Carolina Tocalli

2020-12-10T21:21:00.001-03:00

Respeto y admiro la construcción colectiva: personas que hacen todo lo posible para alcanzar un bien común. Una cadena de procesos y esfuerzos organizados para promover el bienestar de todos / I respect and admire the collective construction: people giving their best to achieve a common good. A whole chain of processes and efforts organized for the higher good.

2012-02-22T00:15:00.002-03:00

40,000 Words: Submit your essay for a unique book on empathy for the opposite sex

"Imagine the next month as a member of the opposite sex."

In honor of International Women's Day on 8 March 2012, male and female writers from cultures around the world are invited to submit a 250-700 word essay reflecting on what that experience would bring to you, and what you would miss.

Your essay contributions will be compiled and edited into an innovative and engaging 40,000 word book, tentatively titled ”40,000 Words: global perspectives on being women and men in 2012”.

Please register your intention to submit an essay contribution to the book by 8 March 2012

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1JZ05IWDRsYlgwck00U09PRlpqUmc6MQ

More information

WHAT’S THIS INITIATIVE ABOUT?

40,000 Words is an initiative from the WE Alliance, a global collaborative group of social entrepreneurs in women’s empowerment (*) initiated by http://Ashoka.org in June 2011.

The purpose is to co-create a collaborative digital book, to achieve a collective global impact in multiple layers, including:

- Launching the WE Alliance online with a global online dialogue around cross-gender empathy

- Co-creating a meaningful historical artifact through a concrete global collaboration

- Engaging our members and their supporters around a common global campaign, and

- Raising operational funds to support WE Alliance collaborations, our member projects, and their online allies through a revenue sharing online sales strategy.

WHO ELSE IS GETTING INVOLVED?

WE Alliance member innovators around the world are strategically seeking 100+ culturally diverse submissions from male and female writers in the following categories:

- Established bloggers

- Journalists/thought & business leaders

- Youth (ages 12-20) and

- others (especially men) whose perspectives will add value to the book.

Once you pre-register with the form below, you will receive a follow-up message with super simple instructions for sending in your submission by email, and some other cool info about the book you’ll want to know.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. All submissions must be received by email no later than 8 March 2012 and must include:

- a 250-700 word essay which reflects on spending 1 month as a member of the opposite sex

- a (max) 75 word bio of you (the author), including any links you wish to include

2. You may write in English OR in your native language

3. You are welcome to publish your essay on your own website if you have one, even before the book is launched (ideally in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8!), and to let your readers know that the book will be available at the end of April 2012.  All we ask is that you email us the link so we can use it to help build some buzz.

4. Once the book is published (in late April) contributors and potential supporters in your network will be invited to (optionally) benefit from 25% of the proceeds on books you sell, as well as help raise funds for your favorite women’s empowerment initiative featured in the book, through personalized sales links.

YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR INTENT TO CONTRIBUTE to the 40,000 Words project by completing the short form below as soon as possible. Once you've registered you'll be able to see the list of who else is planning to contribute. (To maintain a balance of voices, we may need to close submissions for certain categories as the submissions deadline approaches.) 

The final deadline for pre-registration AND for all writer submissions by email is on International Women’s Day (8 March 2012.)

We look forward to including your words in this unique mosaic of global voices!

Please use the WE Alliance facebook group to ask any questions that aren't covered at the links above, or send an email to teamwelab@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

(*) The WE Alliance is a group of leading social innovators working in women's empowerment all over the world, that advocates and supports the acceleration of women’s progress, equality and justice.

Our collective objective is to effectively ignite feminine energy in co-creating a new future for the world, with full respect for both men and women and all of their shared and respective qualities.

Our goal is to engage in and nurture cross-dimensional innovation that impacts humanity at every level, for shifting the rate of change in women’s progress, participation and fulfillment around the globe.

2012-02-15T10:51:00.004-03:00

Means & Ends - Collaboration & Impact
A dear colleague introduced me to the Pollyanna Principles. Simple, clear, worth sharing that triggered my thinking about the subject I am devoted these days to: achieving impact at scale through collaborations.

I will come with more thoughts soon, in the meantime let´s grasp these principles

The Ends

# 1	We accomplish what we hold ourselves accountable for.
# 2	Each and every one of us is creating the future, every day, whether we do so consciously or not.

The Means

# 3	Everyone and everything is interconnected and interdependent, whether we acknowledge that or not.
# 4	“Being the change we want to see” means walking the talk of our values.
# 5	Strength builds upon our strengths, not our weaknesses.
# 6	Individuals will go where systems lead them. More http://pollyannaprinciples.org/info/the-principles/

2012-01-26T17:45:00.007-03:00

She couldn´t expressed it better ... Chapeaux Christina Jordan!

