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Meet The Associate Partners of Hofstede Insights

A highly selective worldwide network of culture and management consultants with extensive professional experience and knowledge on how to implement culturally sensitive management practices. For more information contact us at [email protected]

STUART HARTH

As a fighter pilot, leader, instructor and coach for over 18 years, I am driven by a pursuit for excellence in performance. The understanding of culture and its strategic employment is by far the most powerful element in supporting this quest that I have found and this is what I bring to my work.

Susan Wachira-Nyika

Susan’s extensive professional experience includes Information Technology, Banking, Customer Success management, Cross-Cultural management and Strategic leadership experience locally and internationally. Susan has very strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.

Christian Filli

Christian is an Integral Coach®, Associate Certified Coach (ICF), and holds a B.A. in Social Communications. He specializes in understanding patterns of human motivation, decoding cultural narratives, and examining how these might affect individuals, organizations, brands, and society at large.

Akhilesh Mandal

India

I bring a unique mix of Business & People insights to help organizations build High-Performance Culture and Authentic Leaders

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Alette Vonk

The Netherlands

As an intercultural change facilitator, Alette Vonk specializes on Africa and Europe. Her expertise lies in improving the impact of development agencies and companies in Africa, supporting effective collaboration and strategic thinking. She’s an excellent trainer: knowledgeable, engaging and witty.

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Alex Eunkyeong Yu

South Korea

As a trained thinking partner, Alex works with clients to find the real levers behind phenomena and then supports them to transfer their best competencies into different cultural contexts including national and organizational cultures.

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Alex Gallacher

Canada

Alex is defined by his energy, experience, agility, and pragmatism in diagnosing, planning, and most importantly, executing client solutions forward. He takes pride in delivering timely, meaningful outcomes that resonate with Boards, C-suite Executives, Managers, and Staff alike.

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Amelie Crouzat

Canada

As a seasoned Human Resources professional and consultant, I have more than 15 years of experience working with and for people from various backgrounds and cultures.

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Amer Bitar

United Arab Emirates

As an entrepreneur, academic researcher, and international executive, I bring a unique experience in brands & IPs monetization, media & sports entertainment, content and global strategy specifically in the Middle East region.

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Andrew Robinson

Japan

In the twenty-eight years Andrew Robinson has lived in Japan, he has worked in various areas — academics, business-executive training, teaching project management courses and most recently in information technology. In almost…

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Anna Paola Simonetti

Italy

As an experienced trainer, coach and consultant Anna supports clients in developing intercultural competences to face the challenges of current globalization. She combines her professional practice with her knowledge of Hofstede Model’s applications, to meet clients’ manifold needs.

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Brigitte Opel

The Netherlands

Brigitte Opel uses her experiences from an international career and extensive travels to prepare her clients for the challenges of global business. She shares her curiosity and her passion in interactive sessions on general as well as specific questions – in English, German or Dutch.

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Carmen Lam

Hong Kong Special Administrative region

A branding, marketing and customer experience management professional who works across cultures and digital divides to help companies and individuals achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

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Chris VanderWalt

Canada

Chris can help your organization uncover the seemingly elusive intangibles of culture and take you on a deep dive of truth. You will discover that Hofstede Insights can help you hone the attitudes that you desire most in your people, allowing you to create the culture you need.

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Christi Degen

Germany

In her positions as Executive Director in various – business supporting – public companies and associations – Christi Degen has acquired substantial experience in helping internationally active companies. Typical issues are: cross border business development, international cooperations and leading foreign or international teams.

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Christian Erfurth

Sweden

Christian has focused his consultancy on the internationalisation of companies and people. He offers a unique insight into strategy, management/leadership, marketing, HR in the intercultural context. His workshops have a high lively engagement.

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Daniela Kaneva

Bulgaria, United States of America

Through her long career in international sales Daniela witnessed first-handedly how Culture makes or breaks deals and operations. She works with clients focused on hands-on and practical solutions for diverse teams, organizational performance and global consumer behavior.

