Veronica, an experienced Business Consultant, empowers organizations to thrive by unlocking their people’s potential.
Her career at multinational companies like Barilla and Nestlé in Marketing, Innovation, and Insights instilled a systemic approach, results-oriented mindset, and deep understanding of business dynamics, all focused on the human element.
This background informs Veronica’s consulting practice, focusing on Strategic Human Capital Development. Veronica analyzes complex organizational dynamics, identifies talent gaps, and builds comprehensive strategies aligned with long-term business objectives, ensuring talent development fuels success.
Veronica excels at designing engaging people development experiences that converge into change management projects. Her programs foster skill development through impactful blended learning experiences and include initiatives that enhance employee engagement and translate training into measurable changes, as well as an initial Soft Skills’ Assessment phase.
Cross-cultural expertise is Veronica’s passion. A contract professor of “Intercultural Integration for business” at Milan’s University Statale, she designs successful projects with diverse clients. Her fluency in navigating perspectives and fostering reconciliation makes her a trusted partner, guiding organizations through complexities with empathy and communication strategies.
Co-author of 的 the Italian and English version of The Covid-19 Survival Guide: Dilemmas and Solutions, Veronica integrates her approach not only in cross-cultural settings, but also in Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), Systems Thinking, Leadership, Talent Development, and Self-empowerment fields.
娜塔莎目前居住在纳米比亚,2006 年至今,她在纳米比亚创办了成长培训与咨询服务公司(Grow Training & Advisory Services CC),其唯一目的是通过主要提供人力资源开发、项目管理和组织发展服务,增强纳米比亚人和(企业)社区的能力,以实现他们的战略目标和抱负。她的客户既有较小的本地公司,也有较大的政府和企业组织,如美国大使馆国务院、莱索托能源部、纳米比亚银行、联合国儿童基金会、世界卫生组织、联合国艾滋病规划署以及 Old Mutual Property and Investment Group。.
Dr. Nori Furuya has been involved in global business management for more than 25 years at Japan Airlines, and also in the training & consulting field for more than 13 years. He has lived and worked in the United States, UK, Kuwait, and Bahrain. During this time, he served as expatriate manager of Japan Airlines. He holds a Bachelor Degree of Social Science of Waseda University, and Master of Busienss Administration of Aoyama Gakuin University. He also holds Ph.D. of Tsukuba Unviersity in the area of Global Human Resource Management.
He served as Adjunct Professor on Management Program of Kanagawa University. He is also an International Business Advisory Board Member and Visiting professor of University of Missouri, St.Louis in the United States.
Currently, Nori Furuya is involved in research & consultancy activities on Global Human Resource Management and has been working in the areas of global management development, and transnational cultural management as a consultant, trainer and coach.
Hank is an internationally recognized leadership development strategist, facilitator, keynote speaker, consultant, coach and author on the subject of Strategic Business Leadership and Personal Mastery. With a background in the ICT industry and over 15 Years of experience with global leadership development organizations such as The Ken Blanchard Companies, Roche Martin (EQ), Wiley (DiSC + Patrick Lencioni).
He has worked with an impressive array of clients from “C” level to supervisors in over 26 countries in a wide range of industries including ICT, Finance, Engineering, Mobile Telecommunications, Mining, Pharmaceutical, Health, Aged Care, Recruitment, FMCG, Manufacturing and Banking.
His extensive experience of combining pragmatic Leadership Development through Dilemma Reconciliation and Servant Leadership enables the support of culture and business challenges by making them real through simplifying complex problems with alignment of Organizational Culture and Team Member programs at all levels to ensure they achieve their objectives. He delivers a thought-provoking message with his energetic and entertaining style that maintains interest and engagement throughout.
Hank is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders through his Teenage Resilience Program called “Yes I Can – Resilience” Which has been translated into 10 Languages.
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“Hank van der Merwe delivers a powerful message. An outstanding speaker, coach and consultant, he lives the message he gives. No matter what your circumstances are, after working with Hank, you will leave feeling smarter, more capable and more excited about your work, your life, and your possibilities.” Jesse Lyn Stoner, (Best Selling Author of Full Steam Ahead)
Prof Henri Bezuidenhout, tenured professor and accredited executive coach has broad experience in consultancy, teaching, training, mentoring, and coaching. Having more than 20 accredited peer reviewed publication about Multinationals operating in Africa Henri has a two-track interest in the role of culture in the success of business, especially in Africa, as well as personal development and leadership empowerment for young upcoming leaders.
Henri has broad based experience in cross-cultural competency, organisational culture, dynamic leadership teams and the link to organisational outcomes. He has with over 25 of years of experience of consulting in a range of organizations, both private and public, in different countries and regions. His current focus is on achieving behavioural change for organisational outcomes.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is Professor in International Trade at the School of Economics at North-West University, Potchefstroom in South Africa. He is also a Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD Distinguished Scholar and is a Professional Certified Coach. This is augmented with certification in various cultural methodologies and tools; as well as leadership development tools like Gallup Strengthsfinder and The Values Factor.
Ivy has over 30 years of international management consulting experience. Her areas of specializations include, Change & Project management, Business Performance Improvement, Organization Development, Learning and Competency management, Incentive Design and Cross-Cultural competence (CCC).
