Veronica Vera

Athlete, Blogger, Concerned citizen, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Explorer, Gay, Global soul, Student, Technologist

I am working with Design Thinking and Complex System thinking for creating better ways of working and learning. I focus on organisational change and Agile adoption as facilitator and educator. I'm passionate about working with teams, helping them realising and increasing their human potential for becoming a more agile, self-organized and compassionate teams. I strive to build effective and meaningful teams by promoting collaboration and applying Agile values, principles and practices (as Tobias Mayer explain us: http://es.scribd.com/collections/4317881/Business-Craftsmanship) Almost 10 years of experience in the field of technology, human resources, education, training and project management in the public and private sectors, and NGO. My academic background in international relations gives me a global vision and interdisciplinary and intercultural abilities combined by further studies in technology and education and my work experience in different areas of e-learning, training, IT, change management & Project Support. My particular Skill is to help people see things from new perspectives and to inspire them to make things happen; Since I believe we live in an age where it's not just about 'knowing stuff' and creating products but it's about 'creating meaning'.

-Diversity and its wonderful magic -The power of networked knowledge to transform the world -Education. Giving everyone the chance of learning in an creative way for unleashing all of its potential

Roger Schank: "Let’s teach by telling stories; in a meaningful way, which allow us to do our own connections and find our own way" "Good stories engage our mind and spirit; and inspire and encourage us to work for our dreams and ideas" "Education must be a process where an individual learns to discover oneself by improving and expanding one’s own internal processes and abilities and, in doing so, endeavour to improve the human condition" "John Adams said that education should teach people how to live or how to make a living" “People learn best when they are pursuing goals that they really care about and when what they learn helps them attain their goals. The best means of learning has always been experience" "Story-centered curricula is meant to simulate real-life situations and entail meaningful goals that encourage children to explore their own interests" http://www.rogerschank.com

Educational design, Educational Technology, Knowledge Management, Leading creative, collaborative, cross-disciplinary teams, Problem Solving, Project Management, Social Media, Team Building / Training & Motivation, Thinking in a big-picture sense, Thinking outside the box

At the beginning of 2009, I’ve received by mail a link with a wonderful and striking talk: “Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity” Since then I fell in love with TED and this wonderful project of “Ideas worth spreading”, and of course I became fond of listening 2 or 3 talks by week. Finally, at the end of last year, when I manage to find some free time, I decided to volunteer and become a TED translator, for many reasons, but primarily for the following ones: - As a way of thanking and giving back for all the great knowledge I get with every talk; - The talks are inspiring and motivating. - Every talk teaches us something we didn’t know before and provides us a new perspective for looking at the world. - Everyone (in this case Spanish-speaking people who don’t speak English) has the right of learning new things and getting different perspectives of the world. That’s why I want to help spreading these worthy ideas.

Cooking! If you want to eat delicious pizzas, just let me know!