Clinton is an internationally recognized corporate educator and accomplished leadership development strategist.

As a facilitator, keynote speaker, consultant, coach and author he focuses on Intercultural Management, Communication, Strategic Business Leadership, Impact and Influence in the field of Global Hospitality, Etiquette and the world of Wine and Spirits.

Clinton has extensive experience in combining these multifacet skills at both “C” level and supporting management staff. With a background of consulting that covers several continents, it enables him to offer services that support cultural and business challenges by breaking complex issues and problems into pragmatic solutions through Dilemma Reconciliation.

His approach fosters a seamless alignment between Organizational Culture and Team Member programs, enabling their delivery across all levels and ensuring the achievement of key objectives. His dynamic and infectiously energetic style captivates interest, boosts engagement, and consistently delivers positive results. His TEDx talk on ‘Civility – Reconnecting a Modern Society’ perfectly embodies his professional ethos and expertise.

Veronica, an experienced Business Consultant, empowers organizations to thrive by unlocking their people’s potential.

Her career at multinational companies like Barilla and Nestlé in Marketing, Innovation, and Insights instilled a systemic approach, results-oriented mindset, and deep understanding of business dynamics, all focused on the human element.

This background informs Veronica’s consulting practice, focusing on Strategic Human Capital Development. Veronica analyzes complex organizational dynamics, identifies talent gaps, and builds comprehensive strategies aligned with long-term business objectives, ensuring talent development fuels success.

Veronica excels at designing engaging people development experiences that converge into change management projects. Her programs foster skill development through impactful blended learning experiences and include initiatives that enhance employee engagement and translate training into measurable changes, as well as an initial Soft Skills’ Assessment phase.

Cross-cultural expertise is Veronica’s passion. A contract professor of “Intercultural Integration for business” at Milan’s University Statale, she designs successful projects with diverse clients. Her fluency in navigating perspectives and fostering reconciliation makes her a trusted partner, guiding organizations through complexities with empathy and communication strategies.

Co-author of of the Italian and English version of The Covid-19 Survival Guide: Dilemmas and Solutions, Veronica integrates her approach not only in cross-cultural settings, but also in Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), Systems Thinking, Leadership, Talent Development, and Self-empowerment fields.

Arnout is a facilitator and guide for organizational transformation, cultural change and leadership development. His skill lies in working with executive teams to understand and act on the intricate dynamics of cultural and systemic change. He’s adept at transforming organizational challenges into practical development journeys that resonate throughout the company.

In his versatile role as a consultant, facilitator, change manager, and coach, Arnout taps into his broad experience to support organizations in their evolution. He’s passionate about nurturing both individual growth and team development, especially within various cultures and international settings.

He places a strong emphasis on creating functional, systemic patterns and tackling complex issues through teamwork. Arnout’s methods promote understanding and agreement among leadership, ensuring that their crucial role in developing the desired organizational behavior and culture is clear and achievable, in line with the company’s broader goals.

Arnout’s approach is straightforward and personable. He draws on his extensive educational background and his energetic nature to foster learning environments that are both effective and encouraging. Collaborating closely with leadership teams, he focuses on helping both the organization and its people to grow, guiding them through change.

Vincent’s main affiliation is with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) where he works part-time as a senior trainer and coach in professional skills, a lecturer in intercultural management and a Community advisor.

In addition, Vincent has worked as an independent trainer and consultant for about 40 years in intercultural business communication, management and professional mobility for a large range of companies, business schools, universities and consultancies in Europe and beyond. He started his career with a 2-year intercultural project at Philips HQ in Eindhoven.  His specific field of expertise is on managing multinational (virtual) teams as well as on the interface Benelux, France and Germany in cross-cultural management and in professional mobility. He has also been working on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topics and currently also focusses on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) issues and the social and intercultural aspects of the Covid pandemic on management and leadership practices in Europe and Asia.

Vincent is the author of many articles on intercultural communication and management and has recently extensively published on D&I issues as well as on social issues related to the Covid pandemic, including a trilogy article about shared experiences, lessons learned and the future of work. He is also the co-author of two books: Business Class Frankrijk, 1992 (about doing business with the French) and Business en français, 2007 (about business communication with the French).

