Culture Connect 🗺️

Culture Connect creates informal coffee chats across cultural backgrounds, regions, or affinity groups. Every pairing is a small bridge across difference, and the conversations build empathy that scales.

How it works

1. You define the groups by cultural background, region, or affinity.
2. Participants pick their group(s). People self-select which group they belong to from the options you’ve set up. Admins can also assign membership directly.
3. CoffeePals only forms pairs across groups — no one is ever matched with someone from their own group.
4. For anyone without a cross-group partner, you choose: skip them, add to an existing match, or form a random fallback pair.
5. Matches get an intro that names both groups so the context is clear before they meet.

Who it’s for

• Globally distributed teams wanting genuine cross-cultural connection
• DEI and ERG leads building empathy through structured conversation
• Companies whose values include inclusion and want a regular practice for it

What you’ll configure

• Match groups and rosters
• Self-selection vs admin assignment — let people pick their own group, or assign them
• Unmatched policy — skip, add to existing, or random fallback
• Frequency, day, and time
• Icebreakers and calendar scheduling

Ready to bring this to your team?

Setup takes about five minutes. CoffeePals handles the matching, the messaging, and the follow-up, so you can just watch the conversations happen.