Rodrigo Calderón is a distinguished business transformation expert and leadership development specialist with over 25 years of experience as a country manager, general manager, and strategic consultant across Latin America and the United States. His expertise spans crucial areas such as adaptive culture development, strategic alignment, organizational design, leadership branding, and creating environments where business success and people's wellbeing coexist and thrive.
Rodrigo currently serves as a Principal Consultant with The RBL Group, where he leverages his deep understanding of how businesses can improve their marketplace relevance to help clients achieve sustainable growth and organizational effectiveness. His consulting work focuses on the vital question of how leaders can generate both success and wellbeing across their organizations through various strategic initiatives.
With a comprehensive academic foundation, Rodrigo holds an MBA from Universidad de los Andes, a BS in Electronic Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and is a graduate of INALDE Business School's Presidents Executive Education Program (PADE). He is also a member of Presencing Institute's masterclass in social innovation, demonstrating his commitment to cutting-edge approaches to organizational transformation. As a testament to his intellectual capabilities, Rodrigo represented his country in two International Mathematical Olympiads.
Throughout his distinguished career, Rodrigo has worked with numerous prominent organizations across Latin America, implementing transformative processes that include developing adaptive cultures, articulating strategies that align stakeholder needs with business outcomes, creating customer-centric organizational designs, and deploying leadership brands that connect strategy with people's actions. His client portfolio includes major corporations such as AB InBev, Tresalia, Scotiabank, Hochschild Mining, Panama Pacifico, Vilaseca, Evertec, Banco Popular, HBO, Hyatt, Pepsico, Chanel, IATA, and Maersk, among others.
Prior to his consulting career, Rodrigo held significant executive positions where he had business responsibility for all of Latin America, achieving substantial growth in business value through building high-performing teams. His experience includes serving as Business Manager Colombia at Linde Gas, President at Espumlátex S.A. (the first non-family president of this leading Colombian company in PU solutions), and General Manager at GEON Performance Solutions.
As an executive coach and facilitator, Rodrigo creates key learning experiences that help leaders and their teams shift mindsets and redefine roles to generate greater success and wellbeing. His approach emphasizes developing leaders who can, in turn, develop other leaders, building adaptive cultures where teams continuously evolve to develop capabilities and reputation that attract and delight customers.
Rodrigo currently lives with his family in Miami, Florida, where he continues to impact organizations across the Americas with his unique blend of executive experience, strategic insight, and commitment to creating sustainable business success paired with employee wellbeing.