Accelerating Innovation, Excellence, Transformation, Leadership, Strategy and Value

José Pires serves as Excellence & Innovation (E&I) executive leader and advisor for cross-industry organizations ranging
from startups to Fortune 50, where he oversees the global identification, prioritization and execution of high value
business improvements and innovations for the companies, business partners, and customers in multiple markets. 

Pires has held Excellence & Innovation and Business Transformation leadership positions across multiple industries, including electronics (Sony), semiconductor (Cymer-ASML), food (Nestlé), energy / water / telecommunications infrastructure (Black & Veatch), and oil & gas / energy (Andeavor-Marathon Petroleum). Throughout his career, Pires developed and refined E&I as an award-winning program to accelerate innovation, leadership development, strategy execution, and value creation, positively impacting more than 100 organizations and 50,000 professionals in 20+ countries.

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Pires is an advisory board leader and keynote speaker for organizations and global conferences on innovation,

excellence, culture, business and digital transformation, leadership development, strategy execution,
customer experience, core, adjacent and disruptive technologies, and growth acceleration.

He is an executive Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt who holds a Bachelor in Engineering Physics
from the University of Kansas and a Master in Business Administration focused in
Investment Banking and Entrepreneurship from the University of San Diego.

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Learn How You Can:

• Build a sustainable culture of Excellence & Innovation anywhere in the world

• Identify or develop highly engaged innovators and entrepreneurs in your organization

• Leverage exponential technologies that rapidly scale business innovations and value creation 

• Identify, prioritize and implement innovations that create
       the most value, in the shortest time, and simplest means