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In this episode of 97% Effective, Michael Wenderoth discusses with guest Helio Mosquim how you can deliver more impact and advance your career by creating new roles within your existing company. Helio, technology director at Vale in the Amazon region of Brazil, shares 3 keys that have powered his journey: serving a higher purpose, building strategic coalitions, and creating resources by leveraging executive education and coaching. He talks about going beyond your job description, focusing on goal convergence, and managing the “butterflies” and spotlight that come with taking risk.

SHOW NOTES:

• The underexamined strategy to advancement and greater impact: creating a new role in your company (vs displacing someone else or looking outside)
• Adapting and learning: A Brazilian teenager moves to Congerville, Illinois, USA (population 400), thanks to AFS.
• Helio’s latest career and life move, taking a role in the Amazon region of Brazil
• What innovation looks like in the mining sector at Vale: Green briquettes, AI + Telemetry to enhance truck driving, and predicting deforestation
• How Helio connects his work to serving a higher purpose
• Helio’s Key #1 on advancing by creating new roles: Have and Connect to Higher Purpose
• Going beyond your job description
• Why and how Helio left a global IT role to take a regional role in the Amazon
• “Building power is a combination of skill and will”
• Why it’s important to have a clear and bold aspiration
• Helio’s Key #2 on advancing by creating new roles: Create Strategic Coalitions with Shared Purpose
• Finding the sweet spot (goal convergence)
• Being clear, vocal and intentional about your goals – and the greater vision
• The importance of taking risks: How Helio proposed a new role in the Amazon to his boss and his boss’s boss
• “If you don’t have butterflies in your stomach, you are not challenging yourself.”
• The critical role of Adriana, Helio’s wife
• Is Helio a politician? The need for strong political skills
• Technology as a tool, a means to achieves an end
• Helio’s Key #3 to advance through creating new roles: Leverage learnings from Executive Education and Coaching
• How Helio leveraged Stanford executive education and his connections forged there to create a win-win-win that is helping startups in the Amazon ecosystem
• How to ensure you stay focused when you take on “extra work”
• Why Helio joined as an advisor at Coalition for Impact
• How systems thinking is essential
• How to make sure when you help others, you don’t get left behind
• How speaking, writing raised his profile 6 years ago, putting Helio in the spotlight
• “Get attraction rather than reaction”
• What Helio needed to unlearn
• What Helio learned from coaching: The importance of shifting from anxious to problem-solving mode.

BIO AND LINKS:

From the Silicon Valley to the jungles of Brazil’s Amazon region, Hélio Mosquim Jr. is a technology director for Vale SA, a global mining company. With more than 25 years of experience across multiple industries in Europe, Asia, and Americas, Helio is deeply passionate about creating positive change, transformation and results by empowering people and organizations through technology and innovation. Startup Mentor, Board advisor, he also co-founded Match4Action that works with CrowdDoing to address critical global challenges through a systems change approach. Helio holds a B.Sc in Business Administration, an MBA, and Executive Education in Leadership from IMD, and Corporate Innovation from Stanford GSB (LEAD).

• Helio on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heliomosquim/
• Profile on Helio in Stanford’s LEAD Executive Education : https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/difference/voices/helio-mosquim
• Match4Action: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/difference/leaders-accelerate-social-change-match4action
• CrowdDoing: https://www.crowddoing.world/
• AFS Intercultural Programs: https://afs.org
• Systems Thinking, explained: https://youtu.be/GPW0j2Bo_eY
• 2025 Global COP30 Summit taking place in Belem, Brazil: https://greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk/cop30-belem-brazil-november-2024/
• Michael’s book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74