Catalina Rengifo, Employee Engagement Lead Americas Microsoft, and Angela Montoya, Philanthropy Lead for UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean, are the two special guests at the in-person event. Rengifo will show the path towards building a community of women empowered by sisterhood and interest in collective growth; while Montoya will address considerations and practical advice on how to embark on a successful international career as a Latin American.
Angela leads UNICEF's partnerships with the philanthropic ecosystem in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has over 15 years of experience working with individuals, families, foundations, and private and philanthropic sector actors in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe to address and generate solutions to social problems such as child rights fulfillment and food security through high-impact, transformative partnerships. In her previous positions, Angela managed private sector partnerships for the United Nations World Food Program and Plan International for Latin America and the Caribbean, leading relationships with global brands such as Mastercard, Accenture, Cargill, BCG, the National Postcode Loterij and the legendary band The Wailers.
Angela has a bachelor's degree in marketing and a master's degree in human development from Auburn University. She is proudly Colombian, a mother of two and passionate about salsa music and Latin American cuisine.
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Andrea M. Prado is an associate professor of management and organizations at INCAE Business School. She is director of the Strachan Chair in Philanthropy and Social Investment. Her research explores the role of companies in promoting sustainable development in the countries where they operate, particularly through their corporate social responsibility strategies and the delivery of products and services to low-income populations.
She also studies the impact and dynamics of industry self-regulation (i.e., the adoption of voluntary certification programs) to promote environmental and labor practices in emerging economies. She has published her research in prestigious academic journals, books and book chapters and has received multiple international awards.
Prof. Prado has led multiple executive programs in Health Management and Global Health at INCAE. She was the Academic Director of the Central America Healthcare Initiative (CAHI) from its inception in 2012 to 2019. CAHI seeks to catalyze access to quality healthcare services for low-income populations through innovative solutions and improved management capabilities in the region through a scholarship program delivered by INCAE.
Prado received a Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Stern School of Business, New York University, an M.A. in International Economics from the University of Essex, UK and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Costa Rica. She received a Fulbright scholarship for her doctoral studies and a Chevening scholarship for his master's studies.
More information at: https://www.andreamprado.com/
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Professor Camelia Ilie Cardoza is a leader with more than 30 years of experience in strategy, innovation, and financial management in organizations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States of America. Before her appointment as President of INCAE Business School, a leading business school in Latin America, she was Dean of Strategy and Institutional Affairs, Dean of Executive Education and Strategic Innovation, Chair of the Leadership Center, and full-time professor at INCAE.
During the last decade, INCAE's Executive Education area has been positioned in the Top 25 of the Financial Times world ranking. Likewise, in alliance with Emeritus, she led the creation of INCAE Online, an online education start-up. Over 6,500 participants from 15 countries attend the programs of INCAE each year.
As a professor of Corporate Governance, she leads programs that help presidents, CEOs, and board members improve their governance systems and manage digital transformation and innovation. She has also taught programs and advised multinational corporations such as Banco Santander, PWC, Inter-American Development Bank, Bankinter, Telefónica, Iberia, Maersk, and Copa Airlines.
She was trained as an engineer and obtained a doctorate in business administration at the University of Comillas. She has worked at IE Business School and ESADE Business School in Spain. She was a research fellow at the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and regularly writes in the column "Perspectives in time of change" in the Harvard Review for Latin America.
Dr. Ilie researches corporate governance, higher education, business school models, MBA programs, female entrepreneurship, and leadership. She was recognized as one of the 12 most influential women in business education by BlueSky Thinking. She received the Woman of the Decade award in Education and Leadership in Latin America from the Women's Economic Forum and is listed by Forbes magazine as the 100 most powerful women in Central America and the Caribbean.
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Carla Fernández Corrales is the Senior Director of Executive Education & INCAE Online and is an Assistant Professor at INCAE Business School. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, she obtained a Grade in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science with honors, both from the University of Costa Rica. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. Department of State.
Dr. Fernández Corrales' research focuses on the study of technology management and innovation using machine learning methods. Her teaching and consulting interests focus on the strategic use of information technologies, data science and agile methodologies.
As a consultant, lecturer and TEDx speaker, Professor Fernández Corrales stands out for her ability to communicate highly specialized knowledge about technology to non-technical audiences, establishing connections with the value proposition, strategy and risk analysis in organizations.
