César Gamio
César Gamio is an author, international speaker, workplace wellbeing consultant, executive coach and adjunct professor at IE Business School. After studying International Business Management in the United States and Japan, he spent 15 years at two Fortune 500 technology and communications companies, holding executive leadership roles across several regions worldwide.
The demands of corporate leadership gave César direct experience of the relationship between performance, workplace culture and personal wellbeing. That experience shaped his decision to help leaders and organisations create environments where people can perform without sacrificing their health, dignity, or humanity.
He is the founder and managing director of Dharma Centre for Workplace Wellbeing, an international consultancy specialising in leadership development, workplace wellbeing and psychosocial risk. César is a British Standards Institution (BSI) Associate Consultant forISO 45003, the international standard for psychological health and safety at work. He is also an EMCC-accredited Executive Life Coach and a Senior Educator for the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, trained under the personal guidance of Dr Deepak Chopra.
César’s forthcoming book, “Leading in the Modern World: How to Lead, Adapt and Thrive in an AI-Enabled Workplace”,explores what technological change and growing complexity ask of leaders in practice. Drawing on executive experience and his work with organisations, he examines how leaders can build adaptability and sustainable performance while protecting trust, human judgement and meaningful connection.
Based in England and working internationally, César helps leaders navigate change with humanity, clarity and care.
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The New Rules of Sustained Performance
Many workplace wellbeing strategies are ineffective because they focus on fixing the individual while leaving the causes of poor engagement, performance and retention untouched. Drawing on ISO 45003, the international standard for improving mental health at work, César takes a comprehensive, systematic and strategic approach to identifying what gets in the way of people performing at their best. He makes the case that creating the right environment for sustained performance starts with how work is designed, organised and managed, the social dynamics within teams and the resources people can access.
Audiences leave with a practical approach to addressing these conditions and creating workplaces where people can perform well without sacrificing their wellbeing.
The AI Leadership Gap
When AI enters everyday decisions, speed and efficiency can obscure a harder question: what still requires human judgement? César examines the gap between rapid AI adoption and the leadership capabilities needed to use it well. He explores choices around delegation, oversight and team learning, showing why critical thinking, adaptability and psychological safety matter as much as technical fluency. As AI becomes more capable, leaders must know where it can support their people, where to challenge its outputs and where accountability must remain human.
Audiences leave with a practical way to decide what to delegate, what to question and where. human judgement must remain central.
Leading in the Modern World
As AI reshapes work, leaders are also navigating multicultural, multigenerational and hybrid teams, alongside shifting market demands. Drawing on two decades at the intersection of leadership, technology and human performance, César offers a practical framework for leading through that complexity. He explores how to create clarity across different ways of working, build trust in distributed teams and help people adapt without losing their sense of purpose. The emphasis is on everyday leadership choices that make change easier to navigate and enable different talents to contribute at their best.
Attendees leave with a clear view of the capabilities their organisations need now and practical steps they can apply with their teams.
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