Fernando Lanzer

Fernando Lanzer Pereira de Souza started as a consultant over 30 years ago, but got sucked into one of his clients and became an HR Manager in a bank. Unable to find a real job, he was stuck in HR and in banks for three decades. During that period he worked mostly in Amsterdam and in Sao Paulo, where a series of bank acquisitions left him with 23,000 reasons for an ulcer.

Since 2003 he has been living in Amsterdam, where he completed 15 years working for ABN AMRO until returning to consulting in 2007.

Fernando travels frequently all over the world helping companies to cope with people issues in change processes, especially regarding cross-cultural differences, organization development and leadership development. He was also a member of the Supervisory Group of AIESEC International, the world's largest student exchange network, for ten years.

He has been writing since he was seven, though the reviews of his work have never been as enthusiastic as his mother's and his first grade teacher's were at the time... These days he writes whenever he has time between consulting assignments.