We advise governments, companies and organisations on the decisions that shape their environment
The aperture of convergence
The isotype draws the way the firm works: an open system that carries strategy, evidence and a reading of the environment towards a single point of decision.
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What changes after GOVERNA
What can your organisation do after the project?
Scattered information
Integrated intelligence
Uncertainty
Scenarios
Disconnected actors
A map of relationships
Invisible risks
Alerts
Hidden opportunities
Early action
Reactive decisions
Anticipation
The team that answers for your project
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Sebastián turns a moving environment into strategy, and builds the instrument that holds it up when the environment moves again. He reads the system around an organisation —who decides, which interests are at stake, which rules bind each actor and which signals anticipate a political or regulatory turn— in order to establish what is at stake and when it is worth acting. That reading yields what is defended, what is negotiated, who is spoken to first and in what order. His ground is where strategy meets innovation. He designs the methods that order what is scattered about actors, scenarios and institutional environments, and turns them into tools an executive can use. He drives the science, technology and innovation agenda: the relationship between knowledge and public decision-making, and the policy with which a state orders it. He comes from strategic research —he was part of a South American observatory and a global one on regional defence and security, where he coordinated and edited the work of researchers from several countries, and took part in strategic simulations with Colombian security and defence institutions— and from there moved into the public affairs and regulatory work of public and private organisations, and into electoral politics, where the window to decide is measured in days. At GOVERNA he leads strategy and public affairs, and builds the instrument the firm exercises them with: he defines what it watches in the environment, how that becomes scenarios and what has to reach the table before a decision is made. His edge is financial — training in government and public affairs together with a master's in corporate finance means every strategy is measured by what it costs and by what it returns: the cost of sustaining it, the cost of waiting and the return that justifies the decision to whoever signs it. He works across Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, and what he builds is designed for the rest of Latin America.
- Master's in corporate finance
- Professional in government and public affairs
- Strategic research in South American and global observatories
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Daniel turns evidence into the criterion for deciding whether a programme continues. He reads how an institution actually behaves —which rules bind it, what information moves inside it and what pressures the official who has to implement faces— in order to establish what really changed and how much of that change can be attributed to the intervention. That reading yields the evaluation design: what is measured, with which instrument, against which baseline and by which method the programme's effect is separated from what would have happened anyway. His training in public administration and public policy, on top of political science, lets him work the full cycle —formulation, implementation and evaluation— with logical frameworks, budgets, management and results indicators, mixed methods and collection instruments designed for each case. He has coordinated institutional, impact and results evaluation teams on programmes of social protection, poverty reduction, food security, decentralisation and institutional strengthening, for national planning bodies, subnational governments, multilateral organisations and cooperation agencies across Colombia, Mexico and Central America. At GOVERNA he is the standard every recommendation is checked against before it leaves: he establishes which evidence sustains it, which method produced it and how far what can be asserted actually reaches. He turns long technical evaluations into inputs a decision-maker can use to adjust a policy, scale it or close it, and leaves the traceability so the conclusion can be reviewed later.
- Master's in public administration and public policy
- Political scientist
- Institutional, impact and results evaluation with mixed methods
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Valentina turns the reading of conflict into conditions of viability for a public decision. She examines who disputes a territory, which historical grievances remain open and what institutional capacity exists to sustain an agreement, and from there establishes whether an intervention will be accepted where it has to be carried out. That reading yields concrete conditions: local governance, participation mechanisms, dialogue with interest groups and coordination among actors whose interests pull in different directions. Her training in political science and her work in transitional justice, reparation for victims and rural development give her the vocabulary and the procedures for an environment where a poorly accompanied decision erodes trust that took years to build. She reads the symbols, memories and local narratives that determine whether a community backs or blocks what is proposed. At GOVERNA she contributes the test of social legitimacy: she reviews every recommendation against the ground where it will operate, names where it can break and proposes the accompaniment that holds it up. It is what gives a decision durability over time and acceptance in the territory.
