8–12 Jun 2026
Helsinki, Finland
Europe/Helsinki timezone

Award-Winning Well-Being as a Strategic Lever for Service Excellence: The CEDIA Experience

11 Jun 2026, 14:30
30m
Concert Hall

Concert Hall

Single Presentation - 25 min Well-Being as a Strategic Driver of Service Excellence in NRENs: Insights from CEDIA’s Award-Winning Transformation Conducting the Service Symphony

Speaker

Fernando Avilés (CEDIA)

Description

This presentation explains how CEDIA, Ecuador’s NREN, transformed well-being into a strategic lever for service excellence, earning international recognition as a result - not the goal - of a people-centered culture. By integrating psychometrics, a 90° performance model, leadership alignment, and Great Place to Work practices, CEDIA fostered trust, closeness, and genuine care across teams. KPIs supported the journey, but people remained the priority. This cultural shift translated into measurable improvements in services delivered to universities. Participants will gain a practical, replicable framework to connect human-centered management, well-being, and organizational performance in NRENs facing digital transformation.

What will the TNC audience take away from your talk?

Participants will learn a practical and evidence-based model showing how well-being, culture, and continuous learning directly improve NREN service quality, resilience, and collaboration. They will take away actionable strategies and real examples that can be adapted in their own NRENs to strengthen staff motivation, reduce burnout, enhance incident response, and build healthier, more service-oriented organizations.

Are you a first time speaker at TNC? Yes

Primary author

Mr Fernando Aviles (CEDIA – Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia (Ecuador))

Presentation materials