Akhilesh Mandal
I bring a unique mix of Business & People insights to help organizations build High-Performance Culture and Authentic Leaders
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.
Alette Vonk
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 Eunkyeong Yu
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.
Alex Gallacher
Alex has studied, worked, and taught organizational effectiveness for almost three decades. He earned his MBA in HR at McGill University in Montréal, and is a Certified HR Executive by the Human…
Almiro dos Reis Neto
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.…
Amelie Crouzat
Amelie is a seasoned Human Resources professional and consultant with more than 15 years of experience working with and for people from various backgrounds and cultures. She has worked for international companies…
Andrew Robinson
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…
Anita Middelkoop
Anita has been inspired by cultural differences already from a very young age. She is a certified teacher in Geography and focused during her studies mainly on Social Geography and Cultural Anthropology.…
Anna Paola Simonetti
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…
Brigitte Opel
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
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
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…
Carmen Lam
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,…
Chika Miyamori
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…
Christi Degen
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
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…
Christian Filli
Christian is an Integral Coach®, Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by the International Coach Federation (ICF), and holds a B.A. in Social Communications. He specializes in understanding patterns of human motivation, decoding cultural…
Daniela Kaneva
With background career in trans national sales and marketing, Daniela is used to talking the language of numbers, hence, her particular focus on providing practical solutions and delivering applicable propositions to clients.…
David Morley
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…
Diego Gilardoni
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…
Divya Susan Varkey
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
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.
Elizabeth Tuleja
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…
Erika Visser
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…
Ewa Kubica
Ewa Kubica joined House of Skills in 2010 and Hofstede Insights few years later. She specializes in development of high potentials in organization, creating the culture of effectiveness and engagement as well…
George Lupascu Pruna
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…
Gregory Nazaryan
Gregory Nazaryan is a Certified Associate Partner of Hofstede Insights for the Middle East & North Africa Region. He has around 20 years of experience within the leadership spectrum and he supports…
Hanne Pinholt
EXPERTISE Hanne has more than 20 years’ experience in recruiting and developing international leaders, leadership teams, and senior specialists within large international organisations. Hanne also has significant experience advising C-suite level leaders…
Henri Bezuidenhout
Henri is a trainer, facilitator and coach bringing together the individual, the team and the organisation. His focus is on empowering individuals using various tools, including cross-cultural work and then integrating them…
Hideaki Azuma
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
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…
JAIME ONG-YEOH
Jaime is a management consultant specialising in the areas of change management, organisation design & development, organisation culture, and organisation psychology. She has over 15 years of experience helping multinational corporations with…
Jan Roelof Abbring
Jan-Roelof is an experienced, enthusiastic, dedicated and knowledgeable coach, consultant and facilitator, who always aims to tailor and deliver programmes to meet participants’ expectations.
Jan Vincent Meertens
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.
Javier San Martin
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
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…
Joanna Smit
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…
José María Menéndez Salcedo
José María (Txema) Menéndez is a senior Engineer and a Project Manager. He holds an Executive Master in Business Administration (MBA). After more than 30 years in Engineering projects, project management, business…
Junichi Hirosaki
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,…
Katharina Anna Krasowski
Katharina is a business coach with focus on change management. Mainly supporting teams to deal with the fact that an ongoing change is an indisputable component of nowadays business environment. Working within…
Kirk McDermott
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…
Kirsty MacEachen
Kirsty joined the Hofstede network in 2011. She designs and delivers intercultural programs to a broad spectrum of organizations, both local organisations working internationally and international companies spanning many borders. Alongside her…
Lisa DeWaard
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 Jacobs
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…
Mari Fujii
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…
Martin Karaffa
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,…
Mary Anne Jorgensen
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…
Masako Kato
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…
Maurizio Manetti
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
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,…
Michael Siller
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.
Mickael Gootjes
Mickael Gootjes is a product of culture shocks and digitalization across many countries. His career has taken back and forth between traditional and disruptive digital businesses, where he has been dealing with…
Mikiko Katsu
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…
Milena Vegnaduzzo
Milena has always been fascinated by ancient civilizations. This lead her to pursue a degree in Classics that naturally evolved into an interest for languages and linguistics. She is now Managing Director…
Nadir Karanjia
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…
Navkaran Singh
Partly based in UK and India, Navkaran specialises in Intercultural Management of European and Indian markets for global IT and Technology companies. Having worked for more than 10 years in a leading…
Okey Okere
Okey Okere is an experienced consultant and knowledge resource. In addition to Organisational Culture, Intercultural Management, his other key competencies include Strategy, Business Analysis, Organisational Development, Finance, Credit/Risk Analysis and Programme Management. He…
Panos Manolopoulos
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.…
Paulo Finuras
Through my research, writing, mentoring & workshops, I guide leaders and managers to develop intercultural awareness and Trust skills.
Pernilla Rorso
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…
Peter Koijen
Peter has lived and worked in various countries around the world for more than 20 years. He has experience in a number of international teams and various sectors, and has been successful…
Philip Lafeber
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 Sjogren
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…
Pia Kähärä
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
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 van Haastregt
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…
Ryukichi Miyabayashi
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…
Salman Raza
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…
Salvador Ribas Mas
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…
Sandra Khoury
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…
Saskia van Delft
Saskia (1969) grew up in Bilthoven the Netherlands, she studied several different area’s; Didactics, Business administration (HRM) and Organisational psychology. She spent several years traveling the world for KLM and training flight…
Shigeru Mizuno
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…
Shinya Fujimura
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
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,…
Stelios Pigadiotis
Stelios Pigadiotis is a Certified Associate Partner of Hofstede Insights for the Middle East & North Africa Region. Stelios has more than 20 years of notable expertise in Leadership Advisory, Executive Assessment…
Sumiko Shimo
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…
Tatiana Miron
Tatiana Miron Tatiana is a global strategy consultant on high-level decisions in an unbiased fashion, using deep industry knowledge to deliver the best results. Her role is to use rigorous fact-based, quantitative…
Tatjana von Bonkewitz
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 Imfeld
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…
Thomas Van Berckel
Based partly in Bangalore, India, and partly in the Netherlands, Thomas van Berckel works, since 2017 through his current agency ‘Dutch Roof Consultancy’, almost exclusively for Cap Gemini in a project of…
Valeria Rodríguez Brondo
As a graduate in international relations, Valeria Rodríguez Brondo has experience both in international organizations (UNEP, UN, OAS, FONPLATA, CIC, etc.) and in multinational companies (Evergreen, TNT). Her area of expertise encompasses…
Valerie Servant
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…
Wanne Wiersinga
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
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…
Wei Zhang
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…
Yasushi Watanabe
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 Shiraishi
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…
Yuriko Miyazaki
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…