Leadership & Culture Advisors
Strategy defines what you need to be good at. Kultur determines whether you will be.
Trusted by Fortune 500 clients · 30+ years · Thinkers50 recognised
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 Kultur 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.
Was wir tun
How we turn Kultur into performance.
Every engagement starts with a tension that is eroding value.
We make it visible, work through it, and rewire the behaviours that keep reproducing it.
Creating performance
Where culture directly shapes growth, innovation, and value creation.
- Strategy & Culture Alignment — Making strategy deliver.
- Innovation Culture — Innovation that delivers.
- M&A Value Creation — Realising deal value.
Enabling performance
Building the leadership, diversity, and execution capability needed to deliver it.
- Leadership for Performance — Leading under complexity.
- Cross-Border and Diversity Effectiveness — Performance through differences.
- Functional Performance — Performance where it matters most.
Our thinking
Riding the Waves of Culture, and everything that followed.
For more than 30 years, THT co-founders Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner have shaped how leaders understand the link between culture and performance. Their work brings together global consulting practice and academic depth, including Charles Hampden-Turner’s long-standing role at the University of Cambridge and doctoral work at Harvard Business School. It includes Auf den Wellen der Kultur reiten, named a Thinkers50 Management Classic and translated into more than 20 languages with more than 300,000 copies sold, alongside 100+ further publications and proprietary models and tools now used by leaders and institutions worldwide, including the 7 Dimensionen der Kultur.
"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 recognising 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, the development of practical tools, certification and education.
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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.
Reconciliation
Every organisation faces tensions. Reconciliation means progress.
When dilemmas remain unresolved, performance suffers.
Great thinkers have long understood this:
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Without contraries there is no progression.”
— William Blake
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.
Lassen Sie uns reden
Turn tension into traction in your organisation.
Together we determine and implement what is critical to get right to increase performance.
Other ways to work with us
Programs in Creating Your Organisation's Vision, Dilemma Reconciliation, and Servant Leadership.
Embed our models and tools inside your organisation with certified practitioners.
Invite co-founder Fons Trompenaars or partner Bas Kemme to speak on performance, culture and leadership.