About Ana

Ana is an Executive Business Partner at SURYA, where she works as a coach, advisor, and consultant to help organizations increase business performance and achieve greater results through culture transformation, OKRs, business agility, platform design, strategy, innovation management, and governance.

After working with OKRs at Intel for 20 years, Ana connected with Ben to exchange ideas about OKRs coaching. She is a founding member of the OKRs Coach Network and a Certified Facilitator on Platform strategy – Ecosystem by Boundaryless SRL – Platform Design Toolkit.

Ana is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese and English. After completing her degree in Civil Engineering from Mackenzie University, Brazil, Venosa completed an Executive MBA from Business School São Paulo / Joseph L. Rotman School of Management – University of Toronto and completed continuing education programs at Stanford and Wharton.

Areas of Expertise

• Helping leaders translate strategy to a portfolio of programs that leverage the OKRs framework for successful execution
• Deploying an outcome mindset across organizations to ensure teams have clarity where to focus

What Clients Say

“Ana Venosa is a knowledgeable, passionate, and extremely charismatic professional who helped our leadership team to create and maintain an OKR culture in paySmart. She has years of expertise on the subject — way beyond the purely theoretical approach found everywhere. I recommend her to anyone willing to work with OKRs.”

Daniel F. Nunes de Oliveira
CEO, Co-Founder, paySmart

“Ana is one of the people I’ve learned the most from in recent years. Since my company started scaling up, she was guiding us to create the right structure, processes and governance to reach our goals. I love to have her contributing to my journey with her objectivity for business and care to people.”

Ricardo Rodrigues
Co-Founder Social Miner, Entrepreneur Locaweb