Beginnings

I was born in a small town in Spain and spent my adolescence and university years in Valencia. I always had a very curious mind. I liked to understand the why of things and to analyze and solve problems, a passion that led me to opt for science and, in the end, resulted in a university degree in Environmental Sciences. Most of my peers preferred fieldwork or technical processes, but I was always interested in the corporate world.

My journey

From a young environmental science student to a Corporate Sustainability Guide, here's how I navigated through the worlds of consulting and solo entrepreneurship to find my true calling.

Consulting

I was very fortunate to start my career at PwC, in a team full of great people, where I spent five years learning how to help world-class businesses implement Corporate Sustainability. Together we achieved many successes. We did an excellent job preparing strategies, developing reports, helping with legal compliance, calculating carbon footprints, ... Whatever service you can think of, name it, we did it.

However, I felt like nothing seemed to change much for my clients. I wondered why, and if there was another way of doing things.

Solo-consulting

Called by adventure, ambition, and the desire for new challenges, I threw myself into working as an independent consultant. I started by replicating what I had seen, on a smaller scale (like many other independent consultants). But I felt I still couldn't make a difference.

However, a series of circumstances coincided and conspired to make me understand my work differently.

I started working with a great mentor (and better person).

I began my relationship as a Sustainability Mentor for executive profiles at ESADE business school.

One of my first clients hired me as a long-term advisor to help them in their transformation process.

Corporate Sustainability Guide

Through these experiences, I realized that I could do much more for my clients if I left my life as a consultant behind. I understood that there is much more to do outside of deliverables to make things happen. That to make this journey towards Effective Corporate Sustainability, businesses need a different figure.

And I decided to become a Corporate Sustainability Guide.

Someone with whom you establish a long-term and trusting relationship, who knows your business, who is not constrained by the box-ticking thinking of consulting projects, and whose only concern is that things actually happen.

I learned the value of exclusivity (doing a lot, for a few, tailor-made), value conversations, excellence in relationships, and the strength of co-creation.

... and the rest, as they say, is history.

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