Augusto Balarezo, MBA

I help business owners take back control of their business and grow it.

Darwin Optima is a management consultancy based in Lima, Peru. I work with owners who are very good at their craft, but were never taught to read their own business in numbers.

I work mostly in Spanish, with owners in the United States, Spain and Latin America, and in English when the work calls for it. This page is here for anyone deciding whether to work with me, or passing my name to someone who should.

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11 yearsin management consulting

9.95xmore cash in 12 months, at one client

400%revenue growth in 3 years

MBAIvey Business School, Western University

How I work

Two experts, no overlap.

You stay in front of the work you love, and I put the business in order behind you. Most owners I meet are not short on talent, they are short on visibility: they cannot see what they have available, where the money goes, or what is really holding growth back.

Diagnosis

We go through the business together, area by area, and find where the real problem is.

Plan

I show you what to do, step by step.

Supervised execution

Your team does the work, and I make sure it is done properly.

Handover

You keep the management tools, including AI software built for your business.

Results

Four real businesses with the same symptoms as yours.

9.95x

Corporate events group, 20 years in business

They could not tell which events were profitable, and nobody was tracking waste. In 12 months their cash position multiplied by 9.95.

Digital marketing agency

Closing every month in the red, with expensive debt nobody was tracking. In the black within 3 months, productivity doubled in 6, and sales multiplied by 5.

US$7,911

Educational psychology center

No way to see money coming in, money going out or receivables. With cash-flow control for the first time, we caught a shortfall that would otherwise have gone unnoticed, and covered it in time.

+20%

Café-bar

Two years of falling sales and US$23,500 of family debt. Once the numbers and the product mix were in order, it projected its best half-year on record.

Background

Who is behind this.

I began by putting a US services company back in order, and watched it grow 400% in three years. Since then I have worked with businesses that have nothing in common with one another: a neighborhood café-bar, a marketing agency, an educational psychology center, a hardware distributor, a solar panel company, a corporate events group with twenty years in the market. The smallest and the largest are worlds apart in revenue, and yet they all arrived with the same problem.

Executive MBA

Ivey Business School (Western University, Canada), ranked Canada's #1 business school by the Financial Times in 2026.

11 years in consulting

Business process improvement: +45% productivity and 23% savings in working capital.

8 years in finance

Financial technology and asset management, a US$60M portfolio growing +10% a year.

Software and AI

Dashboards, automations and AI assistants, built for each business.

Talk to me

If this sounds like your business, write to me.

Tell me in a couple of lines what is going on. If I can help, I will say so and tell you where I would start. If I cannot, I will tell you that too.

augusto@darwinoptima.com WhatsApp +1 954 513 4295