It is how I build trust, navigate cultures, understand context, and make ideas travel across borders. My professional and personal life has been shaped by working in multiple languages — sometimes leading conversations, sometimes adapting, and always listening.
Instead of treating language ability as a single score, this page shows the practical level at which I communicate and work in each language.
Native language. Used across personal, academic, professional, creative, and public communication contexts.
Fluent professional language used for leadership, presentations, strategy, stakeholder communication, writing, academic work, and daily life.
Used professionally in meetings, market development, partner conversations, presentations, relationship management, and travel across Latin America.
Functional working ability for everyday interaction, basic professional communication, reading, and navigating French-speaking environments.
The matrix below gives a quick comparison of where each language sits across four practical proficiency bands.
Proficiency matters most in context. My language experience has developed through education, work, migration, international travel, market development, and relationships across different countries and cultures.
English and Portuguese are the languages I can use with full confidence across strategic discussions, presentations, written communication, and leadership situations.
Spanish has supported professional conversations and relationship-building across Latin American markets, including meetings, presentations, partner engagement, and travel.
French has given me additional access to francophone environments and reinforced something I value professionally: the willingness to adapt to the language and context of the people around me.
Working across languages has made me more attentive to nuance, tone, ambiguity, and cultural context — skills that matter just as much in leadership as vocabulary does.
Speaking more than one language has shaped the way I communicate, but also the way I listen. It has made me more aware of context, more comfortable with ambiguity, and more intentional about making sure people understand one another — not simply that the words were translated correctly.