Luis Costa is a Portuguese American who lived and worked in the USA, Canada and in London before moving to Barcelona. After spending 25 years in the USA (a product of American Universities and a Partner at a strategic consulting firm in the 80s), Luis became a coach, mentor, and strategic advisor to CEOs, C-Level executives, family and business leaders, and senior management teams in a significant number of the major global companies (including many Fortune 100), innovative companies operating in new ecosystems and dynamic family-owned businesses. He is also a coach and an advisor to senior partners in Professional Services Firms and Law Firms.

Luis also brings innovation and recognized expertise in the

• design and facilitation of strategic reflection processes in environments of uncertainty and rapid change
• design and implementation of transformation processes that engage people’s hearts and minds, produce results, and generate sustainable value
• alignment and mobilization of management and leadership teams to become high performing with a clear sense of purpose, a unifying vision and a powerful model of mutual trust, collaboration, co-creation and agility
• facilitation of cross-cultural teams across multicultural and multinational environments creating a common DNA framework and language that fast tracks results
• facilitation of powerful meetings and executive events ensuring that they are co-creative, collaborative, disruptive, agile and generate sustainable results

Luis is a member of the Forbes™ Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for leading executive business coaches and career coaches. As an official member, he contributes to Forbes™ on such topics as CEO and C-Level growth and alignment, strategy in uncertain times, high performing management teams, cultural DNA, organizational effectiveness, trust, collaboration and communication.

Luis is also a business mentor at Torch, a global platform of mentors, coaches, psychologists, entrepreneurs, and people managers who have seen first-hand the impact of thoughtful leadership. It exists to build better leaders and through the belief that business growth comes from personal growth.

Over the past 40 years, Luis developed extensive expertise in several areas and is invited to speak regularly at conferences, senior management, leadership, and other corporate events. He is also invited as strategy subject matter expert to provide thought leadership to several think tanks.

He works interchangeably in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French and spends most of his time collaborating with clients throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia Pacific.