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My story

Worn hands

A watchmaker earns trust because his hands are worn. Someone who has had to take himself apart and put himself back together understands other people's mechanisms differently.


I won't tell you an epic. I'd rather tell you the truth, which is more useful: I've reinvented myself several times, and each time I learned to look a little closer. Those reinventions aren't something to soften; they're my credential. I've taken apart organizations and teams that looked broken, and almost always found they only needed unhurried hands and someone willing to listen to the mechanism before forcing it.

Where I've been

  1. OmniStem

    Senior Consultant — Commercial Architecture & Customer Experience

    Dominican Republic · Healthcare

    Consulting in international healthcare, based in Punta Cana. There I designed NEXO by Restaura.do: an execution layer that connects every opportunity to the CRM, instead of replacing it.

  2. Change Americas

    Transformation & customer experience

    Colombia · Multi-sector consulting

    Clients served: Terpel, Avianca, WOM, Banco de Occidente, and Amadeus.

  3. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana / El Camino Academy

    Commercial consulting & teaching

    Colombia · Education

    Consultant for large-scale commercial teams at companies such as Nutresa and Coomeva. Under my leadership, Javeriana qualified for the NASA Challenge, placing 9th in the world among 280 universities.

  4. Chevrolet Autoniza

    Commercial leadership

    Colombia · Automotive

    Automotive sector.

  5. Virgin Mobile Colombia

    Commercial leadership

    Colombia · Telecommunications

    Telecommunications, launch and growth.

  6. France Telecom Orange

    Commercial leadership

    Dominican Republic · Telecommunications

    Flagship case "500: The Winner's Path." (See the extended account below.)

Flagship case

500: The Winner's Path

France Telecom Orange was going through a hard commercial crisis. The team was worn down, the numbers didn't add up, and morale was on the floor. The easy call would have been to tighten the same bolt. We chose the opposite: stop, listen, rebuild the mechanism piece by piece, and give people back the sense that their work mattered.

The underlying number: we were losing market share, dropping from 300 points of sale to almost 190. Competitors were taking points of sale and partners, and with them went people's sense of purpose and trust in the company. In under four months we rebuilt the distribution network past 500 points, the number that gives the case its name: new partners, more committed and more aggressive than the ones we had lost; company-owned points of sale that gave the operation permanence in critical markets; and a franchise network of more than 100 points with national reach. It wasn't an incentive campaign. It was putting the mechanism back together piece by piece, until people trusted again that their work mattered.

  1. Brightstar / Go2tel

    Commercial

    United States · Distribution and telecommunications

    Distribution and telecommunications.

  2. Verizon Codetel

    Commercial

    Colombia · Telecommunications

    Telecommunications.

Education

Today I spend my time restoring: organizations, people, and — when I can — a little of the time the noise takes from us. If you'd like to see what's on the bench this month, stop by the workbench.

CV (PDF) · ES