Academic Board

Team of Consultants

Management Team

Fred Kofman is Axialent’s Chief Academic Officer and co-founder. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was named an outstanding instructor. In 1992 he founded Leading Learning Communities, a consulting company specializing in leadership and organizational learning, which he led until 2002. He was assistant professor of management accounting and control systems at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where in 1992 he received the double distinction of "Teacher of the Year" at MIT and its Sloan School. He was also a senior researcher at the Organizational Learning Center, working with Peter Senge, and is a founding member of the Business Branch of the Integral Institute, where he works with Ken Wilber. His work has been published in The Fifth Discipline Field Book, The Journal of Organizational Dynamics, Management Science, and Econometrica. He is the author of Conscious Business, its corresponding audio program and the trilogy Metamanagement

Peter Senge, Ph.D., is Axialent's academic advisor for leadership development and organizational learning programs. He is a senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is also founder and president of the Society for Organizational Learning, which aims to discover, integrate, and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of individuals and their institutions. He was recognized as one of the twenty-four most influential persons in the last hundred years in business strategy by the Journal of Business Strategy. He is author of several books about leadership and organizational change, including the best-selling The Fifth Discipline, a publication that was recognized by Harvard Business Review as one of the major contributions to management of the last seventy-five years. He is an engineering graduate from Stanford University and has a master's degree in social systems modeling and a doctorate in management from MIT.

Ken Wilber is Axialent's academic advisor for integral psychology and philosophy. He is considered the founder of the field of integral studies, and one of the clearest minds and most intelligent voices in the human sciences. He has been called "the Einstein of Consciousness" for his synthesis of the most important psychological, philosophical, and spiritual traditions of East and West. He has written more than fifteen books; several of them have been best-sellers and many have been published in more than thirty languages. He is the most translated academic writer in the U.S. Some remarkable books he has written are Sex, Ecology and Spirituality, Integral Psychology, A Brief History of Everything, and A Theory of Everything, which presents an integral vision of business, politics, science, and spirituality. He is the founder and president of the Integral Institute, an organization devoted to the integration of body, mind, soul, and spirit.

Andy Freire is a co-founder of Axialent. He is an entrepreneur in both business and social realms. After working at Procter & Gamble, he founded and led Officenet, a company that revolutionized the industry of distribution (retail) of office supplies in Latin America. When he was eighteen, he created the Fundación Iniciativa for the promotion of leadership among Latin American youth. He collaborates weekly with CNN en Español as an "expert entrepreneur." He was distinguished by the World Economic Forum as "Global Leader for Tomorrow", by the Endeavor Foundation as "Latin American Entrepreneur of the Year," and was one of two finalists who received the "World Young Business Achiever" award in the Philippines in 2002. He has a Licenciatura in economics magna cum laude from the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires and an OPM from Harvard Business School. He is the author of Passion for Entrepreneurship.

Sharon joined Axialent in March 2006 as a Senior Principal. Previously, she was with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) for ten years. During her tenure there she managed the Awareness Program for Executive Excellence, its worldwide premier coaching program for top executives and officers in Fortune 100 companies in the financial services, auto, utilities and energy, consulting, and consumer products industries, as well as in government.
Sharon also has expertise in leadership development. She designed, delivered, and managed custom classroom-based and individualized leadership development programs and processes. She has extensive international and cross-cultural experience, having delivered leadership development and coaching services in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean.
Before joining CCL, Sharon was Executive Vice-President of a public benefit corporation. In that role, she managed the design, construction, and financing of health care facilities throughout New York State. She has additional experience managing teams of budget and finance professionals in public and capital financing.
Sharon has co-authored two articles related to the development of emotional competencies in executives, including "The Young and the Clueless," which appeared in a chapter on coaching in CCL's handbook on leadership. She is executive editor and author of the The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A guide to Leader Coach, which was published by Jossey–Bass in April 2006.
Sharon earned a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Ana Maria Diniz is Axialent's co-founder. She was Operations Vice President at Pão de Açúcar, largest retailer in Brazil, where she was in charge of more than 50,000 employees. Today, Pão de Açúcar is Brazil's largest private employer. She is one of the most important opinion leaders in Brazil on social responsibility issues and corporate and family governance. She currently coordinates "All for Education", a private-public partnership devoted to designing and monitoring a long-term national education plan. She was distinguished by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and obtained a medal for "Cultural Merit" from the Brazilian Secretary of Culture. Ana Maria has a degree in business administration with specialization in marketing from the Armando Álvares Penteado University in São Paulo, Brazil. She is currently a participant in the OPM program at Harvard Business School.

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