Ivy has worked with several respected management consulting organizations, including KPMG, BearingPoint, Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Towers Watson and Mercer. While with KPMG, Ivy worked and/or lived across several countries in Europe and US. Namely, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy (Rome), Portugal, England, France, Scandinavia, Czech Republic (Prague) and San Francisco & NY. She continues to actively network professionally and personally in those and several other countries and considers herself a “global citizen”. This elevated and consistent levels of global exposure has helped her in building practical insights into how cultural differences impact business environments, further, to develop solutions in order to reconcile the challenges that arise in multicultural and international business teams, using Trompenaars Hampden & Turner (THT) methodology. She is a licensee of THT.
Ivy has been extensively associated with the information technology (IT, BPO, KPO etc.) sector in India since early 2000 and has a deep knowledge of the industry. She has also advised in the manufacturing & engineering, financial services, hospitality and healthcare spaces in India. She also consults extensively in the SMEs/ Family-owned businesses and Start-ups.
Ivy has been part of and has also led several global initiatives of methodology, curriculum and learning program development in wide variety of subjects. She continues to design, develop and deliver training curriculum and programs in the areas of People & Change management and CCC across business sectors in India.
She is a visiting faculty of IIM Bangalore where she teaches the advanced MBA programs in the areas of CCC, Change Management and Advanced Consulting Skills.
IIvy has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Delhi and is an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University.
She currently lives in Bangalore, India and runs an initiative on developing Global Cross-Cultural Competence in corporates and business environments in India and Asia.
Passionate about people, purpose and making a difference. Committed to a life-long learning. Strategic thinker and hands on executer, focusing not on resources but on resourcefulness. Global citizen. Cultural competent. DEI Advocate, celebrating our differences. Global work experience, with a focus on Africa and SEA for the last 10 years.
With over 20 years’ experience in driving and facilitating meaningful business and personal transformations through learning interventions, Roosmarijn is a specialist in realising positive organisational change. WSQ ACLP certified.
Roosmarijn has lived and worked in Asia for the past 10 years, having previously worked across Europe and in the US. Her international perceptive and experience has deepened her knowledge in training on intercultural issues and communication. She has developed, built and implemented training curricula.
Roosmarijn is currently leading the work around D&I and Anti-Racism at United World College of South East Asia. She is also facilitating their professional development on unconscious bias to all staff members and key stakeholder groups to promote positive and meaningful change, with a strong focus on anti-racism.
Barbara’s passion lies in helping individuals, groups and teams develop their cross culture competence in order to help clients benefit from the (cultural) value differences they experience in both their professional and private lives.
Born to Dutch parents, Barbara grew up in Canada where she completed degrees in Comparative International Studies and Native (Indigenous) Studies, as well as a Master of Social Work (MSW). Involved from a young age in international peace organizations, she furthered pursued her interest in cross cultural relations working and living in different parts of Canada, Ecuador and Israel, as well as completing an internship in Kenya. She speaks fluent English and Dutch, as well as moderate French and basic Spanish.
Prior to relocating to the Netherlands, Barbara supervised a variety of national education projects and was an educator for young adults in a variety programs. She has also worked with the Canadian Ministry of Health on various National Workshop projects.
Barbara worked as a trainer and programme director at Trompenaars Hampden-Turner till 2015 liaising with global corporate clients, national and international educational institutions and international business schools. In addition, she was also an assistant professor for both the International Business Administration and the Master’s Cross Cultural Management courses at the Vrije University in Amsterdam and co-translated Fons Trompenaars and Ed Voerman’s book, Servant-leadership across cultures.
She joined KPMG in the Netherlands in 2015 as a consultant in People and Change and most recently, progressed to the Amsterdam School of International Business as a lecturer and Community Manager, CET/Program Manager in 2020.
Carlo Capponi has over 20 years international experience in finance, operations and strategy consulting.
He began his career in Montedison, an Italian conglomerate, in 1987. In 1995 he founded UBK Consulting. During his career, he advised global clients in managing international expansion, improving operational efficiency and implementing organizational restructuring programs in various industries, including IT, energy, life sciences, medical services, semiconductors, infrastructures and transportation.
Mr. Capponi has German and Italian roots and studied business and economics at Bocconi University (Milan), where he was Contract Professor for Strategic Planning and Technology Management from 1995 to 1999. He is bilingual with Italian and German, fluent in English and has a good command of Spanish and Portuguese. He holds citizenships from Germany and Italy.
豪尔赫还在一些最重要的大学担任过教师,如 ICADE、Antonio de Nebrija 大学或 San Pablo CEU 商学院;他还是 ESADE 咨询委员会的成员。他在不同的权威期刊上发表过多篇文章,并与他人合作撰写人员管理方面的专业著作,其中最著名的有《La Gestión adecuada de personas》和《Modelos y experiencias innovadoras en la gestión de los recursos》。.
Henk brings over 35 years of International Management and Business Advisory experience. He has a profound experience in how differences in culture and ways of working internationally affect business, gained while working in various industries.
Henk was a Managing Partner of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner from 2006 to 2019. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Partner in Charge of Management Consulting in KPMG Portugal. From 1989 to 1994 he facilitated the Post Merger Integration of KPMG Consulting in Europe as Executive Partner. The creation of ONE international network of over 80 practices in 25 countries was aimed at cross border co-operation, where cultural differences and diversity were embraced and brought together. He also had intensive working relations with the Americas and Asia Pacific. Prior to this he was Executive Manager in Interim Management in KPMG Consulting in the Netherlands.