Augusto L. Dias Carneiro is a Coach, Headhunter, Author and future Board Member and Conflict Mediator.
In 2009, he published his first book Guia de Sobrevivência na Selva Empresarial (“Corporate-Jungle Survival Manual”) by Elsevier Editora, presently in its 2nd edition, and now with Alta Editora.
In 2015, he obtained a Board Member credential with IBGC – Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (Brazil Corporate-Governance Institute).
Between August 2015 and August 2018 he was a member of Prudential Brazil’s Audit Committee, interacting with their auditors, PWC. This period included Prudential’s acquisition of the Itau Group Life portfolio.
Since August 2019, he writes a monthly column for the Brazil edition of MITSloan Management Review (mitsloanreview.com.br) website.
In June 2019 he concluded the classroom part of his Mediator credential, and is presently accumulating practice hours, under supervision, in Corporate Mediation.
Coaching
Mr Carneiro obtained his Coach credential from the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif (accredited by the International Coaching Federation), to which he returned after completing 3000 hours of coaching in 2013-2014 to acquire the credits toward a Master Coach credential.
His focus is C-level executives and High Potentials at GE, Intel, Lubrizol, Schlumberger, Shell, Solvay, and Philip Morris. As well as Pro Bono work at the NGOs Doctors Without Borders, Recode, Gastromotiva, and Instituto da Criança.
Headhunter
His Executive Search experience started in 1997, and focuses on the Natural Resources space (oil, gas, mining, solar, wind and hydro).
In the last 23 years, he has placed executives in the Brazilian subsidiaries of Actis, Appian, BG, CHC Helicopter, El Paso, Kinross Gold, MODEC, Peak Gold, Prosafe, SBM, Shell, Statkraft, Subsea7, Unocal and Wintershall, as well as the Consortium (Engie, Vale, Alcoa and Camargo) that built and operates the Estreito hydroelectric dam.
Mr Carneiro was a Partner (1999-2003) and a Principal (1997-1999) of Korn Ferry, the US multinational executive search and assessment company, where he opened their Rio de Janeiro branch, structured the Natural Resources practice in Latin America, and in 2001 led the Brazil and Argentina rollout of their new Management Assessment service. During his period as Partner, he was also responsible for some client relationships outside the Natural Resources space: Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, Baker & McKenzie, Xerox and Nabisco.
Assessment
His Executive Assessment practice exceeds 200 executives. Mr Carneiro is certified for the psychometrics Lumina Spark and Leader/360, MBTI Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Step 1 and Step 2), Thomas-Kilman Inventory, Firo-b, as well as the Center for Creative Leadership suite.
MIT and UCLA
Mr Carneiro graduated in 1972 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management with a B.Sc. in Business (emphasis Data Modeling). He obtained his MBA in 1983 from the University of California Los Angeles Anderson Graduate School of Management (emphases Finance and Strategy).
Between May 1994 and may 2019 he was a member of MIT’s Educational Committee, where he was responsible for interviewing Brazilian students applying for admission. He was also a Consulting Board Member of the MIT Alumni Club Brazil. And a Judge in several startup contests led by MIT (2018-2020).
Prior History
Between 1987 and 1997, he founded and led his own consulting practice, dedicated to Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Finance, where he had a decisive role in several transactions. He restructured the liabilities of one shipyard (Caneco), initiated the turnaround of one newspaper (Jornal do Brasil), and took part several trade finance and debt-conversion deals for Essilor, Dresser, Fluor, Lockheed-Martin, Nabisco and Schlumberger.
Between 1985 and 1987 he was a Director at a small fiancé boutique in Rio de Janeiro (Atlantic Capital), where he dealt with clients like Goodyear, Fluor-Daniel, TRW and Dresser, and had a key role in Brazil’s first debt-equity conversion in a listed company in Brazil, Brasmotor.
Between 1984 and 1985, Mr. Carneiro was Deputy Finance Director at Billiton, a mining and metals company, then owned by Shell.
His early professional experiences (1973-1982) were Finance positions with Xerox (1976-1982) and in banks like Citibank, BD-Rio and Banco União Comercial.
Personal
Dual citizen (Brazil and US), equally fluent in English and Portuguese, and has a working knowledge of, in decreasing order, Spanish, French and Italian.
A diplomat’s son, Mr Carneiro was born in Boston, brought up in London and Geneva, attended the French school in Rio de Janeiro and completed High School in Brookline-Mass. Married for 35 years to Monica Lampreia, a landscaper and author of landscaping books. They have lived in Petropolis – RJ since 2014. He holds a Class C Ham Radio license, a Helmsman’s license, and is certified for off-road in both 4X4s (Land Rover) and motorcycles (BMW).
