About Carlos
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Carlos Miceli is an Argentinian business consultant, writer, education activist, entrepreneur and lifelong learner. Fluent in both Spanish and English, Carlos first became popular online and amassed a worldwide audience via his previous blog, OwlSparks. He has now transitioned to this site, because he felt he outgrew Owlsparks’ brand. In CarlosMiceli.com, he expects to take his writing, work and contributions to the next level.
After spending a year living in Perth, Australia, Carlos is now back home in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s a voracious reader, an decent soccer player, and a pretty smooth dancer.
What Carlos is up to right now…
Carlos is an independent business consultant and coach, a craft that he learned under the tutelage of Josh Kaufman, worldwide famous business teacher, and author of international best-seller The Personal MBA. While working with Josh, Carlos has worn all sorts of hats, doing things like online marketing, writing, community management, online research, front-end development (HTML and CSS), SEO, and more.
Carlos is working on the marketing of the soon-to-be-published The Start-up of You, book co-authored by Reid Hoffman, co-founder and chairman on Linkedin, and Ben Casnocha, entrepreneur and author.
Carlos is also working as Director of Expansion of UnCollege, a social movement changing the notion that going to college is the only path to success.
If you’re interested in working with Carlos, or want to learn more about Carlos’ services and current availability, you should get in touch with him via the Contact page.
Past Work
Prior to striking off on his own, Carlos worked as a Sales Executive of Top Clients in Telecom Argentina. At 21, he was the youngest employee in the highest profile sector of one of Argentina’s top 5 companies. He successfully beat every sales objective every year, working hand-in-hand with clients such as Visa, American Express, and ADT.
Carlos has been featured by many influential websites, including BNET, Personal Branding Blog, PR Daily, and Web Worker Daily. He has also contributed to Social Media Marketing as a freelance writer. He’s been asked to guest post in many other websites as well, covering a wide variety of topics. Recently, he has become a contributor of Ábaco, a famous journal of social sciences in Spain.
If you want to learn more about Carlos’ online presence, visit the Press page.
Carlos co-founded Untemplater in 2009, a short-term project with five other young entrepreneurs. He worked as Content Director, where he managed a team of over 20 writers. Untemplater was successfully sold in 2011 to outside investors. He has also worked in the backstage of the online marketing campaigns of The Personal MBA and Social Pollination.
If you want to learn more about what others have to say about Carlos’ work and philosophy, visit the Testimonials page.
Education
After testing the university life in 3 different occasions in both Argentina and Australia, Carlos realized that the path of traditional education wasn’t the best suited for him. At 21, he was already making a six-figure salary in a Top 5 Argentinian company, and was learning the content taught in schools faster on his own than in class.
These two realizations were enough for him to decide to focus his time and resources elsewhere. Grades and socialization were never an issue, rather than his criticism towards the supposed benefits of the educational system, and the frequent demands of his work and projects.
Because of his disappointing experiences with university life, Carlos has spent the last couple of years looking into the realities of educational institutions worldwide, and his findings on the have been surprising. He has read, seen and learned enough to understand how broken the system is.
He is now an education activist, a self-directed learner and an advocate for mentorships and on-the-field practice.
Connect with Carlos
If you want to contact Carlos, please visit the Contact page. If you want to connect with Carlos in a particular social media network, you’ll find the links below:
