Cynthia Green is a keynote speaker, author, and cultural historian specialising in how culture travels and the dynamics of identity in cross‑cultural life, including the lived experience of Third Culture Kids and cross‑cultural professionals. She helps organisations and institutions understand how mobility shapes belonging, performance, and collaboration in an increasingly interconnected world.

This perspective is grounded in a simple idea: there is no single way to flourish across cultures, but we can find ways that work for us. Through research‑driven, story‑rich keynotes, she translates this principle into clear, applicable insights for those navigating international assignments, hybrid identities, and multicultural environments.

Alongside her speaking work, she is engaged in interdisciplinary academic research and has authored more than one hundred non‑fiction pieces on culture and history. She contributed the TCK section to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Human Resource Management and Global Talent Management (2026) and co‑authored the 4ᵗʰ edition of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds.

Her debut novel Blue Feet Monsoon—a rare example of TCK‑genre fiction—uses narrative as a soft tool for exploring multigenerational intercultural experience. She hosts the podcast Conversations with Cynthia, where she examines identity, mobility, and belonging through narrative, and co‑presents the SIETAR Polska webinar series Interculturality Across Time and Geography.

You can contact her here.

Fiction

A girl, a few fearless grannies, and a monsoon or two…

It’s 1981, and fifteen‑year‑old Anoushka has lived in seven countries without causing trouble — until she falls in with the sharp‑tongued old ladies of Singapore’s Saint Beatrice Hospital Elderly Ward, and everything begins to unravel in unexpected ways.

A rare and compelling example of TCK fiction in the YA genre, Blue Feet Monsoon follows Anoushka as she grows up between cultures, rebuilding her world every time she lands in a new country. Home feels everywhere and nowhere at once, and she must answer the question that won’t let her go: Who am I when everything keeps changing?

Events

✨ Upcoming…

SIETAR Polska Monthly Webinar Series

Intercultural Encounters Across Time and Geography.

Join Cynthia Green, Sebastian Jabłoński and Lidia Wiśniewska, to explore how cultures have met, clashed, adapted and learned from each other throughout history – and what these encounters can teach us about navigating today’s diverse societies.

(Online, 18:00-19:00 CET 2026)

  • 22 Oct, Eastern European Interculturality

(15-18C Poland & Lithuania)

Completed

SIETAR Polska Monthly Webinar Series

Intercultural Encounters Across Time and Geography.

Join Cynthia Green, Sebastian Jabłoński and Lidia Wiśniewska, to explore how cultures have met, clashed, adapted and learned from each other throughout history – and what these encounters can teach us about navigating today’s diverse societies.

(Online, 18:00-19:00 CET 2026)

  • 18 Jun, 9th century China (Tang Dynasty)

SIETAR France Webinaire Made in France et Ailleurs: “L’expérience interculturelle et notre relation à nous-mêmes.” (Paris, France, 15 mars 2026)

Praise for blue feet monsoon

‘This is an immersive tapestry of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures. Each thread invites us to explore a rich landscape—both in terms of physical geography and human experience in which time, places, cultures and people interact. In other words, I freaking loved it!’

-MATHIEU GAGNON, PhD, TCK Research Podcast

‘A fun trip through adolescent ups and downs. I enjoyed this fast paced book about change and movement.’

-KATHLEEN GAMBLE, author of Expat Alien

‘Cynthia Green's blue feet monsoon is full of references to Singapore in the 1980s (totally my jam). Who else remembers Paya Lebar airport (precursor to fabulous new Changi)? Whoo! I do I do.’

-ANTJE RAUWERDA, PhD, Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures

‘A sparkling transportation across generations and cultural worlds that is as moving as it is funny. You won’t want to put it down.’

-RUTH VAN REKEN, author of Letters Never Sent and Third Cultural Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds

‘So many relatable moments and resonant insights. I have a bunch of little postits sticking out of pages that validated something I’ve thought/felt. I even stayed up ‘til 1:30 in the morning to finish it!’

-LISA LIANG, writer-performer of Alien Citizen

‘A delicious novel that will immerse you in another culture and time through its evocative descriptions and lifelike characters.’

-J.K. AMERSON LÓPEZ, author of Embassy Kid

Non-fiction

Books

Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds 4th Edition

This significantly updated 4th ed of the ground-breaking, global classic on TCKs includes more international stories than ever and features new discussions on identity formation, belonging, loss & grief, resilience, and the value inherent in cross-cultural childhoods.

The Encyclopedia of International Human Resource Management and Global Talent Management

(expected 2026)

The entry on “Third Culture Kids” (TCKs)

A Selection of Articles

Link to Podcast

Contact