Conferences.
In my conferences I give my testimony to what we experienced. And I do not get tired of doing it. I revisit my memories to tell what happened to us, including the preparations for the trip, the flight, the accident, our first days, how we organized, how we decide to feed off the bodies of our dead friends, the avalanche that took the lives of 8 of our friends, our excursions, how new leaderships arose, how we prepared the final expedition, and the plans that we made in case the final expedition failed. In addition, I tell about the return to our homes and the process of recovery and rehabilitation in society--how we managed to live normal lives after that tragedy, to have incredible families and good careers. My testimony is accompanied by a small film with real scenes of the rescue, photos that illustrate our tragedy, and a final commentary about the lessons of the Andes.
In general, the conferences are followed by questions and answers, which I use to deepen the topics that are of greatest interest to the participants. A normal conference lasts 90 minutes, although I also have given shorter versions.

Half-day workshops.
Half-day workshops.
The workshops give me the opportunity to deepen my testimony and to share with the participants the situations I’ve lived. In these cases, I draw from my professional experience as a corporate executive and from my professional education to provide diverse, interactive exercises in which the participants go and come from the mountain chain to their own real-life situations. In the workshops, the participants divide into groups and think jointly about the lessons of the Andes and their application to their own work experiences. The slogans on which we build refer to the need for authentic leadership, to self-motivation, to the importance of teamwork, and to the necessity of leadership in times of crisis. The total duration of the workshop is 3-4 hours, including my initial testimony about my experience. An effective workshop can include up to 60 people.

Whole day workshop.
In some cases, we can dedicate an entire day to think about the lessons of the Andes and their applicability to ordinary life and work. Besides the testimony, we have opportunity to realize several exercises of reflection on the transcendency of the message and to apply it to concrete cases of the participants.

Conceptual Frame
In the development of the workshops, besides my own experience on the mountain and my work experience, I appeal to diverse authors including Jim Collins, Victor Frankl, James Hunter, and Bill George and to writings of the Center for Creative Leadership, among others.