Leonardo Azevedo

Consultant in the areas of Strategy, Management, Transformation and Business Development. He has developed projects for the corporate headquarters of several global companies.

He was a consultant and partner in global strategy and management consulting firms: McKinsey, ATKearney and a-connect (international strategy implementation boutique based in Zurich-Switzerland).

He was an executive at large multinational companies: Corporate Director of Strategic Planning and M&A at 3M, Global Business Director at Whirlpool-Embraco and Marketing Director at Brasil Telecom.

Areas of interest

• Strategy development and implementation
• business models
• transformation management
• Professionalization and internationalization processes
• ESG
• Innovation
• marketing and sales

Education

• Advanced Management Program (AMP) IESE Business School (2021.07 — 2021.12)
• Executive Education: Decisions 4.0 IESE Business School (2019 — 2019)
• M.B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School (1998 — 2000)
• MBA - Exchange Program ESADE Business & Law School (1999 — 1999)
• Certificate University of California, Santa Cruz (1995 — 1995)
• B.S. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1989 — 1994)

Companies

• Board Member Priner - Smartcoat (2020)
• Professor of Strategic Management IESE Business School (2020)
• Member IBGC - Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (2020)
• Expert Partner a-connect (2020)
• Professor of Strategic Management ISE Business School (2019)
• Founding Partner GP Incorporação (2006)
• Partner & Management Consultant a-connect (2017 — 2020)
• Strategic Planning and M&A Director 3M (2015 — 2016)
• Senior Management Consultant a-connect (2011 — 2015)