João Peral is a “slasher”, a versatile thinker and multidisciplinary designer best known for a career that has taken him through some of the most creative companies in Portugal and Brazil, with a focus on creative collaboration and innovation strategy.

He is Co-Founder and Advisor at The Epic Talent Society, and he enjoys turning curiosity into action: consultant, designer, professor at IADE, illustrator, improviser, and facilitator, all at once.

In an era where little goes as planned and organisations increasingly need leaders and teams who can think quickly and independently, the question is how we move beyond predefined frameworks, valuing diversity and mastering the protocols that let independent thinking flourish rather than relying on some “innate quality.”

As a facilitator, João’s main message is that everyone can learn to improvise. As long as a person allows themselves to and the environment supports it, we can all do it, improvisation becomes an essential, learnable practice in a healthy environment of creative and enjoyable collaboration.

On the frontier of how teams work, João challenges organisations to treat improvisation not as a talent but as a discipline anyone can build.