GROVEWELL’s associates – based all across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas – are independent professionals with years of corporate management experience, extensive education and formal qualifications, and experience living and working across boundaries.   Read the professional biographies of all our associates at Grovewell.com/associates. 

GROVEWELL LLC was founded in 1990 by interculturalist Dr. Cornelius Grove, who was soon joined in partnership by anthropologist Willa Zakin Hallowell.  Their professional expertise accounts for GROVEWELL’s specialization: Its strategic services are culturally calibrated to reflect local and regional business practices, mindsets, and values.  GROVEWELL’s services are genuinely global; i.e., global in substance and approach, not merely in distribution.

Culturally calibrated services take “culture” into account.  Culture refers to the perspectives, social expectations, and patterns of behavior that people learn in their respective home localities as they grow up from earliest childhood.   Later, as adult business leaders, these same people negotiate and collaborate with counterparts from abroad, that is, with people who from childhood learned a different set of values and behavior patterns.  It’s true that national cultures are similar in some respects, leading to synergies.  But experience and research show that different national and corporate cultures often clash, yielding slowdowns and breakdowns in working relationships, and thus to lost global business opportunities.

GROVEWELL is an heir and beneficiary of the intercultural field.  Founded around 1960 and based on research, the intercultural field is dedicated to developing practical solutions to the day-to-day challenges encountered by people who work with others across boundaries. 

STRATEGIC CONSULTING:  GROVEWELL's services are most cost-effective when it partners with you at the beginning of a global strategy development process.  GROVEWELL’s consultants know what questions to ask about the impact of culture on business activities in various world regions, and they will help you find and apply customized solutions.  They can also advise you as you design organizational changes to better compete in the global arena.  With GROVEWELL’s guidance, your strategy-building will proactively plan ways of avoiding cultural clashes and of leveraging cultural synergies.  Please visit Grovewell.com/Consult.

EXECUTIVE COACHING:  Coaching for Global Advantage^SM, GROVEWELL’s signature service, merges the methods of executive coaching with the research base of intercultural consulting.  Blending these two disciplines yields a performance-driven, culturally calibrated approach to genuinely global executive coaching – appropriate for your executives who are determined to develop their capacity for global leadership and for those facing a challenging transition due to relocation, company change, and/or promotion.  More details are at Grovewell.com/Coach.

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SOLUTIONS:  GROVEWELL LLC can assist you as an individual and/or the leadership team of which you are a member to broaden your global competencies, upgrade your virtual team’s performance, strengthen your ability to capture market share abroad, or master other global business challenges.  GROVEWELL also has years of experience enhancing the effectiveness of international transferees.  See our full menu at Grovewell.com/Lead.

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE CENTER:  GROVEWELL also maintains an on-line library where you may immediately read more than 30 practice-oriented articles and, at no cost, acquire many others via post.  Visit this valuable global business resource at Grovewell.com/Know. 

Finally, we invite you to read GROVEWELL's short Vision for Global Leaders by clicking here.

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