Cultural intelligence can be understood as the capability to relate and work effectively across cultures.
The concept is related to that of cross-cultural competence but goes beyond that to actually look at intercultural capabilities as a form of intelligence that can be measured and developed. Accordingl, cultural intelligence can be defined as “a person’s capability to adapt as s/he interacts with others from different cultural regions”, and has behavioral, motivational, and metacognitive aspects.
Learning Cultural Change 