Alette Vonk
Alette Vonk is a lecturer in Intercultural Management within a minor for the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. She also runs her own company and provides training, coaching and guidance for change process, in the field of intercultural management, with Sub Saharan Africa as her specialisation. As a background, Alette holds an MSc in Development Sociology from Leiden University. During her studies, she conducted research through the ASCL on the rural social economy in a village in South-West Cameroon. In her working life, Alette's career included 4.5 years working for SNV in northern Benin, where she provided support to women's groups (socially: the women wanted to stop forced exchange marriages; and also economically: through micro-credit). For 5 years, Alette worked for SNV in the Volta Region of Ghana in local governance and organisational development of social society. After returning to the Netherlands, she worked for 5 years in the Schilderwijk district with many different migrant groups, after which she started her own company since 2010. Her clients range from a Dutch Moroccan foundation targeting Islamic radicalisation to multinationals and development organisations working in or with African countries.
Recent publications:
2020: See what the Dutch Say, co-authored with Lanzer, Wijnands and De Souza. Amazon.
2020: Four articles on Kenya: Finding business partners; Attract, retain and find employees; Building Trust and relationship; and Negotiation in Kenya. EU Cube In Platform for SME’s in emerging markets.
2019: Modernity, Traditions and Western Management in Africa. Newsletter Jobnet Africa.
2018: The Dutch team: a wheelbarrow of frogs? Xpat Journal vol. 21, nr 1.
2017: Interactieve benaderingen langs de culturele meetlat. M&O, jrg. 71, nr. 1.
2016: OD Approaches and other cultures. OD Practitioner, vol 48, nr. 3.