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This consultant is certified by itim International in Intercultural Management. This consultant is highly cultural competent with training skills based on many years of international work experience in increasing the global effectiveness of clients.
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Carel Jacobs (1949) is senior consultant/trainer for itim in The Netherlands. He has a Master’s degree from the University of Tilbury (The Netherlands) in social sciences with a specialisation in the sociology of organisations and management of change. After his study he attended courses on managing public administration, strategic management, strategic marketing, intercultural management, project management and information management.

Carel has always been working in the world of organisation development, managing change, training and education. He was consultant, trainer, project manager, interim manager and director in different organisations in both the public administration and the private sector. As a project manager in international projects and international meetings he became interested in cultural differences between participants from different countries and became enthusiastic about the works of Hofstede. Afterwards he became project manager and trainer in a number of international projects, e.g. in the Czech Republic, Romania, Lithuania and Slovakia.

Now as a senior consultant he supports organisations in drafting strategic business and strategic marketing, community building, integrated management, change management, total quality management, intercultural management, organisation culture and diversity. He is also professional moderator of strategic conferences and is trainer in moderation, management skills and intercultural management.

Carel has published five books, a tv-programme, videotapes and fifteen articles about integrated management, management of change, total quality management, information management, intercultural management, organisation culture, training needs analysis, new learning methods and transfer of training.

Carel speaks fluently Dutch (mother tongue), English and German.