A highly selective worldwide network of culture and management consultants with extensive professional experience and knowledge on how to implement culturally sensitive management practices.
Alessia has developed a strong experience in the recruitment and outplacement industry. She is specialised in providing innovative and tailored services to support companies and professionals in identifying new competitive and distinctive…
Alette holds a Master of Non Western Sociology of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, which is her home country and base today. She has her consultancy in change management, specialised in…
Alex is global leadership consultant and executive coach with primary areas of focus on global leadership development, culture change and transition, intercultural management, emotional intelligence, and communication. She represents Hofstede Insights in…
Almiro dos Reis Neto of Franquality Consultoria, a Brazilian consultancy, joined Hofstede Insights in 2012. Next to his position as HR President of Franquality Consultoria he is also ABRH-SP Council Deliberative President.…
The beginning of Anna’s interest in cultural differences was probably when she joined multicultural teams operating in international programmes, very soon in her professional career. The most important experience she had at international level…
Berwyn has over 30 years of international business experience, ranging from large companies to start ups. He has lived what he teaches. An experienced facilitator, he delivers clear and pragmatic business messages…
Brigitte is a certified associate partner of Hofstede Insights and has been a consultant for cross-cultural management since 2013. She has lived and worked in Germany, Netherlands, Japan, USA, Australia and Russia…
Candida Snow joined the itim International organisation in 2001. Candida designs and delivers intercultural programmes to a broad spectrum of profit and non-profit organisations all over Europe and beyond. She identifies and…
Capucine Destailleurs is a business coach, facilitator, and consultant in leadership development, team performance and intercultural management. She is passionate about enabling individuals to develop their skills and competencies. Capucine delivers training…
Carel is associate partner of Hofstede Insights and a certification agent for the educational sector of the company. He has extensive international experience in consulting services, and the development and implementation of…
Carmen Lam joined Hofstede Insights from the world of transnational marketing, branding and Asian hospitality in 2012. Having served in senior executive positions in multi-national as well as local companies in services,…
With more than 20 years of proven track record in the field of corporate communications and public affairs, Chika has provided consulting, training and coaching for multinational companies, educational institutions, NPOs and…
With 15 years of management experience in the internationalisation of business schools as well as corporate organisation and strategy, Christi has acquired substantial knowledge in international projects, leading multicultural teams and conducting…
Christian Erfurth, joined us as the first licensee in 1986. His main track, since he started his consultancy in 1974 has been the internationalisation of companies and people. That track has made…
Christina Röttgers is an intercultural specialist for Europe from West to East, Russia and Asia. Working since 1997 as a professional facilitator and consultant in Europe and Asia Christina has gained substantial…
Christine Fornaroli graduated with a Master degree in Economics in Belgium and started her career in the financial sector in Luxembourg. She worked as a client adviser for UHNWI clients in the…
Coen Bester spends most of his life in fast-growing companies either as angel-investor, mentor or non-executive board member. He has successfully founded, grown and exited his own technology business along the way.…
Courtenay Carey is a trainer and facilitator specialising in Human Connection. With a particular focus on how human beings can successfully integrate themselves into different environments, Courtenay has dedicated her life’s work…
Daniela has a proven track record in trans national sales and marketing management. Her career as international sales manager had her exposed to the economic and cultural challenges of 27 nations across…
Over the past 15 years David has worked with some of the world’s largest organisations in the FMCG, Utilities, Mining & Resources, Civil Construction, Logistics and Manufacturing sectors in the areas of…
Delphine Macquet offers tailored services based on cross-cultural training, coaching and market intelligence techniques to help individuals, teams and companies adapt and perform globally. Graduated in International Relations and in Strategic intelligence…
Diego Gilardoni, a strategic advisor with an eclectic professional experience of over 20 years in three continents spanning from media to business consulting, works for Hofstede Insights as an intercultural management consultant…
Based in Bangalore, India, Divya Susan Varkey is certified by Hofstede Insights in Intercultural Communications Management and Organizational Culture. She has double masters degrees in Intercultural Communications (Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) and…
Egbert Schram is the CEO of Hofstede Insights. He is astute, passionate about his work, known to make complex things understandable by focusing on pragmatic solutions. His main focus is to help…
