MY STORY
From FP&A to the mat and back.
I didn’t come to yoga looking for inner peace. I arrived exhausted, after years building a career I admired from the outside but that was quietly emptying from within.
«In 2019 I was delivering results, managing a team and feeling like something essential was slipping away.»
THE JOURNEY
Step by step
2011 – 2018
The corporate career
Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Parker Hannifin. FP&A EMEA. Madrid as base, with 2 years living in Zug, Switzerland. Years of multinationals, monthly closes and decisions under constant pressure.
MICROSOFT
J&J
ORTHO CLINICAL DIAGNOSTICS
PARKER HANNIFIN
2019
The turning point. A burnout at Radiometer · Madrid
Financial Controller at Radiometer, Madrid. I burned out. Results kept being delivered, from the outside, everything worked. But from the inside: accumulated exhaustion, decisions made from emptiness, the body carrying what the mind could not name. It was the limit.
RADIOMETER
MADRID
BURNOUT
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
2019
Personal yoga practice · Madrid
I started practicing yoga in Madrid without beleiving in it. No prior experience, no flexibility. I found something no MBA or leadership course had ever given me: the ability to regulate my own nervous system. Continuous personal practice since then.
PERSONAL PRACTICE
MADRID
2019 – 2026
The return. Boston Scientific · Madrid
EMEA FP&A Manager at Boston Scientific, Madrid. Same corporate world, completely different foundation. Decisions improved, internal cost, radically lower.
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC
MADRID
EMEA MANAGER
2024 – 2025
Certified yoga training · 600h
Completed 600 hours of certified training. There is a difference between practicing and learning to teach what transforms.
600H CERTIFIED
KAVAALYA
MADRID
2026
The sabbatical and the program
León. A year to build the program I would have needed in 2019. Pause to Execute envisions a generation of executives who lead from presence rather than exhaustion, where pausing is understood as a competitive advantage, not a weakness.
LEÓN
VANESSA OTERO YOGA
PAUSE TO EXECUTE
«Yoga didn’t change my career, it changed me from the inside of it.»
600h yoga · Kavaalya
MBA · Univ. Complutense Madrid
15 years · FP&A EMEA · 6 Multinationals