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Ana PereiraExecutive MBA
Portuguese
Languages
- Portuguese / English / Spanish
Top Strengths
- Strategic Thinking / Change Management / Collaboration & Leadership / Customer & Employee Satisfaction / Entrepreneurial Mindset
Future Professional Interests
- Sustainability Leadership / Global Impact Initiatives / Innovation Strategy / Executive Leadership / Mentorship & Talent Development
Ana Pereira Executive MBA
EXECUTIVE LEADER IN TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
Ana is a Strategic Transformation & Change Management Lead with 20+ years of experience optimizing processes and adopting emerging technologies for healthcare institutions, top retail brands, and other multisectoral enterprises. She is known for reimagining organizations’ structures and workflows to spark collaboration, drive efficiency, maximize value creation, and amplify employee & customer satisfaction. Ana brings a curious, creative, and entrepreneurial mindset to each company and uses it to achieve sustainable impact.
With the Porto Business School’s Executive MBA, Ana has refined her ability to identify trends, untapped opportunities, and fast-growing markets. The lessons learned from her instructors and the collaboration with her peers-executives from various industries who share unique approaches to creative problem-solving-broadened her perspectives and transformed her mindset, fostering a more innovative and adaptive outlook. Armed with a new set of tools and fresh perspectives, she is now better equipped to tackle future challenges with confidence and creativity.
Now her goal is to ascend into a higher leadership role that prioritizes sustainability, where her decisions’ impacts extend further and catalyze change at a more global level. She values innovative, transformative leadership, and mentoring top performers to become strong leaders themselves.
Ana is a Strategic Transformation & Change Management Lead with 20+ years of experience optimizing processes and adopting emerging technologies for healthcare institutions, top retail brands, and other multisectoral enterprises. She is known for reimagining organizations’ structures and workflows to spark collaboration, drive efficiency, maximize value creation, and amplify employee & customer satisfaction. Ana brings a curious, creative, and entrepreneurial mindset to each company and uses it to achieve sustainable impact.
With the Porto Business School’s Executive MBA, Ana has refined her ability to identify trends, untapped opportunities, and fast-growing markets. The lessons learned from her instructors and the collaboration with her peers-executives from various industries who share unique approaches to creative problem-solving-broadened her perspectives and transformed her mindset, fostering a more innovative and adaptive outlook. Armed with a new set of tools and fresh perspectives, she is now better equipped to tackle future challenges with confidence and creativity.
Now her goal is to ascend into a higher leadership role that prioritizes sustainability, where her decisions’ impacts extend further and catalyze change at a more global level. She values innovative, transformative leadership, and mentoring top performers to become strong leaders themselves.
Languages
- Portuguese / English / Spanish
Top Strengths
- Strategic Thinking / Change Management / Collaboration & Leadership / Customer & Employee Satisfaction / Entrepreneurial Mindset
Future Professional Interests
- Sustainability Leadership / Global Impact Initiatives / Innovation Strategy / Executive Leadership / Mentorship & Talent Development
Academic Background
- 2024The Executive MBA | Porto Business School, University of Porto
- 2019Postgraduate Business Intelligence and Analytics | Porto Business School, University of Porto
- 2011Postgraduate Performance Assessment and Management Control | Escola de Gestão do Porto, University of Porto
- 2004Degree in Economics | Faculty of Economics (FEUP), University of Porto
Timeline
- 2024 - (...)Chief of Staff to the Chairman | MCA
- 2023 - 2024Head of Corporate Responsability and Comunication | MCA
- 2021 - 2023Chairman's Advisory | MCA
- 2019 - 2021Team Lead | E-commerce Financial Operations | Adidas
- 2011 - 2019Business Intelligence & Controlling and Financial Management and Team Lead | Trust
- 2010 - 2013Financial Management | Pinto leite Imagem e Diagnóstico
- 2008 - 2010Financial Management (Advisory), Controlling, Budgeting | Trofa Saúde Hospital
- 2004 - 2008Financial Audit, Senior Project Management | Deloitte
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