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Lisa Neuberger Fernandez is a sustainability strategist, social innovator, and thought leader. She is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at SharpBrains Advisors, a boutique consultancy offering strategic advisory and ‘innovation as a service’ in partnership with Axialent to high growth, purpose driven organizations.

Lisa has twenty-five years of experience leading global strategy and innovation teams to deliver value for business and society as Managing Director at Accenture, Head of Sustainability at a cleantech startup, and Senior Advisor to the World Bank.

She advised pioneers at Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and multilaterals on how to apply technology and innovative business models for sustainable and inclusive growth. She launched social businesses, shaped and implemented sustainability strategies, and built purpose-driven collaboration platforms to upskill thousands.

Recognized as an Unusual Pioneer by Yunus Social Business and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, she holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Master’s from the Fletcher School at Tufts.

She enjoys unlocking human potential teaching at IE University, mentoring youth and social entrepreneurs, and hosting #rebalancetothrive workshops. She recently moved to Madrid with her family and loves to ‘walk and talk’ in beautiful places, sing jazz, and play tennis.

Borja is a successful entrepreneur and intrapreneur, and is a recognized expert in the field of innovation. Starting as an entrepreneur very early in his career, he then created and grew new successful businesses while working in companies such as DHL, Altran, Capgemini or frog design​.

He has also helped blue-chip companies in creating new products, services, solutions, and businesses, as well as becoming more innovative organizations, implementing all innovation processes and methodologies. He’s been Vice President of Capgemini Invent and frog design, the iconic brand noted for disrupting so many markets.

He was also the founder and leader of the Altran Innovation World Class Center, and ACIE, the official certification agency for innovation in Spain. He is now involved in launching new ventures merging Innovation and social and environmental Impact.

Borja is an awarded innovation professor at IE Business School, and has written seminal books in his field, including the first-ever Innovation dictionary published in any language.

Borja holds an Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT-Sloan, an Executive MBA from IE Business School, an Honors Degree in Business Administration from Humberside University and ESIC, and has pursued studies in Civil Engineering and Political Science at UNED.

In his spare time, you can find him piloting light experimental aircraft around Madrid, Spain, where he resides with his family.

Rolf has been working for 10 years with Axialent and other international consulting firms, specializing in leadership development for senior executives. Rolf worked with senior leadership teams at several companies across the world including France’s largest insurance company, Brazil’s largest retailer, and one of the largest United States banks. In each case, he helped design and implement culture change programs and acted as a coach to the leadership team. Before that, Rolf worked for four years as a founding partner at Sustainomics, a consulting firm focused on supply management, low-cost country/global sourcing (mainly focused on China) and organizational transformation.

Before this, Rolf was a senior principal with the international consulting firm A.T. Kearney, where he worked for 10 years in the New York City office. In this role, he led various projects in strategy, organizational design and the supply chain area. As a leader of the Strategic Sourcing practice, he led various international projects, yielding more than $400 million in annual savings. Rolf also developed a performance measurement tool for A.T. Kearney that linked shareholder value to individual performance indicators. Rolf was also responsible for the training and recruiting of consultants, both at A.T. Kearney and Sustainomics.

Rolf worked in various parts of the world, also doing projects with Andersen Consulting in Germany and Braxton Associates in London.

Rolf has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Finance and a postgraduate diploma in economics from the London School of Economics.

Today, Rolf lives in Munich, Germany. He is married and has two children. Rolf loves to play tennis, and he recently achieved a personal goal, completing the New York City Marathon in less than four hours.

Pia combines her extensive experience in management and administration with her passion for conscious business and organizational culture change. Since May 2024, Pia is an Associate Partner at Axialent.

She has lived in several contrasting countries of Northern Africa, Latin America, and Scandinavia. This gave her a vast experience of interacting with people from different cultures, a sense of respect and curiosity for the foreign, and a valuable ability to adapt to new contexts.

She started working in the consulting world in 2008. When she joined Axialent, Pia found a home that embodied both her personal and professional values and offered exciting job opportunities in a truly global environment. In 2008, she was recognized for her Commitment to Excellence and in 2012 she was recognized for Dedication to Clients for her commitment to serving and providing them with the best Axialent experience.

Moreover, Pia has worked in various areas, such as the diagnostic department where she was in charge of managing and providing internal and external clients with a large number of quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools. In 2013, she joined the project management team, specializing in European and global accounts with clients in industries such as financial services, telecommunications, retail and consumer goods, and government and non-profit organizations.

Her main skills include, among others, strategic and business planning, instructional design and culture change processes. She has a master’s degree in development studies from Uppsala University and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Stockholm University. She is certified in Adaptive Mindset for Agility® from The Social Intelligence Company and Life Styles Inventory and ACUMEN® Leadership WorkStyles from Human Synergistics.

Currently, Pia is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In her spare time, she enjoys working out, dancing, and spending time with her family and friends.