No pudo explicarlo mejor....

Chapeaux Christina Jordan!

Palabras y collages de fotos, frases, colaboraciones e impacto para describir el lanzamiento oficial del grupo ci2i - Collective Impact x Innovation Institute. Además los ecos y destellos del primer diálogo #we_b que facilitamos con mis compañeras "worldshaping women" en Bruselas, dos semanas atrás.

Christina Jordan, el alma de este colectivo de mujeres al servicio del sector social, con su narrativa tan concreta como cálida, describe este camino que nos llevará a .... tantos diálogos we_x para colaborar en la aceleración del impacto social.

Aquí el post completo y su collage maravilloso. Gracias Christina, brillas siempre!

http://evolutionizeit.blogspot.com/#h_520#p_home

Mi gratitud al resto del equipo increíble: Bonnie @bonniekoenig, Jean @nurturegirl , Christelle @christellevh, Cheryl @appliedwisdom.... "it is called impact and you cause it!"

Para seguirnos como grupo @ci2iglobal

She couldn´t expressed it better ... Chapeaux Christina!

Words and photos, phrases, collaborations and impact all in a wonderful collage to describe the official launching of ci2i - Collective Impact x Innovation Institute. Also ecos and glows of this first #we_b dialogue that my friends "worldshaping women" and me facilitated in Brussels, two weeks ago.

Christina Jordan, the soul of this women collective at the service of the social sector, with her warm and grounding narrative, describes this journey that will lead us to .... many dialogues we_x to collaborate in the acceleration of the social impact.

Here the complete post and its wonderful collage. Thanks Christina, you always glow!

http://evolutionizeit.blogspot.com/#h_520#p_home

My deep gratitude to the rest of this awesome team: Bonnie @bonniekoenig, Jean @nurturegirl , Christelle @christellevh, Cheryl @appliedwisdom.... "it is called impact and you cause it!"

Follow us collectively @ci2iglobal

2012-01-15T19:50:00.008-03:00

NOW IN BRUSSELS
En estos momentos en Bruselas

# we_b co-creation experience is happening now at HUB Brussels, hosted by Collective Impact x Innovation Institute (@ci2iglobal).

HUBBrussels 14 Jan. 2012 - 9 am to 9 pm -

We are sharing personal voices and professional perspectives of high impact people from 9 countries!

Shaping conversations and activities around collaborating across our economic and professional silos for accelerating collective social impact.

The outcome? Inspiring dialogues, grounding collaborative actions in today´s global changing reality, visualizing cross silo mosaic of changemarking opportunities & having fun!

# we_b está ocurriendo ahora en el HUB Bruselas! Una experiencia de co creación liderada por el Collective Impact x Innovation Institute (@ci2iglobal)

Estamos compartiendo las voces y perspectivas profesionales de personas de alto impacto que llegaron desde 9 países, en diálogos y actividades sobre colaboraciones para acelerar el impacto social

Los resultados? Intercambios inspiradores, colaboraciones puntuales para impactar en un mundo cambiante, construcción conjunta de un mosaico de interacciones y además nos estamos divirtiendo!

2012-01-09T14:11:00.001-03:00

¡Qué interesante la agenda del evento del próximo sábado 14 de enero!

Awesome event flow for next Saturday 14th January!

More info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HuPa7Cb54eC1mCEjHsror4fgUr9WM4Ny4wXm5uU8THs/edit?hl=en_US

ONLY A WEEK TO GO!

2012-01-06T14:48:00.005-03:00

To the groundbreaking collective impact & innovation workshop

#we_b in BRUSSELS

Saturday 14 January 2012 - 9am - 9pm
Hosted @HUBBrussels by Collective IMPACT x INNOVATION Institute (#ci2i - @ci2iglobal) including:

Bonnie Koening @bonniekoenig (USA)

Social Impact Consultant, Facilitator, Innovator at GoingInternational.com,

Carolina Tocalli @carolinatocalli (Argentina)

Social Impact Consultant, formerly with Ashoka & Accenture

Cheryl Cooper @appliedwisdom (UK/Belgium)

Knowledge Sharing & Organisational Development Consultant, Facilitator, Coach, Social Impact Activist formerly with the EU & the British Council

Christelle van Ham @christellevh (France)

Social Impact & Social Risk Analysis consultant, formerly with Ashoka

Christina Jordan @christinasworld (USA/Belgium/Uganda/Thailand)

