What do leaders lose as DEI falls out of favor? A lot, particularly the richness of multiculturalism.
The value of multicultural perspectives is almost incalculable, according to our guest, Juana Bordas. The benefits are profound for the business, but stretch deep into our communities, too. In this episode, Dr. Bordas shares the principles that set the foundation for cross-cultural leadership from her book Salsa, Soul and Spirit – Leadership for a Multicultural Age.
BIO:
Dr. Juana Bordas is President of Mestiza Leadership International–a company that focuses on leadership, diversity, and organizational change. The first Latina to serve as a faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) she taught in the Leadership Development Program–the most highly utilized executive program in the world.
As founding President/ CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute, the only program in America that prepared Latinas for national leadership, Dr. Bordas forged partnerships with Harvard’s JFK School of Government and CCL to provide training for Hispanic women.
Juana received an honorary doctorate from Union University and received the 2019 Life-Time Achievement Award from The International Leadership Association. She is the first Latina honored with this prestigious award which has been received by Warren Bennis, Robert Greenleaf, Peter Drucker, James McGregor Burns, and Margaret Wheatley. Juana was born in Nicaragua, her life work is reflective of the many contributions immigrants have made and continue to make to the US and our world.
