Marco A. Oliveira

Marco A . Oliveira is a business consultant who also acts as an executive counselor, university professor and researcher, editor and writer (producing books and articles on Management, Psychology, Social Sciences and Education). He started his career in HR Management, having held for many years executive positions in international and Brazilian companies, as well as in three different Management Education organizations in Brazil. Marco has published more than 30 books on the above subjects. He has a Master Degree in Social Anthropology (Universidade de São Paulo), and was for many years a Certified Teaching Member in the Brazilian, the Latin-American and also the International Transactional Analysis Association. In his career, Marco attended a number of workshops, courses, seminars and congresses on Management and related subjects, having also visited many universities, Management Centers and similar organizations in the USA, Europe and Latin America. Marco is the Managing Director of OBI Consultores & Editores Ltda., and created Training Shop (a site offering cases and exercises for management change professionals, as well as ideas about how to develop non-formal professional education programs. He is also an associate consultant at Propar Training & Development.

I may say that I'm interested in almost every subject, from literature to science, from soccer to politics, from infant education to poems (sonnets, mainly), from management to anthropology. Since I was a child, I always found it extremely difficult to choose only one thing to dedicate myself to. Today, I've being devoting my hours mainly to writing my articles and books on non-fiction subjects; helping other consultants to write their own books; watching and commenting movies; and working on instructional design projects.

“You often hear that inventions are an answer to the demands of the marketplace... Most great inventions create the marketplace.” (Jacob Rabinow, american inventor)

I'm mainly a TED conferences watcher -- I see many of them, trying to learn and connecting new ideas I hear with my own way of thinking. Now I'm trying to be also a TED translator.

Sonnets, humor