About us

We approach every piece of work with integrity, independence, accountability and a social conscience.

About

About Us

Helping organizations make the changes needed to seize competitive advantage— and to win—has always been at SBA’s core mission. Since the beginning of this millenium, we have been helping leaders and their organizations build a lasting advantage. SBA is always challenging the status quo—giving us the courage to look beyond the obvious to find solutions for more than 20 years.

The hundreds of success cases, satisfied clients, business partnerships, and team of consultants have organically made SBA a synonym of highly effective and trusted business development ecosystem, the NextStep Connect platform, home of our most sought after business solutions.

At SBA we believe that client satisfaction is the key to success. Our NextStep Connect solutions are deeply rooted in the thousands of personal connections and business opportunities uniquely cultivated by our founders and team of global advisors.

Most of all we take pride in prioritizing and upholding our core values, now and always.

Core Values

We approach every piece of work with integrity, independence, accountability and a social conscience. Our values are
set out in our code of conduct. They guide us in everything we do: how we meet the needs of our clients, how we
develop our people and what role we play in our communities

ETHICS AND INTEGRITY

We act with honesty and adhere to the highest standards of moral and ethical values and principles. We demonstrate our understanding of these values and principles and uphold them in every action and decision

ACCOUNTABILITY

Our actions must align with our words, and our words must reflect our true intentions. We embrace our responsibilities, practice democratic leadership, and adhere to the highest standards of public trust. We hold ourselves accountable for both our words and actions

COLLABORATION

Individual commitment to a group effort is integral to our company culture; bringing stakeholders together to offer different perspectives and expertise to solve client challenges.

LISTENING

We are committed to listen attentively to our clients, understand what they’re saying, respond and reflect on what’s being said, and retain the information to ensure effective solutions

RESPECT

Everyone deserves and appreciates respect. We believe in the importance of all stakeholders and value our collective ideas and beliefs.

Meet your NextStep team here

01

Managing Partners

meet our managing partners

02

Global Advisory team

meet our advisory team

03

Consultants

meet our consultants

Managing Partners

Arnaldo Carrera

Founder & Managing Partner

Sandy Srebnick

Managing Partner

Global Advisory Team

David Barzilay

Rami Blachman

Sherilyn W. Casiano

David Te Boekhorst

Fabrice Chaffois

Wagner Fontenele

Jonathan Gamble

Pam Hamingson

Reneé Laird

Danila Palmieri

Ricardo Normand

Francisco Paschoal

Joyce E. Salazar

David Simpson

Global Consultants Team

Tim Allmond

Dr. Mark Baptista

Guilherme Butti

Ana Paula de Castro

Vivian Brooklyn Chen

Ana Cunha

Sabrina Greenman

Sarita Kackson

Nabil Nahra

Guilher Pecora

Mario Stavale

Claudia Tomaselli

Joy Wang

Megan Williams

It’s not about opening doors it is about opening the right doors