Colombian author, entrepreneur, strategist, and facilitator exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, human development, creativity, and meaningful connection. With a background in event marketing, community building, and digital strategy, Jorge’s work invites people and organizations to create with more intention, connect more authentically, and remain deeply human in a rapidly changing world. He is also the author of The Human Is Extra: Presence, Curiosity, and Creativity in the Age of AI.

My story has always been shaped by movement, curiosity, and the search for meaning.

For much of my life, I believed the answers were somewhere outside of me: in a new city, a new project, a new relationship, a new country, or a new version of myself waiting beyond the next horizon. I moved through the world with intensity, building businesses, creating communities, working in marketing, traveling across cultures, and constantly trying to understand how people connect, why they gather, and what makes an experience meaningful.

That search led me through many different worlds. I studied business, marketing, and international strategy. I worked in event marketing, tourism, digital communications, and community building. I founded Mind Technology, a digital marketing agency focused on the meetings, incentives, conferences, and events industry. Through that work, I helped organizations communicate better, engage audiences more authentically, and design experiences that left a lasting impact.

At the same time, I was building a life that looked expansive from the outside. I traveled, explored, met people, started projects, and entered new environments with a deep hunger for discovery. Travel gave me perspective. It showed me that there are many ways to live, gather, work, love, and define success.

But eventually, I began to notice a pattern. No matter where I went, something inside me kept following me. The scenery changed, but the same questions returned. I could be surrounded by beauty, novelty, opportunity, and movement, and still feel a quiet sense that something was missing.

For years, I answered that feeling with more motion: more work, more travel, more ambition, more stimulation. I believed that if I found the right place, project, or identity, I would finally feel at home. Over time, I realized that the real journey was not outward. It was inward.

In Barcelona, after years of movement, I began learning how to stop. Not stop growing or creating, but stop running away from myself. I started practicing meditation, breathwork, nervous system regulation, and deeper forms of self-inquiry. At first, stillness was uncomfortable. My mind wanted to escape. My body wanted to move. My old patterns wanted another destination. Slowly, I started to understand that presence is not passive. Presence is an act of courage.

That inner work changed the direction of my life.

It led me to explore neuroscience, emotional regulation, embodiment, creativity, and the role of technology in human development. It also led to Nalaya, a human development and wellness company I co-founded with Elizabeth Potter. Through Nalaya, we design experiences that integrate holistic practices with advanced technologies such as neurofeedback, breathwork, nervous system regulation, vagus nerve stimulation, red-light therapy, art therapy, meditation, and retreat design.

At the center of Nalaya is a simple belief: there are many doors to the same place — yourself.

Another important part of my journey has been Terapia de Rechazo, a community and movement focused on facing the fear of rejection. Through that work, I explore how rejection shapes courage, identity, self-worth, and social freedom.

Those same questions now live inside my book, The Human Is Extra: Presence, Curiosity, and Creativity in the Age of AI. As artificial intelligence transforms the way we work, think, create, and communicate, I believe we are being asked a deeper question: what makes us irreplaceable?

My book is not a rejection of technology. It is a refusal to become a machine.

I believe the future will not belong only to people who know how to use AI. It will belong to people who know how to remain human while using it: people who can be present, curious, creative, emotionally aware, and deeply connected.

For a long time, I thought the horizon was somewhere outside of me.

Now I believe the most important horizon is within.