THT is the world`s leading cross-cultural management consultancy. Based in Amsterdam and Boston, and with a global network of associates, THT provides consulting, training, coaching and learning services to help leaders and professionals manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas. THT particularly focuses on cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions, globalization processes, and developing corporate vision and values. Fons Trompenaars is an acclaimed world-class management guru and author of numerous cross-cultural management books. Professor Charles Hampden-Turner is one of the most original thought leaders on the topic of reconciling dilemmas. Other key figures in THT include Professor Peter Wooliams. Please feel free to visit THT`s web-site to learn more about their products and services.

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Fons Trompenaars

Fons Trompenaars is the founder and managing director of THT. Fons studied Economics at the Free University of Amsterdam and later earned a Ph.D. from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a dissertation on differences in conceptions of organizational structure in various cultures. He experienced cultural differences firsthand at home, where he grew up speaking both French and Dutch, and then later at work, with Shell in nine countries.
Fons` work in Shell focused on job classification and management development.
In 1989 Fons founded the Centre for International Business Studies (CIBS), an international management consulting and training organization. In 1998, CIBS was re-named THT Consulting. Fons has worked for numerous clients including Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.
Fons Trompenaars has authored numerous books and publications including Riding the Waves of Culture which sold over 120,000 copies and was translated into French, German, Dutch, Korean, Danish, Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian and Portuguese. He is co-author of The Seven Cultures of Capitalism , Building Cross-Cultural Competence and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century with Charles Hampden-Turner. More recently, Fons has published the Across Cultures series of books: Business Across Cultures, Managing People Across Cultures, Marketing Across Cultures, and Managing Change Across Cultures.

Charles Hampden-Turner

Charles Hampden-Turner is Professor of Business at the University of Cambridge Judge Institute of Management Studies. He received his masters and doctorate degrees from the Harvard Business School and was the recipient of the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award, as well as the Columbia University Prize for the Study of the Corporation.
He won Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford Foundation Fellowships and has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, Digital Equipment, The Economic Council of Canada, the BBC, Philips, Nissan, DSM, Dow Chemical, AMD, Sematech and Apple computers among others.
Charles Hampden-Turner joined THT in 1990. He has conducted research throughout Europe and North America and is the author of nine books, including: Maps of the Mind, translated into French, German and Dutch, Charting the Corporate Mind, and Corporate Culture: Vicious and Virtuous Circles. He has worked with Fons Trompenaars on The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Mastering the Infinite Game , Building Cross-Cultural Competence and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century.

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