Portfolio of Success
I am a licensed educator, a Six Sigma Professional Performance Affiliate, a certified Birkman Consultant, a CultureSync Approved Tribal Leader, and have been a Senior Program Leader and Master Coach for a global education company. My clients represent some of the most recognized brands in the world.
As my own leadership matured and successes gained significance, I became an avid student of human motivation, performance, and achievement. I took a deep dive into what makes people “tick” and what makes teams work.
It all made perfect sense to me. To orchestrate national and global campaigns for corporate responsibility initiatives, I needed to look beyond just the strategy or methodology of integrated communications. I needed to look beyond market share development, customer loyalty campaigns and how to measure interactive clicks.
I was called to learn about humanity. About how to support great leaders as they, themselves, navigated their own visionary future. And how to help them expand from strategic and tactical wizards into being leaders of core values that pull disparate groups of skill sets into passionate teams that lead through the power of “WE.”
While my initiatives and endeavors have been recognized by many, the measure of my greatness can only be measured by my passionate love for humanity that has impacted the lives of many.
I was honored to launch Dun & Bradstreet’s MWBE (minority and women-owned business enterprise) division into the U.S. Hispanic market. To accomplish the strategic objectives, I cultivated affinity marketing relationships and member campaign strategies, negotiated and structured corporate co-marketing promotional partnerships with such companies as IBM, Microsoft, NationsBank, Mastercard, American Airlines, Pitney Bowes, and Avis. I also created alliances with national business and professional organizations to provide resources on a grassroots level for the emerging small and home-based business market. I also maintained key Congressional and White House relationships while serving as liaison on industry-specific committees by appointment of Congress.
Another chapter of my leadership focused on highly sensitive areas of public outreach and corporate citizenship. I crafted corporate outreach and public education campaigns for Fortune 500 companies that wanted their brand to be alive, palpable and in action in the communities they served.
As Executive Director of the Public Affairs Group, a Washington, D.C. public affairs firm, I represented a coalition of 700 women’s business and professional organizations serving more than eight million women in America.
My lifelong passion for my multi-cultural heritage fueled a personal vision to empower women’s business and entrepreneurial achievement by founding the Businesswomen Leadership Foundation. a not-for-profit organization championed by IBM, Bank of America, American Airlines, Univision, Dun & Bradstreet and was partnered by the Census Bureau, the Departments of Education and Labor, and endorsed by members of Congress and the White House.
The major outcome was a landmark study on the educational, professional and entrepreneurial accomplishments of Hispanic women in Business in America. A national summit was convened in Washington, D.C. and attended by more than 300 delegates from across the country representing chambers of commerce, professional associations, higher education and business incubators.
