C-suite Culture Advisors
Strategy defines what you need to be good at. Cultura determines whether you will be.
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
- Innovación 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.
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 cultura 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.
Qué hacemos
Three ways we turn cultura 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
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 cultura actually does to performance. The body of work includes Subirse a las olas de la cultura — 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 7 dimensiones de la cultura 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.
Clientes
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.
Hablemos
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 methods inside your organisation with certified practitioners.
Invite co-founder Fons Trompenaars or partner Bas Kemme to speak on performance, culture and leadership.