C-suite Culture Advisors

Strategy defines what you need to be good at. 文化 determines whether you will be.

We help leaders build high-performance cultures that turn different perspectives into better collaboration, more innovative solutions, and stronger execution.

Trusted by Fortune 500 clients · 30+ years · Thinkers50 recognised

Reconciliation

Every organisation faces tensions

When these remain unresolved, performance suffers:

Global vs. local
Speed vs. control
创新 vs. discipline
Short-term vs. long-term

Real leaders distinguish decisions from dilemmas. Then they move beyond either-or choices and even beyond both-and thinking to through-through reconciliations, in which each side strengthens the other.

Situations

When strategy isn't the problem

We're called when leaders have the right strategy, the right talent, and the right intent — and execution still stalls. Usually because culture is doing its quiet work.

Typical situations we're asked to help with:

A strategy that won't translate into behaviour on the ground
A merger or acquisition where cultural integration will make or break the deal
A global operating model strained by local realities
A leadership team that needs to move from alignment on slides to alignment in action
A function — Sales, Marketing, Finance — underperforming across markets

If any of these look familiar, we should talk.

Explore our solutions

我们的工作

Three ways we turn culture into performance.

Every engagement starts with a tension that's costing the organisation value.
We find it, work through it, and rewire the behaviours that let it keep happening.

Culture Alignment & Leadership

Translating strategy into values, behaviours, and decisions that deliver it — and developing the leaders who reconcile competing demands as they do.

Strategy & Culture Alignment · Leadership for High Performance

Global & Cross-Cultural Effectiveness

Driving collaboration across borders, functions, and diverse teams by reconciling different perspectives into better decisions, innovation, and execution.

Cross-Border & Cross-Functional Collaboration · Turning Diversity into Performance

Transactions & Functional Performance

Protecting and accelerating value where culture drives financial outcomes — in M&A integrations and in high-stakes functions where trade-offs weaken results.

M&A Culture Integration & Value Creation · Performance in Critical Functions

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Our thinking

Riding the Waves of Culture, and everything that followed.

For 30+ years, THT co-founders Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner have led the research into what culture actually does to performance. The body of work includes 乘着文化的浪潮 — named a Thinkers50 Management Classic and translated into more than 20 languages with 300,000+ copies sold — over 100 further publications, and proprietary models now used by leaders and institutions worldwide, including the 文化的 7 个层面 and the 4R approach to dilemma reconciliation.

"Any value disconnected from its opposite leads to a pathology."

"The value of a value is in the degree to which it helps reconcile a dilemma."

"Organisational culture is the end result of competing values fighting for preference."

"Innovation is combining values that are not easily joined, therefore scarce, therefore profitable."

"While most models focus on recognizing cultural differences only, we take advantage of those differences."

"Until you can point to what a value means on a Tuesday morning… you do not have a value. You have a slogan."

This is why we do what we do: to help organisations build stronger cultures, and to advance the broader understanding of culture itself through ongoing research, practical tools, and deep insight applied where it matters.

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→ Read about our new book, Tension to Traction (publishing 2026)

Clients

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 organisational and international borders by building meaningful connections.