Marcelo Cardoso

Marcelo Lopes Cardoso (born August 3, 1966) is a Brazilian businessman from São Paulo. He is CEO for Metaintegral Associates, a company based in Sao Francisco that apply Business transformation grounded in Integral Theory leveraging scientific evidence from areas such as psychology, neuroscience, social science, complex theory. He is the founder and president of Instituto Integral Brasil.

Education Cardoso holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A) degree from Faculdade Campos Salles that included an undergraduate sandwich program at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. In 1997, when he was 31, he was invited to start up and operate the theme park Hopi Hari, which is one of the largest of its kind of Latin America. After five years, his departure from Hopi Hari’s presidency was announced in 2002.

In 2013, he joined Grupo Fleruy, a Brazilian firm working within the fields of medicine and health. He was SVP of people, strategy, innovation, and sustainability.

Since 2014, Marcelo has been called upon as a consultant by both Brazilian and Multinational firms to support complex strategic and human resources problems. Some of his current clients are Eileen Fisher, IBM, , Sequoia and iFractal.

Cardoso is also a speaker, coach and facilitator. He provides support and contributes to programs of Instituto Evoluir, an organization that develops short term courses within the fields of psychology, health, education, and organizational practices. Marcelo has taken part in dozens of live web casts in Brazil where he re-interprets current news through the lens of Integral Theory and practice.