He speaks French (mother language), Dutch, English, German and Spanish.

Natasha is a seasoned international trainer and consultant in the area of cross cultural management, strategic planning and business development, teambuilding and coaching and has spent over 20 years involved in curriculum design and instruction. Natasha is Dutch Caribbean born in Aruba with Namibian Permanent Residence.

She started her career in the Netherlands at Hollandse Signaalapparaten (formerly Thomson CSF and today known as Thales) where, from 1996-98, she was primarily responsible for coordinating a program establishing the European Policy for Training & Development within six European subsidiaries of the company. At that time, she was also acting training manager for the business and administration courses, supporting line managers in setting up their yearly training plans. In September 1998 she joined KPMG where she worked as a multimedia consultant within eWorkforce. During this period she developed interactive computer-based training products for European clients. Natasha joined Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (then part of KPMG) in 2000 as an intercultural management consultant and trainer working for such clients as: ABN AMRO, Dow Chemical, Stockholm School of Economics, Kongsberg, MTN, Wolters Kluwer, Andersen, Suez Ondeo, M-Real, Exxon Mobile, CSM and United Telecommunication Services (Curacao). She returned to KPMG Netherlands for 2 years as a Senior Business Consultant and Training Manager in 2004 before moving to Lesotho with her family.  In 2013 she became the co-founding partner of the franchise FranklinCovey Namibia.

Natasha currently lives in Namibia, where she founded Grow Training & Advisory Services CC in 2006 to present, with the sole purpose of empowering Namibians and the (business) community to achieve their strategic goals and ambitions, through providing primarily HRD, Programme Management and Organization Development services. Her clients are both smaller local companies as well as larger governmental and corporate organizations such as, the US Embassy State Department, Department of Energy in Lesotho, Bank of Namibia, UNICEF, WHO, UNAIDS, and Old Mutual Property and Investment Group.

Dr. Nori Furuya has been involved in global business management for more than 25 years at Japan Airlines, and also in the training & consulting field for more than 13 years. He has lived and worked in the United States, UK, Kuwait, and Bahrain. During this time, he served as expatriate manager of Japan Airlines. He holds a Bachelor Degree of Social Science of Waseda University, and Master of Busienss Administration of Aoyama Gakuin University. He also holds Ph.D. of Tsukuba Unviersity in the area of Global Human Resource Management.

He served as Adjunct Professor on Management Program of Kanagawa University. He is also an International Business Advisory Board Member and Visiting professor of University of Missouri, St.Louis in the United States.

Currently, Nori Furuya is involved in research & consultancy activities on Global Human Resource Management and has been working in the areas of global management development, and transnational cultural management as a consultant, trainer and coach.

Hank is an internationally recognized leadership development strategist, facilitator, keynote speaker, consultant, coach and author on the subject of Strategic Business Leadership and Personal Mastery. With a background in the ICT industry and over 15 Years of experience with global leadership development organizations such as The Ken Blanchard Companies, Roche Martin (EQ), Wiley (DiSC + Patrick Lencioni).

He has worked with an impressive array of clients from “C” level to supervisors in over 26 countries in a wide range of industries including ICT, Finance, Engineering, Mobile Telecommunications, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Health, Aged Care, Recruitment, FMCG, Manufacturing and Banking.

His extensive experience of combining pragmatic Leadership Development through Dilemma Reconciliation and Servant Leadership enables the  support of culture and business challenges by making them real through simplifying complex problems with alignment of Organizational Culture and Team Member programs at all levels to ensure they achieve their objectives.  He delivers a thought-provoking message with his energetic and entertaining style that maintains interest and engagement throughout.

Hank is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders through his Teenage Resilience Program called “Yes I Can – Resilience” Which has been translated into 10 Languages.

