Leadership & Culture Advisors
Turn different viewpoints into performance.
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 cultuur is doing its quiet work - it is rarely because people have not been told what matters. More often, it is because leaders have not yet translated strategic intent into the behaviours, choices and tensions that shape everyday work.
Culture is not changed by communication alone. It changes when leaders change what they notice, reward, challenge, tolerate and role-model - we can help leadership teams work at that level.
We are called in when strategy has to become action, when values have to become behaviour, and when cultural tensions are beginning to shape performance.
Typical situations we're asked to help with:
- A merger or acquisition where cultural integration will make or break the deal
- A strategy that is not translating into desired execution
- A culture conflict between business units
- A leadership team that is underperforming
Wat we doen
How we turn cultuur 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 – Risk Management — Risk control and organisational resilience.
- Functional Performance – Sustainability — Sustainable value creation.
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 Meedrijven op de golven van cultuur, now in its 4th edition and 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 Dimensies van Cultuur.
"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.
Klanten
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.
Laten we praten
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
→ Keynotes
Invite co-founder Fons Trompenaars or partner Bas Kemme to speak on performance, culture and leadership.
→ Training
Programs in Creating Your Organisation's Vision, Dilemma Reconciliation, and Servant Leadership.
Embed our models and tools inside your organisation with certified practitioners.