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This time a post in Dutch, as it’s about Dutch stuff: something political you don’t want to understand if you’re…

Much of cross-cultural training bought in the corporate world is the right solution to the wrong problem and yields low…

Train your mind for unconventional approaches in 10 weeks We all think that we are reasonably good listeners. At least…

Let me not write a lengthy introduction but get to the point straight away. Learning in classrooms is often ineffective….

I recently facilitated sessions with future leaders of a company in Eastern Europe, in the context of a leadership development…

When you opened this website today, I’m sure you noticed something has changed. I hope you did. My ‘branding’ and…

The program Influence & Accountability that runs at one of my main clients has been planned in the calendar of…

Negotiation trainings are among my favourite trainings to give. While you read this newsletter or blog, I’m conducting a 3-day…

Last Friday International Business and Languages student Kitty interviewed me about my new program ‘Working with the US’. In my…

Last night I wrote an email to a colleague of mine, with a proposal for the design of a team intervention…

This is part 2 in a series of 2 blogs on the Brexit negotiation strategy. Read part 1 here. In…

This is the first in a series of 2 blogs on the Brexit negotiation strategy When the political campaign for…

I believe there is “Strength in Diversity” and for that reason this became the ‘tagline’ for my company. The work…

More regular blogs on this website. More Newsletters. Just some of the goals I have set myself for 2017. I…

Reading many articles on personal development and leadership, I recently noticed a pattern in blogs and articles that bothered me….

In every workshop on intercultural awareness we get to speak quickly about ‘culture bias’. We have certain expectations about the…

I spent the last week in Bangalore, India, on invitation of NXP Semiconductors and Tata Consultancy, training 80 IT back-office…

5 Tips for the Dutch to have effective meetings abroad I still recall very well my first customer visit in…

Finnish prime minister Sipilä said this morning that the decision to give new support to the Greeks is a step…

De Finse premier Sipilä noemt het besluit om de Grieken opnieuw noodsteun te verlenen vanmorgen een stap in de goede…