We combine data-driven intelligence and culturally informed context with expert insight giving you the clarity to take meaningful, relevant action. This reduces unnecessary risks and prevents unintended cultural faux-pas.
Data-Driven Insights
Go beyond assumptions with robust global analytics
Cultural Expertise
Understand local realities, not just averages
Tailored Assessments
Custom surveys for employees and managers
Actionable Recommendations
Practical guidance to drive real change
Transparent Borders gives leaders a crystal-clear view into the real lives of employees across 218 countries.
Our platform analyzes over 200 data points - covering culture, people risks, and workplace realities - to deliver deep, actionable insights at a local level.
Designed for globally minded leaders, we help you make smarter, more human decisions in health and wellbeing, DEI, engagement, and performance.
With data-driven intelligence and culturally informed context, you’ll move beyond assumptions to drive real impact everywhere your teams work.
Get exclusive access to our latest research on employee risk, needs and culture across 218 countries.
We combine powerful data analysis with tailored tools to help you take meaningful, locally relevant action.
Country Profile Reports
Get in-depth, fully referenced insights into the cultural, social, and workplace dynamics of each country - so you understand the full context before making decisions.
Localized Questionnaires
Our country-specific surveys surface hidden people risks and improvement opportunities. We target key areas like Employee Experience, Employee Relations, Health & Wellbeing, Inclusion, Equity, and Performance.
Actionable Recommendations
Based on your data, we provide clear, practical guidance to implement meaningful changes that resonate with your global workforce.
Country Reports unlock crucial insights for your multinational people strategies by combining two key elements: a detailed data analysis identifying major people-related risks and a leadership questionnaire assessing local risk mitigation.
Covering 100+ countries, these reports offer in-depth, tailored analyses on health and well-being, total rewards, employee relations, and ESG, blending public data with local insights for a comprehensive view of what matters to employees.
They enable you to benchmark local operations against global standards, make decisions grounded in local realities, navigate complex workplace laws and cultures, prioritize country-specific needs, and measure program effectiveness with clear ROI for greater impact.
Reports can be tailored to focus specifically on health and well-being, total rewards, employee relations, and Environment, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG).
Country SNAPSHOTS
For quick, actionable intelligence, our Country Snapshots present concise overviews of local conditions, top risk factors, and headline statistics in the key areas of people risk: total rewards, health and well-being, equity, health & safety, and more.
This is perfect for leaders and managers who need to quickly compare markets, assess opportunities, or understand key risks.
Country REPORTS & SNAPSHOTS
Benefit from the power of both in one comprehensive package. Access the full depth of Country Reports and the rapid-reference utility of Country Snapshots:
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Conduct in-depth due diligence, then benchmark or monitor at a glance.
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Identify gaps between strategy and local realities—then solve them efficiently.
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Ideal for HR, reward, risk, and operations teams scaling globally.
EMPLOYEE INSIGHTS QUESTIONAIRRE
Each workplace is unique, so to get to the heart of what matters this short open text questionnaire has been proven to unearth employees’ greatest concerns and fears.
Delivered confidentially, it allows employees to share openly and with the help of trained AI we compare their commentary with the country report finding and employer survey to highlight inconsistencies and focus areas.
Support from our consulting team is always available when you need extra expertise, advice on application, or interpretation of findings from the portal. Our consulting team helps you translate data and insight into action by working closely with your leadership team to deliver practical strategies for change, drawing on years of experience navigating nuanced and complex situations worldwide.
We provide in-depth guidance on country-specific interventions as well as global implementations, alongside data-driven ROI evaluations of well-being, reward, and compliance strategies. Additionally, we support change management, vendor selection, and identify best-fit solutions for every market. Our approach includes practical solution finding backed by proven provider recommendations to ensure effective and tailored outcomes.
*IN DEVELOPMENT
Experience seamless analytics and decision support through our intuitive interactive portal. Subscribers get:
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Always-updated global intelligence and analytic tools in an easy-to-use web interface. Custom comparison tools to select, filter, and compare over 200 local datapoints per country.
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Secure access to the latest Country Reports, Snapshots, and deep-dive data not available in either report.
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Access to online version of the employer questionnaires (country specific) and the employee insight survey tools.
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Access to our solutions toolkit, including simple low-cost techniques to try as well as a proven solution provider network, to solve identified risks.
Transform how you address global people risks and opportunities—start with Transparent Borders for true, actionable insight.
What does it take to truly understand the lived experience of employees around the world?
Through on-the-ground experience in Africa, Asia, and South America, Lisa Beichl, our founder, saw people programs struggle across borders—what worked in one culture often failed in another. She saw well-meaning organizations squander money and disempower global colleagues through a lack of understand of what really mattered. She realized that real impact required more than good intentions; it needed deep local insight, data, and behavioural understanding.
To bring this vision to life, she partnered with actuary Colin Bullen, a data specialist known for measuring the value of HR interventions, and Hanlie van Wyk, a behavioural change expert and cultural systems strategist.
Together, they built Transparent Borders—a platform that blends analytics, behavioural science, and cultural expertise to help organizations support their people meaningfully. Because real impact starts with truly understanding people - wherever they are.
