Carlos Alfonso Gonzalez

Carlos Alfonso Gonzalez is a Managing Partner representing N2Growth in Mexico. Headquartered in Mexico City, he focuses on developing all business practices in the country and creating synergies with other N2 offices in Latin America.

Before joining N2Growth, Carlos already had a consolidated career of 20+ years in Executive Search, Coaching, and Leadership Assessment. He founded and successfully ran FluidMind Consulting for four and a half years. His knowledge and expertise are deeply rooted in the High-Tech and Consulting industries and the modern Digital Platforms for business-modeled companies.

Carlos has placed, coached, and mentored the careers of several elite corporate athletes in Latin America who have grown into continental and global roles, hence also positively "touching" their personal lives.

Carlos worked for Korn Ferry International for a couple of periods. First, starting from scratch the Technology practice in Mexico and then ran it in Latin America for several years. While in that role, he launched and led their Leadership Talent Consulting practice in Mexico. He was also a member of the Global Tech Leadership Council. While living in the U.S., he was Microsoft's Global Senior Client Partner in his second period.

Carlos also worked in Mexico for Spencer Stuart and Prolaurum International, leading their Tech practices.

Before starting his Talent Advisory journey, Carlos experienced an accelerated growth career in enterprise sales at Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and NCR (formerly AT&T Global Information Solutions), serving Global and Major Accounts with subsidiaries in Mexico, holding Country Director levels of responsibility in all of them.

Carlos has talent assessment certifications such as Paradigm Personality Labs "WorkPlace Big5", Korn Ferry Lominger "Learning Agility," and Decision Dynamics "Decision Styles," among others.

Carlos is an active professor for Advanced Executive Education | MasterCIOS by UDLAP, a top private university in Mexico.

He holds a B.S. Business Data Processing from the University of Houston, Texas, and attended specialized executive seminars in Marketing and Sales from leading business schools such as J.L. Kellogg. He is bicultural and speaks English and Spanish fluently.

Carlos has been married for 30+ years and has two sons. He is an avid learner of history, business strategy, psychology, neuroscience, and all-things leadership excellence related. Last but not least, a die-hard fan of Real Madrid and Las Vegas Raiders.