Passionate about innovation and the digital transformation of higher education, she has also served in various academic leadership positions, including Director of Educational Technologies (METICS) at the University of Costa Rica, Director of Learning Innovation at INCAE Executive Education and Academic Director of the MBA programs at INCAE Business School.
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She is currently an assistant professor of Marketing at INCAE Business School and until February 2023 was an assistant professor of Marketing at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She received a Ph.D. in Marketing from HEC Paris, France and an M.C. in Marketing Management from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy, where she graduated cum laude. She spent a year as a visiting doctoral student at Texas A&M, Mays School of Business.
Professor Fumagalli directs her research towards the study of consumer behavior and welfare. To investigate these issues, she uses both experimental design and survey methods. Specifically, her focus is on understanding how negative emotions such as loneliness, disgust, among others, influence people's purchasing decisions.
Her work has been published in several international journals such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Frontiers in Psychology and Current Opinion in Psychology. She currently has articles under review in the International Journal of Research in Marketing and with Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology.
Because of her experience as a marketing consultant and active researcher, she has been invited to participate in workshops, doctoral colloquia and conferences in different countries. In December 2022, for example, she addressed the topic "Covid-19, vaccine brand preference and political orientation" at the SMLA: Strategic Management in Latin America Conference, held in Buenos Aires.
In 2022 she participated in the podcast ¡Compórtate! of Behavioral Insights (Argentina), where she spoke about consumer behavior. And, that same year, the Argentine newspaper La Nación interviewed her to address the topic "Dispersion, an evil of the times that puts technology in the spotlight".
Throughout her academic and professional career, she has earned a number of awards such as third place in the Best Undergraduate Course Professor category from Di Tella Business School (2022), a fellowship from Harvard Business School's Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learningl program, and the Editor's Choice Award for Marketing from SAGE in 2021.
Professor Fumagalli is fluent in Italian (her native language), English and Spanish.
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He is an Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at INCAE Business School, has directed the Executive Masters in Marketing and Digital Transformation, and currently directs the Specialization in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Business.
He is the author of more than 200 managerial and academic works related to the adoption of technological innovations and business intelligence. He is also a pioneer in the incorporation and adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools in the teaching of the case method and critical thinking.
Dr. Barahona has extensive experience advising and training business and government leaders in more than 20 countries. Through the corporate programs of INCAE and the firm Sociométrika, he has contributed with local and global companies in the identification and solution of complex problems, based on a design approach, data analysis and "People Analytics".
He earned an MBA with an emphasis in Banking and Finance from INCAE and a Ph.D. Media, Arts, and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. His thesis "Diffusion of ideas, practices, and artifacts: network effects on collective outcomes" was guided by Alex (Sandy) Pentland, declared by FORBES as one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world".
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Juan Carlos Barahona is an associate professor at INCAE Business School. His general academic interest is on the role of digital technologies and social structures in the diffusion of ideas, behaviors and artifacts.
He was a member of the Human Dynamics Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. The scientific research group led by Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland, one of the most cited computer scientists and considered by Newsweek magazine as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet.
Before joining MIT, he was Deputy Director of the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development at INCAE, and consultant to the World Bank for the development of the strategy and business plan for the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, and on issues related to education.
In the late 1990s, he led the research team that developed the conceptual model and facilitated the reform process of the five Central American customs offices, as part of a joint action-research initiative on trade logistics by the Harvard Center for International Development, Harvard Business School's Center for Strategy and Competition and INCAE.
Prof. Barahona has served as a consultant to companies and governments in several Latin American countries in the fields of strategy and organization. He is co-author of Costa Rica's education policy and one of the pioneers in digital government in Costa Rica. He is the author of business case studies, articles, books and book chapters on sustainable development, customs reform, trade logistics, information technologies for development and social network analysis. Before opting for an academic career, he was an entrepreneur and founder of a software company and a business consulting firm.
He currently complements his academic work by advising companies as a consultant or as a member of their board of directors.
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Margaret Rose Grigsby is a distinguished Professor of Leadership and Marketing and the President of Brainpower Latin America. As an Executive Coach for senior leaders, a sought-after speaker on leadership and women's leadership, and a consultant specializing in brand strategy and personal branding, she brings a wealth of expertise to her field.
