Comms Across Cultures: How Cultural Intelligence Elevates Internal Communication

Show notes

What does it take to truly connect with a global workforce? In this episode of You’ve Got Comms, host Samantha Grandinetti speaks with Regine Nelson, Internal Comms & Employee Engagement Lead at Couchbase. Regine brings her rich multicultural and multilingual background into her daily comms work—balancing cultural nuance, clarity, and empathy across continents.

From the co-living spaces of rural Spain to navigating tough mergers with compassion, Regine shares actionable insights on how to resonate (not just inform) across cultures. You'll hear her take on the importance of tone, timing, language accessibility, and why listening may just be the most underrated internal comms tool out there.

Plus: why she says please and thank you to AI, how Spanish culture influences her work-life philosophy, and what every leader should include in their next 90-second selfie video.

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Selected People, Places & Things Mentioned: Couchbase; iSlow Coliving; High-context and low-context cultures; Fidelma Butler; Overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US (as a comms case study)

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