Oscar van Weerdenburg is a senior coach and consultant working with a wide-range of blue chip companies who operate in a complex multicultural environment. He has held numerous seminars and presentations on diversity and team development, international negotiations, managing cultural differences, and global leadership development.
What do I do?
Consulting on cultural diversity is inspiring. My aim is to make people curious about cultural differences, to allow them to see that it can be energizing and fun to explore different perspectives on the same situation.
Methods & focal points
My methods can be untraditional. With 30 years into globalization, business people in the 21st century have become a little overconfident about working internationally.
- “Oscar was excellent and his demonstrations and course material delivered home some simple, but very valuable lessons which will remain ingrained for the rest of my life.”
- “Toyota is truly a multi-cultural company with all challenges such environment will bring. Oscar provided a very concrete approach how to manage these challenges and he created a great learning environment with his vast knowledge and warm personality. I could definitely recommend to attend his sessions.” / Fredrik Fjellstedt, Leadership Development Manager
- “Oscar is an entertaining and experienced presenter. It was amazing to see how he was able to use some of his observations during the morning program in his keynote speech at the end of our conference.” / Casper Havinga, FMO
Speaking style
Drawing on many years of global business experience, Oscar builds his presentations around real-life examples of business people facing tough cross cultural issues and choices.
He never fails to engage his audience with his dry humor, enabling them to see as an entertaining and engaging speaking style. He knows how to combine colorful examples with research data and humorous remarks with provocative, new insights. He can easily adjust his format. He has worked with audiences up until 3,500 people.