Maria Jose Sanchez Yago
Fellow
Madrid, Spain
María José Sánchez Yago has over nine years
of experience in coaching, management consultancy and tailor-made
trainings. Her areas of expertise are: leadership, development of
leadership skills, high performing teams, talent management,
learning processes, changing corporate culture. María José is
active in a wide range of business areas (banks, construction,
telecommunications, automotive, mining, universities,
etc.).
She has participated in projects with clients
like Axa, Bankinter, Caixa Geral, Electrolux, GlaxoSmithkline,
Grupo Telefónica, Grupo Santander, Hullera Vasco-Leonesa, Iberia,
Ingeniería Salamanca, KPMG, Lexus, Mapfre, Monlyke, Panda Security
Software, Sanitas and the Universitat Oberta of
Catalunya.
She is a postgraduate teacher at the University
Francisco de Vitoria, researcher and contributor of IESE in the
area of "Managing People" with Prof. Santiago Álvarez de Mon and
associate at Mentore. She participated in various publications and
books about leadership and human behavior.
María José started her professional career in the
telecommunications sector, where she used to work as an engineer in
Research & Development within Telefónica and later within
Sogecable. In this company she ended up as the Director of the
Operations Division, until she decided to make a big career change
in 2001 and to start focusing on the development of people.
Currently she is Vice Presidenta of
Iberdidac
(Asociación española de Fabricantes y
Distribuidores de material didactico) and member of FEDEPE
(Asociación de mujeres directivas y
empresarias).
María José is graduated as Superior Engineer of
Telecommunications at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (1996),
Master in Psycology at UNED (2002), PhD in Philosophy at University
Francisco de Vitoria and Leadership Development
Programme at IESE (2001).