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On Tuesday, January 25th, Conference Chair, Cheryl Perkins, will conduct a one-on-one discussion with Adriano Amaral.  Adriano will discuss collaborative success in education in two organizations he leads, POSEAD, a leader in distance learning and CETEB, a non-profit serving Portuguese speakers globally. He will also share his experience in growing the private sector while serving in the government of Brasilia and his past work in turning around floundering companies in Brazil.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION - ADRIANO AMARAL

Adriano Amaral is the co-founder and CEO of CETEB, a non-profit educational organization that has dramatically advanced education in Portuguese-speaking nations. He is also the co-founder and CEO of POSEAD, a leading corporation for distance learning offering post-graduate training for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking customers. Both organizations have grown through steady strategic innovation and collaborative alliances. POSEAD, for example, has grown at an average annual rate of 44% over the past 5 years.

Adriano founded the Idea Management Consulting Group and led it from 1997 to 2006. Idea Management Consulting Group stepped in and presided over many troubled South American companies, restructuring them, strengthening strategy and innovation, and consistently bringing them to profitability. At least 15,000 full-time jobs exist that can be directly attributed to the turnaround efforts that Adriano led with Idea. In 2006, this group worked with the government of Brasilia on a major State modernization project, in which they redesigned and restructured the Government of Brasilia from 46 State Departments to 19 and generated over $4B in savings over three years.

From 2006 until 2010, Adriano continued his work to improve the effectiveness of government by serving as the Secretary of State for Economic Development in the Federal District of Brasilia, where he helped lead a remarkable experiment in promoting prosperity, security, and education by reducing the size of government and allowing the private sector to flourish. In 2009, he was honored with the “Alvorada Merit” Highest Commend by the Government of Brasilia. In 2010 he stepped down from his government post to focus on the leadership demands of POSEAD, CETEB and IDEA Consulting Group.

Adriano is a former Senior Associate of Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, an Assistant Project Coordinator for the United Nations, and Project Finance Analyst for the Brazilian Senate.

He is a Professor of Financial Management and Strategy in the Executive Development Program at IESE at the University of Navarra, teaching in both Brazil and Spain. He is also Professor of Control and Professor of Finance for the Executive MBA programs at the IBMEC Business School in Brasilia. He serves or has served on the boards of 16 organizations.

He has an MBA from the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, Spain.

Note: According to The Economist (Intelligence Unit) in their ranking of best MBA programs in the World, IESE – Business School, ranked 3rd in 2007, and 1st in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.

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