Joao is an executive coach, life coach, leadership development program designer and trainer, author, and researcher with over 30 years of international experience in the world of personal development, coaching, business consultancy and training.
As a scholar-practitioner Joao’s focus is on the development of transformative coaching methods and leadership development programs. He developed two new coaching methods, coaching in the metaphorical spaces and phenomenological coaching (together with James Marlatt).
Recently with Pacific Integral João designed and co-facilitated an action-research project called Phenomenological Exploration of Race and Racism, using a whole-person non-intrusive coaching and compassionate exploration of internal representations of race and racism.