About Think Ahead
A boutique consultancy for decisions that leave no room for improvisation.
Strategy and finance, leadership and people, governance and management, plus a specialized practice in healthcare and medical education and executive education programs.
Think Ahead is a São Paulo consultancy dedicated to companies and leaders facing high-impact decisions: plans that must be defended, transactions that must be understood, structures that must work.
The work is personally led by the founder, with scope defined before it starts, confidentiality as the default and conclusions written for the people who decide.
Principles
Rigor
Every conclusion has a traceable source and tested assumptions.
Independence
We say what the numbers show, including when it is not what anyone hoped to hear.
Confidentiality
Client information stays within the engagement. Public examples use fictitious data.
Personal leadership
The person who presents the proposal is the person who does the work.
The founder
Luis Fernando Peres de Freitas
Founder of Think Ahead
Luis Fernando Peres de Freitas is an economist registered with CORECON-SP and an administrator registered with CRA-SP, with more than 30 years across corporate management, consulting and teaching.
He built his career at companies such as CPFL, Motorola, NEC and Schahin and worked at Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic. Through Think Ahead, he led business plans for higher education institutions across three cycles of Brazil's Mais Médicos program.
For a decade he has worked on economic and financial expert analysis in complex business disputes, the experience behind Think Ahead's forensic rigor: testing assumptions before they become problems.
He is a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, trained in positive psychology, and draws on the work of Tony Robbins as a reference for human development and high performance. He has taught in MBA and executive education programs.
Education
- Degrees in Business Administration and Economics
- Postgraduate specialization in Accounting and Financial Administration
- Postgraduate specialization in Well-being Science and Positive Psychology