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“Hank van der Merwe delivers a powerful message. An outstanding speaker, coach and consultant, he lives the message he gives. No matter what your circumstances are, after working with Hank, you will leave feeling smarter, more capable and more excited about your work, your life, and your possibilities.”   Jesse Lyn Stoner, (Best Selling Author of Full Steam Ahead)

Prof Henri Bezuidenhout, tenured professor and accredited executive coach has broad experience in consultancy, teaching, training, mentoring, and coaching. Having more than 20 accredited peer reviewed publication about Multinationals operating in Africa Henri has a two-track interest in the role of culture in the success of business, especially in Africa, as well as personal development and leadership empowerment for young upcoming leaders.

Henri has broad based experience in cross-cultural competency, organisational culture, dynamic leadership teams and the link to organisational outcomes. He has with over 25 of years of experience of consulting in a range of organizations, both private and public, in different countries and regions. His current focus is on achieving behavioural change for organisational outcomes.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is Professor in International Trade at the School of Economics at North-West University, Potchefstroom in South Africa. He is also a Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD Distinguished Scholar and is a Professional Certified Coach. This is augmented with certification in various cultural methodologies and tools; as well as leadership development tools like Gallup Strengthsfinder and The Values Factor.

Lauri  is a senior executive with over 22 years’ experience in the global mobility and HR arena. During his professional career, he has lived and worked in the USA, UK, Spain and Ireland. He has served with a US based Relocation Management Company as a Vice President for EMEA in Canary Wharf, London, where he had responsibility for operations, client services, business development and supply chain.

He has also held an executive position as a Sales & Marketing director for a UK Publishing company in Dublin, as well as owning his own consulting firm in Spain where he worked in management consulting, recruitment and career services, executive coaching, and intercultural training & coaching.

Lauri has extensive experience working in a global setting as an SME bringing first hand insights to global leaders in over 20 countries. During his career to date he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies and MNC’s in both Europe and Asia.

He has an honours degree in HRM, along with a professional Consulting Certificate Level 7 as well as being a licensed coach on the International Profiler, a diagnostic tool for supporting global executives on international assignments.

He has been a guest lecturer for the European University in both London & Barcelona on the topics of global mobility and entering the workplace in the 21st century. He helps clients by creating customised solutions that improve profitability, organisational effectiveness, better communication, and engagement in a complex global environment.

Ivy has over 30 years of international management consulting experience. Her areas of specializations include, Change & Project management, Business Performance Improvement, Organization Development, Learning and Competency management, Incentive Design and Cross-Cultural competence (CCC).

Ivy has worked with several respected management consulting organizations, including KPMG, BearingPoint, Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Towers Watson and Mercer.  While with KPMG, Ivy worked and/or lived across several countries in Europe and US. Namely, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy (Rome), Portugal, England, France, Scandinavia, Czech Republic (Prague) and San Francisco & NY. She continues to actively network professionally and personally in those and several other countries and considers herself a “global citizen”. This elevated and consistent levels of global exposure has helped her in building practical insights into how cultural differences impact business environments, further, to develop solutions in order to reconcile the challenges that arise in multicultural and international business teams, using Trompenaars Hampden & Turner (THT) methodology. She is a licensee of THT.

Ivy has been extensively associated with the information technology (IT, BPO, KPO etc.) sector in India since early 2000 and has a deep knowledge of the industry. She has also advised in the manufacturing & engineering, financial services, hospitality and healthcare spaces in India. She also consults extensively in the SMEs/ Family-owned businesses and Start-ups.

Ivy has been part of and has also led several global initiatives of methodology, curriculum and learning program development in wide variety of subjects. She continues to design, develop and deliver training curriculum and programs in the areas of People & Change management and CCC across business sectors in India.

She is a visiting faculty of IIM Bangalore where she teaches the advanced MBA programs in the areas of CCC, Change Management and Advanced Consulting Skills.

IIvy has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Delhi and is an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University.

She currently lives in Bangalore, India and runs an initiative on developing Global Cross-Cultural Competence in corporates and business environments in India and Asia.

Passionate about people, purpose and making a difference. Committed to a life-long learning. Strategic thinker and hands on executer, focusing not on resources but on resourcefulness.  Global citizen. Cultural competent. DEI Advocate, celebrating our differences. Global work experience, with a focus on Africa and SEA for the last 10 years.

With over 20 years’ experience in driving and facilitating meaningful business and personal transformations through learning interventions, Roosmarijn is a specialist in realising positive organisational change.  WSQ ACLP certified.

