During the Americas Conference held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Universidad Politecnica Salesiana's branch campus of Guayaquil was awarded the Facilitation Impact Award (FIA) for being part of the project: "Strengthening our image and identity – Somos la Salesiana" in charge of the consulting company D&E Asesoria.

To implement the project, the company provided advice on the design, definition of agreements, deliverables, actions and roles together with the Continuous Improvement Committee of the university. They also worked on the development of strategic workshops with University officials, defining appropriate methodologies to build a "pooling" with the aim of achieving an improvement in operational processes, optimizing the performance of the staff, achieving synergy throughout the organization and sustainable results.

There was very positive cooperation from the university's officials, professors, administrative and service staff in Guayaquil. "The objective was to promote the -Great Purpose-, the sense of belonging and institutional pride," said Beccy Torres, representative of D&E Asesoría.

The results of the work carried out by D&E Asesoría company were:

• The number of parents and teens who selected UPS as their first choice increased by 20%

• The effective enrollment rate increased from 71% in 2018, to 90% in 2019.

The impact, in specific terms, was to outperform growth by 20% and go from 71% to 90% in the management effectiveness in relation to the last period, as a result of an entire year of work. A great job has been done as a team, this reaffirms that "together we can do great things" said Andres Bayolo, Vice president of the university's branch campus in Guayaquil, who received the award granted University from representatives of the consulting company.