Elizabeth Tuleja is a professor of Intercultural Communication and Global Leadership for MBA and Executive MBA programs at the University of Notre Dame, USA, where she also teaches and leads cross-cultural immersion…
Originally from South Africa, I have been living abroad and have over 9 years of experience in the market. I have a passion for helping individuals discover their purpose and further develop…
Having earned his Master’s degree in Corporate and Leadership Psychology in 2007, with a dissertation paper on Hofstede’s dimensions and their connection with assertiveness in the Romanian IT companies, it was a…
Haas is an Executive Consultant with over a decade of professional experience. He has led business development and corporate management for multiple industries including financial services, education, SAAS (software as a service…
Azzy is a business consultant and a professional coach for leadership development and organizational change. He is also a global faculty member of ORSC™(Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching). In a past 10…
Huib Wursten, born in 1942, is specialised in advising companies and supra-national organisations in how to manage global teams. He is experienced in translating the international and global strategies and policies into…
Irene Wang is a human capital consultant with expertise on intercultural management, leadership, coaching, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation. She has double master degrees in MBA (Indiana University, America) and Chemistry Engineering (Zhejiang…
Born in Damascus, Syria (1960), Jan-Roelof Abbring spent his childhood in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands / Spain), where he attended German School. After moving back to the Netherlands he studied aviation technology…
Jan Vincent has studied, lived and worked for more than four decades in different countries around the world. He took a MBA at the American School for Global Management, Thunderbird, Arizona. He…
Jana Droessler is a consultant of Hofstede Insights , having an extensive working experience for and with multinationals. Jana’s expertise lies in the combination of corporate and national culture management, being able…
Javier San Martín is a Senior Consultant for Hofstede Insights in Spain, through the company WIDE WORLD, who is our licensee in Spain. Before Javier joined us in 2001, he was the…
Jean-Pierre Coene (1952) is Belgian. He started to work early, at the age of 17. Sales, contact and communications was already the field he wanted to be in. He started his own…
José is a native German speaking marketing and market intelligence professional with 20+ years international exposure working for top multinational companies. Being Austrian-Guatemalan by birth, José has lived and worked in the…
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,…
Karin Faase, as personality a ‘spiral’ thinker, prefers establishing new activities in relation to previous experiences. She gets motivated by adding value and growth of people as an experienced, efficient, pragmatic manager…
Lisa has been working in the field of cross-cultural communication for almost 20 years, specialising primarily in the language and culture of Russia. As a linguist and teacher of Russian and Spanish,…
Marc has been an associate partner of what is now known as Hofstede Insights since 2015 and has given workshops on the topic of Intercultural Competence at London Business School and the…
Before starting her company i4talent Corporation in training/coaching/consulting in December 2014, Mari worked in Human Resources for Japanese operations of different multicultural companies, hiring, training, coaching, facilitating and developing talent and leaders…
Marie-Helene was born in the Seychelles islands and lived throughout her childhood and youth in Seychelles, Tanzania, and Kenya. In those years, she grew up in a multi-ethnic society, with Europeans, Indians,…
Marty specializes in the complex task of transforming global brands to meet cultural challenges, and empowering the teams that build them. He’s led cross-cultural teams to breakthroughs that turbocharged global marketing communications,…
MaryAnne started her career in Tokyo working in international trade, managing the purchasing of raw materials from clients in Asia, Europe, and North America. Several years later, managing a multi-cultural team of…
Originally from Japan, she spent a few years of her childhood and student time in the USA. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Sophia University in Tokyo. After her…
During his long career; Maurizio has always taken care of the way organisations function and work. In his international assignment in a multicultural environment, he learnt immediately how difficult was to work…
Merita Vilen graduated from the University of Helsinki with a Master’s degree (MSc). In addition, she has acquired an MBA in the United Kingdom while studying in a full time MBA program,…
As a business coach and consultant Michael Siller supports executives and their intercultural teams. He creates awareness and builds up the competences needed to turn cultural differences from a liability into an…
Micky started her career at GE Japan in the Human Resources. After 3.5 years, she moved to Morgan Stanley Japan as training manager and gained insights into Asian cultures while working for…
Nadir Karanjia joined Hofstede Insights in the summer of 2004, and is the licensee for India. Nadir’s roots are multicultural – he is a Zoroastrian Parsi whose ancestors settled in India from…
Paulo Finuras joined us in 1999, and is our Portuguese licensee. Paulo is our link with Africa as he spends a bigger part of his working time in Angola, Mozambique and Cape…
