About

A warm welcome across nations

I am Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D., CEO and Founder of Universal Consensus.  We help clients leverage the power of culture to optimize their bottom line.  We do this by offering strategic solutions to businesses, universities, and government agencies facing global challenges.  Our work focuses on increasing operational efficiencies, clarifying cross-cultural communication, providing tools for global expansion, and eliminating lost opportunities across cultures.  We are a global change agent connecting multinational markets and ideas.  Our mission is simple:  We want to drive profits, educate, and support clients who are conducting business globally.

We want to drive profits, educate, and support clients who are conducting business globally.

Many businesses have not considered how working with individuals from different cultures will impact business processes. It is our job to evaluate, develop and implement a plan to address the issues impeding our client’s overall performance.  Some clients have a clear sense of the problem and require training or coaching to resolve the issue.  Others clients come to us because they need help turning cross cultural challenges into cross cultural solutions within their organization.

Program recommendations are based on a trademarked cross cultural solutions analysis developed over two decades of working with clients. It is a strategic functional analysis of culture through six comprehension “lenses” and the application of that analysis to the particular business challenge, conflict, or training issue.  The Business Model of Intercultural Analysis (BMIA) was honed by years of research, case studies and empirical application to various businesses across many nations.  Year after year, the process is refined and business and cultural trends are updated, but the underlying concepts are so rooted in the human dimension that they are, in effect, timeless.

I am deeply committed to developing solutions for our clients that meet their short and long-term goals.  I consider myself an honorary member of your team on the day I am retained.  My loyalty and adherence to your business goals is the driving force behind everything I do.  Meeting and exceeding expressed expectations has been what has made our company what it is today; our work ethic is unparalleled.

I hope to meet you and give you a more personalized idea of who we are and what we stand for.  I would like to get to know the DNA of your culture and your global vision.  Until then, remember the Chinese proverb, as we do:  “Enter Village; Follow Custom” 入乡随俗 .  In China, it is customary when you enter a village to follow the customs, traditions and societal expectations of that village. This saying has significant implications for us as we move forward into a global market economy where borders fade away and a ‘foreign’ way of doing things is as close as your telephone or email inbox. May your knowledge of the diverse ways in which business is performed in other cultures bring you economic prosperity in all your global endeavors.

Denise Pirrotti Hummel, J.D.