Clarity comes after listening.

Leadership and team dynamics.

Negotiation in complex environments.

Organizational culture and change management.

The difference between organizations that work and those that don't lies in how they listen.

I have worked at the three vertices of the ecosystem: agency, client and media. That gives a very concrete perspective on why some organizations work and others don't.

Most organizations don't have a strategy problem.

They have a coherence problem: between what they say they are and what they live internally. Between how the team functions and the results they expect.

I work with managers and organizations so that what happens inside is coherent with what they promise on the outside. Not in theory. In practice.

My purpose:

The areas in which I work with business owners and executives:

I work as a consultant, interim manager and professor, adapting to each context.

What do I offer?
I work on specifics: what is holding the team back, what is blocking the negotiation, what is preventing progress.

My career:

Experience

Over 30 years leading teams in complex environments. I have managed teams of up to 420 people and negotiated high-impact contracts in agencies, media and large organizations.

I have worked at McCann, Grupo Planeta and Grupo Prisa —the three vertices of the ecosystem: agency, client and media— giving me a complete view of how organizations function internally and how they project outwardly.

I have collaborated with organizations such as ISDIN, TD Synnex, Vueling, Sanitas, Agbar, Ajuntament de Barcelona and Biomass-Concept.

I direct the MBA for Creative and Design Organizations and the Master in Advertising Creativity and Branded Content at ELISAVA.

Education

ESADE (Bachelor's and MBA), Master in Business Innovation (Deusto) and Psychology (UOC).

Focus

Improving team leadership, negotiation and decision-making, and how organizations work effectively and respectfully.

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Consulting services:

I work with leadership teams on specific situations: a team that isn't moving forward, a negotiation that stalls, a change that never quite lands.

  • Leadership style assessment and its real impact on the team
  • Developing leadership criteria in high-demand environments
  • Improving conversation quality: listening, clarity and conflict
  • Managing emotional tension in teams
  • Group dynamics and informal functioning
  • Applied psychological safety
  • Talent identification and fit
  • Organisational structure and compensation logic
  • 1:1 sessions
  • Team psychological safety diagnosis
  • Internal context analysis: dynamics, inertias and blockage points
  • Operational definition of mission, vision and decision criteria
  • Intervention in systemic team dynamics
  • Cultural change processes in real environments
  • Coordination of multidisciplinary teams
  • Internal communication and coherence with the external proposition
  • Negotiation in complex contexts
  • Active listening applied to negotiation
  • Assertive communication and conflict management
  • Decision-making under pressure and uncertainty
  • Emotional management in negotiation processes
  • Decision-making applied to negotiation

Executive Training:

Developing teams through practical experiences that improve listening, negotiation and work dynamics.

  • Team leadership
  • Advanced negotiation
  • Active listening
  • Assertive communication
  • Difficult conversations
  • Emotion management
  • Psychological safety in creative teams
  • Organizational culture transformation

Clients

I have worked with companies of all sizes:

Logo ISDIN Logo TD Synnex Logo Elisava Logo AGBAR - Veolia Logo Karpatkey Foundation Logo Ajuntament de Barcelona Logo Biomass Concept Logo Sanitas Logo Century 21 Logo Universitat de Barcelona Logo Shifta Logo Vueling

Contact

If it ever makes sense, let's talk.

  • Address

    Cristòfol Mestre, 84
    08810 Sant Pere de Ribes
    Barcelona