Tag: Africa

“Wonderful experience”

Group Photo to show the management team

After one of our consultants did a few online trainings, she finally got the chance to do a face-to-face training with this management team in Ghana. They had covered quite some ground online, yet they all felt the incredible difference with this one. Being in the room, being able to laugh, touch, discuss and look […]

Book presentation in Portugal

Compilation of the venue and speakers of the book presentation

On the 4th of July one of the members of the Cooperative was happy to present her book once more. This time for a room full of Portuguese businessmen, academia and (former) colleagues ánd former professors of Vasco Freitas Silva (co-author). In a pretty Casa do Corim, in Porto, the book was received with enthusiasm, […]

Global Water

A world map in water streams and waves fits with global water management.

Alette just finalized a series of intercultural workshops for a company that specializes in Water Management throughout the globe. Love it how the wall paper matches their core business.

Creating happy clients

CCIFG Team sitting together following the online workshop

On the 26th of April Alette gave an online workshop on intercultural communication to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Ghana. It inspired Manager Director Armelle Sae-Jeanne, coming from Martinique, working for a French organization in Ghana, to write the following: “No, I could not complete this assignment on time I was not feeling […]

Book Launch

Book launch Cultural Confluence

On the 5th of April 2024 Alette Vonk and Vasco Silva organized a smashing Book launch in Leiden. Creating spaces of confluence.

Book is published!

Cover Cultural Confluence in Organizational Change

The book by Alette Vonk and Vasco Silva, about intercultural change management in Sub-Sahara Africa, was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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