25 years leading global teams with different nationalities & cultures
Designed & presented workshops on understanding cultural differences
Certified to use and teach Professor Fons Trompenaars’ (Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Consulting) tools and processes to integrate and manage differences that arise in national, organisational, functional, disciplinary and cultural orientations, including dilemma reconciliation
Co-writer & organizer of the ‘Great Expatations’ film on how other nationalities living in Holland view the Netherlands
Setting up required business working culture in the new Fonterra Europe
Diversity & Inclusion
25 years awareness of American and global D&I issues
Created & chaired D&I Council at Shell Amsterdam
Drew up & managed annual D&I plans for global organisations
Sponsored & helped create a Women’s Network with Shell
Ran women’s mentoring circles
Previous examples
Culture
Inter-cultural business partnerships (e.g. Eataly restaurant complex in Moscow with Italian global company; Kubota European organisation of the Japanese company; TNK-BP International Businesses)
Designed & presented THIS Masterclass on Hospitality and how different cultural expectations can be managed for Dutch businessmen, women & entrepreneurs
Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) Young DPI Day on cultural awareness
Invited presentation on my personal experiences of doing business in the BRICS countries at Nijenrode Business School
Diversity & Inclusion
Designed & presented D&I workshops on: the workplace; general awareness; gender; generational differences at Shell
Developed Onboarding course for all staff at Fonterra Europe, covering all aspects of work including culture & inclusion
Invited to talk about D&I mentoring sessions and setting up D&I councils at D&I meetings/conferences
Offering
Business consultancy (e.g. management of cultural differences, dilemma reconciliation, business case, D&I plans, D&I Councils etc)
Workshops/presentations on Culture and D&I
Awareness & events for different cultures & nationalities
