Yentingyenta- I had worked with lots of goyim and this worked well for me. “please understand out of respect to women people in my community don’t shake hands with the opposite gender other than close family”
You’ll be shocked at the responses. C’mon, everyone knows what goes in the world out there, it all starts with touch, and our Torah which understands the human better than anything lhavdil has created guidelines for us not to come to an aveira c”v.
A little story. My friends father is a very well to do business man. One day he had to meet with some people and the leader amongst them was a woman. There was a very large deal they would discuss. The woman walked in and stretched out her hand to shake his. He calmy said, “out of respect to women I don’t shake hands with women other than close family”. This woman was so impressed with his commitment to his religion that she did the business deal with him. You don’t lose when you do the right thing and explain yourself so they understand, and youll be surprised how they will respect you for adhering to your beliefs.