, NGOs, and multinational institutions. Having lived and worked in over a dozen countries, Claire brings deep sensitivity to the often unseen impacts of cultural blind spots, and the power of cultural awareness to forging dynamic, fully engaged teams and creative solutions to complex and "wicked" problems. CultureBridge Partners stands ready to listen to any potential client or partners challenges, tailor a one-off or sustained package of support, design and deliver projects and policy initiatives that unlock potential, improve cross-cultural relationships, and enable the conditions for change and growth. Partner with us!
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Ambassador (Ret.) Frederick (Rick) Barton, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Former Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),

Professor, Princeton University

"Claire is a trusted, mission-driven, and forward-leaning leader who consistently builds coalitions, fosters genuine collaboration, and leads with empathy. She brings a remarkable network across civil society, government, the military, and the private sector—both in the U.S. and globally. In today’s interconnected world, her cross-cultural fluency, adaptive leadership, and ability to translate policy into real impact for communities and organizations are invaluable. I’d recommend Claire to any organization looking to drive meaningful change and expand its global reach."

Service Offering

Intercultural Training and Culture Alignment

We provide tailored solutions to your organizations culture-focused training, including team-building and one-one coaching, policy strategy, and ongoing resources:

Tailored cross-cultural training and coaching delivery
Adult and executive learning
Managing and harnessing an intercultural team.
Shaping shared organizational values and fostering alignment
Conflict Diagnosis & Resolution
Fostering a learning and adaptation culture
Strategies for communications and partnership with new markets and communities
Diplomatic and protocol guidance for engaging dignitaries and senior officials

Capacity Building and Continuous Learning

We are expert trainers and adult-learning practitioners across diverse institutions—U.S. and non-U.S. governments, military services, academia, civil society, multinational and faith-based organizations, and the private sector—facilitating high-impact learning and scenario-based cooperation. Our training capabilities include:

Designing, delivering, and evaluating customized, interactive training programs
Developing adult-learning frameworks and facilitation tools
Leading scenario- and simulation-based exercises for applied learning
Conducting surveys and diagnostic assessments to identify learning needs
Evaluating knowledge, attitude, and behavior change
Facilitating small-group workshops and discussions
Running contingencies, hypotheticals, and risk-analysis exercises to strengthen decision-making
Establishing evaluation and feedback loops to measure impact and adapt future training

Localization and Adaptation Strategies

We bring 30 years of experience localizing approaches to diverse global contexts, adapting methodologies to different audiences, assessing communities and what works, designing, implementing, and scaling pilot projects, and shaping strategy and messaging to diverse audiences. Services we deliver and capacities we build include:

Country and community analysis
Retaining, leading diverse teams
Building a resilient workforce
Localization Strategy Design
Partnership Management
Cultural Adaptation Strategy
Institutionalizing Accountability
Coordination with Mobility Services (for overseas
Holistic, people-centered organizational change
Support to Global Mobility Ops

Fractional Team Leadership and Project Management

We are change-leaders with diverse organizational, team and program management experience—spanning government, defense, nonprofit, multinational, academic, and private sector. We provide fractional management and technical leadership to strengthen teams, start-up programs, bridge capacity gaps, evaluate impact, and drive mission alignment across complex organizations.

Our fractional and technical leadership services include:

Interim or part-time executive, program, or team leadership
People-centered management to align vision, values, and performance
Culture, change management, and capacity-building advisory
Strategic communications, branding, and PR oversight
Social impact and sustainability strategy integration
Organizational structure and process optimization for efficiency and growth
Coaching and mentoring for emerging leaders and management teams

New Business, Initiative Design, and Implementation

We have designed, written and been awarded millions of dollars in grant and contract funding through global governments and private philanthropic donors as program managers and technical advisors. Our new business services include:

Conduct new business and donor research and outreach
Proposal design and technical writing for local to global initiatives
Identify and forge local partnerships across sectors
Lead strategy and design processes
Facilitate input and refinements
Identify tech or AI-enhanced solutions and partnerships
Ensure solutions are culturally and contextually aware and adapted
Design exercises /games to develop joint problem-solving, resource management skills, and learning

Global Subject Matter Expertise: Governance, Economic Development, Security, Stabilization, Peace-building, and Women, Peace & Security (WPS)

We bring decades of experience supporting governments, NGOs, social-impact organizations, and private-sector partners to strengthen governance, advance security and stabilization efforts, and build trusted, sustainable partnerships in hard-to-reach and crisis-affected contexts. Our team has led WPS analysis, strategy, capacity building, and program implementation globally, helping clients design, execute, evaluate, and communicate impactful WPS and gender-responsive initiatives.

Our capabilities include:

Analysis, strategy and design of crisis stabilization strategies
Tailored training for specific missions/ operational contexts
Developing Gender Focal Point networks, trainings, exercises, communities of practice
Gender inclusion analyses
Localization of WPS and gender strategies for diverse contexts
Mainstreaming gender considerations in operations
Designing evaluation frameworks and KPIs
Leveraging AI tools
Communications strategies