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David Morley

Australia

Developer of global-minded leaders, teams and businesses.

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Diego Gilardoni

France, Switzerland

Drawing on an eclectic and truly global experience across sectors and continents, Diego is an international consultant, speaker, and author with a strong focus on helping companies and organizations develop a global mindset and align culture with strategy.

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Divya Susan Varkey

India, The Netherlands

A combination of knowledge and know-how: Sound knowledge based both on theory and practical experience, vibrant persona to give that extra edge to trainings and workshops and the ability to connect with people at a personal level so as to tackle some sensitive and deep-set cultural predispositions.

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Egbert Schram

Finland, The Netherlands

Egbert Schram is the Group CEO of Hofstede Insights. He is astute, passionate about his work, known to make complex things understandable by focusing on pragmatic solutions. His speciality lies in using a data-driven approach to culture, enabling executive-level discussion and decision making.

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Elisabet Camprubi Homs

Spain

Director & International communication consultant. I define myself as an intercultural user, teacher, researcher, and practitioner. My background and professional roles as International Business manager and present Director of BECE have helped my clients communicate across cultures with confidence.

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Elizabeth Tuleja

United States of America

I help cultivate global leadership skills in a diverse workforce at home or abroad. Through online courses, cross-cultural assessment, executive coaching, and consulting, professionals who work with cultural diversity can grow their leadership capabilities no matter where they are in the world.

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Ger Rombouts

The Netherlands

I am a warm-hearted, open minded consultant, who can bind and enthuse people. I’ve got an educational background and in that capacity I’m used to explaining complicated systems and make them practical. The model is a tool to give insight in day to day issues organisations face.

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Hanne Pinholt

Luxembourg

As a Consultant and an Executive Coach, Hanne uses her business knowledge and experience to develop people and organisations. Her interest is the link between personality, culture, and behaviour. She offers individual coaching and workshops for individuals and organisations to enrich people´s knowledge and skills

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Huib Wursten

The Netherlands

Huib is the intellectual father of the “mental Images” he identified 7 combinations of Hofstede dimensions. He published a book about it in 2019: “The 7 Mental Images of National Culture” making it possible to quickly assess most cultures in the world.

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JAIME ONG-YEOH

Malaysia

As one of our few consultants in South East Asia, Jaime offers a unique insight into the region and how its culture relates to others. She has extensive management consulting and change management experience, having worked with large multinational organisations on global transformation programmes.

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Jan Vincent Meertens

The Netherlands

Having studied, lived and worked as entrepreneur, manager and trainer for more than three decades in different countries around the world, Jan Vincent offers acclaimed intercultural management training and coaching to global professionals in the private and public sectors.

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Javier San Martin

Spain

My main contribution is the real knowledge about problems and conflicts related to the cultural and organizational differences and how to resolve them efficiently.

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Joanna Smit

The United Kingdom

From the start, Joanna has had encounters with multiple countries and languages. Born to Dutch and Congolese parents, she grew up multi-lingually and multi-nationally, and has lived and worked in her native…

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José Maria Menéndez Salcedo

Spain

Engineer and Project manager with a proven track record in international projects and programs. Over 30 years background in different areas in several industries allow him to provide practical and useful guidance on how to get things done when working in intercultural projects.

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Junichi Hirosaki

Japan

Junichi is an experienced intercultural management consultant and coach who has over 25 years of international business and management experience in Japan, US, South East Asia and India at Microsoft, Accenture, Cisco,…

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Kirk McDermott

United States of America

Kirk has a bachelor’s degree in French and a Master’s in Psychology.  Kirk spent 20 years in his first career in psychology, most of which he worked as a family therapist in…

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Linda Hui Yang

Australia

Linda is an energetic educator with a PhD in intercultural studies who brings dynamism to every discussion. She works hard to effectively enhance the performance of individuals and teams across disciplines, cultures and borders. Linda is well known for engaging training and out-of-the-box thinking

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Lisa DeWaard

Russia, United States of America

I am passionate about making a practical difference in the day-to-day work of international companies by solving cross-cultural misunderstandings using powerful analytics.

