Coaching in a Digitally Transformed World

Jorge Becerra is Emeritus Senior Partner & Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group, Board Member BCI (Chile) and City National Bank (USA). He led Boston Consulting Group’s Financial Institutions practice in South America since he opened the first office in the region in 1995. He also was a leader of BCG´s Organization, Digital Transformation and the Family Business practices in Latam. He previously founded and led BCG’s Miami, Buenos Aires, and Santiago offices and actively supported the opening and development of BCG´s Bogotá and Lima offices.

Since joining BCG´s Madrid and London offices in 1988, he has worked in Latin America, Europe and North America, assisting clients in the development of national and regional strategies, joint ventures and the development of new business opportunities, covering a broad range of industries and sectors such as financial services, payments and Wealth Management, retail, telecom, and mining, among others. He also led BCG´s Social Impact practice.

Before joining BCG, he worked for CPC (Corn Product Corp, today Unilever Best Foods) in Buenos Aires and as an Assistant Professor of Financial Planning at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. He currently seats at TECHO International Board.

Marieta del Rivero is Independent Board Member to Cellnex Telecom and Chairperson of the Remunerations, Nominations and Sustainability Committee. She is Independent Board Member to Gestamp Automotive. Marieta is Member of the Board of Advisors at Mutualidad de la Abogacía, Business Angel of Wooniver and Trustee of Tecnalia Foundation.

She has been Global CMO and Deputy General Manager to Chief Commercial Digital Officer at Telefonica Group, CEO of Nokia Iberia and SVP, Marketing Director at Amena and Xfera, Senior Advisor to Ericsson, Partner at Seeliger and Conde within others. She was President of International Women’s Forum Spain.

She has been recognized as one of the ‘500 Most Influential Women in Spain’ by ‘El Mundo’ newspaper in 2018, 2019 & 2020; one of the ‘Top 100 Women Leader 2018’ by Mujeres & Cía; the ‘Best Women Leader 2017’ by the Spanish Association of Businesswomen (ASEME).

Marieta is the author of ‘Smart Cities, a vision for the citizen’ a compilation of ideas and thoughts about the digital transformation in the cities (LID publisher). She is Member of the Board of the Spanish Executives Association (AED) and Member of Women Corporate Directors.

Amanda Egan is Global Head of Learning & Development at Web Summit, Europe’s largest and most important technology marketplace, whose mission is to inspire growth and talent development with blended learning experiences.

Amanda has over 25 years of training & sales experience in the Corporate and now Startups world. Her training roles cover Leadership, Soft Skills, Tools, Life & Business Coaching, New Hire, Career Development, etc. She has strong experience in global training needs analysis, design & development of training, delivery, assessments, call evaluation and coaching. She is loyal, driven and competitive, with strong people and people management skills.

Helena Herrero is Managing Director of HP’s Southern Europe Market. Her responsibilities include all aspects of the company’s go-to-market strategy, growth, and profitability across Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy. First joining HP in 1982, Helena has held several senior management roles including Vice President (2002), Managing Director and CEO of Hewlett Packard Iberia (2012), and Managing Director of HP Iberia (2015). Helena is a Member of the Board of Directors of Naturgy and Mutua Madrileña, and President of Fundación I+E Innovación España. She is also a trustee of the COTEC Foundation for Innovation, and the Princess of Girona Foundation. She is a member of the board of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Governing Council of APD, and a member of the Business Advisory Council of CEOE.

Further appointments include Vice President of Amcham Spain and member of the Board of Directors of the American Business Council and the Fundación Consejo España-EEUU. She also serves on several boards and steering committees, including the advisory boards for Science, Technology and Innovation, in the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), as well as the executive boards of IESE Alumni and the Junior Achievement Trust.

Sebastien Brion is a Professor and Head of the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Psychology from Tufts University. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he was a human resources consultant in the Bay Area.

Professor Brion’s research examines how individuals attain and maintain positions of leadership in organizations. His research tackles this broad question by examining how hierarchy drives systematic biases in perceptions of leaders’ interpersonal and strategic environments. Together, his research points to the mechanisms underlying how hierarchy contributes to effective or ineffective interpersonal and strategic decisions in organizations. Drawing on research in social psychology and organization theory, he employs a multimethod approach to his research, incorporating experimental lab studies, field studies, and archival studies.

His academic work is published in leading academic journals including Organization Science, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology among others. Professor Brion’s research has been highlighted in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes, Le Monde, among others. He is the Associate Editor of the Social Influence section of Social and Personality Psychology Compass and serves as the Representative-At-Large for the Conflict Management division of the Academy of Management.

At IESE, Professor Brion teaches core classes on Leadership and Human Resources Management, and electives on Power and Influence, at the MBA and Executive level. Professor Brion has taught in executive programs for firms such as L’Oreal, Pepsi, Danone, Michelin, Abbvie, NLNG (Lagos, Nigeria), and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (National Railways of Kazakhstan). In addition, he has held a Visiting Professor position at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and has taught in executive programs for the Haas School of Business, the Boston Consulting Group, and MDE (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire).

As part of his professional activities Professor Brion has conducted research and consulting projects in the human resources and social media industries.

Alberto Ribera is a Professor of the Practice of Management at the Department of Managing People in Organisations at IESE and Academic Director of the IESE Coaching Unit. He teaches the MBA course “Personality and Leadership”, which received the IESE Award for Excellence, the Executive MBA course “Managing Oneself”; and executive courses on self-leadership, stress management and resilience, positive leadership, and executive coaching.

He joined IESE in 2004 after a 15-year international career with the World Health Organisation, the European Commission and other multilateral organisations, in charge of projects in Africa, Southeast Asia and especially in the Middle East. From 1999 to 2003, he was General Director of the Euro Arab Management School.

Alberto is a Doctor of Medicine (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya). He specialized in preventive and social medicine (mental health) at the Università di Roma La Sapienza, and certified in personality assessments from University of Minnesota. He has completed the training programs on executive coaching at Columbia Business School and at the Center for Creative Leadership.

He is the author or co-author of more than 30 case-studies and 9 books (the most recent one, “The 7 moments of coaching”). He has been invited as visiting professor or guest speaker at universities and business schools of more than 20 different countries and at international conferences like the World Economic Forum. He has taught courses for Enel, Banco di Napoli, Telecom Italia, Saint Gobain, The Arab Contractors, Egypt Telecom, BBVA, Banco de España, Enrst&Young, Hewlett Packard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BASF, AB InBev, Abertis, UNDP, and other firms.

He is a board member of the Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (Rome), Limmat Stiftung (Zurich), Timoney Leadership Institute (Dublin), Harambee Foundation (Nairobi) and other not-for-profit institutions.

Estíbalitz is the Executive Director of the IESE Coaching Unit that provides executive and leadership coaching to executives and managers from all over the world participating in IESE educational programs in Barcelona, Madrid, New York, Munich, and Sao Paulo. She has a PhD from IESE Business School. The topic of her doctoral dissertation was mentoring and coaching. She had previously earned a degree in Spanish language and literature from the University of Navarra. She is an ICF-certified coach and Senior practitioner by EMCC. Most of her professional career has been developed in multinational environments: she worked 10 years as Human Resources Generalist for Agilent Technologies Spain, where she dealt with organizational development, training and coaching for people managers of more than 20 different nationalities.

Since 2008 she collaborates as lecturer in International HRManagement at the School of International Trade from Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of interest are in the field of executive coaching in Business Schools. She is the author of the book “La práctica del mentoring en la empresa” (EUNSA, 2003), and co-author and co-editor of the book ¨The 7 moments of Coaching¨ (REM, 2020).

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