Leandro F. Pereira

Leandro Ferreira Pereira is CEO and founder of WINNING Scientific Management. He has more than 18 years of experience in senior management positions in management consulting companies and university academic activity. With a degree in Management Informatics from the University of Minho and a PhD in Project Management from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Leandro Pereira has in his curriculum several of professional and academic distinctions, among which, the best national manager award (from Best Team Leaders), the University Senate Award for having been the best student of the University and the National Prize “Youth and National Defense awarded by the Ministry of Defense”. Currently, he divides his professional activity between management consulting, the academy, and advisory various entities, in particular, the Court of Auditors, and has supervisor of dozens of doctoral and master students.

Publications

Rethinking Caravanism in Portugal: A Sustainable and Regenerative Approach
Diogo Frade Cecílio, Leandro F. Pereira, Rui Vinhas da Silva, Alvaro Lopes Dias. © 2025. 38 pages.
This research examines caravanning's potential to be a catalyst for regenerative tourism in Portugal. Using the VRIO framework, the study, through interviews with...
The Photography-Immersion-Value Nexus: A Quantitative Model for Enhancing Tourist Experiences
Hadiseh Naeemi Khondabi, Alvaro Lopes Dias, Leandro F. Pereira. © 2024. 20 pages.
Tourist photography is common, yet its impact on experience remains unclear. This research explores how photography fosters immersion, enhancing enjoyment, memory, and perceived...
The Impact of Intelligent Systems on Management Accounting
Sara Marques, Rui Gonçalves, Renato Lopes da Costa, Leandro Ferreira Pereira, Alvaro Lopes Dias. © 2023. 32 pages.
In today's competitive and changing business environment, the concern about technologies and intelligent systems has gained more notoriety. However, companies still have many...
Olympic and Paralympic Games Project Structure and Governance: The Case of Olympic and Paralympic Games
Fabiano de Alcântara de Lima, Leandro Pereira, José Santos, Renato Lopes da Costa, Álvaro Dias. © 2022. 21 pages.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games is a megaproject that involves huge investment and time effort from public and private entities to take place, which has been facing issues to...
Contributions of Artificial Intelligence in Operational Risk Management
Maria Carolina Carvalho, Rui Gonçalves, Renato Lopes da Costa, Leandro Ferreira Pereira, Alvaro Dias. © 2022. 16 pages.
Considering the last decades and several economic crises, operational risk is a rising area, and companies are slowly realizing that the more they invest in it, the less profits...
Transformational Leadership Contributions for Employee Autonomy
Alvaro Lopes Dias, Barbara Pascoal, Leandro Pereira, Renato Costa. © 2022. 21 pages.
The performance of a company is affected by several variables and understanding them and knowing how they work is decisive for management. Therefore, this research aims to...
Service Design From Staffing to Outsourcing: Analysis of the Literature From the Last Decade
Carlos Hernandez Jerónimo, Leandro Pereira, Renato Costa, Alvaro Lopes Dias. © 2022. 31 pages.
The term outsourcing has become a conventional means of describing anything associated with the transaction of services that enables client organisations to blur core activities...
Local Knowledge Management and Innovation Spillover: Exploring Tourism Entrepreneurship Potential
Álvaro Lopes Dias, Marta Figueiredo Marques Gomes, Leandro Pereira, Renato L. Costa. © 2022. 14 pages.
Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs play an essential role in the innovation and competitiveness of tourist destinations. However, existing knowledge about the determinants of the...
COVID's Scholarly Literature and Innovation in Startups
Varun Gupta, Chetna Gupta, Lawrence Peters, Leandro Pereira. © 2022. 5 pages.
The importance of scholarly literature on startup capacities to stimulate innovation in pandemic times is highlighted in this chapter. The scholarly literature can help startups...
Knowledge Management in Projects
Leandro Pereira, José Santos, Álvaro Dias, Renato Costa. © 2021. 14 pages.
Knowledge transfer in project-based organizations has been recognized as a productivity and economic growth promoter that is currently not properly managed. Therefore, it is...
Benefits Measurement of a Plan to Reduce Hypertension in a Healthcare Foundation Using the BCTool
Leandro Pereira, Vânia Patrício, António Fernandes, José Santos, Ricardo Santos, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Simões. © 2021. 19 pages.
The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been...