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Gerardo Pinero
Gerardo Pinero is Managing Director at Vanto Group, a boutique global consulting firm recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Management Consulting Firms. He has been with Vanto Group since 2015, building much of the strategic and operational foundation behind the firm's growth, after earlier roles in business intelligence and financial analysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Leading From a Place to Stand, Not a Predicted Future
At a recent Achieve Engagement webinar on leading through uncertainty, Gerardo offered a distinction between a "stand," a position a leader declares, such as committing to transparent communication, and a "place to stand," the identity that position is actually built on. The difference shows up under pressure: a leader who has only taken a stand will quietly make exceptions once it gets expensive, while a leader with a genuine place to stand doesn't relitigate the commitment when things get hard. He also argues that most strategic plans are really just extrapolation with better formatting, and that the alternative is deciding on a genuinely created future and reverse-engineering what has to be true this year to make it real, illustrated by his example of a steel manufacturer that resolved a strike by having management and the union co-create a future bigger than either side's original position.
Topics Gerardo speaks on
- Leading from identity rather than a declared position
- Building strategy from a created future, not a predicted one
- Organizational performance and transformation consulting
- Leadership in the absence of certainty
- Alignment and co-creation in high-stakes negotiations
Sessions with Achieve
Gerardo presented at an Achieve webinar on leading through uncertainty, referenced in Achieve's 7 HR Leadership Skills Every Chief People Officer Needs No Matter What.
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