Elena is a speaker, social entrepreneur, and travel futurist.
Your business has the potential to be a catalyst of transformation and regeneration for our world.
You can be part of the change.
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Podcast
ReDesign Travel + Life is an interview series and podcast where social entrepreneur and travel futurist Elena Rodriguez Blanco chats with experts, entrepreneurs, designers, researchers and travellers of the world to explore how we can re-imagine, re-invent, re-design and re-generate travel and life. Each episode is a journey that invites you to bring forth questions and explore possibilities that can inspire this current scenario of how we travel, live and explore the world.
“Elena changes your team’s perspective, pushes the boundaries and makes it about the things that matter in the world today.”
- Dr. Barbara Neuhofer, Professor of Experience Design, FH Salzburg
Speaking
Elena is a social entrepreneur and speaker. She walks the talk and is passionate about transforming the way we do business, travel and life. Authenticitys, her current company, is a boutique social impact experience platform that opened its doors in 2013 and was the first certified B Corporation in the travel industry in Europe. A business that constantly revolutionises travel and its supply chain, not only with what it does but how and when it does it. Operating in 40+ cities around the world and impacting thousands of travellers with her unique offer, Elena is often referred to as a travel futurist, predicting trends and creating offers and businesses around them. Her passion and drive seep through her words and into the audience, shifting perspectives on how a business could be done and lighting the way towards the future of how business should be.
Main Keynotes:
Businesses that Impact the World Effortlessly
Reclaiming Authenticity, an Overused Word We Need to Bring Back
Travel Re-Imagined: Social Impact and Regeneration As Part of your Equation
Forget Change Management, Design for Resilience
Elena is an expert in experiential conference design and moderation. She is also highly skilled facilitator.
Book Elena for your next virtual conference.
“Sometimes when you meet someone, you just know that they'll make magic happen in any area they put their focus on. Elena is such a magic maker. I had the enormous pleasure to hire Elena twice as a professional speaker for conferences, and will do it again.”
- Miranda Van Brück, Digital and Live Event Designer & Producer - Creative Director at The Content Studio
Consulting
Elena thrives in complex projects within organisations that are designing for sustainability, regeneration, and re-strategising to think and act in a more systemic way. Focused in organsiations in the travel, technology and education sectors, Elena brings solutions and sees pathways that can create the right impulse to bring forth impact and economic profitability and sustainability. Elena has designed the first social impact accelerator in Europe, supporting and mentoring thousands of social impact startups throughout Europe. Her networks, resources and overview give her the fresh new voice you need in your company.
(Elena only works with a very limited number of organisations a year)
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“Elena has the extraordinary capacity to combine flexibility and rigour in complex initiatives”
- Gorka Espiau, advisor Work4Progress, Fundación LaCaixa
Workshops
Empathy and learning lead to the kind of transformation that can be the seed of inspiration. Elena strives not only to create spaces where experiences are happening—but also spaces where transformation powered by internal change organically arises.
Even though transformation is a word that’s overused, as a phenomenon it’s more necessary than ever. With more and more people locked in their long-held modes of thought, it is vital that we create more and more ways for people to realise that connection is key, and transformational experiences a jump board to change those perspectives.
Workshop Topics:
Redesigning your Core: An authentic Mission and Visioning workshop
Designing social impact memorable experiences for travel and events
Future-proof your business: Resilience through Regeneration
Business is about people: your clients, the people that work in your organisation, and your providers and suppliers, they’re all people you are in a relationship with. We are in a relationship with our environment as well.
Understanding how these relationships work and holding spaces to facilitate and ease conflict will bring forth the opportunity to focus back on what matters: Adding value and leaving a legacy with our work and our existence.
Contact
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