Gender Equality Colombia Project #56533

SUPPORTING TALENTS 4.0, WOMEN IN THE 4TH IR

by Geek Girls Latam

Project Report | Apr 12, 2023
GGL boosts female talent for the future

By Joanna Prieto | Co-founder and Program Director

Encuentros virtuales de Talentos 4.0

Last year we had four cohorts with a total of 130 women participating in Talentos 4.0 program. This year in about 3 months we’ve matched these numbers by engaging +120 women in 3 cohorts, between ages 18 to 55 from more than 12 countries, who are currently enrolled in tech courses such as Python for Data Science and AI, Programming for Everybody, Project Management, Web Development, Innovation, Big Data, and many others, combined with some power skills courses such as entrepreneurship, self-leadership, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence.

Over this short period, we’ve had Workshops in entrepreneurship with companies like VISA which led us to start a new alliance with a business training platform called ENKO, where users can take lessons in areas like marketing, self-development, sales, finances, and others. We’ve also had a 21-day challenge on self-management and neuroscience which allowed us to fully engage the community and improve their performance on the program within a shorter time.

What’s to come:

Upcoming on the agenda for the next two months, we’ll have conferences on effective communication with a communication coach, inspiring talks on how women can lead the Tech Industry with INNOVECS, and Financial Inclusion Workshops with VISA.

This year we’ll also be starting testing a 1:1 mentorship program with members of two of the 6 cohorts of the year, with the objective that the participants can be heard, guided, and inspired by men or women who are currently working in the tech industry in important tech companies and can display challenges and more intimate guidance on their process.

Important facts:

For International Women’s Day, we engaged with Cabify, a transportation platform where they would donate 1% of their earnings during that day to Geek Girls LatAm to grant scholarships to 30 women.

Why we need your support

TALENTOS 4.0 is an innovative and impactful upskilling and reskilling program that is changing the lives of hundreds of women who, through your contributions and the ones of our allied partners, have been benefited and thus, allowing us to bring female talent trained in the skills of the fourth industrial revolution to Latinamerica.

In this 2023, we want to expand and impact more, which is why we need your support. Please contact us if you want to support or know more how: talentos@geekgirlslatam.org

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