Fons Trompenaars, PHD, is Director of Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting, an innovative centre of excellence on intercultural management. He is the world's foremost authority on cross-cultural management and is author of many books and related articles. He is CEO of THT Consulting and Culture Factory and Visiting Professor at The Free University of Amsterdam.

Peter Woolliams, PHD, is Professor Emeritus of International Management at Anglia Ruskin College, UK, and is partner in THT Consulting and its technical subsidiary Culture Factory. He has collaborated and published jointly with Fons over some 25 years. He has worked with Fons to develop a whole series of diagnostic apps and profiling tools and cultural databases which has led to the creation of the intellectual property of THT Consulting.