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Fons Trompenaars

Consultant, Trainer, Motivational Speaker and Author

Earned a Ph.D. from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Fons Trompenaars has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

Fons Trompenaars 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.

Listed regularly in the past decade as one of the world’s most influential, living, management thinkers, he has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

Listed regularly for many years as one of the world’s most influential, living, management thinkers, Fons Trompenaars is recognized the world over for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business. As Founder and Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner, an intercultural management and consultancy firm, he and his team has spent over 20 years helping Fortune 500 leaders and professionals manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in the areas of globalization, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership development.

Trompenaars Hampden-Turner have the largest cross cultural database in the world in which we have captured the key business issues that relate to cultural differences. Together with our corporate and dilemma databases, we have approximately 100,000 records from over 100 countries that underpin our work and enable us to benchmark challenges faced by our clients. This rich intellectual capital offers direction to solutions for improved performance and future sustainability.

About

Fons Trompenaars

Consultant, Trainer, Motivational Speaker and Author

Fons Trompenaars has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).

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