Marco Blankenburgh is the founder and director of KnowledgeWorkx and has worked in the
Arab World for the past 15 years. His main expertise is in the area of
strategic consulting, change management and leadership development.
Marco speaks Dutch, German, English, Afrikaans and Arabic and has
extensive international experience. His educational background (MA) is
in International Business and Strategic Marketing Management.
As the founder of KnowledgeWorkx he is involved in developing unique consulting and people development
processes that connect to the local realities of market. The
methodologies developed by KnowledgeWorkx in this field are receiving
growing global acceptance.
The
KnowledgeWorkx Cultural Mapping & Navigation� methodology gives a
cutting edge advantage to strategic consulting and change management in
Inter-Cultural environments.
Selection of Clients
Marco has worked with clients in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Southern Africa. Some examples are:
- Al
Fahim Enterprises: large scale strategic change process moving the
organization from family run business to a large internationally
operating corporate entity
- Sasol:
Involved in a variety of projects to align the organization with it’s
desire to be a global entity with a strong portfolio of joint ventures.
- SEDCO: work with the senior
management to align their focus areas to manage their 4 billion USD
portfolio more successfully.
- Occidental
Petroleum: involved with a variety of their senior managers in several
Gulf locations to transition more successfully into new change and
development focused roles
- Oryx GTL: assist with the corporate culture development process bringing three joint venture partners together.
Expertise
Marco
has extensive entrepreneurial experience and has deployed this in both
the global growth of KnowledgeWorkx as well as instilling
entrepreneurial skills into the senior management of organization
throughout the Gulf Region.
Prior to
founding KnowledgeWorkx he was the Regional Manager for the Middle East
and Gulf region with the family business, Blankenburgh Holding,
requiring him to travel regularly and conduct much of his business in
Arabic.
As an Inter-Cultural
specialist he has been involved in alignment coaching for senior
executives to assist them in transitioning more effectively into a new
assignment.
Marco is a certified
behavioral consultant with Inscape Publishing allowing him to utilize
tools like DiSC, Team Dimensions and Time Mastery in leadership
development, strategic and change consulting and coaching.
As
a master practitioner on the Cultural Mapping & Navigation�
methodology he can accredit others to apply Cultural Mapping &
Navigation�, as well as design strategic interventions based on
Cultural Mapping & Navigation�.
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