Impact Week Cali, Colombia

When: From June 11 until June 18, 2025

Where: at the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente 

After our successful versions of Impact Week in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2017 and 2018, and in Cali in 2024, we are thrilled to announce our return for a fourth edition in the country of magical realism! With our local partner, the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, we are bringing our Design Thinking Training to the city of Cali, located in the southwest of the country.

Get ready for Impact Week Colombia 2025! 

Cali, known as the world's salsa capital, will play host to a two-week extravaganza of innovation, collaboration, and positive change. It will be the perfect place to start a new experience, with tropical weather that will remind you of the best of summer, and lots of green and color to delight the eye.

With our two-module approach, we will train a new batch of Junior Coaches by guiding them through a 3-day ‘Train-the-Coach’ phase. The international and local participants will then take on their new roles as Design Thinking Coaches and work together with students and other local participants to find solutions for the local challenges. This defines the practical phase and will give the new Coaches the unique opportunity to directly implement what they have just learned while being guided by experienced Senior Coaches along the journey.

The innovative and customer-focused orientation of the Design Thinking methodology helps all participants to foster their way of tackling a challenge and the unique spirit of the Impact Week experience will definitely inspire you to look at entrepreneurship and social innovation in a completely different light.

Each participating team will work on one focus area. The students can choose their focus area in the application process and get matched accordingly. Then it is up to them to own the challenge and create an innovative idea to tackle it – always keeping the Design Thinking methodology at heart.

Preliminary ideas for tracks are 

1. Circular Economy 
2. Sustainable Tourism
3. Just Energy Transitions
4. ... and others that are yet to be determined  

*The challenges are still in the final planning stage with the local partners and track mentors and subject to confirmation.

Upon completion of the program, you will be a trained Junior Design Thinking Coach, who has already applied the methodology and can become a multiplier of the methodology in your professional and private life. You'll gain key skills through Design Thinking, such as innovation, customer focus and implementation orientation. 

In addition, you can actively contribute to Impact Weeks mission of promoting local entrepreneurship and social innovation.

As a Junior Coach applicant, please fill out the following form expressing your interest. We will then schedule a 30-minute conversation with you.  After we spoke to all applicants, we will make our final decision on who is joining us in Colombia. 

As we gear up for Impact Week Cali, we invite like-minded individuals from around the world to join us in this transformative journey. 

Apply until April 14 to secure one of our limited spots on the international Junior Coach Team!

Impact Week is scheduled in the Colombian Time Zone (GMT - 5 hours)

We cordially thank Lufthansa Group Airlines for their support in the form of special fares for Impact Week!