Ashoka Fellow, Speaker, Facilitator, Innovator at Lifeinafrica & Evolutionize.it

Jean Russell @nurturegirl (USA/UK)

Social Impact Consultant, Speaker, Facilitator, Innovator at Thrivable.net

More https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XJ-V5Boxz11xV3wHya8wHjyz_cYxk9XwUo4383rilpk/edit?hl=en_US

Please register your intent to join us at http://bit.ly/register4we_b

Thanks 2011 ... Welcome 2012

2011-12-29T17:16:00.001-03:00

AGRADECER Un minuto para reflexionar

¿Qué aprendiste en este año que pasó? ¿Qué te enseñó la vida?

No puedes responder que no aprendiste nada porque la vida siempre nos enseña algo.

Recuerda como eras el año pasado y cómo eres ahora. Seguramente encontrarás algo nuevo. Los meses no han pasado en vano.

Posiblemente ahora ves cosas que antes no podías ver, ahora puedes valorar cosas que antes no podías valorar, ahora puedes entender cosas que antes no podías entender.

- palabras de Victor M. Fernandéz en Un estimulo todos los días -

GRATITUDE A minute to think

What did you learn this past year? What has life taught you?

Hey, you cannot reply that you didn´t learn anything because life is always teaching us.

Just remember how you were last year and how you are now. You will sure find something new. Perhaps now you can see things that you couldn´t see before, or you can appreciate things you previously couldn´t, or you can now understand things that you could not understand before.

- Victor M Fernandez word in A Stimulus every day

2011-12-21T16:50:00.001-03:00

AN INVITATION TO ATTEND #we_b LAB @HUBBrussels on Jan. 14 - 2012

Merry Christmas to you!

2011 comes to a close with a strong sense of certainty of interesting challenges in my professional life.

After almost a decade of work, I decided to step aside the Ashoka local office to develop my full potential beyond Argentina. To the date, I am focused in the scaling up of two pattern changing models of Ashoka fellows in Latin America, and with two collaborative alliances in innovation and impact in Europe and Asia.

A personal invitation from Carolina to you:

Besides thanking you deeply for the shared year, I want to invite you to join me and my colleagues from the Collective IMPACT x INNOVATION Institute (#ci2i) on Saturday 14^th January 2012 in Brussels (Belgium) for an intimate co-creative dialogue about working across silos to accelerate collective social impact - in Europe and around the world.

The full description and invitation to this groundbreaking 1 day lab event is at http://bit.ly/invite2we_b.

I look forward to sharing a rich and productive day for the world, with the amazing individuals we are inviting to join us. My colleagues and I, who are each nurturing pieces of this global work forward, would be honored with your high-impact voice and perspective present, in framing the planned global pipeline of ongoing conversations that the Brussels gathering on 14 January will shape.

With gratitude,

Carolina

Please register your intent to join us at - http://bit.ly/register4we_b

INVITACION PARA ASISTIR AL #we_b LAB @HUBBrussels el 14 de enero de 2012

Felíz Navidad a todos!

2011 esta llegando a su fin con la certeza de desafíos interesantes en mi vida profesional.

Luego de 10 años de trabajo, decidí dejar mi lugar en la oficina local de Ashoka para desplegar mis habilidades y experiencia más allá de Argentina. A la fecha, estoy focalizada en dos proyectos de escalabilidad (réplica) de modelos sociales para América Latina con emprendedores sociales de Ashoka y dos proyectos de colaboración en innovación e impacto social para Europa y Asia, con colegas de diferentes organizaciones internacionales

Una invitación personal de Carolina :

Además de agradecerte el año compartido, hoy quiero invitarte personalmente a unirte a mí y a mis colegas del Collective IMPACT x INNOVATION Institute (#ci2i) el Sábado 14 de enero 2012 en Bruselas (Bélgica) en un diálogo interdisciplinario sobre la aceleración del impacto colectivo en Europa y en el mundo.

Encontrarás la descripción completa del evento en este link - http://bit.ly/invite2we_b.

Me encantaría que sumaras tu voz y tu experiencia de alto impacto a este grupo de 50 changemakers de Europa, en este “# we_b event” el primero de una serie de diálogos colaborativos que realizaremos en diferentes ciudades.

