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Julia Balatka

Gründerin, JB Travel

Julia Balatka has been working in tourism for 26 years, founded Vienna's first travel agency specializing in sustainability, and is the founder of the Conscious Tourism Group. She values practical relevance and sustainable formats in tourism. She contributed to the development of the two Tourcert CSR-Tourism seals for organizing and mediating travel agencies and has been involved in the Austrian Eco-label Specialist Committee for travel offers from the beginning. Today, she is in the Sustainability Committee of ECTAA in Brussels, leads JB-Travel, and trains travel professionals in the Conscious Tourism Group.

Julia BalatkaGründerin, JB Travel
Nov 11, 2026

Promoting sustainability within a company often means navigating between high expectations, resistance and limited resources. Sooner or later, those driving change in particular find themselves asking: why go to all this trouble?

In this workshop, we explore the role of purpose and intrinsic motivation in sustainability work. We examine what successful change processes have in common, why motivation cannot simply be ‘trained’, and how personal and organisational ‘WHY’ can create direction, energy and long-term effectiveness.

The focus is on how sustainability can be embedded not merely as an additional task, but as a meaningful and sustainable part of corporate culture – with greater clarity, effectiveness and a sense of joy in collaboration.

This workshop is offered in both sessions. Maximum number of participants per session: 40 people. First come, first served.

The workshop will be led by Kerstin Dohnal and Julia Balatka.

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