Jitske Kramer
Jitske Kramer inspires her audiences with knowledge from cultures around the world.
The anthropologist collects life wisdom and insights from tribes, village communities and people and draws remarkable conclusions for leadership and organization.
Jitske Kramer wants to make the (working) world a better place. She talks about how people shape cultures and how cultures shape people. To do this, she uses insights from her travels. Through her stories, her listeners experience an impressive change of perspective: the familiar gradually becomes foreign. And the foreign becomes familiar. Thus, in her keynotes and masterclasses, she inspires with lessons about people, culture, change and the importance of good togetherness.
Jitske Kramer Lecture Topics
- Jitske Kramer & Building Tribes – Organizational Cultures and Culture Change from an Anthropological Perspective
- Jitske Kramer & Deep Democracy – On the wisdom of the minority, thorough decision-making and determination
- Jitske Kramer & Jam Cultures – Diversity and Inclusion – A Performance with Music & Stories
Based on her travels, Jitske Kramer takes her audience on a fascinating mental excursion. She conceives of an organization as a living entity, with village squares and town halls (meeting rooms), alleys and taverns where the real dialogue takes place (smoking areas and coffee corners). With chiefs (executives), elders (supervisors), hunters (sales), magicians (IT, HR, change managers, consultants) and gatherers (the fee earners). She uses these anthropological insights to create and sustain strong and healthy work environments. Jitske Kramer shows how we can improve our mutual relationships so that we become smarter as a group and better at what we think and do. Team intelligence instead of group stupidity is her claim.
The entrepreneur and founder of HumanDimensions was named “Trainer of the Year” in 2013. She is known as the best-selling author of “Deep Democracy,” “Jam Cultures,” “Work has Left the Building,” and as the co-author of “The Corporate Tribe,” the 2016 Management Book of the Year.