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Marc Jacobs

Belgium, Luxembourg

Marc is passionate about using intercultural management and organisational culture as management tools to help you optimise the performance of your organisation

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Marina Karpina

Russia

Marina has over 25 years of experience in sales and 15+ years in the promotion of foreign SMEs in Russia and the former USSR market. Having worked on over 100 projects, Marina has experience in partner/customer search and assessment, including searching for potential customers and supporting the first stage of the business relationship.

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Marlond Antunez

Portugal, Uruguay

Having worked as a manager and consultant for more than two decades in different countries, Marlond offers strong cross-cultural negotiation and business strategy training & consultancy to companies looking for business expansion and to teams who needs preparation for international business missions.

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Martin Karaffa

Germany

Marty helps brands harness the power of culture to develop global strategy, and to localize effectively. With a history as a global planning director for some of the world’s largest agencies, he equips brands with the tools they need to thrive in diverse cultural environments.

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Mary Anne Jorgensen

Japan

Working 25 years in Asia Pacific, MaryAnne’s cross-cultural experience informs her focus on dialogue as a key to unlock the possibilities of individuals, teams and organizations. She supports clients who want to develop global leaders with intercultural competence and emotional intelligence.

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Masako Kato

Japan, The Netherlands

Masako Kato is passionate about supporting clients improve their intercultural collaboration and performance. She is a very experienced and versatile trainer, executive and team coach to develop cultural intelligence of individuals, teams and organisations.

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Maurizio Manetti

Italy

With a long experience of Senior Management particularly in the area of Human Resources and Organization, Maurizio supports his customers in their processes of Change Management and Personnel Development both in the national and international environment.

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Michael Siller

Austria

Michael Siller has been supporting executives, business owners and project managers in times of uncertainty and change: gain clarity for great decisions, lead their teams with decisiveness to more trust and cooperation, and influence organizational culture in a lasting way.

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Mikiko Katsu

Japan

Mikiko is a HR consultant with expertise on Learning and Development in intercultural management,leadership development and organizational culture.She has deep understanding on the cultural differences within Asia and issues of middle-managers in…

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Milena Vegnaduzzo

Italy

Working everyday with people from all over the world I learned to change my mindset quickly. I will help you take off your cultural glasses to see things from a different perspective to enhance understanding, communication and collaboration with people and to boost your business to the next level.

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Nadir Karanjia

India

The ability to empathise yet relate to all sides of an issue and find the best solution for all stakeholders.

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Navkaran Singh

India, The United Kingdom

Helping companies to Manage & Lead international teams, Assess & Execute Cultural Transformation and Improve Operational Efficiency among culturally diverse teams. Successfully delivered multiple projects for clients in IT, Telecoms, Digital Marketing, Pharmaceutical, Insurance & Aviation industries

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Okey Okere

Nigeria

OKEY OKERE Ph.D. Highly experienced Knowledge Services Professional. Management Consulting experience includes Intercultural Management, Organisational Culture, Business Analysis, Strategy, Finance, Credit/Risk Analysis and Investment Research & Advisory.   WORKED AND LIVED IN…

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Panos Manolopoulos

United Arab Emirates

Panos is a certified Associate Partner of Hofstede Insights for the Middle East and Africa Region. Panos is specialized in Executive Search, Human Talent and Leadership Assessment and Development and Team Performance.…

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Paulo Finuras

Portugal

Through my research, writing, mentoring & workshops, I guide leaders and managers to develop intercultural awareness and Trust skills.

