Today I contribute to the transformation of organizations by raising the consciousness levels of their leaders, as Senior Advisor at the Business Council for International Understanding (USA), as independent Board member in AQUADAT, as member of the advisory board in Cremades & Calvo Sotelo and as a Board member at the Katarina Gurska Foundation for Education and Culture.
From my experience and knowledge gained from the teachers who have guided my steps, I know that increased awareness leads to happiness, enhances leadership and increases the competitiveness of organisations. In the same way, increased awareness has a positive impact on philanthropy, one of my major professional specialities.
Through an elaborate range of courses, conferences and consultancy sessions, I provide managers, executives, philanthropists, high public administration authorities, and anyone who may be interested, a concrete insight into the new management paradigm that is taking place all over the world, as a result of active consciousness and its incorporation into people's lives.
Senior Vice President International Affairs in Arcelor, Luxembourg. (2001-2006)
Responsible for all aspects of governmental affairs, competition law and international trade all over the world, led different legal and lobbying teams at the EU and member state levels. Reporting to the CEO, drove the company’s policy agenda and lobbying strategy at the WTO, the OECD, the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD), the Mercosur European Union Business Forum (MEBF), the European Commission & Parliament and at member state level. Served in a high-level strategic corporate role in two large and complex mergers: Arcelor (2001) and ArcelorMittal (2006) in Luxembourg.
Advisor on International Affairs to Synergy Capital, UK. (2015-2018)
Director of the Department of International Affairs at the Economic and Social Council (1996-2001)
Office of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain (1993-1996)
CEO of the ArcelorMittal Foundation (2006-2014)
President & CEO of the Foundation for Consciousness Development (2015-2018)
Consciousness & Happiness & Leadership (2015-now)
I cooperate in different fora which foster conscious increase, women & young empowerment, happiness, understanding, etc. as the University of Granada, the Encounter of Human Values (Mexico), the I Forum·“Mujeres que marcan” (Women who leave a trace behind) in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), etc. I work with people who wish to increase their consciousness level, raising then their happiness level and transforming the organizations where they work. When we improve the relationship with ourselves, we improve our deep understanding of the events that happen around us, etc. Empathy flows through consciousness creating wellbeing, happiness and professional evolution.
To increase consciousness in companies and institutions will have as a result:
When we feel better inside, the rest will improve. Every change comes from inside the human being.
The solutions that I offer to public and private sector organizations are underpinned by my deep knowledge of senior-level management. I myself have personally experienced the transformation that consciousness-raising brings and the competitive improvement that represents for any organization's management structures.
My approach, which will enable us together to make this exciting change towards a new, consciousness and happiness-based, management paradigm pivots on different methods designed to convey this knowledge to you and implement it in management dynamics:
Courses / Conferences / Corporate Consulting
After several years' experience putting together training programmes, I have devised various high-impact courses for (operational and executive) managers. There, we analyze their usual work dynamics and the relationships within the company/organization where they are spending their professional life.
The courses can be online or face-to-face. In both cases, the emotional part prevails over the rational, leading to a high level of involvement of all participants. Not only do I share with the executives the experiences I have gained over 25 years working in international projects and organizations, but—more importantly— I make them see why they need to reach a higher level of consciousness so as to be happier in all areas of their lives. The end result is a better professional performance and a higher competitiveness.
Happiness as the success key to increase competitivity
It can be divided in two courses: “Consciousness and happiness” the first one and “Consciousness and leadership” the second one.
Course 2 Consciouness, emotional intelligence and leadershipTo get to know and channel our emotions, the first step to leadership
It can be divided into two courses: “Consciousness and emotional intelligence” and “Emotional intelligence and leadership.”
Course 3 Music, happiness and leadershipTo understand how music can teach us to be a great leader
This course is carried out with a grand piano or a string quartet. We talk about stress, change, opportunity, characteristics of a leader, the differences between a leader and a boss, etc. Executives take the baton and see in real time what happens as a result of their decisions. Results in music are always immediate!
