Brasil Pioneers of Change Pioneers of Change

I was born and raised in Brazil, in a German family, which gave me an
interesting dual cultural view.
Today my main occupation is the work as a consultant in corporate
training processes, management innovation, organization change,
using participative learning and group facilitation for sustainability
and environmental education. The work and projects are based on
systemic learning organizations, implemented through hosting of
colective learning spaces, meaningful conversations and
genuine human reconnection.

Before and during my graduation in computer engineering I worked with
web-design, programming, software engineering and IT projects,
beside some research in the area. During the last year of the course
(2004), I decided to change the focus of my career, based on a
personal dissatisfaction and inner call to do a work with deeper
meaning and coherence with my personal values regarding the state and
pain of the world. With that goal in mind, I started to study and get involved
in environmental and social projects, and with the broader concept of
sustainability, first informally and as a volunteer.

My first full time job after the graduation  (2005-2006) was in an
environmental engineering consulting company. Seeing that working on
the technical aspect of the environmental problem was only lessening
some of  the symptoms of the bigger crises our civilization is facing,
I started to look into the human and management side of the issue.
That led me to the post-grad course in Environmental Management
and to a job in Strategic Planning and Operational Control in a major
and traditional waste management company in Brazil (2007). It was
interesting to see from the inside what the main-stream management
ideas are, but I still felt constrained and not really understood. So
as the opportunity presented itself for some consulting jobs using the
systemic participatory methodologies I really see as effective change
tools, I took the chance and started working as an independent consultant.

These last few years, since this shift in my work started, have been a
profound transformation process for me, looking for authentic
meaning in everything I do, and listening to the real call of the
world. In parallel to my "official career", I got involved with many
NGOs and some international change and innovation networks. The ones I
connected the deepest with are the Pioneers of Change, where I am one
of the Stewards of the Brazilian network, and the Art of Hosting, where I was
invited to be part of the stewards.

I believe that the solutions for the social and environmental crises
relies mainly in the transformation of individuals and our
organizational structures, creating more humane, organic and
life-sustaining forms of working, organizing, deciding and living. I
see sustainability as a process, not a goal to be achieved, that emerges
spontaneously when communities become self-organizing and
transform themselves in systemic leaning organizations, real living structures.