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Creative strategist, researcher and corporate and institutional entrepreneur working at the intersection of algorithmic systems, identity ecosystems and social cohesion.
His current work focuses on understanding how recommendation algorithms reshape collective identities accelerating polarization, reinforcing grievance dynamics and eroding the shared cultural ground on which companies and democratic institutions depend.
He is developing conceptual and operational frameworks that allow companies and institutions to detect, understand and respond to amplification dynamics affecting cultural stability.
Nogués began his professional career in international advertising, working across Spain, Sweden, the United States and Mexico. Over more than a decade he progressed from Digital Creative Director to Executive Creative Director, leading integrated teams of up to eighty professionals and building campaigns for global brands including Nike, Google and Coca-Cola.
That formation gave him something that has defined everything since: the capacity to read cultural dynamics quickly, translate them into structural decisions, and build things that hold in turbulent environments — a creative intelligence applied not only to campaigns, but to cultural systems.
Founded Miracle, a consultancy applying creative and systemic intelligence to the intersection of technology, organisational change and environmental narratives.
Founded IDMAH — Institute for the Development of Anti-Hegemonic Masculinities — his third organisation built from zero to operational scale.
At IDMAH he developed what became a defining methodological contribution: the Hacks framework, a narrative architecture designed to reach resistant audiences — specifically young men who typically disengage from gender equality discourse — by meeting them within their own cultural reference points rather than against them.
The approach proved scalable: the @demachosahombres community grew to over 0 people across Latin America and Spain, predominantly the audiences most likely to be lost to polarising counter-narratives.
What distinguished IDMAH was not reach alone, but structural alignment. Nogués built and sustained partnerships with UN Women, UNICEF, Nike, Patagonia, Meta, Open Society Foundations and major financial institutions — not as parallel relationships, but within shared narrative architecture.
Corporations, multilateral institutions, civil society organisations and grassroots communities operated simultaneously inside the same framework. That kind of cross-sector alignment — between actors who rarely share strategic logic — required translating complex institutional agendas into common ground while respecting each stakeholder's constraints.
Underpinning it was a MEL system designed as strategic intelligence rather than compliance infrastructure — tracking not only reach but behavioural indicators such as attitudinal shifts and institutional adoption rates, and allowing real-time strategic adaptation as cultural and political conditions evolved across seven years and multiple national contexts. The result: 0+ trained leaders and transformation programmes across 0 international companies.
What IDMAH also revealed, over time, was a deeper dynamic. Working at the intersection of masculinity, polarization and digital culture placed Nogués at the centre of one of the defining phenomena of contemporary public life: the way algorithmic recommendation systems amplify grievance dynamics, harden identity clusters and accelerate social fragmentation.
That empirical observation — built through years of operating inside large-scale digital communities under real conditions — now anchors his analytical work.
Today he connects those lessons with broader questions of cultural resilience, institutional stability and the governance of algorithmic amplification. His current research, developed through COMPADRE LAB and an ongoing paper on algorithmic risk, translates this into frameworks that allow companies and institutions to detect, understand and respond to amplification dynamics affecting cultural stability.
Nogués serves on the Board of Directors of CAMINO and contributes as Senior Expert Consultant to the Boston Center's Otros Ojos initiative.
He is the author of Hackea tu Macho (Planeta, 2021) and Posmacho Alfa (Penguin Random House, 2025).
His work has been covered by The Washington Post, El País, France 24, BBC and RTVE.
In 2019, the French Government's PIPA Programme selected him as one of six most innovative leaders in the Americas.
He is based between Mexico City and Valencia, Spain.
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