Spela Lampe Cakici

Špela Lampe Cakići is a Slovenian human-oriented sportpreneur and storyteller who believes in the power of sport to connect people and create social impact. As President and communicator of Judo Golovec, she has helped shape the club into a living laboratory for sport for development, creating and leading initiatives that use judo to empower women survivors of violence, blind and visually impaired people, and young people through mental health and wellbeing programmes. Her work spans European projects, international youth exchanges, intergenerational judo, and programmes that help older adults learn how to fall safely through judo, alongside other community-based initiatives. She has presented the club’s Judo for Women practice at United Nations online events and contributed her expertise to the UNESCO International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagement (UNESCO ICM), connecting grassroots practice with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is also Co-founder of NAGARE Institute and G100 Slovenia Country Chair for Sports Empowerment & Championships, bringing grassroots experience, methodology and education through sport into international cooperation and women’s leadership. Her belief is simple: sport is a powerful social glue – a space where people connect and values drive success.