Our team

Business experience and a commitment to teaching: the people behind hardMent’s training and content.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND HARDMENT

Business experience.
A passion for teaching.

Technology leadership, entrepreneurship and university teaching. Two complementary career paths connecting what you learn with your organisation’s challenges.

PRESIDENT

Roberto Canales

Business, engineering and executive education.

30+ years: in technology and software
IE Business School: Executive teaching since 2012
4 books: and more than 600 technical articles

He founded and led Autentia for more than 21 years, a software engineering company that grew to more than 120 professionals and joined Izertis in 2023. His career connects software architecture, team leadership, business development and digital transformation.

He teaches Executive programs at IE Business School and entrepreneurship in the Cybersecurity Master’s program at CEU San Pablo. He completed UTAMED’s Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence; his applied project developed Solap, combining language processing, knowledge graphs and language models to analyse university programs.

Creator of AdictosAlTrabajo.com, author of four books and more than 600 technical articles. He wrote IAHPT, hardMent’s first book, drawing together 15 years of teaching executives about methodologies and self-organising high-performance teams. He also writes about specification-driven software development.

His contribution to hardMent

Connecting business decisions with engineering: understanding AI, guiding agents and building software against verifiable criteria.

Full biography ↗LinkedIn ↗

DIRECTOR

Iván Carrillo

Entrepreneurship, product and learning.

30+ initiatives: in entrepreneurship and innovation
Grupo Ruiz: product and digital transformation
Teaching: Villanueva, CEU and UC3M

Entrepreneur, teacher and communicator. He graduated in Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (LEINN) from Mondragon Unibertsitatea and TEAMLABS/. He founded and led his own company and launched more than 30 business initiatives across different sectors.

At Grupo Ruiz, he led product and technology projects, coordinating teams and connecting business strategy with digital transformation. He teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Universidad Villanueva and contributes as an expert to programs at CEU San Pablo and UC3M.

He created JuegoConSentido, where he talks with professionals and shares lessons with Roberto. He teaches masterclasses on knowledge systems and is writing SecondBrain, about using what you already know to develop new ideas and content.