32nd Cultural Talk For Diversity

Theme: Death! Empty Your Bucket

Moderator: Andy Kim
32nd Cultural Talk main poster featuring Dr. George F. Simons

Event Details

Date: 26 September 2026

Time: 23:00 (KST) / 18:00 (GST) / 15:00 (BST) / 10:00 (EDT) / 07:00 (PDT) / 16:00 (CEST) / 16:00 (SAST)


Conference Overview

The 32nd Cultural Talk invites us to think about death not only as an ending, but as a lens for living with more clarity. The theme, Death! Empty Your Bucket, asks what we may need to release when a full life is not about adding more, but about carrying less.

With Dr. George F. Simons, the session will explore bucket lists, relationships, expectations, regrets, unfinished business, and the cultural beliefs that shape ideas of a good life. It will be a reflective conversation about how we live, what we hold on to, and what we might choose to let go.


Speaker Details

Dr. George F. Simons

Dr. George F. Simons speaker poster for the 32nd Cultural Talk

Role: CEO, MTU diversophy

Topic: Empty Your Bucket

Dr. George F. Simons is a consultant and trainer in diversity, intercultural communication, and negotiation. He holds a psychology doctorate from Claremont Graduate School and has designed leadership coaching and intercultural negotiation training for corporations and the Asian Development Bank.

As the creator and editor of the diversophy series of more than 150 intercultural training games, he brings a long-standing intercultural perspective to questions of life, loss, and meaning. His talk will invite participants to rethink how relationships, expectations, regrets, and cultural stories shape the way we understand living fully.


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