Ernst & Young

The merge of Ernst & Young firms in a great deal of countries resulted in the Central Europe Area: 20 countries and 23,000 people (from the Netherlands to Russia and Kazakhstan). For the objective to overcome cultural differences and stimulate working together I developed the CE Area Awareness Plan. This plan focused on the integration of countries and people. I was responsible for implementing the Area intranet with a lot of local information and news. After people were aware of the cultural differences the focus changed to aspects that people shared and have in common. For instance a CE Area Cookbook was developed and published. The Area Awareness programme was rolled out in all CE Area countries. I lead the international Internal Communications team.