We’ve been in business for three decades and counting and have helped global businesses successfully navigate change through cultural intelligence.
If you combine data, processes and warmth in a big, Dutch pot, you’ll end up with Hans. Straightforward, humorous, but unmistakably orange-blooded. Don’t expect a ‘quick chat’ with Hans, who is never short of something to say. Fortunately it’s worth the wait – and proof that Dutch directness isn’t always concise!
Aaron was compiled in binary by an AI that wanted someone to do the hard work. Coming into daylight once every 20 years, he is particularly good at making impossible problems go away. Just don’t ask him to turn the camera on. But a great virtual sense of humor reassures us that there is some human in there…we think.
There are black holes that aren’t as deep as Russ’ depth of knowledge and insight into cultural intelligence. His knack for helping others explore the power of cultural intelligence and diversity is instinctive and intensely practical. Russ is also open to exploring the depths of flavor in a good wine, and, like wine, Russ is complex, but engaging, with a note of oak!
Recognizing the power of cultural intelligence leads to some amazing ideas.
Chris Crosby and Hans van der Linden both wanted to change the way businesses think about culture when they met while doing an MBA in Paris. Building Country Navigator with a solid foundation in cultural intelligence and inclusion in 1992, they’ve led the way in finding innovative ways to transform the organizations Country Navigator partners with.
Our CEO, Chris Crosby, summarizes our values, in a quotation by Mexican Poet and diplomat, Octavio Paz:
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilisations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilisation for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life”
We offer high impact, blended learning solutions focused on cultural intelligence and inclusion. Our Learning Signature is based on proven principles of adult learning and aims to deliver sustainable learning grounded in practical application:
Whether working through digital content or taking part in a live workshop supported by blended content, Country Navigator learners develop practical and impactful ways to develop their cultural intelligence and inclusive behaviors.
Country Navigator learning solutions can transform your organization, delivering tangible, measurable results.
We offer practical real world cultural intelligence coaching to help organizations solve their real-world cultural intelligence and inclusion challenges
With over three decades of experience under our belts, we’re experts in supporting global businesses successfully navigate their complex and unique challenges. Let’s explore how we could help you.