Intercultural Business Improvement is a training and consultancy company specializing in cross-border and cultural diversity programmes. Founded by Oscar van Weerdenburg and Ursula Brinkmann, PhD, the company brings together a team of professionals dedicated to helping organizations benefit from and enjoy the diversity of their people.

We draw on a global network of over 200 intercultural experts to help us deliver expatriate and team building programmes, both online and in-person.

We use evidence-based training strategies in our programs on cultural differences, intercultural competency development and effective diversity training. We’ve successfully delivered over 500 programs for international staff and coached numerous culturally diverse teams. Our interventions turn diversity into a strength rather than a source of conflict. Our expertise includes leadership coaching, cultural role-playing with bi-cultural actors, cross-cultural problem solving, dilemma resolution and multi-party negotiation training. We offer engaging presentations tailored to audiences of all sizes.

Based in the Netherlands, we are intimately familiar with Dutch business culture. We’ve helped countless companies, teams and expatriates navigate the nuances of working with Dutch clients, colleagues, and suppliers.

We have developed the Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), a leading intercultural assessment tool that measures four essential intercultural competencies. The IRC has been used by more than 700 certified professionals and has helped more than 90,000 individuals and organizations improve their intercultural effectiveness. In 2014, we published Intercultural Readiness: Four competences for working across cultures (Palgrave), which outlines our approach to intercultural competency development and contextualizes the IRC competencies within broader research on intercultural effectiveness.