With nearly 25 years of executive experience in multinational corporations, Margaret has held leadership roles across Latin America and the Caribbean. Her career includes positions as CEO in Argentina, COO in Colombia, President and General Manager in Costa Rica, VP for Latin America in Mexico, and VP Director in the Caribbean, among others. This extensive regional exposure has provided her with a deep understanding of cultural nuances and market dynamics across Latin America.
Margaret holds a graduate degree in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., an MBA from INCAE Business School, and a double major in Social and Organizational Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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Consultant in leadership, communication and change management for companies in various industries in Latin America, including family businesses and state institutions.
She served for almost 10 years as Director of Business Development and Human Resources for Ernst & Young in Central America and the Caribbean. The transformation she led at a cultural level, led the company to rank third in Great Place To Work (GPTW) at a regional level.
She was a consultant in the design of communication and change management strategies for IDB and World Bank projects. Her most recent collaboration with the IDB was the design and deployment of a Leadership Program for Emerging Women Leaders.
He teaches mentoring, personal branding and management skills programs for companies with local, regional and Latin American scope. Speaker on personal branding, leadership and change management.
At INCAE she is a guest lecturer on negotiation, communication, leadership, high performance teams, personal branding, organizational change management and other related topics.
He began his career as a journalist. She holds master's degrees in Project Management, Business Management and International Management. She is certified in a number of tools including: The Leadership Circle Profile; LCP®Change Management Prosci®; Conflict Management - TKI®; Interpersonal Relations - FIRO-B®, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®); HCMBOK® 3G Practitioner; HCMP® 3G Expert Professional and Belbin Team Roles®.
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Urs Jäger is a strategist, researcher and teacher, specialist in strategic change management, leadership, business ethics, entrepreneurship and impact management with extensive experience in Europe and Latin America.
He is the Senior Director of Impact and Sustainability and Associate Professor at INCAE Business School, and Executive Director of VIVA Idea. He guides his work from approaches of action research methodology, sustainability, entrepreneurship and social innovation, with a focus on the inclusion of formal and informal markets, working in emerging countries.
He holds the VIVA Idea Schmidheiny Chair in Sustainability at INCAE Business School, in joint leadership with other colleagues. The Chair focuses on developing solutions that enable leaders to manage their impact and develops solutions based on an action research approach.
As executive director of VIVA Idea, an organization that is part of the VIVA Trust ecosystem of organizations that supports sustainable development throughout Latin America, he executes processes of action, accompaniment and training for leaders of companies, foundations, governments, non-governmental organizations and communities in managing impact. Impact management means the way in which leaders can make decisions and act to promote social progress. In this process, VIVA Idea collaborates with the Chair at INCAE Business School.
Urs Jäger's research focuses on collaborations between actors in unequal situations (such as indigenous peoples and multinational corporations), drivers of informal market development and governance practices that strengthen informal market development with a focus on social and economic progress. Together with his teams, he has developed action-research studies in Europe, Indonesia and more than ten countries in Latin America.
2013 to date: Associate Professor. INCAE Business School (Costa Rica)
2013 to date: Research Director. VIVA, in collaboration with INCAE Business School (Costa Rica).
2007 to date: Associate Professor (Privatdozent). University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).
2011 to 2012: Visiting Research Professor. INCAE Business School (Costa Rica)
2006 to 2011: Founding Co-Director. Center for Leadership and Values in Society (CLVS-HSG), University of St. Gallen. 2006: Visiting Scholar. Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles (USA).
2003 to 2006: Assistant Professor. Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen.
2000 to 2003: Management Accountant/Financial Services Project Manager and Human Resource Consultant. Lufthansa Group (aviation company) (Frankfurt, Germany)
1999 to 2000: Research Associate. Institute for Leadership and Human Resources Management, University of St. Gallen.
1998 to 1999 : Portfolio Management Analyst. Investment banking firm (Zurich, Switzerland).
1998: Junior Consultant. Management Centre of St. Gallen (MZSG). (St.Gallen)
1997 to 1998: Project Member. Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen.
1997: Consultant. Consulting Group for Nonprofit-Organizations (BSU). (Stuttgart, Germany)
1996: Researcher. Institute of Work Psychology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (Zürich, Switzerland).
1991 to 1992: Corporal. Swiss Military Service (Switzerland)
