About us
Travsia is a training, facilitation, and capability-building practice dedicated to enhancing the core competencies that drive personal, professional, and organizational development.
We cultivate a culture of continuous learning and conscious presence, developing reflection, clarity, and collaboration to strengthen the confidence and conviction necessary for transformative change.
Grounded in systems thinking, cognitive and behavioral sciences, and transformative learning, Travsia helps clients navigate the complexity and ambiguity of today's world with ease and grace.
By fostering clear insight into the present alongside the strategic foresight necessary to realize a desired future, we empower our clients to become leaders of their own "travessias" (crossings).
Utilizing resources from change management, professional mentoring, and executive coaching, as well as tools like scenario planning and experiential learning facilitation, we enable leaders and organizational systems to achieve sustainable development through every transition.
How we facilitate your journey
Travsia’s approach is robust and cross-cutting, anchored in systems thinking, cognitive and behavioral sciences, and transformative learning.
Our processes are co-created, ensuring reflective, safe, and experimental spaces where collective intelligence leads to elevated levels of adaptability and innovation, aligning daily actions with long-term strategic objectives.
Every movement facilitated by Travsia becomes a catalyst for lasting results.
AUTOMATIC
Conscious
Through tools that foster self-awareness and critical analysis, Travsia's clients break free from automatic reactions, gaining the clarity needed for conscious choice.
Systems Thinking
Through a holistic approach focusing on interrelationships and cause-and-effect patterns within complex systems, we seek to understand feedback loops and emergent behavior to identify leverage points which can be used as tools to achieve the desired effect.
ASPIRATION
ACTION
By promoting reflection and clarity in thought and communication, we facilitate efficient collaboration. This enables the cohesion needed to build integrated and resilient teams, capable of sustaining change and maintaining alignment even amidst complex challenges.
The Science Behind Every Travsia (Journey)
Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences
Based on research into how people think, learn, perceive, remember, reason, and use language, as well as analyses of the actions, decisions, and reactions of individuals and groups in diverse contexts, we strive to improve strategic decisions and promote reflection and conscious action.
FRAGMENTATION
ALIGNMENT
Through a reframing process, challenges are reinterpreted and actions are reconnected with purpose. This creates a context where motivation drives practical results, fully aligned with strategic objectives.
Transformative Learning
Dilemmas and challenges are viewed as opportunities for processes leading to critical self-reflection and agency, integrating the new understandings necessary to address current and future challenges. This perspective transformation enables both personal and professional development.
Your Partner for the Journey Ahead
"Fearless." That was the word our senior leader used to describe me at the UN Headquarters in New York. For someone from the countryside of São Paulo, the son of Brazilian public school educators, arriving at the United Nations to teach a language that wasn't his at birth, being fearless wasn’t a choice; it was a necessity. This is the energy I now bring to your Travsia.
I hold a Master’s degree from Columbia University in the City of New York, DEI Certificate from Cornell University and I am a certified Leadership Coach. My career spans more than 20 years of global experience of international experience across the United Nations and academia, specializing in change management, leadership development, and strategic facilitation. I have led multiple large-scale global learning initiatives within complex environments. My practice offers a unique combination of learning design, behavioral sciences, mentoring, and executive coaching to enhance collective results and impact.
But what does this actually mean for you and your company?
It means I know how to navigate complexity because I have lived it firsthand: from crisis management on the ground to facilitating high-stakes retreats and conflict resolution for organizational entities.
Let’s connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rbottura
“I believe in the human capacity to look at oneself and the world through multiple perspectives as a means for continuous collective development.”
Rodrigo Bergamasco Bottura
What I’ll Bring to Your Journey
I bring the background of someone who has taught in multiple contexts, from elementary and high school students in international schools in Brazil to UN diplomats and graduate students at the City University of New York . I bring the experience of having persuaded top-tier global leaders to participate in trainings, "saving" vital projects through pure influence and strategic articulation.
But above all, I bring Curiosity. The same curiosity that led me to work in over 15 countries and explore human behavior in the most diverse contexts. Now, that curiosity is focused on one thing: your journey.
Let's talk about where you're going NEXT.
Embark on your next travessia.
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