The intellectual framework behind the practice. The literature that shaped my approach to commercial strategy and enterprise risk. The formal education that anchors the methodology. And the external disciplines that provide context — informing business decisions in ways that aren't always obvious.
Hover over each book to see how it shaped my thinking on procurement, negotiation, and commercial strategy. Not aspirational reading — operational reading.
Where formal education intersects with operational practice — each investment designed to deepen existing expertise or open genuinely new commercial perspectives. No credential inflation. No fabricated accolades. What's listed here is what exists.
Two master's programs — one grounded in Mexican business formation, one in the US strategic management tradition — reflect a deliberate choice to build professional perspective that crosses cultural and educational contexts. Both inform how I approach supplier relationships, organizational dynamics, and commercial decision-making.
This section reflects what's actually happening — not an aspirational credential list. Professional development in strategic procurement happens continuously through practice, peer dialogue, and deliberate engagement with the profession's evolving knowledge base.
The disciplines that inform how I see the world outside of procurement — and that, on closer inspection, aren't as separate from it as they might first appear.
Currently training for the Flying Pig Cincinnati Marathon. Long-distance running is a laboratory for discipline and commitment management: pacing, energy distribution, and the psychology of honoring commitments nobody else can verify. The parallels with long-cycle negotiation management are not metaphorical — they are operational. You train for conditions you hope not to face, so that you perform when you face them anyway.
Raised in the Mexican professional tradition and now operating within the North American CPG landscape, I carry the perspective of someone who has navigated both systems from the inside. This dual formation — Mexican university education, Mexican business culture, Panamanian business culture for 10+ Years, US graduate school, and US corporate enterprise — is not a background detail. It's the lens through which I read organizations, supplier relationships, and career trajectories.
Committed to raising my three children to be bilingual, globally oriented, and intellectually curious. The educational workbooks I've created for their learning with an au pair — built around their interests in soccer and characters they love — are probably the highest-ROI work I do. The investment compounds over decades, not quarters. Watching curiosity develop in a child is a different kind of value creation than any sourcing outcome, and a far more important one.
The reading list informs the thinking. The thinking informs the practice. The practice informs the mentorship.