Who is Marcos?
Marcos Cajina is founder and president of Renewal® an international network provider of customized leadership development services. As a trainer and cutting-edge Facilitator, he uses a variety of active and experiential methods to help executives improve their leadership performance and capability through the application of human science.
Marcos is the nine-time recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at the IE-Business School and is a core member of the Center for Creative Leadership/Wharton team that earned the prestigious Excellence in Practice Award from the European Foundation for Management Development.
Since 2001, he has worked with executives, senior managers and multidisciplinary teams in 31 countries across four continents and 17 industries.
Marcos has helped hundreds of executives and teams improve results in companies such as ABN Amro Bank, Acciona, Amadeus, Alsa, Avon, Boston Consulting Group, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Clear Channel, Disney, Goodyear, Google, Grupo Prisa GlaxoSmithKline, ING-Direct, Kellogg, Monsanto, Roche, Mazda, NH-Hotels Group, Aptar, Chep, Adidas, etc.
Parallel to this work, Marcos is currently Senior Faculty at The Center for Creative Leadership EMEA in its flagship Leadership at the Peak program and customised programs for world-leading corporations. He is visiting professor at the EXMBA IE-Brown University programme and has lectured at Wharton Executive Education (USA), Ashridge Business School (UK), and Skolkova Business School (Russia). He is the former Learning Director Spain of the Wharton Business School Aresty Executive Education, University Pennsylvania.
Before founding Renewal®, Marcos had a 14-year international career in leadership development at the Ford Motor Company, where he served as the youngest Iberian Region HR Ford Group Manager. He also led successfully the Leadership Excellence European Programme and was Manager Organizational Personal Planning Marketing Sales & Programmes Europe at the Ford European Headquarters in the UK from where he led the European Talent Recruitment Initiative.
His workshop on Self-Compassion in Business was awarded the best workshop at the Spirituality and Creativity Management World Congress in 2015 at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. His articles have been published in the Huffington Post, Stanford School of Medicine and in major business journals. In 2015, he addressed the Commencement Speech at IE B-School. He has lectured for professional and trade associations and has been a featured speaker on TV2 Spain, and “TV Canal Nacional de Chile” on coaching and leadership.
He is the only Certified Professional Facilitator in Spain by the International Association of Facilitators (USA) and is a Board Certified Coach by the Center for Credentialing and Education in the USA.
Finally, his commitment to bringing the latest discoveries in Neuroscience to Leadership has taken him to complete certification as an Instructor in Multi-Brain Integration and HeartMath energy management tools. He has completed studies in the fields of Resilience, Polyvagal Theory, Coherent Breathing, Oxygen Advantage, and Physical Intelligence.

- Provocateur 86%
- Challenger 81%
- Facilitator 75%
- Human Touch 100%
Testimonials

Carina Szplika
CEO

Juanjo Fernández
Managing Director

Ivano Schiavi
Business Unit Director HIV & Hepatitis

Bill Derrenger
Managing Director

Noemi Ruíz
Human Resources Director

Isabel Calle-Marti
Metabolism, Marketing and Sales Director

Kathleen Dolan
Career Services Director

Carmelo Alonso-Bernaola
Vice President, Logistics

Dr. Mariano Castañiera
Former Director Excellens Programme & Master Professional and Human Leadership
“Marcos is very professional. Has good rapport with students and manages to establish a good relationship with them. He is very keen on following-up on each and every student. He helps them in developing their own skills and developing new ones in leadership and management. I highly recommend him as a coach, professor or manager.
Marcos Cajina has coached a group of professors in “team building” and did a wonderful job as was reported by the professors in a quality evaluation questionnaire.”

Jennifer Ozimkiewicz
Iberia Lead

Chema Terol
Managing Director

Esther Lobo
Director

Maria-Alonso Alcaide
Directora General de Marketing
“In an accelerated and ever changing environment, we should all afford ourselves the opportunity to reflect and understand ourselves better in order to improve the quality of our leadership and life in our organizations. Without a doubt doing it by the hand of Marcos is a guarantee of success.
Working with him has meant a major change in my understanding of the role and capabilities of a leader. Marcos is truly committed to the development of people. His ability to provoke and stimulate generates a real and profound impact, inspired me and opened my eyes to new possibilities.“

Henri Gentis
Head of Marketing and Sales, Private Banking British Isles, London, UK

Juan Carlos Langeber
Senior Manager, Madrid, Spain

Sebastian Cavanagh
Head of Commercial & Partnerships
“After two intense working days with the team, the structured workshop design and fun and effective professional facilitation led by Marcos has helped the team regain focus in areas of success and opportunity. In a context of high business pressure, the workshop has helped the team have a precise diagnosis of its current effectiveness. Such precise diagnosis has saved us time, aligned team effort, and focused on what truly matters most. The ongoing support of Marcos is ensuring business impact, team development, and the improvement of results”.

Juan Otazu Aguerri
Acciona Energy. Director O&M
“I appreciate how Marcos has adapted to my needs of time between sessions. This has helped me to better consolidate change.”

Tamara Wegmann
Senior Vice President Legal
“Since the end of the executive coaching process with Marcos, I have had his mantras present every day and I have experienced personal and professional improvement. Nonetheless, the most important and gratifying moment has been the positive feedback received months later from my boss. The personal and professional growth would not have been possible without the discipline, sincerity and professional excellence of Marcos, I am very grateful!.“

Rufino Pérez
Chief Operations Officer & Global Transformation Leader
“The coaching process with Marcos Cajina (Renewal Company) has been extremely positive for my professional development. With an eminently practical approach, we have been able to draw up an action plan clearly aimed at obtaining concrete and high-impact objectives, which are nevertheless achievable with a moderate level of effort and discipline. It is one of the most rewarding projects I have embarked on and one that has been recognised by those around me.“