ABOUT US
Transcultural Synergy is a network of intercultural management
consultants and trainers working in various parts of the world, including
Japan, Korea, Singapore, U.S.A., Canada, England, Germany, France and Switzerland.
Associates are professionals in intercultural communications, training
and consulting, involved as management consultants, negotiators, human resource
professionals, trainers, curriculum designers, researchers and business communication
consultants. These multicultural and
multilingual professionals are committed to delivering the highest level of
intercultural expertise to clients’ projects.
Depending on the clients’ individual needs
appropriate consultants will be assigned according to required speciality
in terms of industry, cultures and objectives.
Transcultural Synergy assists
businesses who are dealing in the global marketplace with matters arising
from different cultural paradigms, by providing knowledge and raising awareness
of the value systems behind them, with a special emphasis on the skills necessary
to succeed in business across cultures.
Our Aims
Transcultural Synergy's long term vision is to develop teams of diverse interdisciplinary and
international experts in strategic locations around the globe whose purpose
it is to work together synergistically to help forward-looking commercial
groups and organisations grow and achieve high potential through international
people management support. This can be for:
- existing larger global corporations
forming global mergers and alliances, by facilitating human and organisational
integration through intercultural understanding and synergy. Or
- emerging technologies and 'new
economy' international companies, combining global skills, SME commercial
& management skills and venture capital input.
In either case
our focus is people in an intercultural context, not only within a client
organisation, but also externally with its customers. We do this because we believe it is the people in the end who are
going make the contributing difference between competing organisations in
the future.
Consultants and associates are part of our international network. They are professionals in intrercultural communications, training and consulting, involved as management consultants, human resource professionals, curriculum designers, researchers and business communications trainers.
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About the Founder
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......Transcultural Synergy was founded by François Knuchel in 1998 with the purpose of assisting European and Asian corporate clients with effective intercultural management solutions to their international operations. François Knuchel draws on a wealth of experience as an intercultural management consultant, trainer and curriculum designer, with over 20 years’ experience working with international executives, managers and directors, mainly in Japan. Born in the UK in 1953, François Knuchel was educated in England and Switzerland, studied history and linguistics at Basel University and has a B.A. in Intercultural Communications with Great Distinction from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After a year at the Federal Polytechnic University in Zurich and extensive travels to different continents, he settled in Kobe, Japan, as a business communications consultant. |
Seconded as Project Manager to Management & Communications
Consultants Ltd for over 2 years at Suzuki Motors’ head office and main car
plant, François Knuchel headed a team of training specialists to assist Suzuki
in their major Technology Transfer of manufacturing and management know-how
to the GM-Suzuki joint-venture plant, CAMI, in Canada. Being totally integrated within the Suzuki team, he became intimately
familiar with Japanese management styles and principles, such as TQC, JIT
& Kaizen, and the way Japanese corporations work; along the way he became an ‘expert’ in Japanese
lean automotive manufacturing processes.
In 1994, after over twelve years in Japan, Mr Knuchel returned
to Europe and joined Dzus Fastener Europe Ltd in the UK as Sales Manager for
Japan with the task of developing the business and expanding sales in Japan.
After the acquisition of Dzus by McKechnie plc in 1996 he became Regional
Manager for Asia-Pacific, overall responsible for all marketing, sales and
operations from Australia to China and India. He is fluent in English, German
(Swiss German), French and can conduct business in Japanese.
He founded Transcultural Synergy
in 1998, but has been considerably involved as an independent consultant in
strategy and international marketing, as a member of the Confederation of
Business Strategists. In 2000 he co-founded Route 2 Solutions, a sales & marketing
group assisting foreign companies develop and penetrate market and grow their
businesses the the UK, and Route 2 Business Beyond Borders assisting UK based
companies develop or expand international business.
One of his key interests is in cross-border alliances and the integration
of international personnel from different cultural backgrounds, and he is
currently preparing some research on some of the key issues companies in such
mergers and alliances have faced.
In short, Francois Knuchel is a resourceful Intercultural Consultant with General Management experience in various markets and industries (esp engineering, automotive, electronics, services), strong in marketing, customer relations and global trade. A versatile leader & entrepreneurial strategist with analytic & synthesis skills well versed in globalisation issues. Diplomatic & holistic in approach, a perceptive planner, a determined co-ordinator and a creative problem-solver crossing borders, disciplines & functions.
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My Mission
a) for existing larger global corporations forming mergers and alliances, and
b) for the emerging technologies and 21st century international start up companies, requiring both general management as well as international marketing support.
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