Csaba Toth

Why organisations work with Csaba Toth

• He runs ICQ Global, a people development business with more than 200 licensed partners across 45-plus countries, which means his methods have been pressure-tested in genuinely multicultural settings rather than theorised in one market.
• The Global DISC model is ICF and CPD-accredited and gives leaders one common language for personality, generation, profession, and nationality differences inside the same team.
• He measures and benchmarks psychological safety, motivational drivers, and cognitive diversity, so the conversation moves from cultural awareness slogans to specific data leaders can act on.
• His credential stack is unusually substantive: John Mattone Intelligent Leadership coach, Hofstede Insights Associate Partner, Richard Lewis-certified behavioural consultant, three Master’s degrees and an Executive MBA.
• He co-authored Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times with contributions from Marshall Goldsmith and John Mattone, a credibility marker for senior HR and L&D buyers familiar with that lineage.

Biography highlights

• Founder of ICQ Global, a people development organisation with over 200 licensed partners across more than 45 countries.
• Developer of the Global DISC model, an ICF and CPD Standards-accredited intercultural behavioural framework.
• Author of Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times, with contributions from Marshall Goldsmith and John Mattone.
• Forbes Coaches Council member and Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member.
• Hofstede Insights Associate Partner and Richard Lewis Communications-certified cross-cultural trainer.
• Holds three Master’s degrees (Italy, UK, Hungary) and an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.

Biography

Diversity strategies fail at the level of daily team interaction. People with different nationalities, professions, generations, and personalities sit in the same meeting, draw different conclusions from the same words, and lose trust in each other long before anyone names the problem. That is the gap Csaba Toth set out to close.

He founded ICQ Global to make cognitive and cultural diversity measurable. The company now operates with more than 200 licensed partners across 45-plus countries, and its core asset is the Global DISC model, an ICF and CPD-accredited framework that extends the most widely used behavioural model in business with a layer for cultural intelligence. Leaders get a single language for the differences that actually slow teams down.

The credentials behind the work are unusually deep. Toth is certified through John Mattone’s Intelligent Leadership programme, holds Human Synergistics accreditation, is a Hofstede Insights Associate Partner and a Richard Lewis Communications-certified behavioural consultant, with further certification in CBT, NLP, and Positive Intelligence. He sits on the Forbes Coaches Council and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, holds three Master’s degrees from Italy, the UK and Hungary, and an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.

His book, Uncommon Sense in Unusual Times, published with contributions from Marshall Goldsmith and John Mattone, sets out how leaders stay relevant when the people around them increasingly do not think, decide, or communicate the same way they do. That is the practical question he answers in a room.

Key speaking topics

• Cultural intelligence and the Global DISC model
• Psychological safety in multicultural teams
• Cognitive diversity and team performance
• Inclusive leadership across generations and nationalities
• Communication breakdown in global organisations
• Motivational drivers and behavioural difference
• Coaching and people development at scale

Ideal for

• CHROs, Heads of L&D, and Heads of Talent leading global or multicultural workforces.
• DEI and Inclusion leads moving past awareness work into measurable team outcomes.
• Leadership development and coaching faculties inside multinational businesses.
• Senior leaders of cross-border teams where communication and trust have stalled.

Audience outcomes

• A common vocabulary for cultural, generational, and personality differences that a team can use the next day.
• A clearer read on where psychological safety is breaking down inside their own teams and why.
• The Global DISC lens applied to a real internal dynamic the audience already recognises.
• Specific behavioural shifts leaders can make when working across cultures, professions, and generations.
• A more honest assessment of how cognitive diversity is helping or hurting performance in their organisation.