PEDRO LÓPEZ SELA
Whether educating cohorts of thousands of entrepreneurs in Hangzhou, DC, Santiago or London, or an intimate group of 100 leaders for a big corporation, Pedro connects with global audiences in an extraordinary way. He was born as an entrepreneur in the early 90’s and started educating entrepreneurs globally in the 2000’s. Ever since, he has been committed to helping individuals and organisations thrive. Pedro has coached and trained over 5,000+ leaders in America, Asia, and Europe.
Pedro is known for his ability to simplify complexity, identify inefficiencies, connect dots, and imagine ideas that drive meaningful outcomes. He is an internationally recognised thought leader, seasoned entrepreneur, battle-tested coach, and sought-after keynote speaker on business strategy, growth, technology, and innovation.
As a business coach, Pedro works with impact driven CEOs and their leadership teams to scale their organisations and make a dent in the world. He brings his own experience and expertise as an entrepreneur, and his record as a coach, to deliver solid results that build to their success.
Pedro is also a professor, consultant and international speaker at organizations such as MIT, EGADE Business School, Universidad Católica de Chile, US NSF, US DoS, IDB and WIPO, to name a few. He is an international speaker and has shared the stage with thought leaders such as Steve Blank, Bob Dorf, Alexander Osterwalder, Jeff Hoffman, and Yves Pigneur, just to name a few.
As an accomplished author, Pedro has written books on business strategy, growth, technology, sustainability, and innovation. He is a member of various boards of organizations and global corporations that focus on entrepreneurship, technology, innovation, futurism and gender. And as a prolific speaker, Pedro gives +50 talks a year to audiences of all sizes around the world. He has been profiled in a wide range of media outlets, including Warner Media, Grupo Imagen, History Channel, Grupo Expansión, Forbes, and Entrepreneur, among others.
Since 2000, Pedro has become a growth partner for CEOs. It offers a tailor-made program to scale your operations, based on its extensive experience, deep operational knowledge, and proven processes used by thousands of organizations around the world. These are the tools and best practices that have helped intermediate companies scale faster, stronger, easier, and with less drama.
With a mother from Mexico, a father from Spain, ancestors from France and the Middle East, and living and spending significant periods of time in Canada, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain, the UK and the US, Pedro brings a holistic, diverse, and international perspective to everything you do. His work has taken him to America, Asia and Europe.
As a private investor in StartUps and ScaleUps, Pedro enjoys spending time with his family, making coffee, reading, listening to music, building with Lego, watching movies and riding his bike.
«Pedro challenges you every step of the way. You know how to inspire teams and enable them to imagine and become curious. It empowered us to redesign our strategy, develop a proper action plan, and we had a lot of fun in the process. Now we are more prepared for this changing market that we face today.
Carlos Zubirán Head of Commercial Operations of Sanofi Pasteur.
«Pedro is very friendly and has a great ear. Your gift of finding the source of our challenges and helping us navigate our own distractions has been an exceptional asset to our growth. We appreciate his clinical assertiveness and believe that with his clarity we will continue to thrive.
Gerardo Groenewold Vice President of Personnel Management of Grupo Televisa.
“Pedro's focus on practicality and low tolerance for nonsense is what makes him an exceptional coach. His books, tools, and coaching are very straightforward. That is why it has been our growth partner for so long. "
Ignacio Aguiriano
“Pedro and his tools have been at the core of our culture from the beginning. It has been one of the fundamental keys to our leadership and growth. It helped us reinvent ourselves and plan for the uncertain, which is especially helpful in these strange times. "
Alfonso Araujo CEO de Innovation HUB Tec-China.
«It is extraordinary to start a conversation with Pedro. His extensive knowledge and experience always enrich our conversations. His direct and relentless coaching is refreshing and honest. It has pushed us to exponential growth from the beginning.
José Manuel Aranalde Manager of the International Area of E. & J. Gallo Winery.
“Pedro's diverse experience and knowledge in so many industries and geographies around the world are unmatched. It's impossible to ask him for advice on a specific pain and not get at least a couple of examples. This is what helps us learn, react, plan and execute at a pace that we would never have thought possible.
Juan Carlos Madrigal Head de Marketing y Compromiso con el Cliente de Citi Private Bank Latin America.
«Pedro is a true visionary. It leverages its expertise to systematically empower others, creating a new generation of entrepreneurs in its path and encouraging others to become ecosystem enablers. Your journey has just begun. I'm excited to see how much more impact it can create.
Sebastián Molina Gasman Venture Capital Impact Investment in Seedstars.
«Pedro wakes you up. It empowers and inspires you to change and improve things to make the world a better place. That requires skill and determination among other things, which Pedro has and generously shares with everyone. He enables you. Work with him, you will achieve things that you did not think possible ».
Gabriela Romero CEO of the Chilean Association for Technology Transfer.
«Pedro is an experienced, innovative entrepreneur and passionate about business building. You can easily discover people's abilities and empower them to bring out the best in themselves. Pedro focuses on delivering value; this is how it achieves its purpose of Empowering Leaders for a Better World.
Miguel Sainz Vice President of Sales and Marketing of AMSU.
“Pedro is a relentless entrepreneur on a mission to train other entrepreneurs to prosper. Not only did it inspire me in my entrepreneurial journey, it gave me the right tools to succeed. He is a futurist capable of turning the future into current opportunities.
José García Co-Founder of Eprezto.
«Pedro is one of the most innovative entrepreneurs I have ever met. We have participated in their programs that have been an inspiration to us. Pedro is a great business partner and an even better friend. The confidence it instills in you is amazing. We can't wait to see what else he has in store for us in the near future and beyond. "