”Fostering Winning Cultures, Shaping Tomorrow“
Our clients are forward-thinking companies seeking innovative solutions to build cohesive teams across diverse cultural landscapes
We Walk Business, We Talk Culture
We work with global leaders and HR teams in multinational organizations to navigate the complexities of cultural integration.
We are an innovation and research driven, niche consultancy with a passion for culture in business providing a personal touch.
Our unique methodologies and top-level, research-driven diagnostic tools empower transformation leaders, SMEs, and high-level educators to overcome complex organizational and business challenges.
Our collaborative approach helps you develop tailored company programs using specialized tools and expert knowledge. These solutions provide actionable insights and foster cross-cultural learning through interventions delivered by industry-leading professionals.
Successfully addressing differences in cultural orientations—whether national, organizational, functional, or disciplinary—is essential. We help bridge these gaps by improving the integration between people (values, attitudes, and potentials) and organizations (structures, systems, and processes).
We pride ourselves on being flexible, agile, responsive, and excellent listeners, serving as both trusted advisors and sparring partners in your journey toward sustainable transformation and growth. Supporting your culture and business challenges by making them real through simplicity ...... navigating tensions rather then pushing through helps recognize and manage conflicting values or interests.
We are an innovation and research driven, niche consulting company with a passion for culture in business with a personal touch.
AI-powered cultural intelligence engine
Often, it feels abstract, disconnected, and hard to start. Values are defined—but daily tensions stay unresolved. We use our DilemmAI in live, interactive sessions, we crowdsource real cultural dilemmas from your people—and turn them into reconciled, actionable solutions.
Discover Global Business Cultures with our game and dive into a journey to your international meetings, countries and cultures. Collect trophies, share learning experience with friends and colleagues and playfully become a cultural professional on more than 70 countries to play with.
Listen to our podcasts on subjects like leadership, innovation, green values and much more. Fons Trompenaars talks with Charles Hampden-Turner in this inspiring episode.
Our Third Book in the "New Business Culture Series" is out
New Approaches to Creating a Culture of Innovation
In an era marked by the dominance of a few corporate giants, and the ease of replicating ideas at minimal costs, the imperative for organisations of all sizes to continually innovate has become paramount. Faced with this reality, CEOs increasingly perceive innovation as the key to fostering organic growth and enhancing brand equity.
Riding the Waves of Culture 4th edition
Announced by Thinkers50 in its 2024 top ten Management Classics Booklist.
For over 25 years, Riding the Waves of Culture has set the standard for leading effectively in an international business context. Helping leaders to be highly attuned to cultural differences, and to leverage such differences for maximum competitive advantage.
"Managing across different cultures was a new thing for many people when this book first appeared. Now it is reality for hundreds of millions of people working in global organizations. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner laid out the practical issues faced in managing globally with humanity and insight."
- Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove,Co-founders, Thinkers50
We solve your business challenges
using our proven models
With over three decades of experience in worldwide training and consulting, we are a top player in the field of culture for international business.
We work to improve the integration between people (values, attitudes and potentials) and organizations (structures, systems and processes).
Successfully addressing differences in cultural orientations – whether national, organizational, functional or disciplinary – is vital to the sustainable growth and performance of organizations. At THT, we have a passion for business culture. We believe that understanding how it impacts your organization can help you in many ways – from accelerating successful communication and decision-making to improving your overall business performance.
With our proven diagnostic tools, we support individuals, academic and corporate organisations from the first step of Recognising and Respecting cultural differences with keynotes, moderations, workshops and trainings towards Reconciliation and Realising with consulting.
We discover
What challenges are you facing?
We analyse your challenge
Which models will work the best to solve your needs?
The cornerstones of our approach are our models, developed by Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner and Peter Woolliams.
An outstanding intellectual property supported by over 30 years of research that makes our approach uniquely effective.
4R
Approach
“While most organization focus on recognizing cultural differences only (stereotypes), we try to help taking advantage of those differences.”
Dilemma
Thinking
“All people face the same dilemmas. It’s the culture that half kills you."
4 Corporate Cultures
“Organizational culture is the end result of competing values fighting for preference”
We partner with you
Which approach will deliver the best results?
Coaching
The THT CEO programme is an exclusive coaching journey designed for C- suite executives who need to be able to effectively respond to the cultural challenges that global leaders are faced with today.
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:
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, motivate, engage and entertain the audience.
He inspires 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 better future, where the opposite of diversity dance together and produce new value.
He engages
people by continously 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 humourous and funny real life/business examples, taken from over 30 years of travelling around the world riding the waves of culture.
Some of our happy 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.