Pepi Burgos has studied, lived and worked in Spain, where she was born and raised, United Kingdom, United States and the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Language and Communication from Radboud…
Growing up in a culturally diverse family, ever since I was a little girl I have been fascinated by national cultural differences. A combined interest in business and management as well as…
Philip started his career in The Netherlands and has 20 years of experience working in multicultural environments. He is schooled and experienced in the IT world and has found his added value…
Philip Sjögren is a facilitator, trainer and coach. His work focuses on helping people and team that work mainly in large organisations find their personal leadership style that works across cultures and…
A native of Finland, Pia Kähärä has a keen interest in languages. She studied Swedish, German and French at school, but decided to study a more “exotic” language – Russian. In 1990,…
Piotr Gryko joined Hofstede Insights as a licensee in Poland already in 1995. Currently he is the Chairman of House of Skills, the biggest training and consultancy firm on the Polish market. Piotr…
Ralf is a senior project manager in Telecommunications and IT and an intercultural specialist with over 10 years experience in managing multinational teams. After earning a Master of Science degree at Delft…
Rolf Bake (Rolf van den Wall Bake in full) is a senior consultant for Hofstede Insights in Switzerland and the Netherlands, next to his other activities as executive coach and management consultant/trainer.…
With more than 15 years of proven track record in the field of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Ryukichi has provided consulting and business acceleration services for multinational companies and global professionals. Working…
Born and raised in the cosmopolitan Island of Mallorca (Spain), Salvador soon became a keen traveller and visited many counties around the world. He lived and worked abroad in different and diverse…
Shigeru Mizuno has a long history of developing training contents for management in cross-cultural environment, expatration and human resources development activities in Japanese companies, specifically from Panasonic. His focus is on delivering…
Worked at Bain & Company, organizing M&As, conducting feasibility studies, and investigating investment opportunities in emerging countries. Worked for Bain’s New Delhi office in India. After becoming independent, set up the freelance…
Sjaak Pappe MA BAA is one of the senior consultants of Hofstede Insights and joined the company in 1999 after being a client for ten years. During his international career he learned,…
Sumiko provides practical insights and innovative solutions to organisations, teams and individuals to help them identify and address any cross cultural challenges that may be inhibiting the future growth and potential of…
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…
Thomas is associate partner of Hofstede Insights and managing director of bullseye international GmbH, providing business development in Europe in addition to business coaching and consulting for internationally active clients. Thomas has…
Partly based in Bengaluru, India and the Netherlands, Thomas van Berckel can be best described as a generalist, a (social) entrepreneur with passion for teaching, training, networking, advising, writing but also for his NGO Toe…
Born in The Netherlands from Czech parents he studied at Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands and graduated in International Finance and International Marketing from Thunderbird University in Phoenix, Arizona. Tom has…
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…
Vijay has provided consulting, training and coaching for Danish and other Scandinavia multinationals educational institutions and development agencies for the last 35 years with emphasis on Asia and especially India. Vijay established…
Walter Jahn from Munich, Germany was educated at Munich University and has a full degree in Precision Mechanics as well as in Economics and Political Science with focus on Development Economics. His…
Wanne Wiersinga joined Hofstede Insights in 2002. She has gained culture, personality & management consulting experience for several years. Her consulting activities assist leaders, managers and professional from global companies to actively…
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…
Born and raised in China, Wei Zhang is now the professor of Management at a Business School of one of the top Chinese Universities in Beijing. Her main teaching and research field…
After graduating Keio University Faculty of Letters / Graduate School of Media and Governance, Yasushi Watanabe joined Sony Corporation . He has been engaged in global marketing for over seven years, including a three-year…
Yoneko has been working and studying in different regions of the world for the last 16 years. These experiences have enriched her life, not just professionally, but personally. As a result, she…
Yoshiko Kurisaki is a Japanese national, established in Switzerland, and a senior expert of cross-cultural management between Europe and Japan. Having worked at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT, Japan), Yoshiko moved to Europe to work…
Ms Miyazaki began her career in sales and marketing in a Japanese major finance corporation as one of their first career-track female employees. In 1996, she started Krene KK, a human capital development and organizational development consulting company, with a…