- Political scientist
- Work in transitional justice, the Peace Agreement and rural development
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Andrés turns a diffuse public problem into an instrument that can be carried out. He separates the problem from its symptoms, maps the causes and examines the incentives of whoever will have to implement it; only with that diagnosis does he compare alternatives by cost, risk and who executes them. Every recommendation of his states why that instrument, under what conditions it works and what could bring it down, with indicators carrying baseline, target and source. His training in political science and his practice in applied social research with mixed methods let him sustain a recommendation with the available evidence and say precisely how far that evidence reaches. He has worked on applied research into mobility and aeronautical policy, where the design of the instrument meets technical rules, private operators and budget constraints that impose themselves on any policy intention. At GOVERNA he puts every proposal through the test of institutional and budgetary feasibility before it goes out: which body executes it, under what authority, with what resources and on what timeline. That is what separates a policy that is written from one that gets carried out.
- Political scientist
- Applied research in mobility and aeronautical policy
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Sebastián turns complex material into something that can be read and decided on. He examines how a problem is structured —who the actors are, where the decision passes through, where the friction appears and which dynamics stay implicit— and translates methodologies, data and findings into pieces that put that structure in plain view, keeping the precision of the original material. His training in design, with an emphasis on architecture, the city and heritage, gives him a spatial and territorial reading of what he organises: the way an idea is presented determines whether it is adopted or ignored. His practice integrates applied research, conceptual development, material exploration and visual narrative. He has structured and formulated projects for open calls, organised and analysed field information, and developed editorial publications alongside communities. At GOVERNA he designs how the work reaches the person who decides: the information systems, the visualisations and the editorial pieces that turn a long analysis into something operable inside the organisation that received it.
- Designer, with an emphasis on architecture and the city
- Editorial design and information visualisation
- Project formulation and structuring for open calls
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Luis José turns relationship-building into advocacy capacity. He reads the institutional environment to identify who decides, which interests are at stake and what conditions make it possible for a decision to move forward. From that reading, he builds and articulates relationships with governments, cooperation bodies, social organisations, the private sector and the media, transforming connections into alliances, backing and capacity to execute. His legal training allows him to understand the rules that determine what an institution can do, how it can commit itself and where real opportunities for action exist. He has led public relations, strategic communication and processes of civic advocacy, participation and organisational strengthening in Colombia and the region, connecting diverse actors around shared objectives. At GOVERNA, he articulates the political reading with institutional reality: he opens conversations, aligns interests, builds trust and uses strategic communication to strengthen those relationships and turn a relationship opportunity into a concrete possibility of advocacy.
- Lawyer
- Training in administrative law, public procurement and public finance
- Institutional relations, strategic communication and civic advocacy in Colombia and the region
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Isa turns public exposure into a defensible position. He reads the regulatory, media and political scenario an organisation operates in to establish where the reputational risk sits before it surfaces, who will talk about it and with what framing. That reading yields the narrative, the messages that hold it up and the protocol for responding: what is said, who says it and in what sequence. He is a social communicator and journalist with a master's in corporate reputation, and works as an adviser to senior leadership: he prepares and trains spokespeople, writes speeches, columns and institutional positioning documents for the people who have to sign them, and sustains the relationship with media and with government counterparts. He has handled the public exposure of companies in regulated sectors —telecommunications, technology, financial services, retail, food and housing—, of state institutions and of elected leaders, and has coordinated teams in Colombia and across the region. At GOVERNA he leads the reputation and crisis practice: he prepares the organisation before it is exposed and orders the response once the risk is already in the public conversation. He measures the result with reputation indicators, so the work can be reviewed against what it set out to do.
- Social communicator and journalist
- Master's in corporate reputation
- Crisis management, spokespersonship and government relations in regulated sectors
Every stage ends in something your team keeps
- Actors
- Regulation
- Data
- Opinion
- Territory
- Risk
We read the environment: who decides, under which rule and on what timeline
A clear reading of the environment
We trace the relationships between actors, rules and territory
A map of actors and interests
We detect what is coming, and the window in which it can happen
Scenarios, signals and alerts
We turn that intelligence into priorities, each one with its route
Priorities and routes for action
We take the strategy into day-to-day operation and review what moved
A system to monitor and adjust