* Courses will adapt to every organization’s needs.
1. Be aware that we live in the best moment human beings have ever lived; we have never had so much prosperity, training, information, technological advances, etc. We have so many possibilities and, in spite of all that, we are not happy. Why?
2. Understand what are on the Earth for, our aim in life; the difference between happiness and wellbeing; the difference between to have and to be, etc.
3. Understand the level of consciousness and which is the relationship between a person’s level consciousness and their happiness.
4. Understand why it is important for us to know not only our level of consciousness, but our boss’, our coworkers’, our partner’s, etc.
5. Understand the big difference in our life when we change the way we think and not only our habits.
6. Learn how to build up our life project in a way which will allow us to be happier and to face without anguish—or with less anguish tan now—the different difficult moments in our life.
7. Learn to look at our life as something that we develop, as we do with our professional career. Inner peace and happiness do not reach our lives as a mere result of our wishes. We will also learn about the double standard of happiness.
8. Activities to increase our level of consciousness.
9. Learn what the values of a leader are and how to start building them into our lives.
10. Learn what the values of a leader are and how to start building them into our lives.
11. Learn the 21 differences between a leader and a boss.
12. Learn that you cannot be an unconscious leader, and what happens when someone who is unconscious has power, both in the private and public sphere.
13. Learn how to resolve conflicts.
14. Learn how to diagnose the organisational climate.
15. Learn how our brain works when we lose our calm and are stressed. Learn how to change it.
16. Learn what the period of refractory suffering is, how it affects our lives and how we can get out of this loop.
17. Learn about the difference between working with or without a purpose. Learn how to find our purpose.
18. The 21 practical exercises to work on our leadership.
19. Learn from failure and change our approach to failure.
20. Learn about the model we can use to transform an organization.
21. Learn how to get the same steady mind as a conscious leader.
We have been believing for thousands of years that we will be happy when everything outside is as we wish it to be. We live in a hamster wheel from which it is not easy to get out, however, happiness is outside that wheel.
Conference 2 Consciousness & HappinessThere is an equation which says that level of consciousness = level of happiness. I propose to reach a high level of consciousness through a change in the way we think, first, and then a change in our behavior as a consequence.
Conference 3 Consciousness & LeadershipWe cannot use old leadership ways, belonging to the past Century, even if many people still want to continue doing so. There is a new conscious leadership which requires to have carried out an inner work and which is based in understanding the new ideas which will really help us to achieve our goals.
Conference 4 Building resilience and balance within you to become a better leaderBefore being the leader to a team we need to have become leaders of ourselves. And we do not reach this point just by reading books and attending leactures, but by putting into practice—in a constant way—some clear ideas. Happiness will follow.
* Conferences can take place on line or face-to-face, being this last possibility always preferable.
I have created the concept of “Conscious Philanthropy” believing that philanthropy needs to undergo a profound change to promote human beings' inward journey to find happiness, rather than the usual outward journey. We need to change the one-way flow of financial resources into conscious philanthropy, awakening our noblest capacities, which is in our own interest and in the interest of the human beings around us.
It is intended for philanthropists who—through their foundations—want to work inside themselves and find out the real motives which move them in their lives and find the real mission they have. It goes beyond making donations for a cause. Conscious philanthropy achieves its meaning when a philanthropist finds his/her real life purpose, the mission nobody but he/she can carry out.
Intended for CEOs who want to build CSR from consciousness. We need to know the communities where we want to work, forging bonds between their inhabitants and the companies. This way of working will create sustainable, self-responsible communities, in which the different CSR programmes will have a cross-cutting impact into the different spheres of action.
What are you waiting for to live your life? Sessions specially adapted for executives and customized for each case. I base myself on global concepts and solutions, based on my experience as a senior executive and always under the conceptual premise Consciousness for Happiness.
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