Fons Trompenaars is a world-renowned expert on international management and the author of the global bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. The cofounder and director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT), he is author or coauthor of eleven bestselling books on culture and business, innovation, and leadership.

Maarten Nijhoff Asser is a consultant at THT whose areas of expertise include the facilitation of change-management processes at the senior management level and the development of scenario planning workshops. His special interests are strategic dilemma reconciliation and action-learning-based leadership development programs, which he has facilitated with clients all over the world.