United in generating conscious change
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
About Us
Sustained Impact is a values-led advisory practice providing customized conscious and holistic leadership development, sustainability and business strategy solutions that help transition to regenerative ways of being, leading and operating.
We work with integrated concepts and evolutionary approaches to transform consciousness in business, leadership, sustainability and women’s empowerment for a new era of care, collaboration and well-being of the living Earth, its people and societies.
Embracing a Holistic System
Connecting inner and outer dimensions we fuse business, leadership, sustainability, strategy and collaboration with a consciousness-based, human developmental, ancient Nature Wisdom tradition and systemic awareness approach.
Integrating Disciplines
Our transformative process weaves together diverse theories, principles, modalities, and frameworks, and our interdisciplinary methodology is informed by a wide range of disciplines, including science, consciousness-based, transformative learning, integrative and heart-centered practices, regenerative principles, earth-honouring spirituality, and wisdom traditions.
Founder
“I believe that the world is going to change because we as individual change, not because we change things outwardly.
I believe that living and leading from the consciousness of love is the shift we have to make.
Connecting with ourselves, our hearts, and with Mother Nature is what evokes the desire for genuine change and sincere right action.”
Claudia’s Story and Formation
- Earth Citizen | Heart Activator | Evolutionary Leader | Holistic Sustainability Strategist & Advisor | Transformational Coach & Facilitator | Apprentice in Energy Medicine & Shamanic Healing Arts | New Paradigm Storyteller.
- Claudia helps progressive organisations, leaders and women in sustainability to evolve from the inside out, see with new eyes and shape unitive pathways that create impact-focused action.
- Peruvian-Austrian, raised in three different continents, she lives, works and plays in English, Spanish and German.
- She is fascinated by human evolutionary potential and passionate about facilitating transformative change and collaborative processes to co-create and accelerate change for social and planetary impact.
Claudia has extensive strategic sustainability and business experience including across the industry of global meetings and events, tourism, and destination management.
She spent more than 25 years in multi-disciplinary, cross functional, international businesses including an 11-year tenure in the corporate sector at Symantec, as well as in sustainability and consulting environments. It included collaborations as senior consultant with the Global Destination Sustainability Movement and earlier with the Global Coffee Platform.
What moves her?
She believes that coming from a consciousness of Love is the foundation for genuine care for society, the living Earth and all its living beings, and is the medicine required to heal and transform the world towards a thrivable future. And that this accounts for business, working cultures, politics, education, communities and families alike.
Her mission is to help to reconnect to the intelligence of the heart and elevate consciousness to support the evolution towards an evolved heart- and earth-centered human community for a thriving planet.
She is a passionate learner and committed to her own healing and growth. She certified in various conscious and soul-centered leadership, personal development and spritual transformation programs.
Claudia graduated from the Inner MBA, a leadership and business development program that integrates business and spirituality to achieve exceptional and meaningful results, focusing on inner development for conscious leadership, exceptional team building and business as a force for good.
She is upleveling her skills to do deeper transformational work and in training for transformational Woman-Centered Coaching and Facilitation with the Institute for Women-Centered Coaching, Facilitation and Leadership. She is a member of the Awakened Life for Awakened Consciousness and of the Global Feminine Power Leadership Community. She is apprenticing and practicing energy medicine and shamanic healing arts rooted in earth-honouring Peruvian ancient Nature Wisdom traditions.
She weaves and applies these capabilities, skills and principles into her consulting, coaching and facilitation work in business, sustainability, leadership development and empowerment of women, leaders, and changemakers.
She volunteers as a Climate Reality Leader and serves as a member of the Sustainability & Social Impact Committee of the Events Industry Council (EIC).
Claudia loves Mother Nature and humankind, hiking and communing with the natural world. She is an avid reader, and appreciates good food, music, and being around kindred souls.
For more of her story …
A personal crisis triggered her into a journey of spiritual awakening and personal transformation. Her own journey of healing, inner development and recalibration has taken Claudia realise that true change begins inside ourselves, and that genuine sustainability and regeneration literally start from within.
