Leveraging diversity for innovation and performance - 26 April 2021 @ 16:00 CEST (14:00 UTC)

Culture is the way in which a group of people solve problems and reconcile dilemmas. Fons will showcase this using the Trompenaars Hampden-Turner 7 Dimensions of Culture.

When the ‘hard side’ of business and strategy clashes with culture, culture always wins. Culture is an enabler for successful relations, but also a minefield for potential conflicts.

In order to leverage the strength of diversity, one should move beyond nationality, gender, and ethnicity, by incorporating the multiple layers of values that form perceptions and guide behaviours.

Diversity can only lead to higher performance if it goes beyond social justice and equal treatment. It is an essential ingredient and pre-condition for growth and innovation:

To increase participant’s awareness of their own (and their coachees) approaches to diversity and the underlying assumptions that influences one’s ability to deal with situations more effectively
To develop the mindset of inclusion and the manifestations thereof with employees, colleagues, and other stakeholders.

Watch a brief introduction to this online event here

Dr Fons Trompenaars is a Dutch organisational theorist, recognised around world for his work as a consultant, trainer, motivational speaker, and author of various books, on all subjects of culture and business.

He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas, to increase global effectiveness and performance. Particularly in the areas of globalisation, mergers, acquisition, and HR and leadership development.

He was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2017 as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. He has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development and voted one of the top 20 HR Most Influential International Thinkers in 2011 by HR Magazine.