Fundação Dom Cabral

Fundação Dom Cabral, a center to develop executives, businessmen and companies, dialogues with and listens to organizations, building integrated educational solutions with them. FDC is focused on forming teams to interact critically and strategically in companies. FDC believes that company?developing solutions are found in the organization itself. Synergy with companies is the end result of the link between theory and practice, strengthened by the interactive work of FDC?s technical team, which smoothly combines academic formation and business experience. FDC?s genesis dates back to 1976, when it started as a spin-off of the Minas Gerais Catholic University?s Extension Center. A non-profit public interest institution, Fundação Dom Cabral has for 28 years maintained a solid international articulation, thus ensuring its access to world leading producers of management technology and to the cutting edge of business thinking. Having trained thousands of executives ? in constant integration with their companies ? FDC has become the national benchmark in its industry, being an active participant in the enhancement of the managerial capabilities and overall development of Brazilian businesses. Its open and in-house programs annually attract some 9,000 executives from medium and large companies. Studies on companies and their management in Brazil are produced in FDC?s Nuclei (Andrade Gutierrez Nucleus of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, CCR Corporate Governance Nucleus, Competitiveness Nucleus, Leadership Development Nucleus, Entrepreneurship Nucleus, Corporate Management Nucleus, International Business Nucleus, SERASA Innovation Nucleus). These studies provide subsidies and support to FDC?developed programs, thus translating into practice its trailblazing advance as a knowledge?generating institution. For three decades Fundação Dom Cabral has been striving to contribute to the history of executive education in Brazil and in the world. Ever since its creation, FDC has been guided by a basic premise of working with and not just for the client, constantly seeking to renew knowledge. Attuned to its mission of contributing to society?s development through the education and enabling of executives, businessmen and companies, Fundação Dom Cabral now embraces a new challenge: to evolve from a supplier of executive-education solutions to generating management knowledge, methodologies and concepts applied to organizations. Faithful to its bedrock values, FDC is committed to permanently inserting the corporate responsibility concepts into its management and programs, research and studies. Sharing this knowledge makes available to companies and to their executives tools, which contribute to transform them into agents of the country?s sustainable development.