Ana Maria Botelho Maia Gonçalves
Maria da Conceição Oliveira
François Bogacz
Isabel de Botton
Convirgente’s partners are all senior personalities gathering complementary experiences in HR management, marketing and business development, coaching, facilitation, skills development, mediation and law.
Ana Maria Botelho Maia Gonçalves
The best way to summarize Ana’s character is to say she is
passionate, intuitive, generous and
obstinate.
Ana was born in Portugal and grew up in Porto. In 1984, she went to live in France with only a piano teacher degree. Within a few years, she became
Customer Service Director of Microsoft France, with a division of more than 100 people. In 1994, she participated in the worldwide launch of the Critical Support Service Centre of Microsoft and became its
director for Europe. She then decided to go back to her mother country with her daughter and worked there as
Customer Service Director. In 2000, she decided to change her life: she went back to university and got a
Master of Law. She had a son with the man of her life, discovered mediation, fell in love with the subject, contaminated her
husband, and launched the idea of creating Convirgente.
Ana is an
ADRg and IMI Accreditated Mediator and
coach.
She’s fluent in French, English and Portuguese and has advanced notions of Spanish.
Training
- Cinergy™ Conflict Coach Introductory workshop (Alice Springs)
- IMI Certified Mediator
- Executive Certificate in Positive Psychology Coaching (UTS - Sydney)
- Qualified to administer the Conflict Dynamics Profile (Eckerd College)
- Foundation of Positive Psychology (Penn University)
- Accredited Mediator (LEADR – Sydney)
- Certified trainer (MTI)
- Executive Coach –Level I (Escola Europeia de Coaching)
- Accredited Mediator (ADRg)
- Mediator (IMAP - Instituto de Mediação e Arbitragem de Portugal)
- Master of Law (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
To contact Ana, please
send her an email.
Maria da Conceição Oliveira
Beyond being a
free spirit, humble but
obstinate, Conceição is without any doubt the
best Portuguese expert of ADR.
While she was General Manager of the Extra judiciary Department of the Ministry of Justice, between 2000 and 2003, she did participate in several reforms that gave birth to the local program of small claims tribunals. She was also founder of the
IMAP (Instituto de Mediação e Arbitragem de Portugal) which trained in the following years the majority of the mediators who work for the public mediation programs. Since 2006, she is a Consultant and Expert to the European Council and has participated in the
CEPEJ-MED-WG workgroup that was in charge of drafting several proposals regarding the
efficiency of justice. She has participated in several ADR conferences and workgroups in Croatia, Kosovo, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Moldavia. In 2008, she was a member of the jury of the
Crystal Scales of Justice competition.
During her career, Conceição has gathered a unique expertise in the public administration sector. She is an
ADRg accreditated Mediator and a
coach.
She’s fluent in French, English and Portuguese.
Training
- Certified trainer (MTI)
- Executive Coaching Training –Level I (Escola Europeia de Coaching)
- Accredited Mediator (ADRg)
- Mediator (IMAB- Instituto de Mediação e Arbitragem do Brasil)
- Master of Law in European Studies (Universidade de Lisboa)
To contact Conceição, please
send her an email.
François Bogacz
François has an original personality, mixing
curiosity, creativity and
rationality.
Trained as an engineer, he has worked for 20 years in marketing and business development, mainly for multinational companies such as Hitachi, Philips and Microsoft. He was in 1995 in charge of the launching of Windows 95, one of the most strategic product launches of the software giant. He was immediately after appointed GM of the
Microsoft Internet portal activity in France, reporting directly to the HQ in Redmond. In 1998, he created one of the leading French Web agencies and raised 3M€ of funds from two investment banks,
ABN-AMRO and La
Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rotschild. In 2002, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal, to live with
his wife and to write novels.
Used to – but not really satisfied with – highly competitive workplaces, François always looked for another way to collaborate. He’s convinced that the implementation of conflict management strategies is a mandatory step towards the development of positive organizations.
He’s an
ADRg and IMI accredited mediator and Harvard Program on Negotiation graduate.
He’s fluent in French, English and Portuguese.
To contact François, please
send him an email.
Training
Isabel de Botton
Isabel is a private investor, formerly member of the board of
Logoplaste, one of the leading manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging. Not satisfied with being only an investing partner in Convirgente, she has joined the ADR movement by becoming an
ADRg accredited mediator. She shares with us her deep knowledge of the Portuguese corporate world.
To contact Isabel, please
click here.