“Perico is an absolute crack”

A few years ago I met Perico Herraiz (@pericoherraiz), one of the great opportunities in the form of a great person that life has offered me. It was thanks to Desafío + . Today, perhaps because instagram allows me to have him very present, I want to tell you a little about him. Of course, I’m going to do it by sharing with all of you the first time I heard him, because it’s recorded (Desafio +). So, if you feel like it, you can also have a look at the Desafío + website.

Perico, as well as being a crack, as Mikel Alvira (@mikelalvira) introduces him, is an optimistic, brave, active and action-oriented person, generous, with a critical spirit, empathetic, who is changing the world with young people, who believes in people, who accepts himself as he is, and who is a natural born helper.

He is an expert in international cooperation, who travels to India and Morocco over the years with groups of young volunteers to help others. He also coordinates a social leadership programme in Zaragoza (where he lives), aimed at children and young people between the ages of 10 and 19 who are in vulnerable situations. Always looking for change for the better, of course.

I invite you to listen, at least from minute 12:30 to 45:05. You will discover ‘this crack’.

Thank you, Perico, it was great to meet you!

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be back with another entrepreneur or entrepreneurial project.

The keys of a good leadership, also for entrepreneurs

In the school year of 1993-94, as soon as I finished the Pedagogy studies and I got a diploma in Education of Leisure, I applied for the Young Leaders Fellowship scholarship of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Foundation. The goal was to make a research project that allowed me to lay the foundation of what my future doctoral thesis would be while I started working at the Leisure Studies Institute of the University of Deusto, founded in 1988 in the heart of the then Faculty of Philosophy and Education Science. Then started a long journey that’s still going, which I’m very aware of, and that made me work today at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Deusto, developing at least two of my biggest passions: teaching, with everything that implies; and the promotion of entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial person – especially the teacherpreneur – and their training.

Do not worried, today’s post is not about my story, it is about leadership. Do you want to keep reading? You don’t? Then you’ll miss something; you do? Keep reading. (more…)