Ricardo Poeta

Joined: 13/04/2018


Entrepreneur


With a background in IT & Business consultancy, I later specialized in Learning & Development, with a focus on group dynamics and moderating and presiding over events, workshops, debates and other group activities that involve intercultural discussions and knowledge sharing.
I am the co-founder and CEO of RuralCool, a Portuguese association that aims at fighting rural desertification and promoting socio-economic, human, environmental and cultural development in the Portuguese region of Lafões. Moreover, I am also responsible for Communication and Dissemination of EMBERS - a EU funded project - and a Learning & Group Dynamics Consultant for Hardware City, a community of entrepreneurs that closes the gap between hardware startups, academics and contract manufacturers in the area of Product Development. Besides my professional experience, I have spent considerable time volunteering for non-profit organizations, including volunteering for Humanitas providing support to refugees.
Thanks to my greatest strengths – social & intercultural skills, developing people’s talents and potential and adaptability - I have the ability to intuitively create emotionally safe and amicable environments, enabling trust and consequently maximizing the involvement and development of participants in both small and big groups.
Last but not least, I am a true example of multiculturalism, with living and working experience in Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands and speaking 7 languages.

Works at:

RuralCool

Solution provider

RuralCool

Solution provider