Built to move forward
Who it’s for
Essentials is for people who need clarity, structure, and a shared language to evolve organizations in real environments—where uncertainty, internal friction, and competing priorities are the norm. It’s built to be useful whether you’re leading, supporting, or executing evolution work.
- Leaders who want a coherent way to drive evolution beyond isolated initiatives
- Innovation, transformation, and strategy professionals tired of pilots that don’t scale
- Product and venture teams building new initiatives under uncertainty
- Consultants and change agents looking for a complete, structured framework
- Teams that need a shared language to align decisions and execution
- Professionals who want to understand Business Evolution before going deeper into advanced certifications
Essentials Program Content
Essentials is organized to help you understand the environment first, then the framework, then how it translates into implementation. You’ll move from context to clarity, and from clarity to application—so you can recognize patterns, name what’s happening, and make better decisions under uncertainty.
How it works
An intelligent ecosystem designed for impact
Essentials is delivered inside the Evolution Alliance Platform through a clear sequence of short video lessons. As you progress, you complete the required activities to apply what you’re learning.
Polarix supports you throughout the program in context, so you can ask questions as they arise, work through concepts with guidance, and refine your answers as you complete the activities.
Once you’ve completed all lessons and exercises, Polarix runs the final assessment and you unlock your official Business Evolution Essentials certification.
Evolution Alliance Platform
Your learning environment for every program—organized, clear, and always available as you progress through sessions, resources, and certification requirements.
Polarix, your AI companion
Polarix supports you throughout the certification: it understands the framework and your current session. It helps you think, write, and decide based on what you’re working on.
Assessments & Canvas
Access the core assessments and tools behind Business Evolution—so you can diagnose initiatives and their habitat, prioritize what matters, and structure decisions with consistency.
Official Certificate
Each program includes clear requirements to validate understanding and unlock certification—through the right combination of application steps and final assessment.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Francisco Palao, PhD, MBA
Francisco Palao is a recognized entrepreneur, speaker, and international advisor in innovation and corporate evolution.
He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Granada, an Executive MBA from IE Business School, and is a graduate of Singularity University, founded by Google and other technology partners and based at NASA Ames (Silicon Valley).
Francisco advises leading companies on innovation and corporate strategy across multiple industries (energy, healthcare, retail, banking, insurance, etc.), including Visa, Black & Decker, Banco Santander, MAPFRE, and HP, as well as governments and public administrations such as the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Andorra, among others.
He is the author of the bestseller Exponential Transformation and has more recently written Massive Transformative Purpose and Positive Impact. Francisco is also the creator of the widely recognized Business Evolution® framework.
Today, Francisco leads Evolution Alliance, a global organization whose purpose is to evolve organizations to create a positive impact on their business and the world, through the implementation of AI and other exponential technologies. He is also a founding partner in several AI-based companies, such as Oculomex, focused on preventive medicine.
Previously, Francisco launched and led multiple global companies and startups with a strong disruptive component. He created his first digital startup at age 19 while studying at university, and three years later it was acquired.
Shortly after completing his PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2005, Francisco launched the University of Granada’s first spin-off dedicated to implementing AI across sectors such as tourism, healthcare, and emergency management.
He later founded several other tech startups, including Lean Monitor, which used Artificial Intelligence to advise entrepreneurs and corporations on innovative projects; it was acquired by the U.S. company Gust.com in 2014.
More recently, Francisco co-founded and served as CEO of OpenExO and ExO Works, successfully delivering corporate transformation projects worldwide.
Francisco has received multiple international awards, including MIT’s TR35 recognition, awarded annually to the world’s 35 most outstanding innovators under the age of 35.