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Pernilla Rorso

Denmark

To me, the greatest joy is to observe people’s increased self-confidence and enthusiasm after supporting the development of their cultural capabilities and the positive effect it has on business performance. Culture may be a Soft Factor, but it has a very Hard Effect on the Bottom-Line.

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Peter Gryko

Poland, United Arab Emirates

I partner with my clients in designing high-performance organizational culture that aligns the organization’s core values, mission, and practices with the business strategy and priorities, objectives and key results.

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Philip Sjogren

Sweden

A diplomat, not only by profession but also by character, Philip works across and between cultures, supporting clients in their efforts to define, develop and optimise their corporate cultures

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Pia Kähärä

Finland, Russia

Pia’s mission is to make managers and leaders culturally competent to improve their success rate in global business. She is specialized in Intercultural management, organizational culture and change, and has 25+ years of experience in business with Russia and Russian speaking countries.

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Rodolfo Maggio

Italy

Anthropologist, author, and advisor in intercultural management

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Salman Raza

United States of America

Salman is a visionary and reformist at heart who has a passion to assist companies through awareness of the numerous lenses in business transactions. He’s an advocate for inspirational leadership by bridging…

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Salvador Ribas Mas

Spain

Salvador helps his clients to improve the productivity of their teams by Cross-Cultural training and consulting. Using a data-driven approach, Salvador manages and controls the impact of cultural differences in the workplace, helping his clients to be more competitive.

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Sandra Khoury

United Arab Emirates

Specializing in integrated communications in UAE and GCC markets, and following close to 2 decades of experience in MENA, Sandra brings her extensive regional and international experience in integrated communication, branding and…

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Steffi Necheva

Bulgaria, Canada

Steffi is helping companies transform cultural diversity into a competitive advantage by decoding differences in consumer and employee behaviours that are deeply rooted in culture.

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Stuart Harth

Saudi Arabia

As a fighter pilot, leader, instructor and coach for over 18 years, I am driven by a pursuit for excellence in performance. The understanding of culture and its strategic employment is by far the most powerful element in supporting this quest that I have found and this is what I bring to my work.

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Sumiko Shimo

Canada

Sumiko is an insightful, client-focused, and strategic specialist in cross-cultural business and organizational culture transformation. She helps organizations in creating a deeper understanding of the impact of culture to unlock greater human potential.

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Susan Wachira-Nyika

United States of America

Susan’s extensive professional experience includes Information Technology, Banking, Customer Success management, Cross-Cultural management and Strategic leadership experience locally and internationally. Susan has very strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.

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Tatjana von Bonkewitz

Luxembourg

Tatjana holds a Master’s degree in languages, an MBA as well as a Bachelor’s degree in psychology. Born in London to German parents and a long-time resident in Luxembourg, she holds three…

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Valeria Rodríguez Brondo

Italy, Uruguay

Her expertise encompasses all aspects of international business and organizations, she has lived and worked in several countries (+10years), coordinating multicultural teams. Thanks to her own experience she is able to understand the needs of the client and look for creative solutions.

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Valerie Servant

France

Valérie Servant holds two post-graduate degrees, one in service quality (a DESS in Quality management) and one in human resources (a DESS in Human Resources Management). She started her professional life working…

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Wassim Karkabi

United Arab Emirates

Wassim Karkabi is the Managing Partner of Hofstede Insights for the Middle East & North Africa Region, and a certified Associate Partner. He is a seasoned Leadership & Culture subject matter expert…

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Yasushi Watanabe

Japan

A management consultant focusing on strategy and transformation

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Zaiyan Gong

China

As a consultant in the automotive industry, he worked with clients to understand the markets and users from other cultures. The differences defined by culture are not only communication and management, but also the user experience design, which is a key competitiveness for an intelligent automobile.

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Zivi Kalay

Israel

Zivi is an executive management consultant, with a psychology background, specializing in strengthening leadership and management skills. In addition, she supports CEOs and the upper management of multinational organizations in bridging cultural gaps during global expansion and in mergers and acquisition processes.

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