"Fostering Winning Cultures, Shaping Tomorrow"

Supporting your culture and business challenges by making them real through simplicity ...... navigating tensions rather then pushing through helps recognize and manage conflicting values or interests, leading to new growth opportunities, better decisions, and stronger relationships in work and life.

We Walk Business, We Talk Culture
We are an innovation and research driven, niche consultancy with a passion for culture in business providing a personal touch.  


Our solutions are grounded with our unique methodologies, top level research driven diagnostic tools. They can be useful in overcoming any organizational and business challenge.

Most importantly, we collaborate with you to help develop your company programs with different tools and knowledge to gain insights and increase cross-cultural learning with different levels of interventions delivered by experts in their field.

Successfully addressing the differences in cultural orientations - whether national, organizational, functional or disciplinary - is vital, and can be reached by improving the integration between people (values, attitudes and potentials) and organizations (structures, systems and processes).

We commit to being flexible, agile, responsive, good listeners and a sparing partner.  


We are an innovation and research driven, niche consulting company with a passion for culture in business with a personal touch. 

We are an innovation and research driven, niche consulting company with a passion for culture in business with a personal touch.


We help develop your company programs with different tools and knowledge to gain insights and increase cross-cultural learning with different levels of interventions with experts in their field.

We have been working for over three decades with Fortune 500 Companies to support business leaders in dealing with the complexities of competing demands, across organizational and international borders.

We believe that understanding how different viewpoints impact your organization can help you in achieving higher performance and sustainable growth.

Successfully addressing the differences in cultural orientations - whether national, organizational, functional or disciplinary - is vital, and can be reached by improving the integration between people (values, attitudes and potentials) and organizations (structures, systems and processes).

Our solutions are grounded with our unique methodologies, top level research driven diagnostic tools and web apps. They can be useful in overcoming any organizational and business challenge.

CultureXplore

Based on Fons Trompenaars’ Seven Dimension of Culture model and data of over 140 countries to explore.
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Podcasts

Listen to our podcasts on subjects like leadership, innovation, green values and much more. In each 20 minutes show Fons Trompenaars talks with Charles Hampden-Turner in this inspiring episode.

Exciting News: Our Second Book in the Emerald Publishing "New Business Culture Series" is out

Whilst Covid-19 suddenly forced many workers (who could) to work from home which prompted many rapidly produced anecdotal publications about the effects, there has been little or no organised evidence-driven assembled body of knowledge leading to a conceptual framework to inform the evolving future of flexible working. Dictums from management pleading employees to return to the office are highly subjective. There remains a conspicuous absence of a rigorous understanding for both employers and employees to provide a framework for identifying best practice and how the opportunities can be best synergised.

Riding the Waves of Culture 4th ed.

Announced by Thinkers50 in its 2024 top ten Management Classics Booklist.

For over 25 years, Riding the Waves of Culture has set the standard for leading effectively in an international business context. Helping leaders to be highly attuned to cultural differences, and to leverage such differences for maximum competitive advantage.


Thinkers50 announces its 2024 Management Classics Booklist


"Managing across different cultures was a new thing for many people when this book first appeared. Now it is reality for hundreds of millions of people working in global organizations. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner laid out the practical issues faced in managing globally with humanity and insight."

- Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove,
Co-founders, Thinkers50

Dr Fons Trompenaars

Dilemma thinking

The dilemma reconciliation is the methodology at the heart of everything we do. It implies a switch of mindset, that can seem a bit counter-intuitive for Western People, typically used to bipolar models.

Dilemma thinking

The dilemma reconciliation is the methodology at the heart of everything we do. It implies a switch of mindset, that can seem a bit counter-intuitive for Western People, typically used to bipolar models.  Our “best of both” approach combines the opposites with "AND".

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Our “best of both” approach combines the opposites with "AND".

The main benefits of reconciling dilemmas are finding the main performance blockers by asking the right questions, more accurate problem solving and a superior innovative solutions that work in all cultures. 

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Helps find the main performance blockers
by asking the right questions

Accuracy

Leads to more accurate problem solving

Solutions

Results in superior innovative solutions that work
in all cultures

OUR

solutions

Culture eats strategy for breakfast…
Strategy eats Culture for lunch….
So let’s have dinner together!

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Mergers & Acquisitions

manda

We help improve cross-cultural team performance by connecting different viewpoints to unlock creativity

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Culture 

Change

change

We assist you in driving change by enriching the existing culture with the desired one

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Globalization

globalization

Maximise the benefits of cultural diversity through the effective reconciliation of dilemmas

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Leadership

leadership

Help improve cross-cultural team performance by connecting viewpoints to build meaningful connections

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Diversity & Inclusion

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Manage and leverage the business benefits of intercultural diversity for an inclusive mindset

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Performance

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We provide support in many business areas, such as innovation, internation­alization, sustainability, risk management and much more…

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Executive - Global Pharmaceutical Company

“Improving the organizational ability to face dilemmas and the leadership competence to resolve these has connected our change process to the business results and bottom line impact in a surprisingly effective way.”

Executive DHL - Deutsche Post World Net

“Dilemma management is a technique we should bring more into our meetings and make it part of our company management culture.”

Director, L&D, Fortune 100 - Chemical Products Company

“I feel lucky to have been introduced to the instruments and materials of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. You were really responsive to our questions and equipped us with hands-on knowledge for our global challenges.”

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We have been working for over three decades with Fortune 500 Companies to support business leaders in dealing with the complexities of competing demands, across organizational and international borders by building meaningful connections.

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