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Effective Intercultural Collaboration

  • Does your company do business across borders or do you work with employees of different origins?
  • Do you have questions about other cultures, your own organisational culture or the effectiveness of your intercultural team?
  • Do you want more diversity and inclusiveness within your organisation?
  • Do you want to improve customer service intercultural communication?
  • Do you want to get the most out of your international cooperation?

Cultural Insights offers insight and a practical approach. In our programmes, participants learn to understand the effect of cultural differences on communication, decision-making, motivation, leadership, innovation and staff turnover, among other things. Together, we uncover the patterns and develop strategies to successfully use the knowledge and insights gained, both in society and in business.

Our team

Our team of experienced experts will guide you on an exciting journey of discovery and growth! The permanent core consists of Alette Vonk, Brigitte Opel and Saskia Maarse. They each have their own company and work independently as trainers, coaches and/or speakers. Within Cultural Insights, they join forces. They also have an extensive and very diverse network of trainers and coaches with expertise in various subjects, so that all possible questions can be answered.

Read about the training and change processes below.

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Intercultural management

Strengthen your team's intercultural skills for smoother and more successful collaboration.
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Intercultural communication

Avoid misunderstandings and misunderstandings and make sure your message comes across in diverse cultural settings.
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Intercultural Change Management

Create the most optimal organisational culture in an international setting or in a general sense.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Create more diversity and inclusion, make more objective decisions and exploit differences in your organisation.
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Intercultural coaching

Strengthen your personal skills to bridge cultural gaps and be better prepared on the road.
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Saskia Maarse

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Saskia Maarse is a Dutch intercultural speaker, trainer and author. For six years, she researched how Dutch culture is experienced by people from other cultures. She did so through in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and managers from 30 different countries. She wrote two books on the subject: Tutti frutti – Success in a colourful and entreprising Netherlands and Onder de zeespiegel – collaborating and living together with the Dutch.

Saskia’s fascination for cultural differences started at a young age. She worked in tourism for over ten years, including several years in France, Spain, Italy and Austria. Her work experience abroad and her subsequent trip around the world broadened her view of the world and its inhabitants. Her research provided Saskia with much: more cultural awareness and extensive knowledge about Dutch culture in relation to other cultures.

Saskia’s mission is to provide as many people and organisations as possible with cultural insights and awareness in an accessible and inspiring way, so that more understanding of different cultures is created.

“During our team building day in Openluchtmuseum Arnhem we have had the pleasure to enjoy a very interesting cultural awareness workshop focussing on the Dutch culture in comparison with other cultures, how other cultures see us Dutch and what we can learn with the 6 principles of intercultural working from Saskia Maarse. The diverse group that we were with 25 people, 6 nationalities and even more cultures (including Frisian and Limburg) were really enthusiastic and even more understood the importance of good communication (verbal and visual) in international business.”
Marko van der Smitte, Sales Director Alfa Laval

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