Glacel Group

"In the game of consulting three types can be distinguished. The first gives advice from the sideline, but disappears with the gate money before the end of the match. The second gives value-for-money advice and at least stays to watch the outcome of the game. The third commits like a good coach, is not only interested in the team performance, but that of the individuals, too, and keeps contact for the rest of the season. Barbara Glacel belongs to the small last-mentioned group."

Willie Coetzee
Director; Potchefstroom Business School
Former Vice President of Human Resources, Transnet
South Africa

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING

"Barbara provided our team with sound practical advice and many fresh ideas. We felt no cultural barriers. Her friendly interactive style during presentations made listening and following easy. What benefited most from her visit was our product development side. We were also able to establish important new contacts thanks to Barbara's excellent network and knowledge of our market. Barbara is quite capable of handling even the world's quietest people - Finns."

Hans-Henry (Hasse) Kvist
Chairman
Sedecon Consulting
Helsinki, Finland



The Glacel Group has offices in the United States and in Brussels, Belgium. Consulting internationally requires a unique ability to adapt to other cultures and to interpret organizational and individual behavior through different lenses without cultural bias. Barbara Glacel has first-hand experience living in and learning about other cultures. She first lived overseas in 1966 and has lived overseas periodically for the past thirty years. She has consulted in Europe, Africa, North America, and the Pacific Rim. She has spoken to management groups in London, Glasgow, Helsinki, Brussels, Oslo, Frankfurt, Seoul, Okinawa, Auckland, and Johannesburg. Her business best-seller, Light Bulbs for Leaders is available from Singapore to South Africa. Her syndicated columns are printed in English-language newsletters and journals around the world. Dr. Glacel assists companies around the globe in issues of leadership, team development, culture change and entrepreneurial management.


Barbara Glacel with colleague
Bill Dunn at a speech on
team learning in South Africa
"It was my professional pleasure to work with and to observe Dr Glacel in consulting at the highest managerial levels in South Africa. She designed and implemented a program for the senior management teams of a 300,000+ member para-statal company (Transnet) on the issues of organizational transformation and leadership . Her interventions were timely and thought-provoking; her delivery style was persuasive and often challenging. Overall, her work achieved great success as it facilitated a difficult transition from a command and control environment to a more participative, collaborative approach. This was accomplished at sub-ministerial level in a pre-democratic South Africa. As such, it was the precursor to a new way of managing in South Africa. Quite an accomplishment."

William L. Dunn
William L. Dunn Associates
Johannesburg, South Africa



"Life Technologies in New Zealand is the remotest part of the far flung global operations of LTI. Nonetheless, we participated in the Leadership Development program and experienced the international consulting skills of Barbara Pate Glacel and her team. Our group, with its blend of cultures (including our own Maori indigenous people) typifying that of the greater New Zealand population, responded extremely well to the expertise and development skills of this consultant from a far away land! Participants have adopted the skills learned during this phase, with many of them having gone on to achieving higher leadership positions both within LTI, and with other organisations."

Albie Neal
Managing Director
Life Technologies Australasia


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