There are interviews that are forgotten the next day. And there are interviews that, for some reason, stay with us. Not necessarily because they reveal something extraordinarily new, but because they refuse to be exhausted. We finish listening to them, keep thinking about them and, when we return a few days later, discover things we […]
Lidia Jorge | Each of us is a sum
(Video in Portuguese, subtitles in English and Spanish) More videos in our YouTube Channel (…) Which means that around here, no one has pure blood.The fallacy of a single ancestry bears no relation to reality.Each of us is a sum.We carry the blood of both the native and the migrant;of the European and the African, of […]
School of Silence (fragments), by José Tolentino Mendonça
May your silence be suchthat not even thoughtcan think itWhen the temple emptiesit shinessplendidlyHistory recounts what happenedsilence narrateswhat is happeningSilence is not a formof rest or suspensionbut of resistanceSilence:contemplating the snowuntil becoming one with itToday the clouds resemblemonks drinking teain silenceSilence tends to bury thoughtyet thought alsolives by itLearn to renounceeverythingeven silenceMany times, God prefersto […]
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The Moon Cannot Be Stolen
Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. “You may have come a long way to visit me,” he told the […]
3.ª Conferência Executiva Women’s Health, 28 May 2026
Participation in the 3rd Women’s Health Executive Conference, in a session dedicated to women’s health and well-being. The presentation offered a complementary perspective on well-being as an essential condition for more humane and sustainable leadership, exploring how our internal state influences the way we lead, relate to others, and contribute to organizational culture. Photographs: Paulo […]
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Leadership starts within: Health, Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
If you had asked me a few years ago what health meant, I would probably have given a slightly different answer from the one I would give today. I am a pharmacist, and a large part of my professional journey has been linked to the pharmaceutical industry. For that reason, and despite the fact that […]
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Communication & Effectiveness, Tenthpin, May 2026
Facilitation of a training session for Tenthpin, organized by SFORI, dedicated to communication and effectiveness in an organizational context. The session worked on essential human skills for more effective collaboration and execution, focusing on clarity, attention, trust, alignment of expectations, priority management, and difficult conversations. A practical and experiential approach geared towards more relational, conscious […]
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Mindfulness for Business, ISEG MBA, January 2026
For the 5th consecutive year, we are facilitating Mindfulness for Business classes integrated into the ISEG MBA curriculum. The sessions explore mindfulness as a relevant skill for high-demand contexts, supporting participants in developing attention, self-regulation, and emotional and relational intelligence. This approach prepares leaders to be more present, clear, and capable of navigating organizational complexity […]
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Elon Musk | A company that makes more use of AI creates a forcing function for the increase use of AI
(Video in English, subtitles in Spanish and Portuguese) More videos in our YouTube Channel There is a lot of inertiaand people keep doing the same things,the same stuff for a while;and there really has to be a company that,by making more use of AI andthat competes with a company that makes less use of AI,creates a […]
People Centered 2025, Coimbra Business School & ISCAC, October 2025
Facilitation of a Transformation Session on “Attention Management: A Superpower in Leadership,” in an experiential and participatory format. Throughout the session, we explored attention as an essential leadership competency—directed at ourselves, others, and the system—and its impact on the quality of relationships, decisions, and the presence of leaders. […]
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