TDA Associates
WISDOM LEADERSHIP for GLOBAL INNOVATION
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Organizations We Have Worked With
Our Founder and Chief Philosophical Officer, Henry Andersen, is a Harvard, Columbia and INSEAD alumnus and former professor of innovation as well as a global marketing executive. He has personally trained over 11,000 Fortune Global 500 executives and research university students on four continents.
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Top Management 1
CEO, multinational food manufacturer
“Henry trained my marketing department in innovative thinking techniques that helped us become the number one brand in the category I was in charge of at that time. Now the processes and techniques he shared have become the standard operating procedure in the whole company."
Top Management 2
Division President, global consumer goods company
“We were lucky to have Mr. Andersen expertly facilitate our teams in three of our key markets: the US, Japan and Brazil, where he is fluent in all three languages. This work resulted in key new strategic initiatives which helped our business grow significantly worldwide.”
Top Management 3
Chief Engineer, multinational industrial products company
“It was amazing the way that Mr. Andersen was able to connect the arts and humanities to our engineering challenges using TDA. We come up with a number of breakthrough solutions using his approach.”
Human Resources 1
Global HR Director, global trading company
“We have been using Professor Andersen’s Global Wisdom Leadership program now for almost ten years for our global managers training program and expect to use it for another ten years. His cross-cultural insights are profound using TCI, and evaluations by program participants have always been very extremely high.”
Human Resources 2
Global HR Director, global chemical manufacturer
“Professor Andersen has an engaging way of working with our global managers from around the world to help them learn creative problem-solving and multicultural teamwork skills. Participants remember what he taught years later and always recommend him to their colleagues.”
Human Resources 3
VP Human Resources, global pharmaceutical company
"We were delighted that Henry was able to effectively transform his popular 4-day Global Wisdom Leadership training from face-to-face to fully online during this pandemic. Participants were able to learn better and we had a huge cost savings by not sending participants to HQ."
Universities 1
Dean, MBA program in Japan
“Wise leadership is recognized as a critical capability for managers in Japan, where top leaders are able to practice it intuitively. Professor Andersen has developed an explicit methodology to help instill this capability in students from around the world.”
Universities 2
Professor Emeritus, university in the UK
"Henry Andersen’s work using TDA with outside idea groups while at Mitsubishi in both the US and Europe pioneered open innovation and turbocharged the organization's creativity.”
Universities 3
Head of Executive Development Programs, university in Japan
“Professor Andersen doesn’t act like a professor at his EDP sessions, he is more like a motivational speaker sharing many global examples and stories from his own experience. Then he brings in solid research to support what he says.”
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