The Author

Herbert Steinberg, founder of MESA - Corporate Governance, is a consultant in human development and corporate governance. He is a counsellor of presidents and members of the administration council. He is a founder member of HPI Brasil, a company representing advanced tools of comprehensive solutions for HR providers and attaining exclusive rights on Dave Ulrich´s methodology in Brazil. He coordinates the governance committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo. He was the vice-president of Human Resources of the Santander Banespa group. He was the corporative director of Human Resources of Citibank and director of Human Resources of McDonald's. He has more than 26 years of experience in corporations, being 15 years as a member of the board. He was a director-partner of DBM - Drake Beam Morin of Brazil and led many processes of organizational strategic planning, increasing the value of the area of human resources in the management of enterprises.


He is a professor of Executive MBA of BSP - Business School São Paulo, at the chairs of Human Capital & Leadership Strategic Management. He is a business administrator with post-graduation by the Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo of FGV and has many specialization courses in Brazil and abroad in business, marketing and human resources.

He wrote A Dimensão Humana da Governança Corporativa - Pessoas criam as melhores e as piores práticas (The Human Dimension of the Corporate Governance - People outline the best and the worst practices), a book published in 2003 by Editora Gente.

He dedicated 12 years for volunteer work in Vila Serena, one institution with no profitable endings dedicated to the treatment of chemical dependency. He carried on two mandates as the president of the entity.

In 1999 he carried out his sabbatical period as a pilgrim on the Way of Santiago, in Spain. The experience coincided with a deep reflection about personal and professional life, and motivated him to write two books: Sabático - Um tempo para crescer (Sabbatical - A Time to Grow) and Um Executivo no Caminho - Da razão ao coração (An Executive on the Way - from Reason to Heart).