Javier Martínez

About Javier Martínez

Javier Martínez brings 25-years of experience advising companies and institutions through-out Spain and Latin America to help enhance the intelligence of organizations by developing a learning culture. He is a Partner in Learning Culture at Knowledge Works and Director at Chile for Knoco Ltd, both consulting companies specialized in learning and knowledge management. He is an international speaker in knowledge management events and seminars since 1999 and he has been publishing a monthly column on knowledge management and organizational learning since 2006.

The main topics he covers at his seminars are collective intelligence, learning culture, knowledge management, collaboration, intangible assets, intelligent organizations, mistake management/lessons learned, future of education and work. Javier likes to brings to his conferences an innovative style of delivering the speeches with a mixture of radical and challenging ideas. He believes that the survival of any organization depends on learning from the future rather than the past.

Javier is also a consultant for the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank in the area of knowledge management and learning, as well as being a teacher in various knowledge management programs at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the University of Santiago and the IDB.

He is the founding member of the Community of Knowledge Management in Chile, along with being a member of the arbitration committee of the Educational Innovation Magazine of the Academic Secretariat of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Besides, he holds a Law Degree from the University of the Basque Country and a master’s degree in Internet Management from the Catalan Institute of Technology. He has been working in the field of organizational learning and knowledge management for almost three decades. Furthermore, he has consulted for over 100 organizations, both public and private in all sorts of industries, and has been a regular speaker and teacher.

Lastly he has contributed in several books on education, e-learning, knowledge management and virtual communities and, has a broad international experience having worked in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, UK, Venezuela, Uruguay.