KOLAB is born from a simple conviction: organizations do not compete for talent, they compete for the quality of their collaboration. Everything else —strategy, technology, processes— only works if people work well together.
KOLAB brings together the discipline of the technology and business world with the sensitivity of cultural management. That combination is what turns collaboration from a speech into a practice.
Co-founder · Technology and business
Technology executive with more than 25 years in Latin American markets. As Country Manager he led the operations of Google Cloud and AWS in Colombia, and was President and General Manager of SoftwareOne Colombia.
Co-founder · Facilitation and culture
Cultural manager and co-founder of KOLAB; she leads facilitation and the design of collective experiences. Her path in the cultural division of the Banco de la República and as an advisor to the Ministry of Culture brings a people-centered perspective.
We do not start from intuition. Organizational research over recent decades is consistent: the way people collaborate predicts company performance better than almost any other variable.
Our work translates that evidence into concrete practices for your organization. These are some of the findings that support our approach.
Psychological safety —feeling free to speak up and make mistakes— is the most decisive factor of high-performing teams, above individual talent.
Source: Google, Project Aristotle
Business units with highly engaged employees outperform the least engaged in profitability, according to the meta-analysis of more than 100,000 teams.
Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace
People who perceived they were working alongside others persisted 64% longer on a difficult task, even while physically working alone.
Source: Stanford (Carr & Walton, 2014)
Knowledge workers’ productivity can increase by 20% to 25% when they connect and collaborate with social tools.
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, The Social Economy
Of executives and employees attribute failures at work to a lack of collaboration or ineffective communication.
Source: Salesforce / Fierce Inc. survey
Companies with open and collaborative communication cultures are up to twice as likely to outperform competitors in financial results.
Source: Deloitte, Human Capital Trends
KOLAB connects specialists from worlds that rarely meet. The advantage is not in each discipline on its own, but in what happens between them.
Engineering · Interactivity · Anthropology · Coaching · Sociology · Performing arts · Music · Mathematics · Literature
Every organization is different. We diagnose before proposing and measure before celebrating.
We say what we see, even when it is not what people want to hear. Real change begins by naming what is hard.
We work shoulder to shoulder with teams, not from a PowerPoint at a distance.
Our success is for the organization not to need us. We build capability, not dependence.
Interviews, observation and data to understand how your organization really collaborates today.
A tailored intervention: the combination of keynote, workshop and support your context calls for.
We are present while the new habits are rehearsed, stumble and finally take root.
Clear indicators to know what changed, what is missing and how to sustain it over time.
If you think your teams could collaborate better, you are probably right. Let us talk about how to help them.