Passionate about human evolutionary potential and dedicated to the path of her soul, Claudia is integrating her life and realization experiences into her work in order to become increasingly aligned with her core values and higher purpose.
Her continued studies encompassed graduations in Metanoia, a 1-year mystical adventure on personal transformation and spiritual growth, Success Intelligence on Authentic Success & Happiness, a Conscious Leadership Mastermind, and Future Humans Training, among other.
She is studying, practicing and receiving training in ancient Andean cosmology and Nature Wisdom teachings, and is being guided in the cultivation of energy medicine healing techniques, rituals and ceremonies rooted in ancient millenial traditions of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon.
Claudia’s work draws on various principles, frameworks, tools and dedicated practices from different areas and schools of thought such as transformative learning, metaphysics, neuroscience, new paradigm science, transformational coaching and indigenous wisdom traditions.
Prior education and learning included business sustainability, event sustainability, Design Thinking, journeys in Regenerative Leadership, Regenerative Tourism and ROI Methodology.
Everyone thinks of changing the world. No one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Caring for People and Planet
Claudia’s love for humanity and nature is mirrored in her contribution to various social initiatives and NGOs for the last fifteen years with a focus on children, sustainable development, environment and climate education.
Her volunteering and pro-bono work helped to broaden her horizon in different environments by being exposed to different realities.
These experiences helped her grow both personally and professionally and became part of her way of looking at the world.
Over the years she assisted her son’s school with workshops for school board and parents to raise awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a Plant-for-the-Planet Academy for students to become Climate Justice Ambassadors.
She supported Hogar San Pedro in Peru, a medical and convalescence center with cloth collection and a personal visit of the institution and see the tremendous work being done.
Moreover, she helped a community of interest for adoption families, and a refugee network with marketing and communications in her resident community, and supports a yearly cloth collection for a water project in Peru.
Caudia has been involved in a children’s sponsorship programme for over a decade with Plan International, a development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
She visited her sponsored child several times in Lima, Peru. Her insight report of one of her visits to the child’s community can be accessed here.
Recently she visited her new sponsor child and the community in Iquitos, located in the remote Amazon area of Peru. The travel report can be accessed here.
During this trip in Peru, she also visited a remote community of the Q’ero nation in the high Andes with a Q’ero paq’o (Andean mystic). It was like goin back in time. Poverty is omnipresent. Q’ero villagers live in 4200 – 4600 meters above sea level with very rough conditions with usually a lot of rain, fog and snow.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb
Collaborators
Meet Our Collaborators
We work with an interdisciplinary network of like-minded collaborators who are dedicated to move forward the transition required. They cover a variety of areas with wide-ranging knowledge and experience in the fields of business, sustainability, climate change, coaching, leadership and organisational development in a variety of sectors, including the business events, travel and tourism sector.
Alejandra Hernández Zita
Founder & Director Evensus by Zanar
Dr Paola Fiore
Founder & Director ETICAMBIENTE®
Alejandra Hernández Zita
Founder & Director Evensus by Zanar
Alejandra has 20 years of experience in the tourism sector and is a pioneer in sustainable events in the Latin America region.
She is founder of consulting firm Evensus by Zanar.
Alejandra holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Tourism from the University for International Cooperation in Costa Rica and her thesis focused on regenerative hospitality.
Her subjects of interest are in the fields of environmental education, regenerative tourism, health & wellness and spiritual healing.
Dr Paola Fiore
Founder & Director ETICAMBIENTE®
Paola has 23+ years of experience in transforming corporate and non-profit organizations into socially responsible and profitable market leaders. She is specialized in integrated business solutions for sustainability, social responsibility strategies, sustainable development communications, and sustainability and climate change coaching. Paola supports companies in the development of effective results towards positive organizational change.
Let’s hold a new vision and co-create a future that we aspire for.
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