https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanacastroecosta/Nova SBE is a top-ranked triple crown accredited business school leading in areas such as entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability. Within the school, Joana is the executive director of the Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center and coordinator of the partnership Social Equity Initiative with “la Caixa Foundation” and BPI. Joana is an enthusiast, with a visionary and pragmatic multiplier approach to business and impact. Formerly consultant, she commonly adopts a process of diagnosing a problem by listening to different stakeholders, benchmarking and designing a structured process to tackle in a creative and collaborative way any societal problem. She also uses the social entrepreneurship approach, agily piloting new ideas, later fine-tuning them for scalability. Examples where she materialized this together with different partners and colleagues are the the Social Leapfrog Program for social organizations, the program Social Leadership for Managers for executives in the private sector that want to contribute to the third sector or the project Fia-te that aims to find an alternative to the guarantor for migrants. Joana is also a networker, highly perceptive of people’s talents, skills, and potential, and she can quickly understand interest and synergies and hence matchmake with other relevant people or organizations. Joana is asked frequently to be part of jurys, mentorship programs and advisory boards in Portugal and is member of Red Iberoamericana de Jóvenes Líderes and Acege - Portuguese Christian Managers association, the Economy of Francesco movement, the League of Intrapreneurs Fellows and the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network.
