Strategy & Advisory
- Strategic AdvisorThe Metanoia Group
- Football Business ConsultantMetanoia Football, a subsidiary of The Metanoia Group · Four Nations Football Consulting
Professional Profile
I design systems, strategies, and organizational structures that help businesses, leaders, investors, and high-performance ecosystems navigate complexity, unlock opportunities, and achieve sustainable performance.
My work sits at the intersection of systems thinking, strategic transformation, entrepreneurship, capital allocation, and football business.
Through proprietary methodologies, strategic advisory, and hands-on leadership, I seek to bring structure where there is talent, clarity where there is complexity, and sustainability where there is accelerated growth.
The five fronts that hold up all of my work. Every role, platform, and domain on this page is anchored to one or more of them.
Designing strategies, organizational structures, diagnostic frameworks, and transformation initiatives that align capabilities, resources, and objectives. The focus is on strategic differentiation, operational efficiency, organizational development, and sustainable performance.
Building ventures, developing business models, leading organizations, and identifying opportunities for sustainable growth and value creation. This pillar also encompasses investment strategy, portfolio management, risk, and capital allocation through the relevant professional mandates.
Advising football organizations and stakeholders on commercial strategy, business development, investment opportunities, and organizational performance, while representing football talent as a licensed FIFA football agent.
Teaching, researching, writing, and developing ideas at the intersection of business, strategy, systems, and human performance.
Sharing ideas and professional perspectives through authorship, video-podcasting, conference speaking, and other channels that encourage dialogue, knowledge sharing, and intellectual engagement.
The capacities in which I carry out each pillar.
Pillar shows which pillar each block serves.
The structures through which that work is carried out.
Strategy, Systems Architecture & Organizational Transformation
My principal platform for developing and applying proprietary methodologies, diagnostic systems, strategic advisory, and organizational transformation initiatives.
Investment Strategy & Portfolio Management
My investment platform, focused on portfolio strategy, capital allocation, risk management, and investment decision-making.
Football Business, Advisory & Talent
Professional activities spanning football business consulting, commercial development, strategic partnerships, investment-related opportunities, and talent representation through the relevant organizations and mandates.
Teaching & Knowledge Development
Academic contributions through teaching and engagement with business education, including Tecnológico de Monterrey and EGADE Business School.
Intellectual Production & Public Communication
Channels for developing and sharing ideas, publishing work, engaging audiences, and contributing to professional and intellectual conversations.
The specialized knowledge behind each pillar.
Systems architecture, organizational design, performance improvement, and strategic execution.
Business strategy, entrepreneurship, executive leadership, operations, and organizational change.
Investment strategy, portfolio management, financial markets, risk management, and capital allocation.
Commercial strategy, talent representation, business development, strategic partnerships, and investment and M&A advisory.
Research, teaching, authorship, conceptual development, and intellectual inquiry.
Podcasting, public speaking, interviews, and knowledge dissemination.
The thinking practices that connect everything above.
My intellectual interests center on understanding complex systems, examining ideas across disciplines, and translating knowledge into practical frameworks and meaningful outcomes.
Understanding structures, relationships, incentives, and interdependencies.
Exploring choices, competitive positioning, resource allocation, and long-term consequences.
Examining ideas across business, philosophy, science, and human development.
Developing ideas through research, reflection, and written work.
Sharing knowledge, challenging assumptions, and encouraging critical thought.
These practices inform my professional work and connect my activities across business, investment, football, and academia.
How I think, in the first person · The mind, questions 5–9 →How all of this translates into the work.
I view organizations and high-performance environments as interconnected systems.
Sustainable results emerge when strategy, people, processes, incentives, capital, and execution work together.
My approach combines analytical rigor, systems thinking, strategic differentiation, and an entrepreneurial orientation to identify constraints, structure opportunities, and translate complex challenges into actionable solutions.
Across business, investment, and football, my objective is to contribute to the design of systems capable of creating, capturing, and sustaining value.
Mario Garza Livas
High-Performance Systems Architect
Strategy · Systems · Performance · Transformation