Roosmarijn has lived and worked in Asia for the past 10 years, having previously worked across Europe and in the US. Her international perceptive and experience has deepened her knowledge in training on intercultural issues and communication. She has developed, built and implemented training curricula.

Roosmarijn is currently leading the work around D&I and Anti-Racism at United World College of South East Asia. She is also facilitating their professional development on unconscious bias to all staff members and key stakeholder groups to promote positive and meaningful change, with a strong focus on anti-racism.

Barbara’s passion lies in helping individuals, groups and teams develop their cross culture competence in order to help clients benefit from the (cultural) value differences they experience in both their professional and private lives.

Born to Dutch parents, Barbara grew up in Canada where she completed degrees in Comparative International Studies and Native (Indigenous) Studies, as well as a Master of Social Work (MSW).  Involved from a young age in international peace organizations, she furthered pursued her interest in cross cultural relations working and living in different parts of Canada, Ecuador and Israel, as well as completing an internship in Kenya. She speaks fluent English and Dutch, as well as moderate French and basic Spanish.

Prior to relocating to the Netherlands, Barbara supervised a variety of national education projects and was an educator for young adults in a variety programs. She has also worked with the Canadian Ministry of Health on various National Workshop projects. 

Barbara worked as a trainer and programme director at Trompenaars Hampden-Turner till 2015 liaising with global corporate clients, national and international educational institutions and international business schools.  In addition, she was also an assistant professor for both the International Business Administration and the Master’s Cross Cultural Management courses at the Vrije University in Amsterdam and co-translated Fons Trompenaars and Ed Voerman’s book, Servant-leadership across cultures.

She joined KPMG in the Netherlands in 2015 as a consultant in People and Change and most recently, progressed to the Amsterdam School of International Business as a lecturer and Community Manager, CET/Program Manager in 2020.

She obtained her Bachelor’s with Honours, and a Master’s of Commerce with specialisation in Human Resource Management (all cum laude) at the University of Pretoria. Upon completion of her Honours degree, she spent three months working on a CSR project with AIESEC Philippines foundation in Cebu City, the Philippines. Her own experiences of living and working in different countries, and adjusting to culture shock fired her passion to conduct her PhD research on ‘The cultural intelligence and adjustment experiences of self-initiated expatriate women.’

In the field of Human Resource Management, Dr Schreuders has varied experience, and also she has worked as a freelance trainer and assessment psychologist for various large mines in South Africa. In 2009, She joined Trompenaars Hampden-Turner as a consultant/trainer for Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting. where she was responsible for the development and implementation of tailor-made training programmes and the co-facilitation of executive leadership programmes.

Dr Schreuders is currently involved in a research project called WeSoar, which concerns the dilemmas faced by successful female entrepreneurs around the world. This project is a collaboration between three organisations: Synquity, United Success and Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. The project aims to bridge the gap between the academic and corporate world.S

She relocated from South Africa to The Netherlands in 2009. She is a registered Industrial/Organisational Psychologist at the Health Professions Council of South Africa, and she started her academic career as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria in 2005. She has also worked as a researcher and guest lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and she occasionally lectures at a number of universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands.

She joined the Amsterdam School of International Business as a lecturer in 2013. She has been involved in teaching modules related to cross-cultural awareness and cross-cultural business skills, as well as functioning as a mentor and thesis supervisor.   Dr Schreuders feels that teaching young minds and shaping tomorrow’s leaders is a great task and responsibility, and that AMSIB provides a platform for growth and development where both students and lecturers are on a learning journey. The diversity of the school and the innovative teaching environment are what she feels provide a perfect laboratory where students and staff can stretch their minds and prepare for the global marketplace.

Combines background in cultural & organizational anthropology, innovation, technology and management.  Consultant, Researcher, Lecturer, Presenter, Trainer, Coach and Author, specialized in Creating (Regional and Corporate) Cultures of Sustainable Innovation, intercultural aspects of internationalization; Intercultural Management; Cultural aspects of Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures and in building cross-cultural competence.  Experience in over 35 countries worldwide.

