Martin Echavarria

Martin Echavarria has dedicated his career to learning about and working directly in business collaborations. From helping companies build strategic alliances across industries, culture, and geographies to supporting internal collaboration among executives and their teams, Martin has successfully combined business know-how with leadership philosophies and practices.

Martin has over fifteen years of global experience developing strategic alliances resulting in nearly $1 billion in top-line revenue in today's ever-changing domestic and international business landscape. He holds a master's degree in business administration from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, a bachelor's degree in business and political science from Emory University, and has studied strategic alliances at the Wharton School.

Additionally, over the past ten years, he has dedicated himself to the identification and creation of alliances through his consulting company, Coherence Inc. He has also built an impressive leadership coaching career working with Executive Core and Korn/Ferry International supporting individuals at the chief executive, VP, and senior executive VP levels, and their teams to collaborate and partner effectively within their organizations.

His dedication to collective collaboration as an alliance business developer and a leadership coach and facilitator has given him the opportunity to work with such high-profile companies as Verizon, Hewlett-Packard, American Express, MasterCard, Scotiabank, PriceSmart, Digicel, Orange Telecom, and many others across Canada, the United States and Latin America.

In 2012, he received the coveted Alliance Excellence Award from ASAP for the partnership developed between Scotiabank and Digicel, a partnership profiled by President Bill Clinton in an article entitled “The Case for Optimism” in TIME Magazine. The alliance was the first M-Wallet in the Americas, allowing Haitians to access and transfer money via their cell phones, increasing financial inclusion in a country still reeling from the devastating earthquake of 2010.

In the alliances and business sphere, Martin follows the work of such authors as Jordan D. Lewis and Steve Steinhilber. From an organizational design, integral thought, and group leadership perspective, he admires the work of Enrique Pichon-Riviére, Peter M. Senge, William Isaacs, Ken Wilber, Adam Kahane, James Flaharty and many others. Enabling Collaboration: A New Methodology for Developing Strategic Alliances and Partnerships is his first book. He resides in Miami Beach, FL.