The invisible architectures of the boardroom.
Three decades reading how power, information and silence get designed in boardrooms — and how to redesign them.
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Center for Corporate Governance · ESE Business School
Professor at ESE Business School · Teaching in the executive programs of IAE, IPADE, INALDE, PAD and IEEM · Research stays and guest classes at Stanford, Drucker, IESE, London Business School, UCLA and Harvard
Newspaper columnist in Chile and Colombia, with Latin-American reach · 5 million reads a year on LinkedIn
Boards don’t fail for lack of talent. They fail because the space where they deliberate is poorly designed.
For almost thirty years my work has been to learn to read those invisible architectures — of real power, of the information that gets filtered, of the dissent that gets anesthetized — and, when needed, to help redesign them.
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Three paths. The same thesis.
Boards
Substantive board evaluation, chair support, AI in the boardroom, succession and board renewal. 6–8 engagements a year.
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Family Businesses
Founder-CEO succession, family governance, family office governance, prevention of shareholder conflict. 4–6 engagements a year.
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Six themes. Four formats. Spanish and English. For conferences, strategy retreats and executive programs.
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More than 180 companies in Chile and abroad in corporate governance, strategy and organization.
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Keynotes, interviews and clips on the real dynamics of the boardroom.
Directors’ Circle
Brings together sitting directors from across the region to discuss, off the record, the real problems they face in their boardrooms.
Five books on corporate governance and boards.
Three decades of research and observation distilled into five volumes — four in Spanish with ESE Business School and one recent title in English.
- Sustainable Corporate Governance
- Directorios en Acción
- Directorio y Gobierno Corporativo (2nd edition)
- Gobierno de la Empresa y Autorregulación
- Directorio y Gobierno Corporativo (1st edition)
Sustainable Corporate Governance · 2025 · the fifth book, in English
Becoming a Corporate Director
Your Passage into a New Identity
My first book in English. An editorial guide for those preparing for their first listed-company board: how you cross the frontier from executive to director without losing identity or effectiveness. Thirty years of observation condensed into twelve chapters.
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Columnist in Chile and Colombia, with Latin-American reach — plus LinkedIn.