Frank Dannenhauer is a trusted advisor and caring thought partner and coach for executives. He draws from more than 20 years’ industry experience in senior strategic and operational roles in the technology domain and leading teams in more than 40 countries across the globe. He has a strong track record in leading large-scale transformation programs, namely shifts of strategy, globalization, mergers and acquisitions, downsizing and restructuring.

His passion is to help individuals and organisations to connect to their true nature and grow, especially in challenging times.

Frank had a long and successful career with Merck, a leading pharmaceuticals and chemicals group in Germany. He then created his consulting and coaching company in Switzerland, working for clients across industries, for example in automotive, pharmaceuticals and in agile development centres.

Frank holds a Master of Business Administration. Additionally, he holds an executive master’s degree in clinical organisational psychology from INSEAD, France. Today, Frank lives near Frankfurt in Germany.

Thierry is a senior global human resources strategy consultant and a coach for C-suite leadership development.

Thierry helps global organizations build their talent strategies, employee engagement, organization and leadership cultures, and high-performance management solutions.

Certified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), Hogan, Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) and as a Bandwidth Coach TM, Thierry is coach of CEOs and C-suite executives based in Spain, México, Brazil, the United States, China, Germany and France. He helps his clients build leadership and high POs assessment and development centers.

Thierry was with Hewitt and Aon Hewitt for more than 26 years. Since 2012, he has been a global senior consultant partnering with Axialent, helping organizations around the world define and align their people, culture and leadership programs with their business strategy.

At Hewitt, he held several senior executive leadership roles such as client and business development European practice leader, CEO of Hewitt France, CEO of the FISI Market Group (France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal), VP Europe marketing and branding, general manager for Mexico, member of the Hewitt Consulting Global Executive Committee as the region managing director for Latin America successively at Hewitt and Aon Hewitt.

With his multicultural experience, he is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Thierry holds a degree in economic science (Maîtrise de Sciences Economiques, Université Panthéon Assas, Paris II) and a master’s degree in international business trade and tax law (ILERI, Institut Libre d´Etudes de Relations Internationales) as well as an executive Master of Business Administration from Harvard.

Pablo is a consultant, facilitator, coach and keynote speaker with more than 20 years of experience in leadership development and effectiveness. He has worked with an important number of executives from organizations in Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, Canada, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, the Caribbean, Central America and the Southern Cone.

In his work, Pablo incorporates principles stemming from conversational competences, brain preferences, the discovery of talents, strengths and skills, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Immunity to Change, empathic listening, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence and personal leadership. He combines the personal, team and organizational dimension to the work with his clients, based on his extensive experience in the field of leadership and effectiveness.

With certifications in time management, principles-based leadership, project management, strategic planning, constructive negotiation, executive coaching and different diagnostic tools, Pablo also integrates these disciplines in his program designs to customize them to the needs of each organization, aiming to understand them systemically and propose solutions that effectively impact business results.

As a mentor of other facilitators and coaches, in the last years, he has led different TTT programs in organizational talent development.

Pablo received a Master of Science and Ph.D. in physiology in Paris and a master’s degree in Latin American literature in Venezuela. He has published numerous papers for national and international scientific magazines.

In 1987, Pablo married his wife, Cristina, with whom he has since lived in Venezuela, France, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. They have one son, Pablo Javier, who is 25 years old.

Ekkehard is a global citizen with deep leadership experience across a wide range of roles (CEO, investor, entrepreneur, consultant, board member), industries (services, fast-moving consumer goods, media, financial institutions), countries (Germany, Spain, France, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland) and companies (Axialent, Adecco Human Capital, Lee Hecht Harrison, Jacobs Holdings, 20 Minutes Holding, McKinsey & Company).

In his mid-forties, he recognized that he had put a lot of professional energy on the “hard stuff” (strategies, structures, numbers), and he experienced the need and the opportunity to integrate additional key drivers for success — namely, balanced relationships and cultures as well as self-actualization and purpose.

For this purpose, Ekkehard founded Sum People. Today he is helping CEOs, top executives and their teams integrate the three dimensions: It (goals, tasks), We (relationships) and I (self).

Ekkehard is also the founder of Mountain Wisdom, a Swiss foundation that takes CEOs to the mountains to explore the fundamental questions in life.

“During my corporate career, I was focused on solving problems. This is what I had learned and what I was good at. Later in my career, I asked, ‘how did I contribute to these problems?’ I recognized that my executive task focus did limit my ability to productively relate with colleagues and partners (and actually my family), and it did not allow me to explore who I was and what I really wanted to do with my life.

“I am still very passionate about business, I love strategy and high performance. Today, I am convinced that in order to achieve sustainable success, we have to apply the same standards of excellence to the human dimension.

“The corporate world is full of task-oriented, hard-working and ambitious executives. I want to work with those who are curious and open to integrate the We — and the I — dimensions at the service of a better It (results, performance). It is my purpose to help executives take their heart to work.”

Ekkehard holds an engineering degree from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, a postgraduate degree in international management from the Université Paris Dauphine, and a doctorate degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Ekkehard lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children.