GALO was born from the convergence of technology, strategy, thought and leadership, to help organizations decide better.

María Laura García

Founder and President of GlobalNews® Group

María Laura García is the Founder and President of GlobalNews® Group, a media intelligence company with operations across 10 Latin American countries. She serves on corporate boards of companies and organizations focused on technology, innovation, and management, and is a member of the Advisory Board of AI 2030, a U.S.-based initiative dedicated to advancing the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence.

She is a certified Corporate Director through IGEP and previously served as President of FIBEP, the international organization representing the media intelligence industry. In 2022, she was recognized as Businesswoman of the Year by Universidad Siglo 21. She also invests in technology startups with regional growth potential.

She is the author of El desafío digital: informarse, pensar y decidir libremente en la era cibernética (Granica, 2023) and its English-language edition, Our Digital Challenge: Informing, Thinking, and Freely Deciding in the Cyber Era. She is also co-author of the forthcoming Cuando la inteligencia ya no alcanza: Decisiones humanas en la era sintética, to be published in both Spanish and English. She created and currently leads the Digital and Information Literacy for Decision-Making Program at Universidad Siglo 21, designed to strengthen the capabilities needed to assess information, develop sound judgment, and make decisions in environments increasingly shaped by technology.

She has more than 30 years of experience across communications, information, and technology. A journalist by training, she began her career in media organizations including La Nación and Radio El Mundo, and later led International Press Relations at Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the consolidation of Mercosur. She further developed her executive education in management, finance, and leadership at IAE Business School, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, UCEMA, and Stanford University.

Argentina · United States · Canada

Mariana Losano

Strategy Consultant and Senior Coach

Mariana Losano is a strategy consultant and Senior Coach specializing in organizational transformation, corporate identity design and change facilitation. Through Mariana Losano Consultores, she works with leaders, executive teams and organizations in highly complex contexts, bringing together strategy, purpose and human capabilities to drive sustainable transformation.

She holds a degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, is a Senior Coach certified by Newfield Consulting, and holds a diploma in Crisis Management from the University of Buenos Aires. She was Director of Newfield Consulting Argentina and part of its international network of coaches. She was also a founding member and Content Director of the International Federation of Professional Ontological Coaching.

She is co-author of When Intelligence Is No Longer Enough: Human Decisions in Synthetic Times, forthcoming in Spanish and English, and of scientific articles such as “Collaborative work, coaching and teams in surgery” (Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques). Her academic career includes teaching and research at the University of Buenos Aires and Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile, as well as participation in UBACYT-CONICET projects.

She has more than twenty years of experience in strategic consulting and organizational development. At Grupo Clarín, she held positions in External Relations and Human Resources, where she led initiatives in corporate image, community engagement and talent development. Throughout her career, she has designed cultural change, executive education and team development processes for organizations across the Americas and Europe.

Her approach integrates a strategic perspective, systems thinking and a people-centered view, combining purpose, emotional management, language, narratives and an understanding of organizational interdependencies to drive sustainable and meaningful transformation.

Argentina · France

Together they developed the García Losano decision architecture model, which forms the conceptual foundation of GALO’s work.

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