Tell us a bit about yourself ( country, University etc):
I am from Bogotá, Colombia, as a child I created imaginary companies such as doggy day care, real estate agent and I played to be a television presenter. I think it was a reflection of what I was going to do when I was older. I studied Business Administration and Environmental Management at the University of Monserrate and I have taken courses in digital marketing, photography and design, although I do not work in these subjects. I like to learn and know things that are not directly from my work, to open my head to other ways of doing. I like business books and books that talk about the evolution of the human being, I don’t like novels, or books on self-improvement. I don’t like seafood, I really like meat, pasta, coffee, wine and beer. I like listening to stories more than telling stories, my zodiac sign is Libra.
Were you involved with any kind of activities during your study? (Volunteer, business etc)
Yes! Since school I have been a volunteer in different organizations. In 3 semester of the university I began to undertake, there were more failures than successes, but always with the desire to fear my own company. In 6th semester I volunteered to AIESEC where I was until I finished classes.
If yes, what were the skills that you gained by doing those activities?
Teamwork, time management, networking, team management, negotiation and communication skills. I developed a lot of empathy because I worked with people from different countries and with very different life stories, so we all saw the world in different ways.
Tell us a brief about your current role and how did you get there?
I am a facilitator of organizational culture and mentality. Through creative activities and consulting I accompany processes of recognition, understanding, design and appropriation of culture in organizations. I got to work on this issue after a professional crisis, where I felt very frustrated and without connecting with what I was doing, so I began to review all my experiences and identify the good and the bad of each one, finding that what had brought good results, better relationships and the creation of great projects was to promote individuality and that is done through culture.
Tell us about the impact you are creating for your community.
Mindset and culture work has long-term results. That is why I believe that maintaining healthy spaces to speak, share, listen and question how we do things or how we react to them is one of the greatest contributions of my work. This consistency has generated projects to work and talk about failures in companies enabling innovation processes in Colombia. At the same time, we work in partnership with one of the government entities to enable healthy spaces to share learnings and failures in public innovation, to build the mentality of growth and innovation in the public sector.
What do you think about the future skills needed for the Youths to excel in their field?
I believe that although the future is more automated and we will be able to rely more on technology, the most required skill will be to have humanity. By supporting our processes in technology and with the new normal that invites us to be more global and separate ourselves from a physical space, it is essential that we develop or strengthen skills that we call “soft” but which are the ones that we least know how to use: communication, identity, management of change and critical thinking.
What’s your dream?
That we enjoy our “jobs”, I like to call them “doing” I believe that our “jobs” are the way we experience our life in this world, that’s why my dream is that we enjoy everything we do, that’s why I work with organizations empowering people, all through organizational culture.
