Profile Jan Vincent Meertens
Intercultural (business) relations development partner. Social entrepreneur, author, moderator, (personal) coach, policy advisor intercultural affairs. I focus on meeting bottom-line targets and achieving social impact by providing practical skills that be applied immediately and effectively.
Associate partner at Hofstede Insights, founder at Connect2us. Founding board member of Foundation Fire Fighters Without Borders. and other non-profit organizations.
Having cultural empathy is an essential attribute for the successful global manager of today. Cross-cultural awareness is not just about behaviour, but also about understanding and sharing to create a sustainable win-win environment for you and your international partner. Having studied, lived and worked for more than three decades in different countries around the world, I offer coaching and guidance to global managers. To help improve communications between immigrant and host communities; to help develop sound cross-cultural business strategies, enhance cultural competencies, or prepare for international business missions and complex cross-cultural negotiations.
Specialties: intercultural management and negotiations; risk, crisis and disaster management.
Jan Vincent is author at The Xpat Journal: Read more…
Jan Vincent is founder of the International Centre for Emergency techniques (ICET). Read more about ICET…..