Turn differences into stronger performance

From tension to traction. As a global culture consulting firm, we help leaders and organizations turn tensions into stronger collaboration, better decisions, and more effective strategy execution.

Difference is not the problem.
Unreconciled difference is.

At THT Culture Consulting, we believe there is unique power and beauty in differences, between cultures, preferences, and ways of working.

Our role is to help organizations and individuals see the value on both sides, reconcile opposites, and turn that tension into true human ingenuity.

This is the foundation of our work, and what continues to drive us today and into the future.

For leaders facing complexity across cultures, functions, legacies

Executives, leadership teams, HR and transformation leaders, and business functions come to us when performance depends on making better use of difference, not suppressing it.

Typical situations include:

Integrating cultures after a merger or acquisition
Realigning culture to strategy and addresssing specific issues
Working and doing business in culturally diverse environments
Leading diverse teams across generations and backgrounds
Improving inclusion and collaboration
Strengthening performance in critical functions

Six ways we turn tension into traction

Our solutions address the leadership, cultural, and organizational tensions that most often block results. Each one helps clients reconcile difference in a way that produces stronger business outcomes.

M&A Culture Integration

Integrating cultures after a merger or acquisition combining the power of both. For deal sponsors, integration leaders, CEOs, and CHROs responsible for turning a deal into real value creation.

Culture Change

Realigning culture to strategy by enriching the existing culture to address key strategic dilemmas. For CEOs, CHROs, and transformation leaders who need strategy translated into everyday behaviour, structures, and processes

Cultural Agility

Working and doing business more effectively in culturally diverse environments. For country managers, regional leaders, and global sales and operations teams who need stronger cross-cultural effectiveness.

Leadership

Building leadership competences to turn difference into advantage and to effectively drive strategy execution. For CEOs and senior leaders becoming the “Servant Leader as a reconciler in chief”.

Diversity &
Inclusion

Improving collaboration within and across diverse teams. For CHROs, DEI leaders, and line leaders who want diversity and inclusion to translate into better performance..

Functional Excellence

Strengthening performance in critical functions including innovation, sustainability, risk management and marketing. For functional leaders in areas where culture and leadership shape execution and results.

Proven models

Cornerstones of our approach are proven models developed by our Founders Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, and Peter Woolliams. Intellectual Property developed by decades of research and consultacy that makes our approach uniquely data-driven and effective.

Why Trompenaars Hampden-Turner?

Trompenaars Hampden-Turner is built on pioneering work in culture and leadership.

Its founders, Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, helped shape the field through influential ideas, global research, and landmark books, including Riding the Waves of Culture, recognised by Thinkers50 as a Management Classic. Their work continues to inform our approach through insights such as: “Any value disconnected from its opposite leads to a pathology” and “The value of a value is in the degree to which it helps to reconcile a dilemma.”

That foundation matters because many performance challenges are not caused by a lack of effort or intelligence, but by unresolved tensions. Safety and speed. Global and local. Cohesion and autonomy. These are not choices to make, but opposites to reconcile.

This is where THT stands apart. We improve organisational performance and health by assessing and strengthening how well critical opposites are reconciled, drawing on a proprietary large-scale global database. We translate the demands of your vision and strategy into the values needed to deliver them. We then translate those values into concrete daily behaviours, so strategy becomes reality in execution.

Our Clients

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.

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.”

We partner with you

Which approach will deliver the best results?

Consulting

We have a global presence with licensed associates and subsidiary operations in many parts of the world who specialises in training, coaching, leadership development and consulting in such areas as Cultural awareness and competence, diversity, equity and inclusion, servant leadership, sustainability, team effectiveness, financial management, human resources.

Training

Whether you are a first time leader or seasoned campaigner who needs to step up and set a new standard, our programs are designed to help you with the mindset, skillset and tools you need to achieve your goals and stay relevant across multiple contexts. Our Programs Include:

Creating Your Organisation's Vision

Dilemma Reconciliation

Servant Leadership

Certification

Become a Certified Licensed Professional. Our certified licensees are provided with the essential tools for individual trainers, consultants, managers and coaches, to link data to connections.

We license by certification via our eLearning as well as tailored workshops for organizations, via in house “Train the Trainer” sessions in our 7 Dimensions of Culture, Organisational Culture model and Dilemma Reconciliation Methodology.
The application in organizations is supported by our tools and apps. Team work, interactive exercises and cooperation are typical characteristics of our trainings.

Keynotes

Besides his impressive background and expertise, what makes Fons special is the ability to inspire through his unique vision on the reality: nothing is impossible, no challenges are too hard to be achieved if we recognize the dilemmas living inside us, both as human beings and organizations. He motivates by showing the way to connect viewpoints and reconcile our dilemmas. A mindset that provides hope for a sustainable future, where the opposite of diversity dance together and produce new value.

He also engages people by involving them in the dialogue, either with open-ended question or interactive tools such as questionnaires and our new live consulting driven by DilemmAI®.

Finally, last but not least, he entertains the audience with his funny real life/business examples, taken from over 30 years of traveling around the world riding the waves of culture.

Turn differences into stronger performance

Difference is not the problem.
Unreconciled difference is.

For leaders facing complexity across cultures, functions, legacies