Meet the Graduates
Carlos Acevedo
MAOL Graduate/Consultant – Owner, New World Consulting
As owner of New World Consulting, a Puerto Rico consulting, training and coaching company, Carlos Acevedo was already familiar with some of the principles and conversations around leadership transformation. Despite his broad experience spanning roughly seventeen years before he encountered MAOL, coaching a client through the program exposed him to new ways of observing and thinking that have helped him see further and think more clearly than ever before.
“The program provides information that stimulates your further inquiry such that you will literally make it your own and develop your own conclusions. You’ll figure out your version of leadership, not MAOL’s version of leadership,” Acevedo says.
For Acevedo, it was not the things that he was taught in MAOL that are valuable, so much as what he learned. He says that when he thinks back to his time coaching his client, Francisco Arteaga, through the program and auditing MAOL sessions, the discoveries to which he came himself are what he best remembers. He also acknowledges that he had breakthrough moments nearly every day and says that MAOL is more rigorous than any other program of which he knows.
Acevedo cites the MAOL program as being very powerful in that it gave him new tools for his coaching business, and also that he was able to see and understand his client’s metamorphosis from a more intimate perspective.
Acevedo notes that his client, Arteaga, was always a thoughtful man, but as he went through his studies he became more sophisticated in his thinking around how to run his company and create a bold future. That shift extends into the present.
“Right now we’re in tough economic times, and Francisco continues to see things that other people aren’t seeing,” explains Acevedo. “He’s constantly seeing the silver lining, developing options and possibilities that people around him can’t see.”
Acevedo breaks down the MAOL experience into four components: one is the external information from reading, the second is internal reflection and discovery. Third come specific insights provided by faculty, and finally, Acevedo says, and one of the most important, comes group dialogue.
“The conversations that occur in MAOL sessions are so unlike anything else I’ve engaged in. There’s a real sense of fun in the discovery process,” Acevedo says. “MAOL woke up more of this in me. I really like to learn, I like to read, I like to hear unique and different approaches.”