Karen Lorena Bruges Solorzano

Karen Lorena Bruges Solorzano

She is the CEO of Mujeres Violeta, Academia Violeta, and Mujeres Violeta TV, and Executive Director of the Mujeres Violeta Foundation. These organizations work to reduce gender gaps through innovative projects and content aimed at closing gender gaps and fostering human growth. Their initiatives are based on education, events, business, communication, e-learning platforms, and a digital television platform, among others. They empower women’s economic growth with a holistic model that includes human, economic, social, and environmental development.

She is the Co-Creator of the International Film Festival Violeta Film Fest (VFF) for sorority and the reduction of gender gaps. It is the first festival globally to focus on presenting short and feature films generated by women (“Made by Them”, by men (“Made by Them for Them”, and by companies (“Companies in Equal Action”. She is also the Co-Creator of the Latin American Sustainable Fashion Week (LASFW) in conjunction with Miss Earth Colombia, a space for ethical, fair, and environmentally conscious fashion.

As a business trainer and international speaker on women’s exponential growth, she is committed to empowering sisterhood, addressing gender gaps, and enabling conscious entrepreneurship. She spent 7 years as a trainer for companies and communities, empowering skills that strengthen transformational leadership in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, the United States, and Chile. She is also an international speaker, both in person and online, across various countries including the United States, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Ecuador, and India.

She is also the President of the Women Economic Forum (WEF) – Colombia. With 18 years of professional experience, including 11 years in the corporate world and 8 years in the Oil & Gas Sector in northern and southern Colombia, she has been invited to various TV shows to discuss women’s growth and bridging gender gaps. She is the recipient of numerous global awards.

Professionally, she holds credentials in Social Work from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca and is a specialist in planning, management, and social development from Universidad de la Salle. On a personal level, she is a happy and proud mother of a daughter, to whom she had the great blessing of giving her life for the second time through the donation of her left kidney on April 5, 2015. She is a grateful daughter, imbued with the values instilled by her parents, who taught her the importance of delivering her best work and seeking coherence in life. She is also a proud sister to two siblings who are dream seekers.

She has been on an entrepreneurial journey since she was 12 years old and is creative, dreamer, intuitive, dynamic, cheerful, loyal, purposeful, and deeply connected to sisterhood and the need to contribute her best efforts to the growth of women and men.