Esperando encontrarnos pronto, te deseo lo mejor en estas Fiestas junto a tu familia

Con gratitud ,

Carolina

Please register your intent to join us at - http://bit.ly/register4we_b

2011-12-20T00:38:00.006-03:00

Réplica del Modelo de Empleo con Apoyo en Chile

El programa EcA de Fundación DISCAR busca insertar a jóvenes con discapacidad intelectual al mundo laboral para favorecer sus capacidades y concientizar a la sociedad que las personas con discapacidad pueden desarrollar ciertas tareas con eficacia y buen rendimiento.
Desde 1991, en Argentina los jóvenes DISCAR empleados por McDonald´s realizan tareas de atención al cliente, cocina y limpieza de sectores.
En 2011 Arcos Dorados redobló su apuesta con la decisión de replicar en la región este modelo de desarrollo social, sustentable y exitoso
Durante 11 meses trabajamos para Chile, seleccionado como país piloto para primera réplica EcA en Latinoamérica.
Como especialista en escalabilidad de impacto social, acompañé esta primera réplica diseñando las etapas del proyecto, acompañado toda su implementación y sistematizando sus resultados. ¿El producto? El Manual para la Réplica de Empleo con Apoyo EcA DISCAR en los Mercados de Arcos Dorados de América Latina una bitácora que nos permitirá navegar seguros en las próximas réplicas en cada país
Junto a Arcos Dorados y DISCAR promovemos el paradigma de que la inclusión es un
compromiso de todos.

Capacitaciones a gerentes de negocios - oficinas de McDonald´s Chile
Managers´training @ McDonald´s offices in Chile - sept. 2011

Scaling up of the Employment with Support Model in Chile

The EcA - Employment with Support for its abbreviation in Spanish - is a program of DISCAR Foundation that includes young people with intellectual disabilities to the formal workforce to favour their capacities and to aware society that people with disabilities can develop certain tasks effeciently and with good results.
Since 1991, in Argentina, young people from DISCAR have been employed by McDonald´s - Arcos Dorados - in customer service, kitchen and cleaning tasks at its restaurants
In 2011, Arcos Dorados doubled down and decided to scale this sustainable social model in the region.
During 11 months we worked for Chile, chosen as pilot country for the 1st EcA scaling in Latin America.
As a specialist in scaling social impact & innovation, I accompany designing the project stages, coordinating the implementation and systematizing the results. The outcome? A Manual for the Scaling up of the Employment with Support Model - EcA - for Arcos Dorados´markets in Latin America a log that will allow us to work on a secure base in the other countries of the region.
Together with McDonald´s and DISCAR we promote the paradigm that inclusion is a society commitment .

2011-11-18T00:16:00.003-03:00

Mi historia de innovación ... que siga escalando!

Mi historia profesional es una de escalabilidad, desde sus primeros comienzos: adolescente que participando activamente en grupos juveniles relacionados a mi fe y deportes, nutriéndome para escalar la innovación aprehendida en otros contextos.

Luego de una importante experiencia en bancos de primera linea en 2002 comencé a trabajar para Ashoka Argentina, construyendo puentes entre el sector privado y el sector social. Fui responsable de una iniciativa de desarrollo muy innovadora: la construcción de una red de emprendedores de negocios como comunidad comprometida con los emprendedores sociales para compartir sus conocimientos, contactos y experiencias.

Desde entonces, asesoro a emprendedores en la evaluación de las mejores alternativas para apalancar su impacto social, al mismo tiempo que planifico y asisto en las acciones de réplica y escalabilidad de sus modelos sociales.

En la actualidad enfrento un nuevo desafío: el de escalar la innovación social en Latinoamérica y explorar nuevos caminos y alianzas colaborativas en Europa.

Vivo en Buenos Aires, con mi amada familia y, definitivamente, soy una ferviente admiradora de los procesos de construcción colectiva.

Sean muy bienvenidos a mi trabajo y mis reflexiones.

Con gratitud,
Carolina

My innovation story ... keep on scaling up!

My professional story is a scaling up one, from its very beginning: as a teenager actively participating in various youth groups related to my faith and sports, nurturing to scale innovation to other context of my life.

After obtaining a degree in Business Administration and having a great experience in local top banks in 2002 I began working in Ashoka Argentina, building bridges between the social and the private sectors. I was responsible for an innovative networking funding initiative: engaging successful business people into a vibrant community of social investors who share their know how, contacts and experiences with social entrepreneurs.

Since then I have been advising entrepreneurs, analyzing the best alternatives to leverage their social impact and I have been coordinating the scaling of their social models.

At the present I face a the challenge of scaling up innovation in Latin America and exploring new paths in collaborative alliances in Europe.

I live in Buenos Aires, with my beloved family and I am definitely a process fan!

Welcome to my work and insights!

With gratitude,
Carolina