Meet Dr. Udo Fluck

Dr. Udo Fluck has a successful track-record of developing and directing academic programs and serving in numerous leadership positions in academia. His instructional approach has received numerous awards, one of which a national research award. Fluck maintains an active, internationally recognized research portfolio, focusing on developing pedagogical approaches and instructional content that can increase cultural understanding in participants. 

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His academic papers have been downloaded over 2,200 times, according to ScholarWorks. As a published lead-author, his research results in pedagogy, instructional design and course content development have been published in established peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Global Business and the Journal of Teaching in International Business. Fluck has also collaborated on scholarly articles with colleagues and researchers from his Alma Mater, as well as with researchers from other US universities. 

 

In addition, he has been the invited first author for a chapter in nationwide publication titled: International Students Strengthening a Critical Resource, endorsed by the American Council on Education. Moreover, Fluck has been an invited and plenary speaker at over 40 national and international conferences, sharing his research results and pedagogical approaches, during the past two decades. He has offered over 1,000 documented seminars to date.

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Between 2004 and 2016, while at the University of Montana, Fluck founded, developed, and oversaw the largest multicultural and global training office, providing courses and seminars for students, faculty, and staff across UM’s campus.  This included a range of courses, from 100-level undergraduate to 600-level graduate-level seminars, on topics related to international management/business, as well as intercultural and international education and educational leadership. In 2022, Fluck was granted the title of Clinical Professor of Management in the College of Business, where he continues to teach advanced evening courses and weekend graduate seminars in cross-cultural management.

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In 2014, Fluck developed an educational outreach program for K-12, offering intercultural and global-competence building seminars in elementary, middle, and high schools. From 2018 to 2023, Fluck also provided cultural and global competence-building seminars through Missoula’s designated arts and culture agency, in addition to managing Missoula's sister city partnerships with New Zealand and Germany, as well as providing cultural programming for the Missoula community. Highlights of the community programming included International Voices with Udo Fluck, a monthly podcast series, hosted by The Trail, a Missoula radio station, with a total production volume of 48 episodes. The podcast episodes were recorded between spring 2020 and fall 2023. They are available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Fluck’s podcast has listenership in over 30 countries around the world, according to The Trail radio station. The World View Film Series, was another creative community programming staple, hosted by Fluck, which screened over 40 international movies at Missoula’s Roxy Community Theater, for eleven seasons, from 2018 to 2023.

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In 2016, Fluck founded Intercultural and Global Competence Training and Consulting (IGCTC), a professional training and consulting LLC based in Missoula, developing and providing seminars for businesses and organizations that enable participants to recognize and understand the values, beliefs, customs and behavior that individuals of other cultures bring to a human interaction, or an organization. As the IGCTC’s director of seminar development, Fluck has designed and taught seminars for the Missoula Partnership Health Center, Missoula Job Services Business Advisory Council, and Missoula Organization of Realtors, and most recently, in 2024, for the Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Missoula and Ravalli County, the BIG SKY Society for Human Resource Management, and the Montana Law Enforcement Academy in Helena, Montana.

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In 2018 Fluck was invited to participate in a National Science Foundation grant, housed at the Salish Kootenai College campus on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Between 2018 and 2023, Fluck developed and taught Resilience through Intercultural Skill Enhancement (or short RISE), an asynchronous intercultural educational series, developed for Native American students, with the goal to help students thrive in environments that are culturally different from their own.​​​​​

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In 2019, Fluck’s unique pedagogical approach and engaging learning content gained international attention and interest through conference presentations in Canada and New Zealand. He provided the keynote presentation titled: Collaboration Through Intercultural Communication, at the New Zealand Sister Cities Conference in Palmerston North, New Zealand, as well as a presentation titled: Citizen Diplomacy and Sister Cities, at the 2019 AFS Global Conference in Montreal, Canada. 

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The Department of Education in the Ministry of Culture, in Hessen, Germany, invited Fluck in 2022 and 2023 to develop and teach professional seminars for teachers, as well as school administrators in Germany, focusing on the integration of students into existing learning environments. 

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