Clients:
• international companies in various industries (workshops, presentations, coaching, consulting)
• business schools (lectures, masterclasses)
• universities and other institutes of higher education (lectures, masterclasses, research)
• health care organizations (consulting)
• (semi-) government agencies (consulting, workshops, presentations)
• partnerships with larger consultancy companies as associate consultant (consulting)

Tim has been involved in Human Capital development for the last 20 years of which 18 years have concentrated on intercultural communication. Having spent his early years in Africa, and twenty years in the Far East, he has spent most of his life away from his native Britain, refining his understanding of techniques to leverage culture as an asset for better business results.

Currently, Tim works closely with clients from various cultural and professional backgrounds in order to increase awareness, deepen understanding, and hone competencies and skills necessary for people in intercultural business contexts.

Tim works both nationally and internationally and his special interest area is Japanese organizations making the transition from international to global structures and strategies.

Carlo Capponi has over 20 years international experience in finance, operations and strategy consulting.

He began his career in Montedison, an Italian conglomerate, in 1987. In 1995 he founded UBK Consulting. During his career, he advised global clients in managing international expansion, improving operational efficiency and implementing organizational restructuring programs in various industries, including IT, energy, life sciences, medical services, semiconductors, infrastructures and transportation.

Mr. Capponi has German and Italian roots and studied business and economics at Bocconi University (Milan), where he was Contract Professor for Strategic Planning and Technology Management from 1995 to 1999. He is bilingual with Italian and German, fluent in English and has a good command of Spanish and Portuguese.  He holds citizenships from Germany and Italy.

Innovative, digital, sustainable, and unconventional. Business graduate (M.Sc. in economics) and MBA with broad entrepreneurial expertise and high intercultural competence.

• Pioneer in digitalization and e-commerce.
• Fluent in German, French, English, and Dutch

Wolfgang grew up in French speaking Afrika, has German roots and worked in nearly all continents.

He started his leadership career as an officer in the German and French navy.  After his time at MAZARS – a French audit and certified accountants’ company, he joined the head office of Lidl International.

For 15 years he supported the impressive growth and internalization of Lidl as a board member in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Poland. His focus was finance & administration, IT and HR.

In Berlin since 2020 – the heart of the international start up community and consults start-ups and scale ups.

Wolfgang is a great communicator, change agent, motivator and delivers tailor made, effective and efficient solutions to his clients.

Jorge Cagigas has a degree in law from the University of Valladolid, studied Political Science at the Complutense University and has taken several specialisation courses in Global Management Systems and Advanced Human Resources Development at New York University. With an extensive professional career, Jorge Cagigas has been HR Director for large companies such as: Nissan Motor Ibérica, Pepsico España, General Electric Plastics, Moulinex Groupe, Dogi International Fabrics Corporate, Leche Pascual Group.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of FUNDIPE, a Spanish foundation for the development of the Human Resources function, and is a member of the top ten HRS (Human Resources Spain), the Institute of Directors and Administrators of Spain and the National Council of AEDIPE.

Jorge also has an extensive career as a teacher in some of the most important universities such as ICADE, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija or the San Pablo CEU Business School; he has been a member of the ESADE advisory board. He has published numerous articles in different prestigious journals and has collaborated in works specialised in people management, some of the most recognised being “La Gestión adecuada de personas” and “Modelos y experiencias innovadoras en la gestión de los recursos”.

Jorge is excellent at transmitting the keys to leadership to achieve success in the company

Henk brings over 35 years of International Management and Business Advisory experience. He has a profound experience in how differences in culture and ways of working internationally affect business, gained while working in various industries.

Henk was a Managing Partner of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner from 2006 to 2019. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Partner in Charge of Management Consulting in KPMG Portugal. From 1989 to 1994 he facilitated the Post Merger Integration of KPMG Consulting in Europe as Executive Partner. The creation of ONE international network of over 80 practices in 25 countries was aimed at cross border co-operation, where cultural differences and diversity were embraced and brought together. He also had intensive working relations with the Americas and Asia Pacific. Prior to this he was Executive Manager in Interim Management in KPMG Consulting in the Netherlands.